This goes back a few decades, but since you probably know the local area well, I can be specific. If you are driving County Road 347 away from Jewett and toward Concord, after crossing the BN-SF railroad, the road first goes down a hill and then up the next hill. Assuming nothing has changed over the past 20+ years, toward the top of that hill on the left is a private road that goes to what is now called Rose Lake. (That might be the same road the drilling crew is using, but I couldn’t tell for sure from your photo.) The coal outcropping is in the field to the right of the private road, between the road and the fence to the Golie place, and between CR 347 and a barn a few hundred yards away that we stored hay in. I discovered it when I was a boy walking that field hunting rabbits with my 410. At the time it was just a small (few meters) area a few inches high where coal was exposed. I remember it so vividly because I hadn’t seen coal anywhere else on our place and when I told my father about it, he had me show it to him. I now know that East Texas has coal, so it wasn’t such an anomalous discovery but it seemed like it back then.
That’s a promising sign that the well will be productive. Can you tell whether the new pipeline is headed due north toward the pipeline that the Minter well is connected to or is headed northwest toward the pipeline that the Golie and Miles wells connect to? The RRC’s map doesn’t show that level of detail. Marathon had land condemned for a pretty extensive pipeline when they were drilling Minter. It is separate from the line used for Golie and Miles.
The plat attachment for drilling permit applications includes leases and acreage included in the planned well. Some of the acreage is listed in parentheses, e.g., (68 ac), and other acreage is not e.g., 200 ac. Can someone tell me why acreage listed these two ways?
To clarify, instead of a plat attached to a drilling permit application, I am asking about a well location plat. It lists 4 units in a horizontal well. A breakdown of the acreage included in each unit is listed by lease/ownership and acreage. Some of the acreage is in parenthesis and some is not. Why is the acreage listed in these two ways?