Sept. 2013

A Guide

to the

RRC Online System

by a Mineral Owner

for Mineral Owners with an Eagle Ford Bias

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Eagle Ford RRC District Map ........................................................... 4

Have they permitted anything on my leased land? ........................ 5

What is the status of my (permitted) well? .................................. 11

Where can I find completion data for my well? ............................ 13

What is my oil/gas lease number? ............................................... 15

Where can I find my well’s production? ....................................... 16

What is the monthly oil/gas proration schedule for my unit? ....... 20

Who is gathering/purchasing the oil/gas from my well (unit)? ..... 22

How can I find my operator number? ........................................... 23

Common Eagle Ford RRC Operator Numbers ................................ 24

Oil & Gas Abbreviations ............................................................... 25

Useful Links ................................................................................. 26

Disclaimer: There is NO implied endorsement to any

company linked or listed in this document. This

document is for informational purposes only.

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Railroad Commission (RRC) of Texas Website

http://www.rrc.state.tx.us/

In the Quick Links section click “Online Research (Queries)”

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Texas RRC Eagle Ford District Map

Note: The Eagle Ford extends farther northeast than the map shows including but not

limited to Brazos, Grimes, Madison & Robertson Counties.

= My Favorites

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Have they permitted anything on my leased land?

Suggested Info Needed:

1. County

2. Location from Major Towns

3. Operator (the company that leased your land)

4. Survey Name and/or Abstract Number (found on gas/oil lease &

other paper work)

The best applications on the RRC website to answer this question is

either the Drilling Permit or the Public GIS Map Viewer Application

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Public GIS Map Viewer (good for approved permits, but not ones just submitted)

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On my paper work the land was described as follows, “out of the Mary

Cogswell League, A-144, Gonzales County…”

I entered my information and there were no matches. Bummer!

In my experience if you have an abstract number (e.g., A-144) use that

plus your county and leave out the survey name. The survey name must

match how the RRC website has it. In my case entering just “Cogswell” in

the survey name did the trick.

Click on map to get a zoomed in map of your area.

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Some surveys are large so you might have to do some detective work!

This could mean zooming in to see if your land is covered by a well or by

clicking on individual wells to see what land they encompass.

In the Map Tools drop down menu select

“Identify Wells.” Then click on a circle (oil) or

astrick (gas), but not the pentagon shape.

If you get a pop-up error either turn the Internet

browser pop-up blocker off or hold down the

control key while clicking on the well symbol. An

example of the results of clicking on a well is on

the next page.

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Once you have the GIS Identify Results then click on Drilling Permits.

Now click on the lease name.

Once on this page scroll down until you see a bunch of attachments.

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The PLAT maps are probably the most useful to see what land is covered

by the well or unit. The P-12 documents will show most of the mineral

owners that are involved in the well or unit. However it will not have the

Non-Participating Royalty Interest (NPRI) owners. Both of these

attachments (PLAT and P-12) are TIF files, and you might need to install a

program that can open TIF files. Once you find a permitted well on

your land make note of the API #, Status # & Lease Name.

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Drilling Permit Application: Another way to find if a company has a

permit on your land. This will show both submitted and approved permits

while the previous application only shows approved ones.

The yellow highlighted fields are my

recommended fields

Select more than one county by holding down the control key

Naming convention can be tricky so I usually do NOT use Survey Name.

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I searched for drill permits in Gonzales County from 6/1/2013 to

8/9/2013 with EOG Resources as the operator. This gave me 39 results.

Now the hard part…clicking on each lease name to find out where each

one is located.

Now the hard part, clicking on each lease name to find out where each

one is located. Click on this Symbol and/or open up the TIF Files.

Once you find a permitted well on your land make note of the API #, Status # (first 6 digits) & Lease Name.

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What is the status of my (permitted) well?

Launch the Drilling Permit Application:

Info Needed:

1. Lease name or API number

2. County where well is located

3. Time frame when permit was issued (use a large time frame)

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What you normally see right after a permit has been approved.

After drilling has started…some completion data will be added…

Please note: The drilling link from the GIS Map Viewer will NOT have this

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Where can I find completion data for my Well?

Launch the Oil & Gas Completion Query

No Dash

If there is no information, you get: (Cmpl_1101) No 'Packet' records found.

If there is completion information for your well, it will show up like this:

Click on the tracking number link

For Specific Wells I recommend:

1. API Number

For more general inquires I recommend:

1. Dates Submitted (use large range) 2. County 3. Operator Number

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The Oil & Gas Completion Info

W-2 (oil) and G-5 (gas) will have Initial Production (IP) results

P-4 will have who is gathering/purchasing the oil/gas

Plat files will be a map of the unit (these files are .TIF, and you might

need to install a program that can open TIF files.)

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What is my oil/gas lease number?

I have found the Oil & Gas Completion Query (see page 13) works the

best to find out if a lease number has been assigned to the unit. A lease

number will not be assigned until after the well has been completed

(weeks to months).

Below is an example of completion data for multiple

wells. As seen below some have lease numbers assigned to them while

others do not.

Just keep checking back on this

completion page and eventually

a lease number will be assigned.

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Where can I find my well’s production?

Launch the Production Reports Query application.

RRC Identifier is the oil lease (5 digits) or gas lease (6 digits) number. If the unit does not have a lease number assigned (e.g., pending), the RRC Identifier is the status or drilling permit number (they are the same number) assigned for the individual well.

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Example A: Finding production data without a lease number

assigned to the well(s).

Step one: Find the drilling permit or status number for a particular well

by using the Drilling Permit Application Query (see page 9).

In this example we are using the J.M. Preston Unit 2H well

The “Status Number” for the J.M. Preston Unit 2H well is 750973.

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Step two: Use the Products Report Query

Choose Pending under Lease Type

Select the District in the drop down menu (see page 4)

Enter the RRC Identifier (status or drilling permit #)

Select the Prod Month Range and click Lease Query

THE RESULTS

Enter each RRC Identifier for each well on the unit.

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Example B: Finding production data with a lease number

assigned to the well(s).

This example is for the J-Hermann A unit gas well in De Witt County. The

gas lease number assigned to this unit is 263739. Launch the Production

Reports Query and enter the appropriate data and click Lease Query.

Note: De Witt County is in District 2. See page 4 for Eagle Ford Districts.

THE RESULTS

Not Producing (before well is drilled)

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What is the monthly oil/gas proration schedule for my unit?

The monthly proration schedule (how much oil/gas is allowed by the RRC)

for a particular month comes out usually the last week of the previous

month.

Launch the Oil & Gas Data Queries

Application

Select Oil Proration or Gas Proration Query

I entered the lease #, the district # & clicked Submit.

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Here are the Proration Query results for Lease 15349 in District 1.

Click on a well number for more

details.

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Scroll down after selecting an individual well (Proration Schedule

by Well) and the W-10 at the bottom will show if the well has

been retested since the Initial Production (IP) test. You can tell it

is not the IP test based on the “Test Date:.”

Who is gathering/purchasing the oil/gas from my well (unit)?

1. Use Oil & Gas Data Queries Application

2. Select P-4 Gatherer/Purchaser Query

3. Enter the appropriate info & click Submit. a. Oil Well b. District 1

c. Lease 15349

Data I entered for this example

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How can I find my operator number?

There are a number of ways this can be accomplished, I have found going

through the Oil & Gas Completion Query the easiest.

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Enter the Operator name and click search…If there are no results enter

just a partial name and see what happens. Sometimes there are multiple

results for the same company. Then it becomes trial and error.

Below are some common Eagle Ford operators and their numbers:

Operator Name Operator # Operator Name Operator #

Abraxas Petroleum 003125 Marathon Oil EF LLC 525398

Burlington Resources O & G 109333 Matador Production 532993

Cabot Oil & Gas 121700 Murphy Expl. & Prod 594675

Carrizo (Eagle Ford) LLC 135316 Penn Virgina Oil & Gas 651780

Chesapeake Operating 147715 Petrohawk Operating 660146

Cheyenne Petroleum 148108 Pioneer Natural Res. 665748

Cinco Natural Resources 153474 Plains Exploration 667862

Comstock Oil & Gas 170040 Riley Exploration 712156

Crimson Exploration 190005 Rosetta Resources 728883

EOG Resources 253162 Sanchez Oil & Gas 747012

EP Energy E&P 253385 Southern Bay Operating 803494

Forest Oil 275740 Swift Energy 833348

Geosouthern Energy 301287 Talisman Energy 835506

Hess 381665 Valence Operating 881167

Hunt Oil 416330 XTO Energy 945936

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Common Oil & Gas Abbreviations

API – American Petroleum Institute

BBL – Barrels of Oil

BOE – Barrels of Oil Equivalent (6 MCF of gas = 1 BBL = 1 BOE)

BOE Example:

Oil – 526 BBL, GAS – 1616 MCF

BOE = (1616/6) + 526 = 795 BOE

BOE/D – Barrels of Oil Equivalent per Day

BCF – Billion Cubic Feet

Brent Crude – Light sweet crude oil produced from the North Sea (not as light or sweet as WTI)

CF – Cubic Feet (1000 CF = 1 MCF)

GOR – Gas/Oil Ratio in CF/BBL

H2S – Hydrogen Sulfide

Heavy Crude Oil – Crude oil with an API gravity of 22.3 or less

Henry Hub – Pricing point for natural gas future contracts traded on NYMEX. It is a point on

the natural gas pipeline in Erath, Louisiana.

IP – Initial Production

Light Crude Oil – Crude oil with an API gravity higher than 31.1.

LLS – Louisiana Light Sweet

MCF – Thousand Cubic Feet

MMCF – Million Cubic Feet

NGL – Natural Gas Liquids

Sour – Oil & Gas with high sulfur content

Sweet – Oil & Gas with low sulfur content

WTI – West Texas Intermediate (crude benchmark)

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Useful Links

Baker Hughes Weekly Rig Map

gis.bakerhughesdirect.com/RigCounts/default2.aspx

Daily Crude Oil Price Bulletins (Plains All American)

www.paalp.com/fw/main/default.asp?DocID=1363

Mineral Wise (good resource) www.mineralweb.com

Tax Issues for Mineral Owners (severance…depletion

allowance…etc.)

o Greenstein, Rogoff, Olson & Co., LLP, CPA's www.groco.com/readingroom/oil_gasdepletion.aspx

o R. King & Co. www.rkingco.com/mineral-owners/oil-and-gas-royalty-

income-taxes/

o IRS – Pub. 535 Chapter 9

www.irs.gov/publications/p535/ch09.html

Texas File (courthouse records covering much of Texas)

www.texasfile.com

Texas Unclaimed Property www.window.state.tx.us/up/

Disclaimer: There is NO implied endorsement to

any company linked or listed in this document.

This document is for informational purposes only.

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