Oil & gas wells in Assumption Parish, LA
1,085 catalogued wells in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Assumption Parish, Louisiana has 1,085 catalogued oil & gas wells: 77 active (7%), 869 plugged & abandoned (80%) and 41 documented orphans. It ranks 42nd of the 69 Louisiana parishes WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.5% of the state's 225,728 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
1,085
Active
77
Plugged
869
Documented orphans
41
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Assumption Parish?
7% of Assumption Parish's wells are active, 6 percentage points below the Louisiana share of 13%. 80% are plugged & abandoned, against 63% statewide and 47% nationally. 9 wells (0.8%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 41 wells (4%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 6% across Louisiana and 4% nationally. The remaining 89 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Assumption Parish?
By product class, 103 of the parish's wells (9%) are oil wells, 207 (19%) gas wells and 68 (6%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 29% and the gas share 19%. The deepest total depth published for a Assumption Parish well is 20,928 ft, against 35,000 ft for Louisiana as a whole. 100% of the parish's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Assumption Parish compare with other Louisiana parishes?
Assumption Parish has the 42nd-most catalogued wells of the 69 Louisiana parishes with at least 25. The median Louisiana parish on WellCensus has 1,502 wells. The largest, Caddo Parish, has 35,892. By documented orphans it ranks 43rd in Louisiana.
Who operates wells in Assumption Parish?
301 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Assumption Parish. 100% of the parish's wells carry a link to a canonical operator profile; the rest list no operator or a name not yet resolved. Each well's page names its operator where the state publishes one.
Wells in Assumption Parish
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brownell Kidd 001 | 17-007-00001 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Seaboard Well Service, Inc. |
| Brownell-Kidd 001 | 17-007-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Inactive Operator |
| State Lease 3712 001 | 17-007-00003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Inactive Operator |
| State Lease 2141 001 | 17-007-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Inactive Operator |
| State Lease 3160 001 | 17-007-00005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Inactive Operator |
| Brownell Kidd 'B' 001 | 17-007-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Cities Service Oil Co. |
| P R Norman Etal 001 | 17-007-00007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Humble Oil And Refining Co. |
| Joseph Landry 001-A | 17-007-00008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Inactive Operator |
| Whitecastle Lbr & Shingle Co 001 | 17-007-00009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Conoco Inc. |
| Kessler Sternfels 001 | 17-007-00010 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Inactive Operator |
| Alex Simoneaux 001 | 17-007-00011 | Orphaned | Other type | Robert W. Omeara |
| Armelise Planting Co 001 | 17-007-00012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Inactive Operator |
| O Meara Savoie Et Al Un 001 | 17-007-00013 | Orphaned | Oil | Auby Rowell Inc |
| J C Trahan 001 | 17-007-00014 | Orphaned | Oil | Texana Energy |
| Cris I Ra Sua;dugas-Leblanc A 005 | 17-007-00015 | Shut-in | Oil | Extex Operating Co |
| Dugas & Le Blanc A 007 | 17-007-00016 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Houston Oil & Minerals Corp. |
| Vua;dugas Leblanc St U-1 001 | 17-007-00017 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Houston Oil & Minerals Corp. |
| Vua;dugas Leblanc St U-1 002 | 17-007-00018 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Houston Oil & Minerals Corp. |
| Dugas & Leblanc Inc 001 | 17-007-00019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Inactive Operator |
| Dugas & Leblanc Unit 1 001 | 17-007-00020 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Shell Oil Company |
| Dugas & Leblanc Ltd B Swd 002 | 17-007-00021 | Active | Injection | Extex Operating Co |
| Dugas & Leblanc 003 | 17-007-00022 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | F. W. Bell |
| Dugas & Leblanc 004 | 17-007-00023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Sun Exploration-Production Co. |
| Gus Labarre 001 | 17-007-00024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Vincent & Welch, Inc. Et Al |
| Charles W Triche Jr 001 | 17-007-00025 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Inactive Operator |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 1,085 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 Assumption Parish, LA?
Assumption Parish, Louisiana has 1,085 catalogued oil & gas wells: 77 active, 869 plugged and 41 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Assumption Parish?
41 wells in Assumption Parish, Louisiana are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 43rd-highest count among Louisiana parishes.
What share of wells in Assumption Parish are plugged?
869 of Assumption Parish's 1,085 catalogued wells (80%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 63% across Louisiana.
Which Louisiana parish has the most oil and gas wells?
Caddo Parish has the most catalogued wells of any Louisiana parish on WellCensus (35,892); Assumption Parish ranks 42nd with 1,085.
How many companies operate wells in Assumption Parish?
301 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Assumption Parish, Louisiana.
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About this data
Source: Louisiana Office of Conservation (SONRIS) 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 Assumption Parish, Louisiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/louisiana/assumption (data as of October 10, 2026).