API 12-191-29123OrphanedOil well
Vaughan-Laws Comm 1
Oil well in Wayne County, Illinois · operated by Runyon Oil Exploration
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 15, 1978
Plug date
—
Total depth
3,485 ft
As published by the state
Registry record
- API #
- 12-191-29123
- Status
- Orphaned(state code: USGS DOW 2022 (Orphan))
- Type
- Oil(OIL)
- County
- Wayne
- Coordinates
- 38.30635, -88.24704
- State record #
- 121912912300
Operator
- Wells operated
- 54
- Active
- 16
- States
- IL
Location & nearby wells
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| Well | API # | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown C B-1 | 12-193-03991 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Sun Oil Company |
| Brown, Clarence 1 | 12-193-02179 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Coy Oil |
| Barbre J 1 | 12-193-28912 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Beeler, Mike Oil Co. |
| Stone John 1 | 12-193-04069 | Orphaned | Oil | Skelly Oil Company |
| E Centerville Unit D10W | 12-193-07355 | Plugged & abandoned | Injection | Gulf Oil Corporation |
| Barbre, Martin 1 | 12-193-32262 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Republic Oil Company, Inc. |
Dataset updated . Source: Illinois oil & gas regulator registry + the USGS documented-orphaned-wells inventory.