Oil & gas wells in Delaware County, NY
39 catalogued wells in Delaware County, New York, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Delaware County, New York has 39 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 12 plugged & abandoned (31%) and 1 documented orphans. It ranks 26th of the 29 New York counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 46,514 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
39
Active
0
Plugged
12
Documented orphans
1
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Delaware County?
0% of Delaware County's wells are active, 25 percentage points below the New York share of 25%. 31% are plugged & abandoned, against 44% statewide and 47% nationally. 1 wells (3%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 16% across New York and 4% nationally. The remaining 26 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Delaware County?
By product class, 0 of the county's wells (0%) are oil wells, 1 (3%) gas wells and 0 (0%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 39% and the gas share 23%. The deepest total depth published for a Delaware County well is 11,170 ft, against 15,921 ft for New York as a whole. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Delaware County compare with other New York counties?
Delaware County has the 26th-most catalogued wells of the 29 New York counties with at least 25. The median New York county on WellCensus has 212 wells. The largest, Allegany County, has 16,110. By documented orphans it ranks 26th in New York.
Who operates wells in Delaware County?
9 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Delaware County. 97% 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 Delaware County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hazlett Merrit 1 | 31-025-00879 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Warner Bros. Well Drilling Inc |
| Mac Donald W R | 31-025-01065 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Doyon C 1 | 31-025-03242 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Penn-York Energy Corp. |
| Doyon 2 | 31-025-04009 | Orphaned | Gas | Penn York Drilling Co. |
| Hirsch K 1 | 31-025-04073 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gulf Oil Corp. |
| Campbell H A and M W 1 | 31-025-04214 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gulf Oil Corp. |
| Fowler Finch 1 | 31-025-04364 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gulf Oil Corp. |
| Lanzilotta 1 | 31-025-04379 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gulf Oil Corp. |
| C E Leslie Caroline E 1 | 31-025-04455 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gulf Oil Corp. |
| Holdridge Charles 1 | 31-025-10096 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Anschutz Corp. |
| Weickert F 1 | 31-025-10227 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Anschutz Corp. |
| Grant, C. 1a | 31-025-21005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. |
| Grant 6 | 31-025-21070 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Resource America Inc. |
| Andersen 1 (627116) | 31-025-23788 | Other status | Other type | Chesapeake Appalachia LLC |
| Milk-1 2H | 31-025-23789 | Other status | Other type | Chesapeake Appalachia LLC |
| Milk-1 4H | 31-025-23790 | Other status | Other type | Chesapeake Appalachia LLC |
| Peters-1 1H | 31-025-23791 | Other status | Other type | Chesapeake Appalachia LLC |
| Peters-1 3H | 31-025-23792 | Other status | Other type | Chesapeake Appalachia LLC |
| Peters-1 5H | 31-025-23793 | Other status | Other type | Chesapeake Appalachia LLC |
| Peters-1 2H | 31-025-23794 | Other status | Other type | Chesapeake Appalachia LLC |
| Peters-1 4H | 31-025-23795 | Other status | Other type | Chesapeake Appalachia LLC |
| Peters-1 6H | 31-025-23796 | Other status | Other type | Chesapeake Appalachia LLC |
| Milk-1 1H | 31-025-23797 | Other status | Other type | Chesapeake Appalachia LLC |
| Milk-1 3H | 31-025-23798 | Other status | Other type | Chesapeake Appalachia LLC |
| Milk-1 5H | 31-025-23799 | Other status | Other type | Chesapeake Appalachia LLC |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 39 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 Delaware County, NY?
Delaware County, New York has 39 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 12 plugged and 1 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Delaware County?
1 wells in Delaware County, New York are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 26th-highest count among New York counties.
What share of wells in Delaware County are plugged?
12 of Delaware County's 39 catalogued wells (31%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 44% across New York.
Which New York county has the most oil and gas wells?
Allegany County has the most catalogued wells of any New York county on WellCensus (16,110); Delaware County ranks 26th with 39.
How many companies operate wells in Delaware County?
9 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Delaware County, New York.
Nearby in the New York rankings
About this data
Source: New York DEC Division of Mineral Resources 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 Delaware County, New York”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/new-york/delaware (data as of October 10, 2026).