API 16-237-00038OrphanedOil well
White Heirs 47
Oil well in Wolfe County, Kentucky · operated by Sun 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
Dec 5, 1981
Drilling began
Completion
Dec 10, 1981
Plug date
—
Total depth
1,314 ft
As published by the state
Registry record
- API #
- 16-237-00038
- Status
- Orphaned(state code: USGS DOW 2022 (orphan))
- Type
- Oil(OIL)
- Field
- Big Sinking
- County
- Wolfe
- Coordinates
- 37.72188, -83.69405
- State record #
- 18460
Operator
- Wells operated
- 1,944
- Active
- 221
- States
- AL, AR, CA, CO, IL, KY, MI, MS, MT, ND, NM, OK, PA, UT, WY
- As filed
- SUN OIL CO
Location & nearby wells
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| Well | API # | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rogers, Clyde 10 | 16-129-04886 | Active | Injection | Rogers, Clyde |
| Coomer, Johnny Pryse 1 | 16-129-01048 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Rexplore, Inc |
| Sipple-Luxon 26-A | 16-129-04325 | Other status | Other type | Appalachian Resources Of Florida, LLC |
| Jewell, H R 1 | 16-129-03103 | Other status | Other type | Compass Petroleum Industries Inc |
| Sipple, J B 18 | 16-129-04023 | Active | Gas | Melcher-Atkins Oil Co |
| Chaney ? | 16-129-05877 | Other status | Other type | Schuster Homes Inc |
Dataset updated . Source: Kentucky oil & gas regulator registry + the USGS documented-orphaned-wells inventory.