Fayette and Lavaca County TX Oil Activity

Have you heard any updates on the discussions between EOG and KEW to develop units north of Pecan?

Heard there was a “deal”, but there are a lot of tracts that are only partially leased by KEW…meaning a tract they leased does not have all mineral owners leased..so will take time to do so…plus they are not using all KEW leases…only ones within a planned unit.

Also the talk is not putting a unit above Monster rock, but shifting the unit 1 to the west, so one above Reimers and one to the west of that and then going up. This would be a 4 unit one pad situation, but not in line with the others….again this is under discussion…depending on results, but they had an extremely thinning of the upper EF in Monster as they went east.

Have to stay tuned for results……and the economics will be a big part of the decisions going forward in this neck of the woods…going into Fayette county…

As is the case in plays like this, it is all about the rocks!

Thanks, interesting info. I am going to be keeping my eye on this seeing is this certainly impacts my family’s acreage!

When you say “above” Monster Rock are you referencing to the North of Monster Rock? What about toward the south of Monster Rock? Is that one still planned in line with Monster?

Does anyone have any information on the pad for Kainer B unit? Seems like it’s pretty deeply on private property. Permit is still on hold

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Yes, a pad/unit north of Monster is in question…actually a pad/unit anywhere north of Pecan pad “was” in question because EOG did not have all the leases.

The initial unit maps from early 2024 are the ones being permitted almost exactly as planned. However, they were all still on hold until testing. After Francis well EOG “proved” up their acreage north to the Lavaca river. Blackshear results “green lit” the 2 units under it, and the 4 units above it. (future CR240/FM 957 pad)

Pecan pad looked promising…..and at this time there are still plans to do the south 2 units from Pecan Farm pad, and another 4 units below that (future CR229/CR263 pad).

Although some talk of westerly movement, mainly on any units above/north of Pecan farm.

There was talk of moving some of the units west just a smidge above Blackshear, but that has not been mentioned lately. If you look at how the units are designed, the 4 wells on one pad for 4 units goes from Francis pad toward the north,and plans are to make a pad at EVERY 4 corner mark eventually to drill out the units having 4-6 wells each unit. So every pad would have 8-12 wells on it when done.

So when a pad site for the 4 units are permitted, where they meet again north and south 4 corners with the next 2 units, the pad site is already planned and approved by surface owner…even though this would not be done/drilled/permitted until 2027 or later, as they try to hold all leases with one well before option payments due….

I was given a map by Redhawk when I signed my lease in July ‘24. Admittedly it’s a one pager showing only ‘my’ unit but you can see from the margins that apparently they laid out a unit grid over the entire area regardless of who’s leased to who. In fact if you get out the magnifying glass you’ll see that each tract is already numbered within each unit (I have a number).

Also for ‘my’ unit at least, the directional orientation (slope/slant?) looks to be exactly that of the pecan pad. This doesn’t appear to be true for Blackshear/Parr though. They’re too E-W.

So to your point, it would probably save a large amount of staff work if they just shifted any units above the Pecan Farm ‘up’ one unit to the NW on their grid if they decide to do that.

As an aside, I’ve started a bad weather project to see who’s leased to who and have put those on a color coded CAD map. I’m far from finished but EGAD! What a patchwork of leases between Redhawk/KEW/Acaval. Hoping that they can get it all worked out.