By Roshaun Higgins
The Times Picayune
The Department of the Interior said Wednesday it will begin capping a fraction of the more than 4,600 abandoned oil and gas wells in Louisiana this year, though when that process will conclude is uncertain.
The government plans to cap 163 abandoned wells in the state that exist on federal land. All told, it will spend $33 million to cap 277 such wells across the country, officials said.