API 04-073-00039OrphanedOil well
Lease by L. Overbaugh & Rufus Choate 1
Oil well in San Diego County, California · operated by L Overbaugh & Rufus Choate
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
Oct 1, 1924
Drilling began
Completion
—
Plug date
—
Total depth
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Registry record
- API #
- 04-073-00039
- Status
- Orphaned(state code: USGS DOW 2022 (Idle))
- Type
- Oil(OG)
- Field
- Any Field
- County
- San Diego
- Coordinates
- 32.70324, -117.05262
- State record #
- 1514
Operator
- Wells operated
- 1
- Active
- 0
- States
- CA
- As filed
- L. Overbaugh & Rufus Choate
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| Well | API # | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lease by Palm City Oil Co. 1 | 04-073-00040 | Orphaned | Oil | Palm City Oil Co. |
| Robert Egger 1 | 04-073-00015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Robert Egger |
| Lease by National City Oil Co. 1 | 04-073-00036 | Orphaned | Oil | National City Oil Co. |
| Lease by Todd & Clark 1 | 04-073-00052 | Orphaned | Oil | Todd & Clark |
| Lease by W. P. Hanson 1 | 04-073-00019 | Orphaned | Oil | W. P. Hanson |
| Balboa 1 | 04-073-00047 | Orphaned | Oil | J. A. Smith & F. R. Williams |
Dataset updated . Source: California oil & gas regulator registry + the USGS documented-orphaned-wells inventory.