Plugged Oil Wells

The data field, Plugged Oil Wells, represents the number of once oil productive, but now plugged, wells in a Petroleum Field. The count does not include former oil wells that have been converted for some other use.

Plugged Oil Wells is a value in the Oil Field Summary portion of the Field and Production Summary.

 

The number of Plugged Oil Wells in the petroleum field is retrieved by:

  1. Querying the PDMS for wells that fall within the Field Outline that;

  2. Contain IGS Petroleum Well Symbol Codes corresponding to both oil productive and plugged:

 

Symbol Code

Symbol Description

AGSO abandoned gas storage and oil
AOAG abandoned oil and gas
AOAG-C abandoned oil and gas, completion type uncertain
AOAG-L abandoned oil and gas, location uncertain
AOAG-LC abandoned oil and gas, location and completion type uncertain
AOIL abandoned oil
AOIL-C abandoned oil, completion type uncertain
AOIL-L abandoned oil, location uncertain
AOIL-LC abandoned oil, location and completion type uncertain
ASWDO abandoned salt water disposal formerly oil
AWIO abandoned oil and water injection
AWIOG abandoned oil and gas and water injection