TEXAS · WELLS · DENTON COUNTY · BAKER, JAMES GU LEASE · API 42-121-30673 · DISTRICT 7C
Baker James GU #6
Denton County · Boonsville (Bend Congl. Gas) field · Vertical
- Fields on the latest permit · any of 2
- Boonsville (Bend Congl., Gas) · Newark, East (Barnett Shale)
- Not one formation; the well must be completed in one of them, and no target formation is stated. The district's wildcat field is also on the permit.
Baker James GU #6 (API 42-121-30673) is a plugged well in Denton County, plugged August 12, 1998, last operated by Bkv Barnett LLC.
The RRC has issued one drilling permit, issued June 19, 1998, permitted to 8,250 ft.
It was permitted by Mitchell Energy Corporation and has since transferred to Bkv Barnett LLC on the wellbore schedule.
Its lease has reported 6.89K mcf of gas since July 1998, with no volume in the three years through April 2026.
Operator of record
Permitted by Mitchell Energy Corporation; the EWA schedule now lists a different operator.
- Based in
- Fort Worth, TX
- P-5 status
- Active (A)
- P-5 last filed
- Mar 11, 2026
- Permits on file
- 143
- Phone
- (940) 394-2000
SOURCE · RRC EWA WELLBORE SCHEDULE
What each RRC source says
| Wellbore schedule | BKV Barnett LLC |
| Production reports | BKV Barnett, LLCthrough Aug 1998 |
| Latest permit | Mitchell Energy CorporationJun 19, 1998 |
The sources disagree, which usually means a transfer or a lease-level production filing by a different entity. Petrora goes with the schedule.
- 8,250
- total depth, ft
- 1
- permits on file
- Jun 19, 1998
- last permit issued
- —
- completed
- 0
- cumulative oil, bbl
- 6.89K
- cumulative gas, mcf
PRODUCTION FROM PDQ LEASE REPORTS · JUL 1998 THROUGH AUG 1998
Regulatory status · RRC wellbore file
- Schedule
- OFF SCHEDULE
- Completed
- —
- Shut in
- —
- Plugged
- Aug 12, 1998
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.
Wells nearby
Every well with a location on file around this well, in any state, nearest first.
Texas locations come from drilling permits, so most older Texas wells have none and are not listed.
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 →
| Lease | Field | Reporting operator | Wells | Oil, bbl | Gas, mcf | Reported |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baker, James GU G-13-171767 | Boonsville (Bend Congl., Gas) | BKV Barnett, LLC | 1 | 0 | 6.89K | Jul 1998 – Aug 1998 |
No volumes reported on these leases in the last three years.
Wells named Baker James GU
BKV Barnett LLC's other wells filed under this lease name in Denton County, newest permit first. The RRC gives a gas well its own lease number, so the name is what joins the wells of a unit.
Loading the lease's wellsChain of custody
Every operator that reported production on this well's lease, in order.
- 1Mitchell Energy CorporationJul 1998 → Aug 1998
Permits
| Permit | Type | Operator | Received | Issued | Spud | Depth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 477295-99 | Drill | Mitchell Energy Corporation | Jun 19, 1998 | Jun 19, 1998 | Jul 22, 1998 | 8,250 |
Completions
| Completed | Lease | Field | Operator | Status | Depth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Baker James GU G-13-171767 | Boonsville (Bend Congl. Gas) | BKV Barnett LLC | Plugged | — |
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 →
| Suffix | RRC record date | W-2 / G-1 date | Logs referenced |
|---|---|---|---|
| 00 | Feb 11, 1999 | — | — |
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 42-121-30673 → W-2, G-1, plugging reports, as PDFs
- Completion packets for 42-121-30673 → scanned completion filings
Log images filed since 2004 open from the RRC's log search for this well; none are loaded here for it.
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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