Oil & gas wells in Denver County, CO
132 catalogued wells in Denver County, Colorado, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Denver County, Colorado has 132 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 92 plugged & abandoned (70%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 37th of the 47 Colorado counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 124,327 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
132
Active
0
Plugged
92
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Denver County?
0% of Denver County's wells are active, 29 percentage points below the Colorado share of 29%. 70% are plugged & abandoned, against 44% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Denver County; Colorado as a whole has 1,302. The remaining 40 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Denver County?
By product class, 29 of the county's wells (22%) are oil wells, 44 (33%) gas wells and 0 (0%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 24% and the gas share 34%. The deepest total depth published for a Denver County well is 9,477 ft, against 29,046 ft for Colorado as a whole. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Denver County compare with other Colorado counties?
Denver County has the 37th-most catalogued wells of the 47 Colorado counties with at least 25. The median Colorado county on WellCensus has 497 wells. The largest, Weld County, has 45,804.
Who operates wells in Denver County?
16 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Denver County. 100% of the county's wells carry a link to a canonical operator profile; the rest list no operator or a name not yet resolved. Each well's page names its operator where the state publishes one.
Wells in Denver County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 State | 05-031-05001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Mr Hall |
| 1 Swift | 05-031-05005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Swift & Company |
| 1 Miller | 05-031-05024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Suhr-Fiedler-Lock Drlg Co |
| 1 Richardson Ranch | 05-031-05027 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Mid-Colorado Oil Company |
| 1 Anderson-State | 05-031-05307 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | City & County Of Denver |
| 1 Box Elder | 05-031-06075 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | City & County Of Denver |
| 1 Box Elder Farms | 05-031-06132 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | City & County Of Denver |
| 1 Monaghan | 05-031-06341 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | City & County Of Denver |
| 1 Kallsen | 05-031-06342 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | City & County Of Denver |
| 1 Champlin 117 Amoco A | 05-031-06388 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | City & County Of Denver |
| 2 Kallsen | 05-031-06390 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | City & County Of Denver |
| 3 Kallsen | 05-031-06392 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | City & County Of Denver |
| 1 State-Monaghan | 05-031-06394 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | City & County Of Denver |
| 2 Champlin 117 Amoco A | 05-031-06399 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | City & County Of Denver |
| 1 Champlin 125 Amoco A | 05-031-06403 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | City & County Of Denver |
| 4 Kallsen | 05-031-06405 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | City & County Of Denver |
| 3 Champlin 117 Amoco | 05-031-06406 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Amoco Production Company |
| A-4 Champlin 117 Amoco | 05-031-06413 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | City & County Of Denver |
| A-5 Champlin 117 Amoco | 05-031-06414 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | City & County Of Denver |
| 2 Box Elder B | 05-031-06416 | Other status | Other type | Koch Exploration Company LLC |
| 2 Monaghan A | 05-031-06417 | Other status | Other type | Koch Exploration Company LLC |
| 5 Kallsen | 05-031-06418 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | City & County Of Denver |
| 1 Oliver Morris 32-7 | 05-031-06419 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Champlin Petroleum Company |
| 1 Ashmore | 05-031-06421 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | City & County Of Denver |
| 6 Kallsen | 05-031-06422 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | City & County Of Denver |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 132 in search → (filter by operator, status and type, then export), or find a specific well on the live map.
Frequently asked questions
How many oil and gas wells are in Denver County, CO?
Denver County, Colorado has 132 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 92 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Denver County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Denver County, Colorado.
What share of wells in Denver County are plugged?
92 of Denver County's 132 catalogued wells (70%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 44% across Colorado.
Which Colorado county has the most oil and gas wells?
Weld County has the most catalogued wells of any Colorado county on WellCensus (45,804); Denver County ranks 37th with 132.
How many companies operate wells in Denver County?
16 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Denver County, Colorado.
Nearby in the Colorado rankings
About this data
Source: Colorado ECMC well registry, plus the USGS United States Documented Orphaned Well Database (2026, doi 10.5066/P13FHBYG), as published October 10, 2026 — WellCensus refreshes it monthly. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.
Cite as: WellCensus, “Oil & gas wells in Denver County, Colorado”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/colorado/denver (data as of October 10, 2026).