WELL · 42-391-01617 · DISTRICT 2

Mellon Oil Unit #23

Mellon Oil Unit #23 (API 42-391-01617) is a former disposal or injection well in Refugio County, last operated by Mellon Oil Unit; its UIC permit is no longer active.

The RRC has issued 2 drilling permits in 1982, permitted to 5,849 ft.

Its lease has reported 852K barrels of oil and 451K mcf of gas since January 1993, last reporting in July 2017. The lease carries 28 wells, so these are lease totals, not this well alone.

Operator of record

Mellon Oil Unit

Refugio, TX · P-5 Y, filed May 7, 2004 · 8 permits on file

SOURCE · RRC EWA WELLBORE SCHEDULE

What each RRC source says

Wellbore schedule	none
Production reports	T-C Oil Company, LLCthrough Mar 2015
Latest permit	Mellon Oil UnitNov 12, 1982

5,849: total depth, ft
2: permits on file
Nov 12, 1982: last permit issued
—: completed
852K: cumulative oil, bbl
451K: cumulative gas, mcf

PRODUCTION FROM PDQ LEASE REPORTS · Jan 1993 THROUGH Jul 2017

Regulatory status · RRC wellbore file

Schedule: OFF SCHEDULE
Completed: —
Shut in: —
Plugged: —

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

Lease	Field	Reporting operator	Wells	Oil, bbl	Gas, mcf	Reported
Mellon Oil Unit O-2-2192	Tom Oconnor (4400)	T-C Oil Company, LLC	28	852K	451K	Jan 1993 – Jul 2017

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.

1Mellon Oil UnitJan 1993 → Jun 2004
2T - C Oil CompanyJul 2004 → Dec 2011
3T-C Oil Company, LLCJan 2012 → Mar 2015

Permits

Permit	Type	Operator	Received	Issued	Spud	Depth
177727-99	Recompletion	Mellon Oil Unit	Nov 12, 1982	Nov 12, 1982	—	5,849
173317-99	Recompletion	Copano Company	Sep 8, 1982	Sep 8, 1982	—	5,849

Completions

Completed	Lease	Field	Operator	Status	Depth
—	— O-2-2192	—	—	—	—

Perforations

Perforated and open-hole intervals.

From	To	Type
4,385	4,391	Perforated
5,432	5,828	Perforated

Casing

Strings as reported, shallowest first.

Casing in	Set at	Hole in	Cement
10.75	1,127	16	500 S
10.75	1,127	—	—
2.375	4,378	—	—
5	5,815	8.625	500 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. About these reports →

Filed	W-2 / G-1 date	Logs referenced
Jan 12, 1984	Oct 22, 1982	—
Jan 12, 1984	May 24, 1967	—
Jan 12, 1984	—	—

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 42-391-01617 → W-2, G-1, plugging reports, as PDFs
Completion packets for 42-391-01617 → scanned completion filings

Log images are in archives with no per-well link: the RRC's Neubus archive (2004 onward). then paste it into their search.

Beyond the permit record

RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes

Injection

0: bbl, last 12 reported months
0: bbl, all reported
—: reported through

UIC	Kind	Status	Permitted bbl/d	Max psi	Zone ft
000101720	W-14 Disposal	Plugged May 5, 2016	5,000	1,800	3,665–4,100

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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