A-385, LEWIS, E Survey, Orange County, Texas

Abstract 385 in the Original Land Survey grid. This is the description a mineral deed uses for land in this county.

Acres
1,338
derived from the polygon
Wells recorded
8
167.2 acres per well
Block
Location
30.170, -93.994

On the ground

The abstract as the Commission draws it, on satellite imagery. The faint outlines are the neighbouring abstracts in Orange County; click one to open it.

30.16960, -93.99591 · derived from the polygon

7 of 8 wells are drawn. The rest file no coordinate this site will place — either none at all, or one rounded so coarsely that it names a region rather than a wellpad. They are listed below and not pinned. An absent pin is an unfiled coordinate, never a well outside this abstract.

A pin outside the outline is normal. The Commission files the coordinate of the well’s bottom hole and the abstract of the tract where it was permitted. A horizontal well enters the ground in one survey and bottoms in the next, so about one well in five sits outside the shape it belongs to. A horizontal well’s bottom hole sits a median 2,780 m from its abstract against 877 m for a vertical one, which is a lateral’s length. The Commission also states that its coordinates are interpreted from survey boundaries and are not necessarily true geographic locations.

Wells in this abstract

APIWell no.LeaseOperatorDepth
361306213RMIL-VIDHILCORP ENERGY COMPANY16,991 ft
361306487MIL-VIDAMERADA HESS CORPORATION14,701 ft
361306001STMIL-VIDOLIPDP II, LLC14,500 ft
3613064210MIL-VIDHILCORP ENERGY COMPANY14,100 ft
361306173MIL-VID,VENUS OIL CO.AMERADA HESS CORPORATION13,126 ft
3613089012MIL-VIDOLIPDP II, LLC12,530 ft
361306801VIDOR AMES SWDHILCORP ENERGY COMPANY4,161 ft
361306399MILVIDAMERADA HESS CORPORATION

4 of 8 leases are not linked. Texas files 516,445 leases and gives a page only to the 327,776 that ever reported a volume, so a lease can be named on a well and have no record to open. The well IS on that lease either way. The operator is linked from the lease, so a well without a lease page carries no operator link either.

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