Oklahoma Oil and Natural Gas

The OERB was founded by the Oklahoma Legislature in 1993 to clean up orphaned and abandoned oil well sites and to educate the public about the oil and natural gas industry.

At the heart of our mission is the OERB's ongoing commitment to clean up Oklahoma's orphaned and abandoned well sites -- sites left to ruin by those who have long since passed or disappeared. Funded through voluntary contributions paid by producers and royalty owners, the OERB's environmental restorations cost nothing to landowners or taxpayers. We've restored more than 11,000 orphaned and abandoned well sites, employing Oklahoma contractors along the way.

Our positive impact is seen not only in restored pastures, hillsides and ponds, but also on the faces of landowners, students and teachers across the state.

We've shared our exciting energy curricula and safety messages with more than one million Oklahoma students.