BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – An explosive audit released Monday by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor raises questions about whether laws were broken in connection with contracts for orphan wells — abandoned oil and gas wells with no financially responsible operator — through the state’s Office of Conservation.
Those implicated in the audit have denied all wrongdoing, according to responses included in the audit report.
The Office of Conservation regulates oil and gas resources in Louisiana…