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Blankenship Unit #3

Plugged

Panola County · Carthage (Cotton Valley) field  · Vertical

Blankenship Unit #3 (API 42-365-31253) is a plugged well in Panola County, plugged April 25, 2023, last operated by Chevron U. S. A. Inc..

The RRC has issued one drilling permit, issued April 10, 1981, permitted to 1,125 ft.

It was permitted by Getty Oil CO. and has since transferred to Chevron U. S. A. Inc. on the wellbore schedule.

Its lease has reported 1.16M mcf of gas since January 1993, with no volume in the three years through April 2026.

Operator of record

Chevron U. S. A. Inc.

Permitted by Getty Oil Co.; the EWA schedule now lists a different operator.

Based in
Midland, TX
P-5 status
Active (A)
P-5 last filed
Jan 30, 2026
Permits on file
9,294
Phone
(866) 212-1212

SOURCE · RRC EWA WELLBORE SCHEDULE

What each RRC source says

Wellbore scheduleChevron U. S. A. Inc.
Production reportsChevron U. S. A. Inc.through Mar 2018
Latest permitGetty Oil Co.Apr 10, 1981

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

1,125
total depth, ft
1
permits on file
Apr 10, 1981
last permit issued
Oct 3, 1981
completed
0
cumulative oil, bbl
1.16M
cumulative gas, mcf

PRODUCTION FROM PDQ LEASE REPORTS · Jan 1993 THROUGH Mar 2018

Regulatory status · RRC wellbore file

Schedule
OFF SCHEDULE
Completed
Oct 3, 1981
Shut in
—
Plugged
Apr 25, 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.

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 →

LeaseFieldReporting operatorWellsOil, bblGas, mcfReported
Blankenship Unit G-6-96331Carthage (Cotton Valley)Chevron U. S. A. Inc.101.16MJan 1993 – Mar 2018

No volumes reported on these leases in the last three years.

Chain of custody

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

  1. 1Texaco E & P Inc.Jan 1993 → May 2002
  2. 2Chevron U. S. A. Inc.Jun 2002 → Mar 2018

Permits

PermitTypeOperatorReceivedIssuedSpudDepth
115797-99DrillGetty Oil Co.Apr 10, 1981Apr 10, 1981Apr 21, 19811,125

Completions

CompletedLeaseFieldOperatorStatusDepth
Oct 3, 1981Blankenship Unit G-6-96331Carthage (Cotton Valley)Chevron U. S. A. Inc.Plugged—

Perforations

Perforated and open-hole intervals.

FromToType
8,4579,548Perforated

Casing

Strings as reported, shallowest first.

Casing inSet atHole inCement
165726—
8.6251,59312.25858 S
2.3758,427——
5.59,6797.8751,232 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 12, 1984Nov 18, 1981—

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.

Log images filed since 2004 open from the RRC's log search for this well; none are loaded here for it.

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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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