Oh, wow, thanks so much for all you put into this Hutch! Lots of good information at our fingertips~ now if I can just get my fingertips to work right! lol
I'm counting 24 Continental wells and 32 Newfield wells just in this one little area down here in the south Cana Woodford part of the Scoop! That's a BUNCH of holes in the ground and a lot of spreading the wealth to us peons and beyond! Love it!!! Thank You Lord and Thank You Hutch for your info!!!
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I've got API numbers on the wells, but don't have PUN numbers. Is there someway I can use the API# to cross reference to the PUN#? That would allow me to use the API# as the key reference, and eventually get into the above system.
I've tried just working with the legal description, but the reference descriptions in the above system don't always go into enough detail. With some of these wells, which date back in my family to the 1920s, the naming convention has gotten a little fuzzy through the years (Happyland North well #2 vs North Happyland #2 for example). I am assuming the API# is a more reliable reference.
There is not a cross reference and least not a publicly available one that I'm aware of. You can look up the API on the OCC and then the location with the OTC link you provided. However, you may have to search surrounding areas. If it is part of a unitization, that will make it even more difficult.
API numbers did not come around until the late 50s and early 60s. So it is not uncommon to find old wells that were never assigned an API number if it has not been producing for 50-60 years. I've even seen instances of new APIs being issued on old wells to clear up some of the naming problems that resulted in multiple well bores with the same API.
If you only have one or two you are trying to look up, friend me and send me the numbers. I have a few tools available that might help.
Thanks Rick! Darn :(. I've got way more than one or two...
There are 200 separate properties in the family holdings. I'm getting paid on 56 of these.
I'm trying to resolve two items:
1. How do the payments correspond to the properties? I inherited these, and some of the Division Orders I received give the well name, not the legal description. I'm almost to the point that I can answer this question for each payment: I wanted to make sure I could use the public records and get most of this information (I'm hoping family members can help resolve the rest).
2. Am I getting paid on all the production that is happening on these properties? Still working on this one.
If I get to the point where I'm stumped on a small number of these, I will see if your generosity is still available! Thanks for helping so many of us here, Barbara
Hi Rick, I did find a path to identify the properties with payments. I do know the county - this is shown on the payment statements from the payers. Using the OTC system, I selected "By County", which gave me a list by well name for everything in county, and also identified the well as active or not. Using the well name, I just went through that alphabetical list of ~150 or so wells until I found a match by name for an active well. BINGO! This is giving me enough information to line up just about all but 3 properties. Those 3 names don't match anything I see in the applicable county. They are listed as units on my statement from Sunoco.
Names of unitizations don't usually match up with the information printed on the stubs. By far, those are the most challenging to put together. Since we don't have any units paid by Sunoco, I'm not sure how they list them.
However many abbreviations are used. You may find "SU" Or "SD UT" instead of "Sand Unit" Use a preceding % and search for individual words of the unit and see if you can match it. %Hart or %Purdy Then you have to dive into the plans and orders to look at individual tracks.
One of these was formed in 1974, with wells that were first permitted and drilled in ~1952.
By now, this area (Pontotoc County) these are really small producers. Would the unit have been dissolved at some point, or do these (typically) continue forever once established (assuming there is still some production)?
In some cases a subsequent order might dissolve or change the unit. We have an interest in some wells that were drilled in the 40s and part of an unitization in the 60's. In the 80s they were not part of that unitization and they were reworked/recompleted and are still producing.
Thanks Rick, as always, so helpful! What is the process to dissolve the unit - is that an action by the unit or the individual well operator? Does the process go back through OCC and get linked to the unit or to the individual well?