TEXAS · WELLS · HIDALGO COUNTY · API 42-215-32768 · DISTRICT 04

Garcia #1

On schedule

Hidalgo County · Monte Christo S. (Vicks. 13000) field · Producing  · Vertical

Fields on the latest permit · any of 3
Field 8998 · Field 8999 · Monte Christo, S. (Vicks. 13000)
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.

Garcia #1 (API 42-215-32768) is a well in Hidalgo County operated by Merit Energy Company, completed November 5, 2000 and listed as producing on the RRC schedule.

The RRC has issued one drilling permit, issued May 10, 2000, permitted to 16,322 ft.

It was permitted by Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation and has since transferred to Merit Energy Company on the wellbore schedule.

Completion filings report one formation top, including S Sd.

Its 4 leases have reported 1.34K barrels of oil and 492K mcf of gas since July 2000, last reporting volume in August 2026. The leases carry 4 wells, so these are lease totals, not this well alone.

Operator of record

Merit Energy Company

Permitted by Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation; the EWA schedule now lists a different operator.

Based in
Dallas, TX
P-5 status
Active (A)
P-5 last filed
Nov 7, 2025
Permits on file
1,049
Phone
(972) 701-8377

SOURCE · RRC EWA WELLBORE SCHEDULE

What each RRC source says

Wellbore scheduleMerit Energy Company
Production reportsMerit Energy Companythrough Aug 2026
Latest permitCoastal Oil & Gas CorporationMay 10, 2000

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

16,322
total depth, ft
1
permits on file
May 10, 2000
last permit issued
Nov 5, 2000
completed
1.34K
cumulative oil, bbl
492K
cumulative gas, mcf

PRODUCTION FROM PDQ LEASE REPORTS · AUG 2000 THROUGH AUG 2026

Regulatory status · RRC wellbore file

Schedule
ON SCHEDULE
Completed
Nov 5, 2000
Shut in
—
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.

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Lease production

PDQ LEASE REPORTS · REPORTED THROUGH AUG 2026

Texas reports oil by lease, not by well. These are the 4 leases this well is completed on; they carry 4 wells in total, so volumes are shared.Why →

LeaseFieldReporting operatorWellsOil, bblGas, mcfReported
Garcia G-4-180949Monte Christo, S. (Vicks. 13000)Merit Energy Company11.34K492KAug 2000 – Aug 2026
Garcia G-4-181833WildcatMerit Energy Company100Aug 2000 – —
Garcia G-4-181834WildcatMerit Energy Company100Aug 2000 – —
Garcia G-4-181835WildcatMerit Energy Company100Jul 2000 – —

Gas, mcf lease total

Last 12 months 1,388 · prior 12 1,397(-1%)

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Wells named Garcia

Merit Energy Company's other wells filed under this lease name in Hidalgo 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.

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Chain of custody

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

  1. 1Coastal Oil & Gas CorporationAug 2000 → Jun 2001
  2. 2El Paso Production Oil & Gas Co.Jul 2001 → Jul 2006
  3. 3El Paso E & P Company, L. P.Aug 2006 → Jul 2012
  4. 4EP Energy E&P Company, L.P.Aug 2012 → Oct 2013
  5. 5Cantera Operating, LLCNov 2013 → Nov 2017
  6. 6Merit Energy CompanyDec 2017 → Aug 2026

Permits

PermitTypeOperatorReceivedIssuedSpudDepth
494891-99DrillCoastal Oil & Gas CorporationMay 10, 2000May 10, 2000May 16, 200017,500

Completions

CompletedLeaseFieldOperatorStatusDepth
Nov 5, 2000Garcia G-4-180949Monte Christo S. (Vicks. 13000)Merit Energy CompanyProducing16,322
Aug 18, 2000Garcia G-4-181833WildcatMerit Energy CompanySWR-10-Well · shut in Oct 1, 200016,322
Aug 10, 2000Garcia G-4-181834WildcatMerit Energy CompanySWR-10-Well · shut in Oct 1, 200016,322
Jul 25, 2000Garcia G-4-181835WildcatMerit Energy CompanySWR-10-Well · shut in Oct 1, 200016,322

Formation tops

As filed on W-2/G-1. Subsea from 235 ft elevation.Download CSV →

FormationMD ftSubsea
S SD13,055-12,820

Perforations

Perforated and open-hole intervals.

FromToType
13,05513,063Perforated
13,05513,155Perforated
13,08513,089Perforated
13,13013,134Perforated
13,14613,155Perforated
14,47814,560Perforated
15,11015,250Perforated
15,68415,824Perforated
15,68415,942Perforated
15,90415,942Perforated

Casing

Strings as reported, shallowest first.

Casing inSet atHole inCement
13.3753,00017.52,005 S
9.62510,24312.251,140 S
516,3228.51,660 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
00Jun 12, 2001Apr 4, 2001—
00May 7, 2001Jan 25, 2001Yes
00Apr 16, 2001——
00Mar 2, 2001——

The source documents

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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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