Oil & gas wells in Mclean County, ND
228 catalogued wells in Mclean County, North Dakota, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Mclean County, North Dakota has 228 catalogued oil & gas wells: 46 active (20%), 99 plugged & abandoned (43%) and 1 documented orphans. It ranks 15th of the 32 North Dakota counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.5% of the state's 43,680 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
228
Active
46
Plugged
99
Documented orphans
1
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Mclean County?
20% of Mclean County's wells are active, 27 percentage points below the North Dakota share of 47%. 43% are plugged & abandoned, against 29% statewide and 47% nationally. 1 wells (0.4%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 1% across North Dakota and 4% nationally. The remaining 82 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Mclean County?
By product class, 200 of the county's wells (88%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 3 (1%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 92% and the gas share 0.9%. The deepest total depth published for a Mclean County well is 27,126 ft, against 31,781 ft for North Dakota as a whole. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Mclean County compare with other North Dakota counties?
Mclean County has the 15th-most catalogued wells of the 32 North Dakota counties with at least 25. The median North Dakota county on WellCensus has 57 wells. The largest, Mckenzie County, has 10,933. By documented orphans it ranks 15th in North Dakota.
Who operates wells in Mclean County?
58 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Mclean 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 Mclean County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vaughn Hanson 1 | 33-055-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Samedan Oil Corporation |
| Mcclean County 1 | 33-055-00003 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Stanolind Oil & Gas Co. |
| N. E. Hanson 1 | 33-055-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | H. Hanson Oil Syndicate |
| George S. Wolf 1 | 33-055-00005 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Calvert Drilling, Inc. |
| Ellen Samuelson 1 | 33-055-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | H. Hanson Oil Syndicate |
| Adam Schuh 1 | 33-055-00007 | Other status | Oil | Herman Hanson Oil Syndicate |
| Arnold Tarasenko 1 | 33-055-00008 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | I. J. Wilhite |
| Carl Ecklund 1 | 33-055-00009 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Cardinal Petroleum Co. |
| E. M. Youngbear Sanderson 1 | 33-055-00010 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Empire State Oil Co. |
| Wallace O. Gradin 1 | 33-055-00011 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | W. H. Hunt Trust Estate |
| Emil Hoff 1 | 33-055-00012 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | W. H. Hunt Trust Estate |
| Darwin L. Johannes 1 | 33-055-00013 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | W. H. Hunt Trust Estate |
| Ernest Johnson 1 | 33-055-00014 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | W. H. Hunt Trust Estate |
| Leland Rogers 1 | 33-055-00015 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | W. H. Hunt Trust Estate |
| Rhinholdt Rothman 1 | 33-055-00016 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | W. H. Hunt Trust Estate |
| State 1 | 33-055-00017 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | General Crude Oil Co. |
| Fueller 1 | 33-055-00018 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Pan Canadian Petroleum Company, Ltd. |
| Delaittre-Jones A 1 | 33-055-00019 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Anadarko Production Co. |
| Skagen 1 | 33-055-00020 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Pan Canadian Petroleum Co.& The Nokota Co. |
| Myrtle Jorsengon 1 | 33-055-00021 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Samedan Oil Corporation |
| State 1 | 33-055-00022 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Marline Oil Corp. |
| Paulson 12-11 | 33-055-00023 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Brownlie, Wallace, Armstrong, Bander |
| Tribal 1-1 | 33-055-00024 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Home Petroleum Corp. |
| Solcum 1 | 33-055-00025 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Apache Corporation |
| Hopkins 1-27 | 33-055-00026 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Mitchell Energy Corp. |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 228 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 Mclean County, ND?
Mclean County, North Dakota has 228 catalogued oil & gas wells: 46 active, 99 plugged and 1 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Mclean County?
1 wells in Mclean County, North Dakota are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 15th-highest count among North Dakota counties.
What share of wells in Mclean County are plugged?
99 of Mclean County's 228 catalogued wells (43%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 29% across North Dakota.
Which North Dakota county has the most oil and gas wells?
Mckenzie County has the most catalogued wells of any North Dakota county on WellCensus (10,933); Mclean County ranks 15th with 228.
How many companies operate wells in Mclean County?
58 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Mclean County, North Dakota.
Nearby in the North Dakota rankings
About this data
Source: North Dakota DMR Oil & Gas Division 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 Mclean County, North Dakota”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/north-dakota/mclean (data as of October 10, 2026).