Prime Natural Resources
Operator of record for 14 catalogued wells across 2 states. Every well below links to its full registry page.
Filed as: PRIME NATURAL RESOURCES, INC. · Prime Natural Resources, LLC
At a glance
Prime Natural Resources is the operator of record for 14 catalogued U.S. oil & gas wells in 2 states. None is listed as active, 6 (43%) are plugged & abandoned. Its largest concentration is in California, with 8 wells (57% of its portfolio).
Wells operated
14
Active
0
Plugged
6
Orphaned
0
Portfolio by state
| State | Wells |
|---|---|
| California | 8 |
| Louisiana | 6 |
Well mix
- Oil wells
- 9
- Gas wells
- 0
- Shut-in
- 0
- Active share
- 0%
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Claim your operator profileWhere does Prime Natural Resources operate?
Prime Natural Resources's catalogued wells are spread across 2 states: California (8) and Louisiana (6). Its 8 California wells are 0.0% of the 242,471 catalogued in that state — its largest share of any state. Counts cover only states whose registries WellCensus has ingested with operator names; wells in Nebraska and Texas (location indexes) and in states without a registry ingest are not yet attributed to any operator.
How many of Prime Natural Resources’s wells are active, plugged or orphaned?
0% of Prime Natural Resources's catalogued wells are active, 29 percentage points below the national share of 29%. 43% are plugged & abandoned, against 47% nationally. None of the wells filed under this name is flagged as orphaned.
What kinds of wells does Prime Natural Resources operate?
By product class, 9 (64%) are oil wells and 0 (0%) gas wells; nationally the shares are 43% and 17%. The deepest of its wells with a published depth is Earl A. Lee 001 in Vermilion, LA at 19,982 ft. The wells listed below sit in Vermilion (LA), Jefferson Davis (LA), St Bernard (LA), Caddo (LA), Kern (CA) and Fresno (CA). State filings spell the name 2 ways; WellCensus merges exact-normalized spellings only, so subsidiaries and affiliates keep their own pages.
Notable wells operated by Prime Natural Resources
| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Location | Operator | Depth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earl A. Lee 001 | 17-113-21820 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Vermilion, LA | Prime Natural Resources, Inc. | 19,982 ft |
| L Roche Rb Sua;fe Winn Ed Trst 001 | 17-053-21060 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Jefferson Davis, LA | Prime Natural Resources, Inc. | 17,475 ft |
| Sl 16009 001 | 17-727-20494 | Other status | Oil | St Bernard, LA | Prime Natural Resources, Inc. | 11,373 ft |
| Sl 15281 001 | 17-727-20493 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | St Bernard, LA | Prime Natural Resources, Inc. | 9,914 ft |
| Sl 16170 001 | 17-725-20542 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | St Bernard, LA | Prime Natural Resources, Inc. | 9,063 ft |
| Cv Bod Ra Sub;cabbiness Trust 001 | 17-017-33100 | Other status | Other type | Caddo, LA | Prime Natural Resources, Inc. | 8,850 ft |
| Del Lago 1 | 04-030-24980 | Other status | Oil | Kern, CA | Prime Natural Resources, LLC | — |
| Chili Pepper 1 | 04-030-23439 | Other status | Oil | Kern, CA | Prime Natural Resources, LLC | — |
| Coldwater Farms 1-8 | 04-030-30576 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Kern, CA | Prime Natural Resources, LLC | — |
| Coldwater Farms 1-8 | 04-030-24167 | Other status | Oil | Kern, CA | Prime Natural Resources, LLC | — |
| Pacland 21X-4 | 04-019-24049 | Other status | Oil | Fresno, CA | Prime Natural Resources, LLC | — |
| Sugarberry 65X-4 | 04-019-24079 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Fresno, CA | Prime Natural Resources, LLC | — |
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Frequently asked questions
How many wells does Prime Natural Resources operate?
Prime Natural Resources is the operator of record for 14 catalogued oil & gas wells, with the largest concentration in California (8). Only wells in states WellCensus has ingested are counted.
How many of Prime Natural Resources's wells are still active?
0 of Prime Natural Resources's catalogued wells are active; 6 are plugged & abandoned.
In which states does Prime Natural Resources operate wells?
Prime Natural Resources is the operator of record for wells in California (8) and Louisiana (6).
Does Prime Natural Resources operate mostly oil or gas wells?
9 of Prime Natural Resources's catalogued wells are oil wells and 0 are gas wells; the rest are injection, service or unclassified wells.
What is Prime Natural Resources's deepest well?
Among wells with a published depth, Earl A. Lee 001 in Vermilion, LA is the deepest at 19,982 ft.
Where Prime Natural Resources's wells are
About this data
Source: State oil & gas regulator registries (operator of record as filed, exact-normalized across states) plus the USGS United States Documented Orphaned Well Database (2026), as published October 10, 2026 — WellCensus refreshes it monthly. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.
Cite as: WellCensus, “Prime Natural Resources — well portfolio”, https://wellcensus.com/operators/prime-natural-resources-5396 (data as of October 10, 2026).
Dataset updated . Operator portfolios are resolved from raw state registry filings (exact-normalized names; subsidiaries stay separate).