I will want to follow this one closely, as I am in the unit for Marco #405-30453 (just now drilling), right next door to Polo #405-30458 and your Ironosa #405-30375.
No problems with SM Energy for me with two other wells in the county, which began producing in November 2010. Initial payment arrived in April 2011, and was retroactive to beginning of production. Their folks have always been helpful and accurate.
You may have a wrong mailing address on their records -- they are sometimes slow to update in Denver or Shreveport.
BTW, how can there be more than one "Ironosa #1-H" - I thought these well names were unique, at least within the county.
BTW #2 -- someplace on the GHS web site in recent months there were links given to current Unit Declarations maps for San Augustine County. Now I can't find them. Where are they?
They are unique, Mr. Bodine. The SME well is just plain Ironosa #1H while the EOG well is Ironosa Gas Unit #1H and the Exco well is Ironosa SU (Shale Unit) #1H.
I don't know where you saw the link to Unit Declarations. You would have to search the county records for those and you can do that online through countyrecords.com.
Mr. Bodine, the information link to unit declarations was one that I beleive came off of drilling info website utilizing their landtracs which is appears to be a cost subscriber site and it was dated back in December. It did not show the Marco, Polo, or the Henry unit.
According to the county records on 4/28/2011, Crimson filed an assignment to Rock Ridge for ORRI on numerous leases that are not drilled and due to expire. What does this mean for landowners if the leases are due to expire this month?
Is there oil under the natural gas in this area? What are the prospects for extracting it also? Can I look at only oil wells, not gas, on the RRC maps? (These questions may already have been addressed elsewhere...).
I doubt that there is oil under the shale this far south but I can't say for sure. As far as I know, you can't just view oil wells only on the GIS map. It may be possible they have a hard copy map that shows only oil wells but you would have to call and ask.
How many wells are on the Viney Greer and Hiram Edee surveys? We are still UMO w/the Wheeler Unit #1 and the RR shows that it has produced quite a bit of gas. Thanks!!!
Anyone know why EOG Crane Well #1 went off line in July? I heard they were fracking another well nearby--Anyone have any news of this and where the new well might be?
Does anyone know anything about the Higginbotham unit in San Augustine? We had heard that XTO had taken over it? Have they fracked it? Any information would be helpful.
I happen to be in the County Clerks office in San Augustine a couple of days ago and the place was covered up with landmen. Maybe there is still leasing going on somewhere in the county. Sure wanted to take roll call and ask what companies they were with.......but I didn't.
Robert, the only thing that comes close to that description, on the RRC website, is the Proration Schedule by Operator. It will list the operators alphabetically and then by Oil wells or Gas wells (separate categories), by field and then by lease ID number.
The only trouble with trying to find new wells by that method is that they don't appear on the schedule until a lease ID # is assigned and that doesn't happen untilall of the completion paperwork is approved and the well receives an "allowable". It's not unusual for a well to produce for many months before it is ever placed on the schedule.
The records on RRC are departmentalized so that permits are found in a different query than completions or production. You should explore and learn to use the query functions found on this page:
With about 1000 acrs I'm trying to pin point them on the county map. Went to the web site. I think I need more help. Appreciate all I can get here though. I will keep site saved.
Robert, do a search for permits by operator in this county. You can limit the date range to narrow down the results. Those well permits will have a unit plat (link at the bottom of page) showing the location of each well. There may be multiple permits for the same API # if there have been amendments filed.
Select San Augustine from the drop down list. Where is says "Operator Name" click on the down arrow and change "begins with" to "contains" and type in the operator name. One word usually works better than the whole company name. If you want to limit by date, scroll to the bottom of the page and add dates. Hit enter and wait. It may take a minute or two to get the results. You can rearrange the results by API # by clicking on API at the top of that column.
You also need to download a Tiff reader if you don't have one already as that is the file format the plats are saved in. I used the one from Alternatiff.com because it is easy to install.
If you just want to see all of the wells in your surveys, do a survey/abstract search on the GIS map. After you do the search, go to map tools and select "identify wells" and then click on the map icon and a box will pop up with links to the well permit page, well logs and Operator/wellbore/PDQ. Clicking the PDQ link will open yet another page that will have well completion and production report links.
Unit acreage?? Why are some recent units going for more acreage in the unit. I thought the normal unit was 640 acres, but recently some of the units are in the 900+ acreage range. Are there rules that limit the size of a unit?
A.C.123, the RRC "statewide" rule is 640 acres + 10% = 704 acres. However, there is an additional allowance for horizontal wells based on the lateral length. So, the longer the lateral... the larger the unit can be. It is becoming more common to find units in the 800-900 acre range.
So for longer laterals the unit can be oversized, mineral owner's portion deluted, and more acreage held by production with less wells? Very few units have a second well, so 900 acres can be HBP? Why stop at 900 acres, why not make a 10,000 or 20,000 acre unit and less leases would expire?
The best way to look at it is that there will be even more gas produced than might be expected from a 640 ac. unit because the trend now is longer laterals. There may only be one well with some operators but the ones who are "all in" on NG are going to drill. There are already several units in Nac. which are being drilled up by EOG and Exco (Cameron Minerals Unit will have 9 wells shortly and ACLCO will have six... all to be completed and turned to sales at the same time... as a well spacing trial). I expect to see multiple wells from XTO and EnCana who have both already drilled several 2nd unit wells. Plus... they will be drilling both HA and BO in our part of the world so that is X2.
Just so you feel better about it... there is a limit to how much acreage they can add for lateral length. If I can find the chart (again) in the rules, I will post it.
I've seen one 3000+ acre unit, although it had one mineral owner, and a significant continuous drilling provision. I think beyond the 1000+ acre size, you have to have some type of agreement among the mineral owners.
What is going on with the Brown-Weeks unit? Are they merging 2 units? What is the meaning of ALLOC? Almost 1300 Acres? Does anyone have any explanation?
My understanding of this is there is a 462 ft. section of the brown well that will be fractured under the Weeks unit so a "reasonable" portion of the sales will be paid to the Weeks unit owners. I am not sure how they calculate the "reasonable" amount. Both of these wells are physically on my property. They are in the process of fracing the Brown-Weeks unit at this time by CUDD. The Weeks well has been in production since July. Anyone else have any information on this?
Lout No. 1 is 161 acres? Is it possible to get lease pools under 640 acres? I've seen wording for 330' lease line spacing and 40 acre units, so is this just 4 -40 acre units? At first I thought it might be a salt water disposal but it states gas well. Also is there a place to look up SWD permits? The RRC link seems to be broke. I tried posting this as a new discussion but that seems to be broke too. Thanks for any info!
JJ, I expect that unit to be amended at some point. They will file a Designation of Unit which will (typically) be much larger. They filed today to change the name of Matthews 1H (405-30480) to Lout 1HR and cancelled the permit for Lout 1H (405-30486) so changes (to the unit) are coming, most likely.
Suzanne, If I understand correctly they will take the % that the 462' section is to the whole producing interval and that portion (%) of production would be allocated to the Weeks Unit and the rest would be allocated to the Brown Unit. If that is not right someone can correct me.
Can someone tell me what the status is for the Harris GU SAG well? It's in the Sigler survey, API #405-30461. After what I thought was the fracing stage, traffic to the site stopped, then started back up and was constant. Now there's no activity back there at all.
jffree1
Aug 8, 2011
ALongview
Aug 8, 2011
jffree1
That's probably the one... the SM well came on in Oct.and the EOG well came on in Dec., 2010. Exco just reported theirs in June.
Aug 8, 2011
byron pierce
Aug 8, 2011
Willis Bodine
I will want to follow this one closely, as I am in the unit for Marco #405-30453 (just now drilling), right next door to Polo #405-30458 and your Ironosa #405-30375.
No problems with SM Energy for me with two other wells in the county, which began producing in November 2010. Initial payment arrived in April 2011, and was retroactive to beginning of production. Their folks have always been helpful and accurate.
You may have a wrong mailing address on their records -- they are sometimes slow to update in Denver or Shreveport.
BTW, how can there be more than one "Ironosa #1-H" - I thought these well names were unique, at least within the county.
BTW #2 -- someplace on the GHS web site in recent months there were links given to current Unit Declarations maps for San Augustine County. Now I can't find them. Where are they?Aug 8, 2011
jffree1
They are unique, Mr. Bodine. The SME well is just plain Ironosa #1H while the EOG well is Ironosa Gas Unit #1H and the Exco well is Ironosa SU (Shale Unit) #1H.
I don't know where you saw the link to Unit Declarations. You would have to search the county records for those and you can do that online through countyrecords.com.
Aug 8, 2011
byron pierce
Aug 8, 2011
A.C.123
Aug 10, 2011
luckyduck
I am not good with computers, so must ask rathyer than search.
Information please on the Owens # 1 in San Augustine County and on
the Kodiak well. Anyone know the size , formation etc.?
Aug 13, 2011
A.C.123
According to the county records on 4/28/2011, Crimson filed an assignment to Rock Ridge for ORRI on numerous leases that are not drilled and due to expire. What does this mean for landowners if the leases are due to expire this month?
Aug 14, 2011
Willis Bodine
Aug 15, 2011
jffree1
Aug 15, 2011
DeeDee
How many wells are on the Viney Greer and Hiram Edee surveys? We are still UMO w/the Wheeler Unit #1 and the RR shows that it has produced quite a bit of gas. Thanks!!!
Sep 25, 2011
sweetniece
Sep 25, 2011
jffree1
DeeDee, have you talked to Cabot? I know someone in the Wheeler unit and they have been receiving checks for several months.
sweetniece, they reported zero production from Crane #1H in July but I haven't heard anything about why. I will ask around.
Sep 25, 2011
DeeDee
jffree it's been 4 months since we have heard from them. I'll give them a call this week. Thanks!!!!!!
Sep 25, 2011
Jeri Lynn Williamson
Sep 28, 2011
jffree1
Sep 28, 2011
dbob
I think it has been fraced or is expected to be in the near future.
Sep 28, 2011
Wish You Knew
Oct 6, 2011
Wish You Knew
Oct 6, 2011
JWC
Oct 19, 2011
jffree1
Oct 19, 2011
farmbrad
Oct 19, 2011
jffree1
Oct 19, 2011
jffree1
Robert, the only thing that comes close to that description, on the RRC website, is the Proration Schedule by Operator. It will list the operators alphabetically and then by Oil wells or Gas wells (separate categories), by field and then by lease ID number.
The only trouble with trying to find new wells by that method is that they don't appear on the schedule until a lease ID # is assigned and that doesn't happen untilall of the completion paperwork is approved and the well receives an "allowable". It's not unusual for a well to produce for many months before it is ever placed on the schedule.
Proration Schedules: http://www.rrc.state.tx.us/data/production/stripout/index.php
The records on RRC are departmentalized so that permits are found in a different query than completions or production. You should explore and learn to use the query functions found on this page:
http://www.rrc.state.tx.us/data/online/index.php
Nov 26, 2011
Robert E. Anderson
With about 1000 acrs I'm trying to pin point them on the county map. Went to the web site. I think I need more help. Appreciate all I can get here though. I will keep site saved.
Nov 26, 2011
jffree1
Robert, do a search for permits by operator in this county. You can limit the date range to narrow down the results. Those well permits will have a unit plat (link at the bottom of page) showing the location of each well. There may be multiple permits for the same API # if there have been amendments filed.
http://webapps.rrc.state.tx.us/DP/initializePublicQueryAction.do
Select San Augustine from the drop down list. Where is says "Operator Name" click on the down arrow and change "begins with" to "contains" and type in the operator name. One word usually works better than the whole company name. If you want to limit by date, scroll to the bottom of the page and add dates. Hit enter and wait. It may take a minute or two to get the results. You can rearrange the results by API # by clicking on API at the top of that column.
You also need to download a Tiff reader if you don't have one already as that is the file format the plats are saved in. I used the one from Alternatiff.com because it is easy to install.
Nov 26, 2011
jffree1
Once you have the well unit plat you want to locate... go to the GIS map and search for that API #. The more you zoom in the more detail you will see.
http://gis2.rrc.state.tx.us/public/startit.htm
Nov 26, 2011
jffree1
If you just want to see all of the wells in your surveys, do a survey/abstract search on the GIS map. After you do the search, go to map tools and select "identify wells" and then click on the map icon and a box will pop up with links to the well permit page, well logs and Operator/wellbore/PDQ. Clicking the PDQ link will open yet another page that will have well completion and production report links.
Nov 27, 2011
Robert E. Anderson
Wow...lot of resources here. Thanks so mmuch for your help. It will take awhile to check this out...that is my assistant..(wife) love that woman.
Nov 27, 2011
A.C.123
Unit acreage?? Why are some recent units going for more acreage in the unit. I thought the normal unit was 640 acres, but recently some of the units are in the 900+ acreage range. Are there rules that limit the size of a unit?
Dec 6, 2011
jffree1
A.C.123, the RRC "statewide" rule is 640 acres + 10% = 704 acres. However, there is an additional allowance for horizontal wells based on the lateral length. So, the longer the lateral... the larger the unit can be. It is becoming more common to find units in the 800-900 acre range.
Dec 6, 2011
A.C.123
Dec 6, 2011
jffree1
A.C.,
The best way to look at it is that there will be even more gas produced than might be expected from a 640 ac. unit because the trend now is longer laterals. There may only be one well with some operators but the ones who are "all in" on NG are going to drill. There are already several units in Nac. which are being drilled up by EOG and Exco (Cameron Minerals Unit will have 9 wells shortly and ACLCO will have six... all to be completed and turned to sales at the same time... as a well spacing trial). I expect to see multiple wells from XTO and EnCana who have both already drilled several 2nd unit wells. Plus... they will be drilling both HA and BO in our part of the world so that is X2.
Just so you feel better about it... there is a limit to how much acreage they can add for lateral length. If I can find the chart (again) in the rules, I will post it.
Dec 6, 2011
dbob
I've seen one 3000+ acre unit, although it had one mineral owner, and a significant continuous drilling provision. I think beyond the 1000+ acre size, you have to have some type of agreement among the mineral owners.
Dec 6, 2011
jffree1
I agree, dbob. I look at HA units every day and I have to say that 6-700 acre units are much more the "norm" rather than over-sized units.
Dec 7, 2011
catfish
What is going on with the Brown-Weeks unit? Are they merging 2 units? What is the meaning of ALLOC? Almost 1300 Acres? Does anyone have any explanation?
Dec 12, 2011
Suzanne Sowell
My understanding of this is there is a 462 ft. section of the brown well that will be fractured under the Weeks unit so a "reasonable" portion of the sales will be paid to the Weeks unit owners. I am not sure how they calculate the "reasonable" amount. Both of these wells are physically on my property. They are in the process of fracing the Brown-Weeks unit at this time by CUDD. The Weeks well has been in production since July. Anyone else have any information on this?
Dec 17, 2011
Johnnie Joe
Lout No. 1 is 161 acres? Is it possible to get lease pools under 640 acres? I've seen wording for 330' lease line spacing and 40 acre units, so is this just 4 -40 acre units? At first I thought it might be a salt water disposal but it states gas well. Also is there a place to look up SWD permits? The RRC link seems to be broke. I tried posting this as a new discussion but that seems to be broke too. Thanks for any info!
Dec 20, 2011
jffree1
JJ, I expect that unit to be amended at some point. They will file a Designation of Unit which will (typically) be much larger. They filed today to change the name of Matthews 1H (405-30480) to Lout 1HR and cancelled the permit for Lout 1H (405-30486) so changes (to the unit) are coming, most likely.
Suzanne, If I understand correctly they will take the % that the 462' section is to the whole producing interval and that portion (%) of production would be allocated to the Weeks Unit and the rest would be allocated to the Brown Unit. If that is not right someone can correct me.
Dec 20, 2011
catfish
Does anyone have any info on the Victoria Ann unit (EOG)? Has anyone received any D.O's yet?
Feb 13, 2012
jRose
Does anyone have information about the Willis Murphy Survey, Sabine-and the William Roberts Survey-San Augustine?
Feb 21, 2012
Martha Lindsey
jffree1, how can I find out the production number on the Bennett 2 well? The permit number does not work anymore. Thanks.
Mar 4, 2012
jffree1
Martha, the lease ID for Bennett 2H is 262176.
Mar 4, 2012
Martha Lindsey
jffree1, thanks for your help.
Mar 5, 2012
Wish You Knew
FYI
http://webapps.rrc.state.tx.us/CMPL/publicSearchAction.do?packetSum...
Mar 19, 2012
Churn
Can someone tell me what the status is for the Harris GU SAG well? It's in the Sigler survey, API #405-30461. After what I thought was the fracing stage, traffic to the site stopped, then started back up and was constant. Now there's no activity back there at all.
Apr 1, 2012
Wish You Knew
I thought Chesapeak started shutting in and leaving?
Apr 4, 2012
Churn
So is that what happened here? How do I find out?
Apr 4, 2012