API 12-047-24277OrphanedOil well
Nile-Bunting 1-A
Oil well in Edwards County, Illinois · operated by Mcdowell Bros Oil
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 19, 1990
Plug date
—
Total depth
3,968 ft
As published by the state
Registry record
- API #
- 12-047-24277
- Status
- Orphaned(state code: USGS DOW 2022 (Orphan))
- Type
- Oil(OIL)
- County
- Edwards
- Coordinates
- 38.41243, -88.05430
- State record #
- 120472427700
Operator
- Wells operated
- 99
- Active
- 13
- States
- IL
- As filed
- McDowell Bros. Oil Co., Inc.
Location & nearby wells
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| Well | API # | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boster "C" #3 | 12-047-01968 | Plugged & abandoned | Injection | Skiles Oil Corporation |
| Broster 2 | 12-047-00139 | Active | Oil | O'Meara & Anderson |
| R E Smith Et Al 1 | 12-047-22467 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Sandy Ridge Oil Company |
| Evans Orson R 7 | 12-047-01775 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Calvert Drilling, Inc. |
| Webb 5 | 12-047-01773 | Other status | Other type | Keepes Petroleum, Inc. |
| Metcalf 2 | 12-047-22464 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Brehm, C. E. Drilling & Producing |
Dataset updated . Source: Illinois oil & gas regulator registry + the USGS documented-orphaned-wells inventory.