API 31-013-15864OrphanedOil well
L Eckstrom 14
Oil well in Chautauqua County, New York · operated by Valley Drilling Corp Of America
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 2, 1980
Drilling began
Completion
Apr 16, 1981
Plug date
—
Total depth
620 ft
As published by the state
Registry record
- API #
- 31-013-15864
- Status
- Orphaned(state code: USGS DOW 2022 (Unknown Located))
- Type
- Oil(OD)
- Field
- Busti
- County
- Chautauqua
- Coordinates
- 42.00155, -79.29893
- State record #
- 31013158640000
Operator
Valley Drilling Corp Of America
- Wells operated
- 26
- Active
- 0
- States
- NY
- As filed
- Valley Drilling Corp. of America
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waugaman C44 | 37-123-44570 | Active | Oil | Pine Ridge Energy |
| A Hopkins 13 | 37-123-42464 | Active | Oil | Energex Power Inc |
| A Hopkins 11 | 37-123-42463 | Active | Oil | Energex Power Inc |
| Vancise 52 | 37-123-43334 | Active | Oil | Bennett Resources LLC |
| Black (Vistran Lease) 7 | 37-123-20891 | Orphaned | Oil | Brokenstraw Oil Dev Co |
| Edward B Day Hull H84 | 37-123-27443 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Lindell & Maney LLC |
Dataset updated . Source: New York oil & gas regulator registry + the USGS documented-orphaned-wells inventory.