Well, that may only mean that no one has the will or money to get them approved as inactive. See § 78.102. Criteria for approval of inactive status here: http://www.pacode.com/secure/data/025/chapter78/chap78toc.html#78.102. Oh, wait! You mean, once drilled, wells are active by default regardless of whether there's any oil or not???? Looks that way.
Oil has been produced in 6 wells last year even though it is miniscule.
LOLOLOLOLzzz. Sigh. I remember the Grand Projections of 2014-2015. PA Black Gold was supposed to make WOGI shareholders rich. It didn't. LOLagain.
The point is WOGI has pumped oil in Pennsylvania and still has active wells.
And yet, it sounds as though most of the Corse wells have been abandoned. As for "active," refer to the PA Code link above. And isn't this exactly why Pennsylvania has an estimated 200,000 abandoned wells that remain unplugged, posing health and safety hazards, BECAUSE BOTTOM DWELLING OPERATORS LIKE WOGI haven't plugged the wells that were going to make them rich but didn't??? Oh, I'm sorry. Does that hurt WOGI's feeling? Too bad. If the wells are abandoned as the inspections indicate, then PLUG them properly. Sheesh.