API 04-073-00047OrphanedOil well
Balboa 1
Oil well in San Diego County, California · operated by Ja Smith & Fr Williams
Documented orphaned well. This well appears in the federal/state orphaned-well inventory — unplugged, with no solvent operator of record. See the orphan-well census for state and county totals and the $4.7B federal plugging program.
Spud date
Aug 1, 1911
Drilling began
Completion
—
Plug date
—
Total depth
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Registry record
- API #
- 04-073-00047
- Status
- Orphaned(state code: USGS DOW 2022 (Idle))
- Type
- Oil(OG)
- Field
- Any Field
- County
- San Diego
- Coordinates
- 32.76117, -117.16032
- State record #
- 1607
Operator
- Wells operated
- 1
- Active
- 0
- States
- CA
- As filed
- J. A. Smith & F. R. Williams
Location & nearby wells
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| Well | API # | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lease by W. P. Hanson 1 | 04-073-00019 | Orphaned | Oil | W. P. Hanson |
| Lease by L. Overbaugh & Rufus Choate 1 | 04-073-00039 | Orphaned | Oil | L. Overbaugh & Rufus Choate |
| Lease by Mission Bay Oil Co. 1 | 04-073-00033 | Orphaned | Oil | Mission Bay Oil Co. |
| Lease by Borderland Exploration Co., Inc. 2 | 04-073-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Borderland Exploration Co., Inc. |
| Lease by Borderland Exploration Co., Inc. 1 | 04-073-00003 | Orphaned | Oil | Borderland Exploration Co., Inc. |
| Lease by Mission Valley Oil Enterprise 1 | 04-073-00034 | Orphaned | Oil | Mission Valley Oil Enterprise |
Dataset updated . Source: California oil & gas regulator registry + the USGS documented-orphaned-wells inventory.