How To Find Where New Eagle Ford Shale Wells Are Being Drilled

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How To Locate New Eagle Ford Shale Drilling Activity

If you are a landowner and curious about where drilling activity is taking place in your county you can visit the Texas Railroad Commission’s website and do an online query for the latest drilling permits.

Here is how to perform the search:

Visit http://webapps.rrc.state.tx.us/DP/initializePublicQueryAction.do

Unless you are looking for Eagle Ford shale wells by a specific operator do not fill in any of the boxes except “County”.  Choose the county where your property is located and scroll to the bottom of the page and enter in the dates of the search you want to perform.

Generally a search of about four months will pull up most of the wells that are planned and a few of them will have already been drilled.

Enter the dates in MM/DD/YYYY  Format.

Depending on the number of months you search you could come up with pages of results. The results will show both vertical and horizontal well bores. Some vertical wells may be pilot holes or test holes.

Typically the horizontal wells deeper than 11,000 feet in counties such as McMullen and LaSalle will be Eagle Ford Shale wells.

You may be able to recognize what area of the county drilling is occurring by the Lease Name. If you click on Lease Name you can see the approximate distance from the nearest town and in what direction.

Farther down you can see the  Field Name, which indicates what field, such as “Hawkville, Eagle Ford Shale” etc.

You can even see a map of the proposed well location by clicking on the Map icon next to the API number under “Surface Location Information”.

You can also pull up the permitted well’s plat using the same link above. You should see latitude and longitude on the well plat. You can take this info and enter it into Mapquest here: Mapquest Latitude and Longitude Be sure to include a minus sign in front of the longitude for “West” or the map will show you a location in China.  You can use lat-lon info from Texas Railroad Commission permits to determine the exact location of any new Eagle Ford shale wells in your area.