Climate Transformed Ventures (CTV) is a methane infrastructure and origination platform company that leverages government funding and private capital to cap orphaned oil wells across the United States and Canada.
An orphaned oil well has no solvent owner of record, leaving the responsibility of capping in the hands of state and federal governments.
The EPA estimates that there are up to 3.7 million orphaned wells in North America, with the estimated cost to cap them ranging from $200bn- $300bn.
There is only $4.7bn allocated by the US Federal Government under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).
This is the first phase of a multi-decade solution that will require the extensive deployment of private capital
To add to a recent series of sessions honing in on Green Transportation with the likes of Marine Digital and Piaggio Aerospace, we continue the discussion alongside Cyril Yee, Chief Innovation Officer at Third Derivative, and his research associate, Sam Lefkofsky.
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Founded by RMI and New Energy Nexus, Third Derivative (D3) is accelerating the rate of climate innovation through our inclusive ecosystem approach, which rapidly finds, funds, and scales climate tech globally. We launched in December 2020 with 47 companies, the largest cohort of climate tech companies in the world.