Oil & gas wells in Pierce County, ND
44 catalogued wells in Pierce County, North Dakota, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Pierce County, North Dakota has 44 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 43 plugged & abandoned (98%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 21st of the 32 North Dakota counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 43,680 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
44
Active
0
Plugged
43
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Pierce County?
0% of Pierce County's wells are active, 47 percentage points below the North Dakota share of 47%. 98% are plugged & abandoned, against 29% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Pierce County; North Dakota as a whole has 562. The remaining 1 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Pierce County?
By product class, 44 of the county's wells (100%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 0 (0%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 92% and the gas share 0.9%. The deepest total depth published for a Pierce County well is 5,966 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 Pierce County compare with other North Dakota counties?
Pierce County has the 21st-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.
Who operates wells in Pierce County?
28 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Pierce 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 Pierce County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bell 1 | 33-069-00001 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Ajax Oil Co. |
| Olivia Saude 1 | 33-069-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Phillips Petroleum Company |
| Martin Voeller 1 | 33-069-00003 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Calvert Exploration Co. |
| Heckman 1 | 33-069-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Midwest Exploration Corp. |
| Cyrus And Joseph Ramberg 1 | 33-069-00005 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Calvert Exploration Co. |
| Hyde Associates Schaan 1 | 33-069-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Owen Drilling Co. |
| Hyde Associates Tjon 1 | 33-069-00007 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Owen Drilling Co. |
| Hyde Associates M. Hager 1 | 33-069-00008 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Owen Drilling Co. |
| Lawrence Bell 1 | 33-069-00009 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Cardinal Drilling Co. |
| Gifford Marchus 1 | 33-069-00010 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Shell Oil Co. |
| Fleck F12-8-P | 33-069-00011 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc. |
| Joseph D. Bacher 1 | 33-069-00012 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Shell Oil Co. |
| Christenson 1 | 33-069-00013 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | E. F. Wakefield |
| M. T. Thompson Et Al 1 | 33-069-00014 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Cardinal Drilling Co. |
| R. Bessel 1 | 33-069-00015 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Cardinal & Great American Exploration |
| C. Bischoff 1 | 33-069-00016 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Amerada Hess Corporation |
| Olson 1 | 33-069-00017 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Apache Oil Corp. |
| Bertha Hagboe 1 | 33-069-00018 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Tom Jordan |
| Hager-Federal Land Bank 1 | 33-069-00019 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Cardinal Petroleum Co. & Oil Capitol Corp. |
| Jacob Schneider 1 | 33-069-00020 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Cardinal Petroleum Co. & Oil Capitol Corp. |
| Frances Burgard 1 | 33-069-00021 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Cardinal Petroleum Co. & Oil Capitol Corp. |
| Alex Martin 1 | 33-069-00022 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | A. J. Hodges Industries, Inc. |
| State Of North Dakota 1 | 33-069-00023 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Don Bills |
| Mike Klein 1 | 33-069-00024 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Cardinal & Garth Caylor |
| Melvin Larvick 1 | 33-069-00025 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | I. J. Wilhite & Simcox Oil Co. |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 44 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 Pierce County, ND?
Pierce County, North Dakota has 44 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 43 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Pierce County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Pierce County, North Dakota.
What share of wells in Pierce County are plugged?
43 of Pierce County's 44 catalogued wells (98%) 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); Pierce County ranks 21st with 44.
How many companies operate wells in Pierce County?
28 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Pierce 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 Pierce County, North Dakota”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/north-dakota/pierce (data as of October 10, 2026).