API 16-107-00514OrphanedOil well
Cheshire, Sue & Lucile Mitchell 1
Oil well in Hopkins County, Kentucky · operated by Cheeseman Mike
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
Sep 25, 1963
Drilling began
Completion
Oct 9, 1963
Plug date
—
Total depth
3,174 ft
As published by the state
Registry record
- API #
- 16-107-00514
- Status
- Orphaned(state code: USGS DOW 2022 (orphan))
- Type
- Oil(OIL)
- Field
- Hanson West
- County
- Hopkins
- Coordinates
- 37.40565, -87.50307
- State record #
- 56286
Operator
- Wells operated
- 32
- Active
- 7
- States
- KY
- As filed
- CHEESEMAN, MIKE
Location & nearby wells
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| Well | API # | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ligon, Ralph 1 | 16-107-02125 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Mulcahey, O M |
| West Kentucky Coal Co 2 | 16-107-02581 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pure Oil Co |
| Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining 1 | 16-107-02318 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Antares Oil Corp |
| Stalling & Osborne Comm 2 | 16-107-01049 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Sargent Oil & Gas Co, Inc |
| Winsted & Ruby 1 | 16-107-02629 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Antares Oil Corp |
| West Kentucky Coal Co 1 | 16-107-02576 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pure Oil Co |
Dataset updated . Source: Kentucky oil & gas regulator registry + the USGS documented-orphaned-wells inventory.