Oil & gas wells in Carbon County, WY
4,476 catalogued wells in Carbon County, Wyoming, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Carbon County, Wyoming has 4,476 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1,519 active (34%), 2,195 plugged & abandoned (49%) and 1 documented orphans. It ranks 10th of the 23 Wyoming counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 3% of the state's 129,957 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
4,476
Active
1,519
Plugged
2,195
Documented orphans
1
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Carbon County?
34% of Carbon County's wells are active, 17 percentage points above the Wyoming share of 17%. 49% are plugged & abandoned, against 51% statewide and 47% nationally. 557 wells (12%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 1 wells (0.0%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 0.3% across Wyoming and 4% nationally. The remaining 204 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Carbon County?
By product class, 1,456 of the county's wells (33%) are oil wells, 2,816 (63%) gas wells and 79 (2%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 50% and the gas share 43%. The deepest total depth published for a Carbon County well is 19,965 ft, against 25,830 ft for Wyoming as a whole. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Carbon County compare with other Wyoming counties?
Carbon County has the 10th-most catalogued wells of the 23 Wyoming counties with at least 25. The median Wyoming county on WellCensus has 3,655 wells. The largest, Campbell County, has 36,047. By documented orphans it ranks 11th in Wyoming.
Who operates wells in Carbon County?
494 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Carbon 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 Carbon County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patented 29-12 | 49-007-05000 | Active | Gas | Chaco Energy Company |
| 1 | 49-007-05001 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Production Service & Equipment |
| 1 | 49-007-05002 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Nutting H P |
| West Side Canal Unit 2 | 49-007-05006 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Saga Petroleum LLC Of Colorado |
| Maggie Baggs 1 | 49-007-05007 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Kirby Exploration |
| South Baggs Unit 15 | 49-007-05008 | Shut-in | Gas | Antler Energy LLC |
| West Side Canal 4 | 49-007-05009 | Shut-in | Gas | Antler Energy LLC |
| Federal-Thompson 1 | 49-007-05010 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Champion Ventures Inc |
| West Side Canal Unit 3 | 49-007-05011 | Shut-in | Gas | Antler Energy LLC |
| South Baggs Unit 13 | 49-007-05012 | Active | Gas | Antler Energy LLC |
| Unit W-075284 2 | 49-007-05013 | Active | Gas | Antler Energy LLC |
| South Baggs Unit 4 | 49-007-05016 | Active | Gas | Antler Energy LLC |
| South Baggs 1 | 49-007-05017 | Shut-in | Gas | Antler Energy LLC |
| South Baggs Unit 8 | 49-007-05018 | Active | Gas | Antler Energy LLC |
| Baggs South Unit 12 | 49-007-05020 | Active | Gas | Antler Energy LLC |
| Christinson 1 | 49-007-05021 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Mobil Expl & Producing North America Inc |
| South Baggs Unit 14 | 49-007-05022 | Active | Gas | Antler Energy LLC |
| South Baggs Unit 10-S | 49-007-05023 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Gruenerwald William |
| Baggs South Unit 5 | 49-007-05024 | Active | Gas | Antler Energy LLC |
| Unit W-081348 3 | 49-007-05025 | Active | Gas | Antler Energy LLC |
| Unit 9 | 49-007-05026 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Gruenerwald William |
| State Line Unit 14 | 49-007-05027 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Gulf Energy Corporation |
| Baggs South Unit 6 | 49-007-05028 | Shut-in | Gas | Antler Energy LLC |
| South Baggs 7 | 49-007-05029 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Phillips Petroleum Company |
| Penlow Bear Bros 1 | 49-007-05030 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | James Marvin |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 4,476 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 Carbon County, WY?
Carbon County, Wyoming has 4,476 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1,519 active, 2,195 plugged and 1 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Carbon County?
1 wells in Carbon County, Wyoming are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 11th-highest count among Wyoming counties.
What share of wells in Carbon County are plugged?
2,195 of Carbon County's 4,476 catalogued wells (49%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 51% across Wyoming.
Which Wyoming county has the most oil and gas wells?
Campbell County has the most catalogued wells of any Wyoming county on WellCensus (36,047); Carbon County ranks 10th with 4,476.
How many companies operate wells in Carbon County?
494 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Carbon County, Wyoming.
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About this data
Source: Wyoming Oil & Gas Conservation Commission 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 Carbon County, Wyoming”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/wyoming/carbon (data as of October 10, 2026).