Oil & gas wells in Fayette County, WV
1,015 catalogued wells in Fayette County, West Virginia, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Fayette County, West Virginia has 1,015 catalogued oil & gas wells: 516 active (51%), 232 plugged & abandoned (23%) and 88 documented orphans. It ranks 34th of the 50 West Virginia counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.9% of the state's 118,569 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
1,015
Active
516
Plugged
232
Documented orphans
88
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Fayette County?
51% of Fayette County's wells are active, close to the West Virginia share of 51%. 23% are plugged & abandoned, against 22% statewide and 47% nationally. 88 wells (9%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 12% across West Virginia and 4% nationally. The remaining 179 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Fayette County?
By product class, 0 of the county's wells (0%) are oil wells, 628 (62%) gas wells and 3 (0.3%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 4% and the gas share 55%. 94% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Fayette County compare with other West Virginia counties?
Fayette County has the 34th-most catalogued wells of the 50 West Virginia counties with at least 25. The median West Virginia county on WellCensus has 2,037 wells. The largest, Ritchie County, has 10,708. By documented orphans it ranks 36th in West Virginia.
Who operates wells in Fayette County?
61 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Fayette 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 Fayette County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loup Creek Colliery 2 | 47-019-00001 | Orphaned | Gas | Operator Unknown |
| Payne, J. M. 581 | 47-019-00002 | Orphaned | Other type | Operator Unknown |
| Newman Heirs 1 | 47-019-00006 | Orphaned | Other type | Operator Unknown |
| Lafollette, R. & P. 612 | 47-019-00007 | Orphaned | Other type | Operator Unknown |
| New River Coal Co. 7 | 47-019-00017 | Orphaned | Other type | Operator Unknown |
| New River Co. 8 | 47-019-00022 | Orphaned | Other type | Operator Unknown |
| Great Kanawha Colliery 6 | 47-019-00003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Southeastern Gas Company |
| Lafollette, R. & P. 596 | 47-019-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Operator Unknown |
| Kanawha Gauley 1 | 47-019-00005 | Active | Gas | Diversified Production LLC |
| Black Betsy Coal Co. 3 | 47-019-00008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Operator Unknown |
| Cannelton Coal & Coke Co. 7 | 47-019-00009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Operator Unknown |
| Kanawha & Gauley Coal Co. 3 | 47-019-00010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Operator Unknown |
| Newman, W. C. 700 | 47-019-00012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Operator Unknown |
| Mecca Colliery Co. 706 | 47-019-00013 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Operator Unknown |
| Kanawha & Hocking Coal Co 712 | 47-019-00014 | Active | Gas | Diversified Production LLC |
| Kanawha Gauley 4-848 | 47-019-00015 | Active | Gas | Diversified Production LLC |
| Kanawha & Gauley Coal Co. 5 | 47-019-00016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Operator Unknown |
| New River Coal Co. 8 | 47-019-00018 | Other status | Other type | Operator Unknown |
| New River Coal Co. 9 | 47-019-00019 | Other status | Other type | Operator Unknown |
| Black Betsy Cons. Coal 5 | 47-019-00020 | Other status | Other type | Operator Unknown |
| Huddleston, R. R. 740 | 47-019-00021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Operator Unknown |
| W. Pocahontas Prop. Lmt. Partnership New River M-24 (418551) | 47-019-00023 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Eqt Production Company, LLC |
| Koppers Elkhorn 1-745 | 47-019-00024 | Orphaned | Gas | Ows Acquisition Co LLC |
| Elkhorn Piney Mining 748 | 47-019-00025 | Orphaned | Gas | Ows Acquisition Co LLC |
| New River Co. 10-Sr-M-25 | 47-019-00026 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Operator Unknown |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 1,015 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 Fayette County, WV?
Fayette County, West Virginia has 1,015 catalogued oil & gas wells: 516 active, 232 plugged and 88 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Fayette County?
88 wells in Fayette County, West Virginia are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 36th-highest count among West Virginia counties.
What share of wells in Fayette County are plugged?
232 of Fayette County's 1,015 catalogued wells (23%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 22% across West Virginia.
Which West Virginia county has the most oil and gas wells?
Ritchie County has the most catalogued wells of any West Virginia county on WellCensus (10,708); Fayette County ranks 34th with 1,015.
How many companies operate wells in Fayette County?
61 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Fayette County, West Virginia.
Nearby in the West Virginia rankings
About this data
Source: West Virginia DEP Office of Oil & Gas 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 Fayette County, West Virginia”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/west-virginia/fayette (data as of October 10, 2026).