Oil & gas wells in Phillips County, CO
497 catalogued wells in Phillips County, Colorado, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Phillips County, Colorado has 497 catalogued oil & gas wells: 3 active (0.6%), 129 plugged & abandoned (26%) and 268 documented orphans. It ranks 24th of the 47 Colorado counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.4% of the state's 124,327 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
497
Active
3
Plugged
129
Documented orphans
268
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Phillips County?
0.6% of Phillips County's wells are active, 29 percentage points below the Colorado share of 29%. 26% are plugged & abandoned, against 44% statewide and 47% nationally. 268 wells (54%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 1% across Colorado and 4% nationally. The remaining 97 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Phillips County?
By product class, 0 of the county's wells (0%) are oil wells, 283 (57%) 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 Phillips County well is 6,850 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 Phillips County compare with other Colorado counties?
Phillips County has the 24th-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. By documented orphans it ranks 1st in Colorado.
Who operates wells in Phillips County?
60 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Phillips 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 Phillips County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Hugh Doughty | 05-095-05000 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Dietler & Oleson, Inc. |
| 1 Geo Leonard | 05-095-05001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Canada Southern Oils Inc. |
| 1 Baird | 05-095-05002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Stanolind Oil & Gas Co |
| 1 Bessie Hughes | 05-095-05003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Dietler & Oleson, Inc. |
| 1 State | 05-095-05004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Johnson* S D |
| 1 Hiemer | 05-095-05005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Cox Oil & Gas Inc |
| 1 Fiedler | 05-095-05006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Stout* C. E. |
| 1 Gall | 05-095-05007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Ohio Oil |
| 1-A Hill | 05-095-05008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hill & Hoppler |
| 1 Means | 05-095-05009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Ryan Oil Co |
| 1 Clayton | 05-095-05010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Fisher Eddie |
| 1 Esther Hohn | 05-095-05011 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Taylor* Jay |
| 1 Fuesz | 05-095-05012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Monsanto Chemical Company |
| 1 Elizabeth Gilsdorf | 05-095-05013 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Texota Oil Co |
| 1 Anders | 05-095-05015 | Other status | Other type | Hope Oil Company Inc |
| 1 Crow | 05-095-05016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Woodward* A. F. |
| 1 Le Blanc | 05-095-05017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Wunderlich Contracting Company |
| 1 Harry Oltenbruns | 05-095-05018 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Slagter Producing Company |
| 1 Lewis Dirk | 05-095-05019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Stanolind Oil & Gas Co |
| 1 Fuelchar | 05-095-05020 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | L & O Drilling Co Inc |
| 1 Bell | 05-095-05021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Monsanto Chemical Company |
| 1 Albert H Beal | 05-095-05022 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Texota Oil Co |
| 1 Ozman | 05-095-05023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Texas Company |
| 1 Seger-Scott | 05-095-05024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Stanolind Oil & Gas Co |
| 1 State | 05-095-05025 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Aladdin Petroleum Corporation |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 497 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 Phillips County, CO?
Phillips County, Colorado has 497 catalogued oil & gas wells: 3 active, 129 plugged and 268 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Phillips County?
268 wells in Phillips County, Colorado are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 1st-highest count among Colorado counties.
What share of wells in Phillips County are plugged?
129 of Phillips County's 497 catalogued wells (26%) 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); Phillips County ranks 24th with 497.
How many companies operate wells in Phillips County?
60 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Phillips County, Colorado.
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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 Phillips County, Colorado”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/colorado/phillips (data as of October 10, 2026).