# Lea County Activity

**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lea-county-activity/78986
**Category:** Lea County, NM
**Created:** [January 1, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lea-county-activity/78986 "2025-01-01T18:58:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![DavidT](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DavidT](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/DavidT)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lea-county-activity/78986/1 "2025-01-01T18:58:39Z")

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Can someone please help me as to activity in Section 31 Township 15 South Range 35 East, Lea County?

Also potential future activity. Thank you.

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### Author: ![M\_Barnes](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/user_avatar/www.mineralrightsforum.com/m_barnes/32/10942_2.png) [@M\_Barnes](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/M_Barnes)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2025, 12:23am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lea-county-activity/78986/2 "2025-01-02T00:23:57Z")

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![image](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/uploads/db5755/original/3X/5/9/59195438689878d7dd530c7b2af38ab5bb5787ba.jpeg)

zooming in

 ![image](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/uploads/db5755/original/3X/0/7/078ba030c2bd95b41d81c41d83f2441d5dc6d8e6.jpeg)

Nothing much going on. Three old wells that are P&A and three newer wells that were drilled. Two were dry and one was gas, but not produced.

There are horizontals in the township to the southeast in 16S-36E. Time will tell.

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### Author: ![DavidT](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DavidT](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/DavidT)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lea-county-activity/78986/3 "2025-01-02T02:16:39Z")

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Thank you. Appreciate your time.

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### Author: ![MRFAdmin\_SV](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@MRFAdmin\_SV](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/MRFAdmin_SV)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lea-county-activity/78986/4 "2025-01-11T18:28:35Z")

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#### Post date: [January 11, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lea-county-activity/78986/5 "2025-01-11T18:33:28Z")

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### Author: ![Phil\_Lyon](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/user_avatar/www.mineralrightsforum.com/phil_lyon/32/1904_2.png) [@Phil\_Lyon](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Phil_Lyon)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lea-county-activity/78986/6 "2025-11-18T15:25:21Z")

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We have several rights of 1 to 5 acres with only

payment from Apache and smaller operators.

It seems that the east end of Lea County is not

as productive.

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### Author: ![NMoilboy](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/user_avatar/www.mineralrightsforum.com/nmoilboy/32/20759_2.png) [@NMoilboy](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/NMoilboy)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lea-county-activity/78986/7 "2025-11-18T16:40:08Z")

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It (the Delaware Basin) is essentially a bowl (with a big blank spot where there is potash in the middle). The closer to the bottom of the bowl you are, the deeper/pressured/thicker/productive it is. Get too far east (or north in Lea County) and you are not in the bowl anymore. Here are all the horizontal wells drilled.

 ![image](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/uploads/db5755/original/3X/a/2/a275d3a9b9229aa86c2d1e48ad4bd0dd62aec904.jpeg)