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Permalink Reply by jffree1 on March 11, 2012 at 4:55

Every one that I've found has been regional so it depends on what area you want to look at. Tylerpaper.com is still putting out a .pdf report of Dist. 5&6 (instead of a column).  Go to the business tab & click on Drilling Report and then click on "here" to open the report.

I have not found a good report for District 3 online but the Beaumont Enterprise may still put one in the print edition on Sunday. 

Permalink Reply by Dry Hole on March 11, 2012 at 6:18

Thanks jffree,

  I looked in the Beaumont Enterprise and found NO JOY  ------ Victoria Advocate has a report they call " Gushers and Dusters" but they seem to cover only counties in their circulation area (Gonzales included) -------- Looks like big papers like SA Express and Houston Chron would jump at the opportunity to report on Big Issues like this as Tyler Paper has made a huge success out of it for years and the info is available in the public domain at the RRC and it would be even more popular if they would send someone into the TRRC office and collect the info. like Drilling Info does in a timely fashion instead of waiting weeks or months for completions to be reported on the backed -up RRC site.

 BTW -- I think I like the way the PDF is formatted in the Tyler Paper better than the old column

  and think that this might be a good opportunity for a freelance writer to have  gainful employment so go ahead jffree and make that call we know you can do it.

Permalink Reply by jffree1 on March 11, 2012 at 9:52

Joyce Duke Report Service used to get the well reports right out of the Kilgore office and she quit doing that.  It's a major pain to compile that report (I tried it) and I doubt if the papers want to spend the money on an employee to figure out how to get the data off RRC.

I think D. 3 needs one in the worst way.  I can remember my dad checking the Sunday report 30 years ago and it was the only way for mineral owners to get well completions until RRC came into this century with their online system.  It's still on my mind... I may give it a try if I can come up with a format that works.  I thought about putting up a website, maybe, but I'd have to figure out how to get it to pay for itself.

Permalink Reply by jffree1 on March 11, 2012 at 9:56

If you want the valley... google Chorpus Christi newspapers.  There was one down there that puts out a "Coastal Bend" report but it doesn't appear every week.  It always covers Bee and Liveoak (that general area) but I'm not sure how far south they go.  You'd think the Brownsville papers would cover the lower valley.

Permalink Reply by Dry Hole on March 11, 2012 at 11:05

jffree,

 I would think that the place to go would be Austin TRRC and that the Big S.A and Houston Papers could be convinced to pay for this service just as Tyler Paper paid Joyce Dukes ---- the value of this would be in the timely reports as the RRC is slow right now -------- A friend showed me a completion report on a well in South Tx several weeks ago that was pulled up on Drilling Info. ----- that report is still not available on the RRC site ------- so obviously DI has someone "standing" in the Austin Office to copy the new filings

 If you want to go the pay per view website route I will be glad to put a quarter in my piggy bank for you each time I view it  ---- the new format that the Tyler Paper now uses, appears to be much easier to compile and report than the old system of writing short articles on each well. But by no means let the posters here push you into a new career opportunity that will not work for jffree.

 I would think that someone besides DI is gathering the info in Austin weekly and could be paid to send it to you ?