Mitsui filed a drilling permit request today for an exploratory vertical well to be located 5.5 miles east of Buffalo. Max depth listed as 30,000 feet.
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That sounds deep to me. Seems to me they’ll get quite a bit of info on the geology. When they drill, do you know if there’s any data they are required to publish & where one could find the data? Or is the only public info the leases they sign? I presume they’ll file for horizontal permits based on what they find, once they have the leases they want?
The data that they are required to file will most likely be found on the Texas Railroad Commission site. The As-Drilled information will be posted eventually.
Rig is on site, spud date today (2/24/2025). Scandrill 2000 HP rig. Enverus shows it as a stratigraphic/core test well.
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Happy to see this deep one going to the ground.
Found this on there website…
Scan Explorer Mitsui (MDT) Henson 1H Spudded: Andrew Crump Armando Garcia 432-614-6424 Norseman II Series- 2000 HP AC From Hwy 75 & Hwy 79 in Buffalo, Tx travel 7.9 miles EAST on Hwy 79 to CR832. Turn onto CR832 and Travel 0.9 miles Southeast to CR223. Turn right onto CR223 and travel 1.3 miles. Turn left and cross over railroad tracks and continue to travel 2.6 miles on CR223. Turn right and travel 0.1 miles to location road (private road 2231) on left and follow location road 0.8 miles to location.
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This a horizontal well to be drilled. The 30,000 ft. is the projected total depth including the horizontal lateral.
No, it is a vertical test well permitted to 30,000 feet. Enverus lists it as a vertical stratigraphic/core test well.
I doubt that they drill all the way down to 30,000 feet, but we will see.
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Anyone heard of the exploratory wells progresss so far?
Spud date was March 2. If they actually drill close to the permitted depth of 30,000 feet, it will probably take about four months, so there won’t be any news for a while.
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Mitsui has amended the permit for this well to horizontal. Now the 30,000 feet permit makes sense! Guess their test wells results were good.
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If the bottom hole is in an abstract the company hasn’t leased, what do they do for those owners?
The E&P company has to have leases for all the tracts crossed by a horizontal wellbore where there are perforations, subject to Texas RRC guidelines.
In this case, I assume Mitsui has the required leases. They acquired 46,500 net acres in Leon and Freestone Counties from Vanna Production/Sabana Royalty Partners/Thorp Petroleum.
Here’s a map of the Leon County Surveys that contain leases acquired by Mitsui from Vanna Production:
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The P-16 Form filed with the permit amendment can be found here:
https://webapps.rrc.state.tx.us/dpimages/img/8400000-8499999//PR0008457239_0001.pdf
Go to page 2 to see the names of the lessors included in the 293-acre drilling unit.
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The Survey that was done for this unit states that it is not a boundary line survey at the bottom of the plat!