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Permalink Reply by Rock Man on August 26, 2018 at 16:21

Jasper Co pretty quiet over past year / attached PDF shows permits since last summer. Some interesting horizontal activity by BBX SW of Jasper with well drilled and cased in late 2017 - but no completion info yet.

Suggest you look at Tx RRC site to keep up with permit and completion activity.

Attachments:

• Jasper Co permits past year.pdf, 3.9 MB

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Permalink Reply by Karen Barber on August 26, 2018 at 18:22

BBX sold to Zarvona. Jasper Co. is not quiet. Much equipment being moved in to wells that have not been fracked. Obviously your info not correct. What chat room can I go to for reliable info?

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Permalink Reply by jffree1 on August 27, 2018 at 3:38

Karen,

We can get current information from the Railroad Commission on drilling permits filed. Once filed and approved, the operator then has two years to drill a well under that permit #.

We can get drilling activity from a couple of subscription services: Drilling Info or Rig Data, but not everyone on this site has that information. I keep track of drilling activity in District 6 every week. If you have a specific well you want to watch out for I can look at Jasper Co. (District 3), too. You just have to ask.

We can get any completion packets that an operator has filed on a well. To find that information we need at least an idea of where to look. Jasper County is a big area. You have to narrow it down. If you own land or minerals there then you must know which survey(s) it is located in.

If you are interested in a particular well then you need to get the information from the well location sign and come post it here. It is a state law that identification signs have to be posted at the entrance to a well location. Those signs tell the Lease Name, the Well Number, the Operator, among other things. The easiest thing is to just take a picture of the sign and post it.

There is no way for any of us to know anything about any activity, after drilling, without someone like you sharing what they've seen.  Frac operations are not reported anywhere. Seeing all those trucks come in is a heads up that you should be able to find a completion packet on that well before long and production reports are the first indicator, usually, on Railroad Commission that a well is producing.

My water well guy told me last year about "lots of activity in Jasper County" but when I looked at the permits and completions... there was nothing new from a year before that. What he was seeing was most likely frac crews or pipeline people moving around.

You might be able to get a discussion going in District 3 Oil & Gas That was an active group several years ago and I used to post about BBX drilling in Jasper until activity in the county and that group dwindled away. Go look through the discussions posted and see what is there. Then ask a question or post your own discussion... see if you can stir some response.

We are a friendly group. We have some very knowledgeable industry people who donate lots of time to helping mineral owners find information. But you won't get anything from any of them if you don't change your approach.

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Permalink Reply by Rock Man on August 26, 2018 at 18:48

All I can tell you is that this map represents the only permits in Jasper Co over past year. There have been no significant completions in the county during that time. This is all from the Drilling info.com site - which gets its info from the Tx RRC site.

I suggest you learn to use the Tx RRC site to get info if you don't believe what I am posting. And if you are seeing equipment being moved, you should post specifics here. Then perhaps you can create your own chat room and get others to become involved.

It is frustrating to no end to try to add info to discussion sites like this and then get the type of response like you have posted this evening.

Good luck on your search for info.

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Permalink Reply by Jesse Joyner on August 26, 2018 at 20:02

RM, your intel is always topnotch. We truly appreciate all of the time you spend on GHS, helping so many people understand the hundreds of locations that you keep up with. You do a wonderful job.

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Permalink Reply by Rock Man on August 27, 2018 at 15:48

Jesse, thanks for your comments. 

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Permalink Reply by Karen Barber on August 26, 2018 at 20:55

I know very well about the TX RRC site. I visit it often and have for four years, ever since my family’s land has been in play. I joined this blog so that I could get info. I never see much more than Louisiana drilling, leases and wells.

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Permalink Reply by lee on August 27, 2018 at 2:23

KAREN, NO RIGS DRILLING, JUNE, JULY, & AUGUST OF 2018 IN JASPER COUNTY, TEXAS

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Permalink Reply by lee on August 27, 2018 at 2:31

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on August 27, 2018 at 2:50

The simple explanation for the lack of Jasper County discussions is lack of interest.  Also, the lack of discernible development activity.  Karen, I have a suggestion for you.  If you would care to stimulate some discussions regarding Jasper to take advantage of all the activity you are seeing, start a group page for Jasper County.  Invite others with interest in Jasper County to join GHS and/or that group.  Then start a discussion on what you are seeing.  The industry members here attempt to respond to questions from the members.  If anyone was asking questions about Jasper, there would be responses.  You seem to have a chip on your shoulder and have gotten off to a less than stellar start.  There is time to remedy that.  If you need help in starting a Jasper County Group on GHS, let me know.  Good luck.

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Permalink Reply by dbob on August 27, 2018 at 16:56

I would look at the Daffy and Swamp Monster wells, as those look to be pretty good completions.  Swamp monster has reported production of 172,000 bbls of oil since May 2017 and produced over 10,000 bbls in the month of June 2018.  But its conventional.  That said, I hear persistent rumors of work down there, just not seeing much in the way of permits. 

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Permalink Reply by Rock Man on August 27, 2018 at 17:08

DBOB, those are both pretty decent wells. Swamp Monster (north part of county SW of Jasper) is an overpressured Woodbine Sand completion below 13,000'. This is the Woodbine trend that spreads E-W along strike from this area - as you noted, conventional sandstone reservoir. Tough and expensive drilling due to high pressure and hole conditions.

Woodbine is roughly Tuscaloosa Sand equivalent / sourced by Eagle Ford section (roughly equivalent to TMS).

Daffy is in far south part of the county - produces from a couple of Yegua (Eocene) sands below 9000'.

Both of these wells are "gas wells" that have high condensate and NGL yields - this is pretty common form many of the conventional reservoirs in this part of the Gulf Coast.

Completion reports for both attached.

One thing about this area has been proven over the years - this is tough drilling country due to pressure and unstable hole conditions. Problems while drilling are common.

Attachments:

• TX-Completions-2e57543b-86e5-4023-afc8-d47aca400066 Swamp Monster Woodbine.pdf, 24 KB
• TX-Completions-9f71d1d6-cc98-4b6e-bad7-240c95349566 Daffy Yegua Cons.pdf, 25 KB

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