Curtis Shuck, Chairman of the Board, Well Done Foundation, joins Jason Spiess to talk about their latest partnership with Texas-based distillery Tito’s Handmade Vodka and the Felty Family Challenge. The craft spirits company will funded the non-profit’s first well-plugging project of 2022. The well, known as Fenner #2, was installed near Caddo Lake on the Louisiana/Texas border in 1985, and abandoned in 2017.
Shuck explains how their relationship started and throughout the process ESG organic benefits became a reality for Tito’s.
“The ESG benefit awareness happened organically through explaining what the well done foundation does and how we operate and what we deliver,” Shuck said. “For me that is what is important. Tito’s was looking at doing the right thing regardless.”
Spiess asked him about the the brand alliance with the Well Done Foundation and Tito’s Vodka.
“Tito’s jumped in literally with both feet,” Shuck said. “How refreshing to have an organization that’s outside of our normal world but really gets it and wants to do something and leave a positive legacy.”
Tito’s will also partner on Gish A #35 and Gish A #31 well projects. Both wells are in the same region as Fenner #2. The partnership with Tito’s will also fund a Well Done Foundation Five Bayous project manager position. The role will review emissions on 70 identified wells in the Five Bayous Project scope, search for other orphan wells in the project region, and coordinated plugging and abandonment work.
“Since I am a transplant in Louisiana right now, I have come to learn that the word ‘bayou’ is a fancy name for ditch or a creek depending on your perspective or the time of day or season,” Shuck quips. “The area we are working has a lot of water around it as you can imagine in Louisiana. There are five defined bayous that intersect or interact with this particular project location which has over 100 wells in it.”
The Well Done Foundations, founded in 2019, builds partnerships between regulators, owners and adoptive parties to plug “orphan” oil & gas wells. The non-profit is based in Montana but is also building capacity in Pennsylvania, Louisiana and several other states. For more information, or to contribute or sponsor a well plugging project, visit welldonefoundation.org.
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