We bought an old lease at one time years ago and my husband and brother-in-law went over and cleaned up the locations themselves. They also did the work on the wells themselves as we had the little rig to do it with. Later when we sold the wells we had to count everything they made over what we paid for them as profit. Our accountant said we should have hired them cleaned up because we couldn’t deduct our own labor off of what they made. That was when oil was really cheap so we really didn’t make much at all on the wells and they worked like a sled dog. Lesson learned! lol
I meant husband and brother-in-law worked like sled dogs…not the wells.
Looks like we can’t count on the well to be drilled anytime in the near future on Section 29, Township 4N, Range 3W in Garvin County as hubby went over and checked on how the location was coming along…nothing had changed. The dirt work was barely started and the dirt moving equipment was sitting in the same place it was weeks ago. My father-in-law said they were supposed to pay him for the location but we hear they paid his ex-wife instead so that might be part of the hold up as the Indian agent said they were going to get their attorneys on the case as he is half Indian. He said the land is his until he dies and then it goes to his sons. In any case it is not supposed to be hers. Such wish they would get to work on the well. We got the spacing papers some months ago now but nothing else since. Ho hum…
Excuse the typos on last post. Maybe you can figure out what I meant.
As we went east on Highway 29 after going south on Highway 76 a couple of days ago we could see a rig up in Township 2N, Range 4W in Stephens County off to our right but could not tell what section it was on exactly. Didn’t have time to go west to check it out but guess someone is getting a new well.
Hi Linda: Could that rig you saw to your right close to the highway in Stephens County have been another KELLY going under Highway 29 and producing from Sections 14 & 11 of Township 2N-4W? If it was about a mile south of Highway 29 it could be another BOLES or a CLARENCE to produce from Sections 23 and 14 of Township 2N-4W. The McCLELLAND isn’t as good at producing oil as the KELLY & BOLES wells are but it is producing from Section 23 south under Sections 26 and 35. All of these wells were drilled from less than a mile south of Highway 29 and tap from sections immediately east and north of your dream (and ours) Section 34 of Township 2N-4W. Maybe we will see some new action moving south and a little west in this township. Next time you are down that way see if you can identify the rig and post it in the Stephens County section and I will try and research it. Thanks, Don Fry
I will look pretty soon Don. It is not around Section 14 as that’s the wrong side of Highway 76. I believe they have all the new Boles wells drilled, don’t they? Husband now is saying he didn’t even know for sure that it was a rig he saw but at the time he said he thought it was. This would be after you turn west on 29 off of 76 and then I believe on the north side of Highway 29. Like you said I just need to go down there and eyeball it before I get people excited. If it had been close to 34 you can bet your booties I would have gone over and looked before now.
I’m only showing 3 rigs currently in Stephens County.
Two in Section 3-2N-4W (actually surface is in Garvin 34 3N-4W) 3R wells, and 1 in 6-1S-4W Betts M1-31-6XH.
There are a couple of Patterson Rigs on 19-3N-4W drilling some additional Lyle wells (Sections 19-30). That would be in the general area you described, just east of the Stephens-Garvin County line.
Hi Linda: You are right. I think all of the Kelly wells in Section 14 are drilled as are the Boles. My map showed a bump in Highway 29 going east of the Highway 29 & 76 intersection which mistakenly showed the Kelly wells south of Highway 29. All of the wells I cited are East of Highway 76 and the Kelly wells are North of Highway 29 and the Boles & Clarence are South of Highway 29. If your husband possibly saw a rig West of the intersection of Highways 29 and 76 and North of Highway 29 that would put it around Section 15 of 2N-4W in Stephens County or two or three miles North of our Section 34. Or maybe he saw the phantom rig that has been drilling our section. Thanks for giving we out-of-state owners direct information about what is going on around our minerals. Don Fry
Request to Rick or anyone else for information about lease activity in/adjacent to Maysville: We have mineral rights in the far NE corner of the town of Maysville; first block of town off Highway 74 & North Street, very near the high school. Section 16 Township 4N Range 2W Could anyone tell us what the closest producing well is to this area? Anyone with mineral interests near or adjacent to this area? Thanks!
Marilynn, There are wells currently producing in 16-4N-2W. You can search on them here: https://www4.oktax.onenet.net/GrossProduction/gp_PublicSearchPUNbyLegal.php Use search by legal and you will need 2 digit numbers such as 16 04N 02W. There are 15 or so producing in surrounding sections which are laid out like this: 08 09 10 17 16 15 20 21 22 I believe all of the wells are over 5 years old.
Thank you Rick! This is very helpful information.
Don, I am thinking if that was really a drilling rig it was north and west of Section 15. Thinking it was probably north of Section 17 or so but Rick is saying there are no rigs in this area so I’m sure he would know. Hubby must have been seeing something besides a rig or it could I suppose be a workover rig and not a drilling rig. I thought I’d be out and about the diggins before now but today we are getting some much needed rain and a few thunderstorms so probably won’t be out. Besides my grandson has come in from college to see us so no touring for me today.
Marilynn, normally we would have been over the Maysville way headed to Purcell or Pauls Valley but not lately. Will also try to check on that sometime soon.
Linda,
The data I’m looking at is usually pretty accurate. It may lag a day or two after the rig is on site. The same ones were showing when I pulled the data.
The two 3R wells I referenced would be a mile north of Section 15. What I posted was the lateral sections the wells are drilling North from the North edge of 15.
So Rick would that be on Section 10, 2N4W?
Ninety mile an hour winds in Chickasha, Ok. did a lot of damage the news is saying…mainly south and east of town. Also had floods there in town.
Suppose what he saw could be on the NW corner of 15, 2N4W.
A well on Section 10, 2N4W would be on some friends of ours. I’m sure they will be excited if that’s the case.
Surface location is on Section 10. But producing only from Sections 3 and 34.
Section 10 owners won’t be too excited about it.