Oil & gas wells in LaPorte County, IN
269 catalogued wells in LaPorte County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
LaPorte County, Indiana has 269 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 264 plugged & abandoned (98%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 38th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.3% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
269
Active
0
Plugged
264
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in LaPorte County?
0% of LaPorte County's wells are active, 11 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 98% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in LaPorte County; Indiana as a whole has 946. The remaining 5 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in LaPorte County?
By product class, 0 of the county's wells (0%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 0 (0%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 0% and the gas share 0%. 99% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does LaPorte County compare with other Indiana counties?
LaPorte County has the 38th-most catalogued wells of the 83 Indiana counties with at least 25. The median Indiana county on WellCensus has 194 wells. The largest, Gibson County, has 9,927.
Who operates wells in LaPorte County?
Indiana records come from the Indiana DNR Division of Oil & Gas registry, merged with the USGS documented-orphaned-wells inventory. Indiana doesn't use API numbers — wells are identified by their IGS ID.
Wells in LaPorte County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coy Lotter | IGS ID 159261 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Coy Lotter | IGS ID 159263 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Archer/Batzel Unit | IGS ID 159264 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| McCormick, Joseph C. | IGS ID 162330 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Coy Lotter | IGS ID 50345 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Coy Lotter | IGS ID 50347 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Haman | IGS ID 142110 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haman | IGS ID 142111 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haman | IGS ID 142112 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haman | IGS ID 142113 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haman | IGS ID 142114 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haman | IGS ID 142115 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haman | IGS ID 142116 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haman | IGS ID 142117 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haman | IGS ID 142118 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haman | IGS ID 142119 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haman | IGS ID 142120 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haman | IGS ID 142121 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haman | IGS ID 142122 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haman | IGS ID 142123 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haman | IGS ID 142124 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haman | IGS ID 142125 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haman | IGS ID 142126 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haman | IGS ID 142127 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haman | IGS ID 142128 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 269 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 LaPorte County, IN?
LaPorte County, Indiana has 269 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 264 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in LaPorte County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in LaPorte County, Indiana.
What share of wells in LaPorte County are plugged?
264 of LaPorte County's 269 catalogued wells (98%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 84% across Indiana.
Which Indiana county has the most oil and gas wells?
Gibson County has the most catalogued wells of any Indiana county on WellCensus (9,927); LaPorte County ranks 38th with 269.
Nearby in the Indiana rankings
About this data
Source: Indiana DNR Division of Oil & Gas 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 LaPorte County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/laporte (data as of October 10, 2026).