MELTON #1-17

API 3506324963 · Hughes County, Oklahoma

PADRY

API

3506324963

Operator

GULF EXPLORATION LLC

County

Hughes

Location

Sec 17 05N 10E (IM)

Completion

Oklahoma files 1 completion report for this well. One carries a production test the operator filed.

Completion 0

DIRECTIONAL HOLEPADRY

Spudded

2023-10-02

Drilling finished

2023-10-06

Completed

2024-01-30

Total depth

4,969 ft

Measured depth

4,969 ft

True vertical depth

4,958 ft

Operator

GULF EXPLORATION LLC

Intervals

Formation	Produced	Perforated (ft)	Treatment
GILCREASE	DRY	4,079–4,085	Acid, Frac
CROMWELL	DRY	4,650–4,777	Acid, Frac
JEFFERSON	GAS	4,825–4,831	Acid, Frac
JEFFERSON	DRY	4,882–4,885	Acid, Frac

Production tests

Tested	Gas (MCF/d)	Water (bbl/d)	Gravity (°API)	Shut-in (psi)	Choke
2023-11-02	0	3	—	1,430	OPEN
2023-11-14	50	3	—	1,466	18/64
2023-12-19	0	48	—	550	OPEN
2024-01-29	0	44	—	0	OPEN

A production test is one measurement the operator made on one day and filed with Oklahoma. It is not a monthly average and it does not describe how the well produced afterwards. The choke size is shown exactly as filed: Oklahoma records it in inches on some reports and in sixty-fourths of an inch on others, and names the unit on neither. A dash is a measurement Oklahoma did not file, or one it filed outside any physically possible range.

Casing

String	Size (in)	Weight (lb/ft)	Grade	Set (ft)	Cement (sacks)
PRODUCTION	4 1/2	11.6	J-55	4,945	290
SURFACE	8 5/8	24	J-55	515	200

Drilling permit

Oklahoma files 1 application to drill this well, naming 5 target formations. A permit records what an operator asked to do, not what it did. A target formation is where the operator aimed, and the hole may have missed it, stopped short of it or never been drilled.

Filed 2023-09-15

WRADRDirectional hole

Permit API

35063249630000

Operator

GULF EXPLORATION LLC

Well type

DRY

Approved

2023-09-26

Expires

2025-03-26

Proposed depth

4,950 ft

Surface casing

480 ft

Ground elevation

963 ft

Target formations

Formation	Expected top (ft)
GILCREASE	3,170
WAPANUCKA	4,170
UNION VALLEY	4,590
CROMWELL	4,650
JEFFERSON	4,740

An expected top is the depth the operator predicted before drilling, on the application it filed with Oklahoma. It is not a measurement of where the formation was found.

Location

34.898762, -96.278651

34.89876, -96.27865 · Surface location as filed with Oklahoma⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

Every well in Hughes County, Oklahoma

Oklahoma state record, from OK_wells_rbdms-wells.parquet. Corpus built 2026-09-11.