API 12-025-26964OrphanedOil well
Stanford - Chaffin 2
Oil well in Clay County, Illinois · operated by Midwest Oil & Gas
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.
Spud date
—
Drilling began
Completion
Sep 17, 1982
Plug date
—
Total depth
3,095 ft
As published by the state
Registry record
- API #
- 12-025-26964
- Status
- Orphaned(state code: USGS DOW 2022 (Orphan))
- Type
- Oil(OIL)
- County
- Clay
- Coordinates
- 38.65578, -88.29705
- State record #
- 120252696400
Operator
- Wells operated
- 173
- Active
- 38
- States
- IL, KY, OH
Location & nearby wells
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| Well | API # | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmer C A 1 | 12-191-00886 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Nation Oil Company, The |
| Fitch Elmer 1 | 12-191-04784 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Manahan G A |
| Barth J W B-7 | 12-191-04661 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pure Oil Company |
| Feller A A-2 | 12-191-07733 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Union Oil Company of California |
| Reid, J. W. (S Jordan School Unit) 3 | 12-191-04687 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Pure Oil Company |
| Taylor-Hedrick HI-11 | 12-191-33016 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | PennTex Resources Illinois, Inc. |
Dataset updated . Source: Illinois oil & gas regulator registry + the USGS documented-orphaned-wells inventory.