WELL · 42-101-30449 · DISTRICT 8

Buck Creek #3

Buck Creek #3 (API 42-101-30449) is a permitted well in Cottle County filed by Whalen Drilling & Mining CO.; no completion report is on file yet.

The RRC has issued 2 drilling permits in 1986, permitted to 6,500 ft.

Completion filings report 4 formation tops, including Coleman Junction, Canyon, Strawn, Granite Wash.

Its lease has reported 42.8K barrels of oil and 53 mcf of gas since January 1993, last reporting in May 2009. The lease carries 5 wells, so these are lease totals, not this well alone.

Operator of record

Whalen Drilling & Mining Co.

Warrensburg, NY · P-5 Y, filed May 7, 1994 · 58 permits on file

SOURCE · RRC EWA WELLBORE SCHEDULE

What each RRC source says

Wellbore schedule	none
Production reports	Sunlight Exploration, Inc.through Oct 2007
Latest permit	Whalen Drilling & Mining Co.Jul 14, 1986

6,500: total depth, ft
2: permits on file
Jul 14, 1986: last permit issued
—: completed
42.8K: cumulative oil, bbl
53: cumulative gas, mcf

PRODUCTION FROM PDQ LEASE REPORTS · Jan 1993 THROUGH May 2009

Regulatory status · RRC wellbore file

Schedule: OFF SCHEDULE
Completed: —
Shut in: —
Plugged: —

Surface location

No coordinates on the permit record yet. The RRC's GIS record usually lands within days of issuance; historical master-file permits never carry one.

Lease production

PDQ LEASE REPORTS · REPORTED THROUGH APR 2026

Texas reports oil by lease, not by well. These are the lease this well is completed on; they carry 5 wells in total, so volumes are shared.Why →

Lease	Field	Reporting operator	Wells	Oil, bbl	Gas, mcf	Reported
Buck Creek O-11-65776	Whalen (Silver Bow III)	Sunlight Exploration, Inc.	5	42.8K	53	Jan 1993 – May 2009

No volumes reported on these leases in the last three years.

Chain of custody

Every operator that reported production on this well's lease, in order.

1Gregco, Inc.Jan 1993 → Jan 1996
2Sunlight Exploration, Inc.Feb 1996 → Oct 2007

Permits

Permit	Type	Operator	Received	Issued	Spud	Depth
304072-99	Drill	Whalen Drilling & Mining Co.	Jul 11, 1986	Jul 14, 1986	—	6,500
303737-99	Drill	Whalen Drilling & Mining Co.	Jul 1, 1986	Jul 1, 1986	Jul 6, 1986	5,700

Completions

Completed	Lease	Field	Operator	Status	Depth
—	— O-11-65776	—	—	—	—

Formation tops

As filed on W-2/G-1. Subsea from 1,917 ft elevation.Download CSV →

Formation	MD ft	Subsea
Coleman Junction	2,920	-1,003
Canyon	4,868	-2,951
Strawn	5,358	-3,441
Granite Wash	5,861	-3,944

Perforations

Perforated and open-hole intervals.

From	To	Type
4,868	4,869	Perforated

Casing

Strings as reported, shallowest first.

Casing in	Set at	Hole in	Cement
8.625	433	12.25	350 S
5.5	5,926	7.875	825 S

Completion filings

W-2 and G-1 reports on record in the RRC wellbore file, newest first. The suffix identifies the wellbore or completion event. About these reports →

Filed	W-2 / G-1 date	Logs referenced
Jan 21, 1998	Aug 19, 1997	—
Aug 8, 1986	Jul 31, 1986	Yes
Aug 7, 1986	—	—

The source documents

Petrora holds the structured record. The scanned filings live at the RRC; these links open its search already filled in for this API.

Wellbore filings for 42-101-30449 → W-2, G-1, plugging reports, as PDFs
Completion packets for 42-101-30449 → scanned completion filings

Log images are in archives with no per-well link: the RRC's Neubus archive (2004 onward). then paste it into their search.

About this data

Permits from the RRC OGA049M master and daily daf420 files; wellbore and operator of record from the EWA schedule, weekly; completions, formation tops, casing, and perforations from the dbf900 wellbore file; production from PDQ lease reports, which lag two to three months; injection from UIC permits, H-10 reports, and TexNet daily volumes; earthquakes from the TexNet catalog.

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