TEXAS · WELLS · CROCKETT COUNTY · FRIEND, JOE ESTATE LEASE · API 42-105-36304 · DISTRICT 6E

Friend Joe Estate #5028

Shut in

Crockett County · Ozona NE. (Canyon Sand) field · Temp Abandoned  · Vertical

Fields on the latest permit · any of 2
Ozona (Canyon Sand) · Ozona, SW. (Strawn)
Not one formation; the well must be completed in one of them, and no target formation is stated.

Friend Joe Estate #5028 (API 42-105-36304) is a well in Crockett County operated by Upp Operating LLC, completed June 1, 1993 and listed as temp abandoned on the RRC schedule, shut in January 1, 1998.

The RRC has issued one drilling permit, issued December 29, 1992, permitted to 9,171 ft.

It was permitted by Enron Oil & Gas Company and has since transferred to Upp Operating LLC on the wellbore schedule.

Completion filings report 2 formation tops, including Base Creteaceous, Canyon.

Its lease has reported 48 mcf of gas since June 1993, with no volume in the three years through April 2026.

Operator of record

Upp Operating LLC

Permitted by Enron Oil & Gas Company; the EWA schedule now lists a different operator.

Based in
Houston, TX
P-5 status
Active (A)
P-5 last filed
Mar 6, 2026
Permits on file
33
Phone
(713) 495-5300

SOURCE · RRC EWA WELLBORE SCHEDULE

What each RRC source says

Wellbore scheduleUpp Operating LLC
Production reportsUpp Operating, LLCthrough Jun 1997
Latest permitEnron Oil & Gas CompanyDec 29, 1992

The sources disagree, which usually means a transfer or a lease-level production filing by a different entity. Petrora goes with the schedule.

9,171
total depth, ft
1
permits on file
Dec 29, 1992
last permit issued
Jun 1, 1993
completed
0
cumulative oil, bbl
48
cumulative gas, mcf

PRODUCTION FROM PDQ LEASE REPORTS · Jun 1997 THROUGH Jun 1997

Regulatory status · RRC wellbore file

Schedule
ON SCHEDULE
Completed
Jun 1, 1993
Shut in
Jan 1, 1998
Plugged
—

Operator's P-5 on the schedule: Active (A)

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; this well is the only one on it.Why →

LeaseFieldReporting operatorWellsOil, bblGas, mcfReported
Friend, Joe Estate G-9-146390Ozona, NE. (Canyon Sand)Upp Operating, LLC1048Jun 1993 – Jun 1997

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.

  1. 1Dreyfus, Louis Natural Gas CorpJun 1997 → Jun 1997

Permits

PermitTypeOperatorReceivedIssuedSpudDepth
407746-99DrillEnron Oil & Gas CompanyDec 29, 1992Dec 29, 1992Apr 20, 19939,200

Completions

CompletedLeaseFieldOperatorStatusDepth
Jun 1, 1993Friend Joe Estate G-9-146390Ozona NE. (Canyon Sand)Upp Operating LLCTemp Abandoned · shut in Jan 1, 19989,171

Formation tops

As filed on W-2/G-1. Subsea from 1,998 ft elevation.Download CSV →

FormationMD ftSubsea
Base Creteaceous6701,328
CanyonTOP UPPER CANYON SANDS6,400-4,402
CanyonTOP LOWER CANYON SANDS8,712-6,714

Perforations

Perforated and open-hole intervals.

FromToType
8,8879,040Perforated

Casing

Strings as reported, shallowest first.

Casing inSet atHole inCement
8.6251,30411360 S
4.59,1717.875250 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. The record date is the RRC's own date on the record, not the day the report was filed: 462,034 of the state's filings carry 1984-01-12. About these reports →

SuffixRRC record dateW-2 / G-1 dateLogs referenced
00Oct 14, 1993Aug 31, 1993Yes
00Sep 9, 1993——

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.

Log images filed since 2004 open from the RRC's log search for this well; none are loaded here for it. The University Lands library has no per-well link: then paste it into its search.

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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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