API 04-029-08782OrphanedOil well
Needham-Bloemer 52
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 #
- 04-029-08782
- Status
- Orphaned(state code: USGS DOW 2022 (Idle))
- Type
- Oil(OG)
- Field
- Kern Bluff
- County
- Kern
- Coordinates
- 35.41777, -118.90884
- State record #
- 107641
Operator
- Wells operated
- 40
- Active
- 0
- States
- CA
- As filed
- Citadel Exploration Inc.
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| Well | API # | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garrone 1 | 04-029-10922 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Occidental Petroleum Corporation |
| Kundert 2 | 04-029-14334 | Orphaned | Oil | Sunray Petroleum, Inc. |
| Allied 33 | 04-029-14329 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | New Chaparral Petroleum, Inc. |
| Vineyard 1 | 04-029-14172 | Active | Oil | Caballero Operations LLC |
| Lease by John S. Hagestad 1 | 04-029-14327 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | John S. Hagestad |
| Crawford 20 | 04-029-14160 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Columbia Oil Co. |
Dataset updated . Source: California oil & gas regulator registry + the USGS documented-orphaned-wells inventory.