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Rufus #5

Plugged

Martin County · Spraberry (Trend Area) field  · Vertical

Rufus #5 (API 42-317-35129) is a plugged well in Martin County, plugged February 10, 2012, last operated by Ovintiv USA Inc..

The RRC has issued one drilling permit, issued December 8, 2007, permitted to 11,000 ft.

It was permitted by Pioneer Natural Res. USA, Inc. and has since transferred to Ovintiv USA Inc. on the wellbore schedule.

Completion filings report 2 formation tops, including Spraberry, Dean.

Its lease has reported 333K barrels of oil and 237K mcf of gas since June 2007, last reporting volume in January 2026. The lease carries 8 wells, so these are lease totals, not this well alone.

Operator of record

Ovintiv USA Inc.

Permitted by Pioneer Natural Res. USA, Inc.; the EWA schedule now lists a different operator.

Based in
Denver, CO
P-5 status
Active (A)
P-5 last filed
Dec 12, 2025
Permits on file
1,391
Phone
(720) 876-5176

SOURCE · RRC EWA WELLBORE SCHEDULE

What each RRC source says

Wellbore scheduleOvintiv USA Inc.
Production reportsOvintiv USA Inc.through Jan 2026
Latest permitPioneer Natural Res. USA, Inc.Dec 8, 2007

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

11,000
total depth, ft
1
permits on file
Dec 8, 2007
last permit issued
Jul 25, 2008
completed
333K
cumulative oil, bbl
237K
cumulative gas, mcf

PRODUCTION FROM PDQ LEASE REPORTS · Jun 2007 THROUGH Jan 2026

Regulatory status · RRC wellbore file

Schedule
OFF SCHEDULE
Completed
Jul 25, 2008
Shut in
—
Plugged
Feb 10, 2012

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 8 wells in total, so volumes are shared.Why →

LeaseFieldReporting operatorWellsOil, bblGas, mcfReported
Rufus O-10-38377Spraberry (Trend Area)Ovintiv USA Inc.8333K237KJun 2007 – Jan 2026

Oil, barrels lease total

Last 12 months 2,961 · prior 12 9,581(-69%)

05001K1.5K202420252026

Gas, mcf lease total

Last 12 months 0 · prior 12 0

0100200300202420252026

Chain of custody

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

  1. 1Pioneer Natural Res. USA, Inc.Jul 2007 → May 2017
  2. 2Petrolegacy Energy II, LLCJun 2017 → May 2023
  3. 3Ovintiv USA Inc.Jun 2023 → Jan 2026

Permits

PermitTypeOperatorReceivedIssuedSpudDepth
650573-99DrillPioneer Natural Res. USA, Inc.Dec 3, 2007Dec 8, 2007May 20, 200811,000

Completions

CompletedLeaseFieldOperatorStatusDepth
Jul 25, 2008Rufus O-10-38377Spraberry (Trend Area)Ovintiv USA Inc.Plugged—

Formation tops

As filed on W-2/G-1. Subsea from 2,719 ft elevation.Download CSV →

FormationMD ftSubsea
SpraberryTOP UPPER SPRABERRY7,184-4,465
SpraberryTOP LOWER SPRABERRY7,698-4,979
DeanTOP DEAN8,550-5,831
DeanBASE DEAN8,748-6,029

Perforations

Perforated and open-hole intervals.

FromToType
7,1867,260Perforated
8,0028,085Perforated
8,2488,294Perforated
8,5548,624Perforated
8,7328,806Perforated
8,9188,948Perforated

Casing

Strings as reported, shallowest first.

Casing inSet atHole inCement
8.62539011300 S
4.59,3997.875800 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
00Jan 14, 2009Nov 6, 2008Yes
00Dec 29, 2008——

Well logs

1 log loaded from the RRC's log index, the latest received Feb 5, 2009. Density, Neutron. 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
NEUTRON/DENSITY POROSITYSpans Spraberry, DeanTIFF3,500 to 9,183Feb 5, 2009run May 31, 20082.94

"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. The University Lands library has no per-well link: then paste it into its search.

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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