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Moro Creek #2307H

Shut in

Dimmit County · Briscoe Ranch (Eagleford) field · Shut In  · Horizontal

Moro Creek #2307H (API 42-127-35271) is a horizontal well in Dimmit County operated by Protege Energy Iii LLC, completed August 28, 2013 and listed as shut in on the RRC schedule, shut in June 1, 2026.

The RRC has issued one drilling permit (amended once), issued January 11, 2013, permitted to 7,165 ft.

It was permitted by Newfield Exploration Company and has since transferred to Protege Energy Iii LLC on the wellbore schedule.

Completion filings report 3 formation tops, including Olmos, Austin Chalk, Eagle Ford.

Its lease has reported 4.24M barrels of oil and 17.4M mcf of gas since March 2011, last reporting volume in April 2026. The lease carries 32 wells, so these are lease totals, not this well alone.

Operator of record

Protege Energy III LLC

Permitted by Newfield Exploration Company; the EWA schedule now lists a different operator.

Based in
Houston, TX
P-5 status
Inactive (I)
P-5 last filed
Jun 25, 2025
Permits on file
63
Phone
(713) 337-9300

SOURCE · RRC EWA WELLBORE SCHEDULE

What each RRC source says

Wellbore scheduleProtege Energy III LLC
Production reportsVerdun Oil & Gas LLCthrough Apr 2026
Latest permitNewfield Exploration CompanyJan 11, 2013

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

7,165
total depth, ft
2
permits on file
Jan 11, 2013
last permit issued
Aug 28, 2013
completed
4.24M
cumulative oil, bbl
17.4M
cumulative gas, mcf

PRODUCTION FROM PDQ LEASE REPORTS · May 2011 THROUGH Apr 2026

Regulatory status · RRC wellbore file

Schedule
ON SCHEDULE
Completed
Aug 28, 2013
Shut in
Jun 1, 2026
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; they carry 32 wells in total, so volumes are shared.Why →

LeaseFieldReporting operatorWellsOil, bblGas, mcfReported
Moro Creek O-1-15370Briscoe Ranch (Eagleford)Verdun Oil & Gas LLC324.24M17.4MMar 2011 – Apr 2026

Gas, mcf lease total

Last 12 months 774,730 · prior 12 493,698(+57%)

050K100K202420252026

Oil, barrels lease total

Last 12 months 118,158 · prior 12 59,367(+99%)

010K20K202420252026

Chain of custody

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

  1. 1Newfield Exploration CompanyMay 2011 → Sep 2016
  2. 2Protege Energy III LLCOct 2016 → Sep 2024
  3. 3Verdun Oil & Gas LLCOct 2024 → Apr 2026

Permits

PermitTypeOperatorReceivedIssuedSpudDepth
754257-98DrillNewfield Exploration CompanyMay 1, 2013Jan 11, 2013Feb 9, 20137,500
754257-99DrillNewfield Exploration CompanyJan 8, 2013Jan 11, 2013Feb 9, 20137,500

Completions

CompletedLeaseFieldOperatorStatusDepth
Aug 28, 2013Moro Creek O-1-15370Briscoe Ranch (Eagleford)Protege Energy III LLCShut In · shut in Jun 1, 20267,165

Formation tops

As filed on W-2/G-1. Subsea from 566 ft elevation.Download CSV →

FormationMD ftSubsea
Olmos3,619-3,053
Austin Chalk5,608-5,042
Eagle FordUPPER EAGLE FORD6,528-5,962
Eagle FordLOWER EAGLE FORD6,740-6,174

Perforations

Perforated and open-hole intervals.

FromToType
7,24416,871Perforated

Casing

Strings as reported, shallowest first.

Casing inSet atHole inCement
9.6251,39012.25438 S
5.517,0148.753,437 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
00Dec 18, 2013Oct 21, 2013Yes

Well logs

1 log loaded from the RRC's log index, the latest received Jun 16, 2016. Resistivity. These are the logs loaded into Petrora from the Railroad Commission's inventories, not necessarily every log run on the well. The RRC holds the files; each opens from its log search for the well. The kind is the RRC's description of the log; the interval is the one filed for it.

Open the RRC's log search for this well ↗
Logas describedFiles Intervalft, as filedDatereceivedSizeMB
RESISTIVITYSpans Olmos, Austin Chalk, Eagle FordTIFF1,365 to 16,967Jun 16, 2016run Jun 23, 20131.87

"Spans" is by this well's own filed formation tops: a formation runs from its top to the next deeper top filed, and the deepest runs to the bottom of the log. Depths are measured along the wellbore, so on a horizontal the lateral counts in the formation it was landed in.

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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.

The logs loaded for this well are under Well logs, with the RRC's log search 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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