API 16-065-00557OrphanedOil well
Smyth, Delmar 27
Oil well in Estill County, Kentucky · operated by Circle Drilling
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
Oct 10, 1982
Drilling began
Completion
Oct 25, 1982
Plug date
—
Total depth
835 ft
As published by the state
Registry record
- API #
- 16-065-00557
- Status
- Orphaned(state code: USGS DOW 2022 (orphan))
- Type
- Oil(OIL)
- Field
- Big Sinking
- County
- Estill
- Coordinates
- 37.71381, -83.75977
- State record #
- 84908
Operator
- Wells operated
- 54
- Active
- 3
- States
- KY, LA, MI
- As filed
- CIRCLE DRILLING, INC
Location & nearby wells
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| Well | API # | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profitt, Ernest 5-Cw | 16-129-05151 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Felmont Oil Corp |
| Pinnacle Land Company 1 | 16-129-05126 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Morris & White Supply Co |
| Peele, Oscar L 1 | 16-129-05129 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Wittmer, O S |
| Unknown Unknown | 16-129-06010 | Orphaned | Other type | Unknown |
| Sipple Un-3 | 16-129-06738 | Other status | Other type | Sipple Oil Co |
| Beach, C Iii 1 | 16-129-00333 | Active | Oil | Ravenna Oil Co, Inc |
Dataset updated . Source: Kentucky oil & gas regulator registry + the USGS documented-orphaned-wells inventory.