API 04-029-88951OrphanedOil well
Needham-Bloemer 72
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 #
- 04-029-88951
- Status
- Orphaned(state code: USGS DOW 2022 (Idle))
- Type
- Oil(OG)
- Field
- Kern Bluff
- County
- Kern
- Coordinates
- 35.41594, -118.90962
- State record #
- 107648
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West 1 | 04-029-04809 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Casex Company |
| Weedpatch 1 | 04-029-06505 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Chevron U.S.A. Inc. |
| Mark Morris-Harris 2 | 04-029-06232 | Shut-in | Oil | Harter Energy, Inc. |
| Slininger 1 | 04-029-06003 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Inca Petroleum |
| Lawson-Bennet 26-4 | 04-030-51752 | Active | Oil | C & M Oil Co. & Investments |
| Tiny And Tuffy 2 | 04-029-06240 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | The Harter Family Trust of 1995 |
Dataset updated . Source: California oil & gas regulator registry + the USGS documented-orphaned-wells inventory.