Oil & gas wells in Prowers County, CO
472 catalogued wells in Prowers County, Colorado, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Prowers County, Colorado has 472 catalogued oil & gas wells: 15 active (3%), 426 plugged & abandoned (90%) and 1 documented orphans. It ranks 25th of the 47 Colorado counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.4% of the state's 124,327 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
472
Active
15
Plugged
426
Documented orphans
1
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Prowers County?
3% of Prowers County's wells are active, 26 percentage points below the Colorado share of 29%. 90% are plugged & abandoned, against 44% statewide and 47% nationally. 6 wells (1%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 1 wells (0.2%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 1% across Colorado and 4% nationally. The remaining 24 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Prowers County?
By product class, 25 of the county's wells (5%) are oil wells, 80 (17%) 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 Prowers County well is 6,575 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 Prowers County compare with other Colorado counties?
Prowers County has the 25th-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 32nd in Colorado.
Who operates wells in Prowers County?
149 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Prowers 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 Prowers County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-25 Eldridge | 05-099-05000 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Trigg Drilling Co |
| 1 Francis Johnson | 05-099-05001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Chesapeake Operating LLC |
| 1 Bragg | 05-099-05002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Ohio Oil |
| 1 Rober Unit | 05-099-05003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Socony Mobil Oil Co Inc |
| 1 Christian A | 05-099-05004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Texzona Oil & Gas, Inc. |
| 1 Hasser | 05-099-05005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Sierra Petroleum Co Inc |
| 1 Adolph Frank | 05-099-05007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pure Oil Co. |
| 1 Wm A Dodge | 05-099-05008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Pacific Fuels Inc |
| 1 L W Bailey C | 05-099-05009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Rising* Keith L. |
| 1 Holt A | 05-099-05010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Terminal Facilities Inc |
| 1 L W Bailey | 05-099-05011 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Skelly Oil Company |
| 1-2 Bailey | 05-099-05012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Davis Drilling Inc |
| 1 Excelsior Et Al-Bailey B | 05-099-05013 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Excelsior Oil Corp |
| 1 Bailey | 05-099-05016 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Tom Brown Inc |
| 1-26 Hoffman | 05-099-05017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Cleary Petr Inc |
| 1 Duncan - Unit | 05-099-05018 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Excelsior Oil Corp |
| 1 M I House | 05-099-05019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Stanolind Oil & Gas Co |
| 1 Witt | 05-099-05020 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Wallace* Charles A |
| 1 E. L. Crook | 05-099-05021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Amerada Hess Corp |
| 1 Stwalley | 05-099-05022 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Phillips Petroleum Co |
| 1 E J Wagner | 05-099-05023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Rising* Keith L. |
| 1 E F Oblander | 05-099-05024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hondo Oil & Gas Co |
| 1 Martin | 05-099-05025 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Rising* Keith L. |
| 1 The X Y Ranch Co | 05-099-05026 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Germany Investment Co |
| 1 Vaughn-Etter | 05-099-05027 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Germany Investment Co |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 472 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 Prowers County, CO?
Prowers County, Colorado has 472 catalogued oil & gas wells: 15 active, 426 plugged and 1 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Prowers County?
1 wells in Prowers County, Colorado are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 32nd-highest count among Colorado counties.
What share of wells in Prowers County are plugged?
426 of Prowers County's 472 catalogued wells (90%) 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); Prowers County ranks 25th with 472.
How many companies operate wells in Prowers County?
149 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Prowers 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 Prowers County, Colorado”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/colorado/prowers (data as of October 10, 2026).