TEXAS · WELLS · GRIMES COUNTY · CHAMPION LEASE · API 42-185-30619 · DISTRICT 03
Champion #1
Grimes County · Giddings (Austin Chalk Gas) field · Horizontal
- Fields on the latest permit · any of 2
- Giddings (Austin Chalk-3) · Giddings (Austin Chalk, Gas)
- 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.
Champion #1 (API 42-185-30619) is a plugged horizontal well in Grimes County, plugged January 26, 2023, last operated by Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC.
The RRC has issued one drilling permit, issued May 2, 1997, permitted to 18,000 ft.
It was permitted by Marathon Oil Company and has since transferred to Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC on the wellbore schedule.
Completion filings report 4 formation tops, including Pecan Gap, Taylor, Tac, Bac.
Its lease has reported 52 barrels of oil and 4.34M mcf of gas since August 1997, with no volume in the three years through August 2026.
Operator of record
Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC
Permitted by Marathon Oil Company; the EWA schedule now lists a different operator.
- Based in
- Houston, TX
- P-5 status
- Active (A)RRC P-5 file of Oct 22, 2026
- P-5 last filed
- May 6, 2026
- Permits on file
- 617
- Phone
- (713) 842-9050
SOURCE · RRC EWA WELLBORE SCHEDULE
What each RRC source says
| Wellbore schedule | Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC |
| Production reports | Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLCthrough Aug 2016 |
| Latest permit | Marathon Oil CompanyMay 2, 1997 |
The sources disagree, which usually means a transfer or a lease-level production filing by a different entity. Petrora goes with the schedule.
- 18,000
- total depth, ft
- 1
- permits on file
- May 2, 1997
- last permit issued
- Aug 15, 1997
- completed
- 52
- cumulative oil, bbl
- 4.34M
- cumulative gas, mcf
PRODUCTION FROM PDQ LEASE REPORTS · AUG 1997 THROUGH AUG 2016
Regulatory status · RRC wellbore file
- Schedule
- OFF SCHEDULE
- Completed
- Aug 15, 1997
- Shut in
- —
- Plugged
- Jan 26, 2023
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 AUG 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champion G-3-165189 | Giddings (Austin Chalk, Gas) | Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC | 1 | 52 | 4.34M | Aug 1997 – Aug 2016 |
No volumes reported on these leases in the last three years.
Wells named Champion
Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC's other wells filed under this lease name in Grimes 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
Operator on the lease's P-4
Each operator named on the P-4 filings for this well's lease (a gas well is its own lease), from the date its filing took effect. The P-4 is filed by lease, so a date before the well was drilled is the lease's.
| Operator | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC | Aug 1, 2018 | today |
| Enervest Operating, L.L.C. | Sep 1, 2009 | Aug 1, 2018 |
| Marathon Oil Company | Aug 15, 1997 | Sep 1, 2009 |
Reporting production
Every operator that reported production on this well's lease, in order.
- 1Marathon Oil CompanyAug 1997 → Aug 2009
- 2Enervest Operating, L.L.C.Sep 2009 → Aug 2016
Permits
| Permit | Type | Operator | Received | Issued | Spud | Depth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 461895-99 | Drill | Marathon Oil Company | May 2, 1997 | May 2, 1997 | May 9, 1997 | 18,000 |
Completions
| Completed | Lease | Field | Operator | Status | Depth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 1997 | Champion G-3-165189 | Giddings (Austin Chalk Gas) | Magnolia Oil & Gas Operating LLC | Plugged | — |
Formation tops
As filed on W-2/G-1. Subsea from 383 ft elevation.Download CSV →
Perforations
Perforated and open-hole intervals.
| From | To | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 14,385 | 14,479 | Perforated |
| 14,500 | 16,685 | Perforated |
Casing
Strings as reported, shallowest first.
| Casing in | Set at | Hole in | Cement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10.75 | 2,514 | 14.75 | 1,550 S |
| 7.625 | 10,280 | 9.875 | 955 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 →
| Suffix | RRC record date | W-2 / G-1 date | Logs referenced |
|---|---|---|---|
| 00 | Nov 20, 1997 | Aug 25, 1997 | Yes |
| 00 | Nov 14, 1997 | — | — |
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 42-185-30619 → W-2, G-1, plugging reports, as PDFs
- Completion packets for 42-185-30619 → 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.
New to these records? How to read a well page · API numbers · completion reports and tops · why production is by lease
Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/wells/18530619, documented in the API reference.