API 04-029-08764OrphanedOil well
Needham-Bloemer 15
Oil well in Kern County, California · operated by Citadel Exploration
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.
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Registry record
- API #
- 04-029-08764
- Status
- Orphaned(state code: USGS DOW 2022 (Idle))
- Type
- Oil(OG)
- Field
- Kern Bluff
- County
- Kern
- Coordinates
- 35.41398, -118.91038
- State record #
- 107606
Operator
- Wells operated
- 40
- Active
- 0
- States
- CA
- As filed
- Citadel Exploration Inc.
Location & nearby wells
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| Well | API # | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sofro-West 12X | 04-029-44613 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | E. A. Bender, Operator |
| Weedpatch 5 | 04-029-06509 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Chevron U.S.A. Inc. |
| West 2 | 04-029-04810 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Casex Company |
| West-Lawson-Bennet 3 | 04-029-06084 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Transcon Oil Well Service |
| National Oil 7 | 04-029-48459 | Active | Oil | Caballero Operations LLC |
| Clendenen 6 | 04-029-14408 | Plugged & abandoned | Injection | Atlantic Oil Company |
Dataset updated . Source: California oil & gas regulator registry + the USGS documented-orphaned-wells inventory.