Oil & gas wells in Forrest County, MS
555 catalogued wells in Forrest County, Mississippi, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Forrest County, Mississippi has 555 catalogued oil & gas wells: 115 active (21%), 362 plugged & abandoned (65%) and 5 documented orphans. It ranks 18th of the 57 Mississippi counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 2% of the state's 34,924 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
555
Active
115
Plugged
362
Documented orphans
5
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Forrest County?
21% of Forrest County's wells are active, 4 percentage points above the Mississippi share of 16%. 65% are plugged & abandoned, against 70% statewide and 47% nationally. 5 wells (0.9%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Mississippi and 4% nationally. The remaining 73 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Forrest County?
By product class, 50 of the county's wells (9%) are oil wells, 300 (54%) gas wells and 30 (5%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 30% and the gas share 14%. The deepest total depth published for a Forrest County well is 16,037 ft, against 25,500 ft for Mississippi as a whole. 72% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Forrest County compare with other Mississippi counties?
Forrest County has the 18th-most catalogued wells of the 57 Mississippi counties with at least 25. The median Mississippi county on WellCensus has 197 wells. The largest, Adams County, has 5,963. By documented orphans it ranks 24th in Mississippi.
Who operates wells in Forrest County?
152 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Forrest County. 100% of the county'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 Forrest County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crosby Forest B-1 B-1 | 23-035-00001 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Crown Zellerbach Corp. |
| U S A 1 1 | 23-035-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | American Liberty Oil Co. |
| Creosote Oil 2 2 | 23-035-00003 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Veron E.Faulconer Inc |
| Storage Well Fee 1 | 23-035-00004 | Active | Gas | ENERGY TRANSFER HATTIESBURG NGLs LLC |
| Storage Fee 2 | 23-035-00005 | Active | Gas | ENERGY TRANSFER HATTIESBURG NGLs LLC |
| Storage Fee Well 3 | 23-035-00006 | Active | Gas | ENERGY TRANSFER HATTIESBURG NGLs LLC |
| Coleman & Powe 2 2 | 23-035-00007 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Brown, Robert L. |
| Maxie Gas Unit Se85 1 1 | 23-035-00008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | D. A. Biglane Operating Co Et Al |
| C E Berry 1 1 | 23-035-00009 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | California Company |
| U S A 1 1 1 | 23-035-00010 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Lyle Cashion Co. |
| U S A E 1 1 | 23-035-00011 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Lyle Cashion Co. |
| Myers 1 1 | 23-035-00012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Cities Service Oil Co. |
| Citizens Bank 1 1 | 23-035-00013 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Pioneer Oil And Gas Co., Inc. |
| Citizens Bank 2 2 | 23-035-00014 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Como Drilling Co. |
| Citizens Bank 3 3 | 23-035-00015 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Pioneer Oil And Gas Co., Inc. |
| Newton Naval Stores 1 1 | 23-035-00016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gammill, Dave |
| Reed 1 1 | 23-035-00017 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Pioneer Oil And Gas Co., Inc. |
| Citizens Bank 1 1 | 23-035-00018 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Cordell & Cordell |
| Creosote Oil 1 1 | 23-035-00019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Crow, Hamilton Et Al |
| Love Petroleum 1 1 | 23-035-00020 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Danciger Oil & Refining Co. |
| Creosote Oil 1 1 | 23-035-00021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Discovery Oil & Gas Co., Inc. |
| Brooks-Clark-Caldwell Sw-63 Gu #1 . | 23-035-00022 | Other status | Gas | Charles A. Brooks |
| C O Herchenhahn 1 1 | 23-035-00023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Duck & Hughes |
| E L Batten Etal 1 1 | 23-035-00024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | T. M. Evans |
| Batson Hatten Lbr 1 1 | 23-035-00025 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Fohs Oil Company |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 555 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 Forrest County, MS?
Forrest County, Mississippi has 555 catalogued oil & gas wells: 115 active, 362 plugged and 5 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Forrest County?
5 wells in Forrest County, Mississippi are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 24th-highest count among Mississippi counties.
What share of wells in Forrest County are plugged?
362 of Forrest County's 555 catalogued wells (65%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 70% across Mississippi.
Which Mississippi county has the most oil and gas wells?
Adams County has the most catalogued wells of any Mississippi county on WellCensus (5,963); Forrest County ranks 18th with 555.
How many companies operate wells in Forrest County?
152 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Forrest County, Mississippi.
Nearby in the Mississippi rankings
About this data
Source: Mississippi State Oil & Gas Board 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 Forrest County, Mississippi”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/mississippi/forrest (data as of October 10, 2026).