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Cloke #4H

Shut in

Smith County · Chapel Hill (Cotton Valley) field · Temp Abandoned  · Horizontal

Cloke #4H (API 42-423-32108) is a horizontal well in Smith County operated by Valence Operating Company, completed August 23, 2006 and listed as temp abandoned on the RRC schedule, shut in May 1, 2025.

The RRC has issued one drilling permit, issued June 9, 2006, permitted to 12,729 ft.

It was permitted by J-W Operating CO. and has since transferred to Valence Operating Company on the wellbore schedule.

Completion filings report 7 formation tops, including Massive Anhydrite (marker), Rodessa, B. Massive Anhydrite, Pettit.

Its lease has reported 1.21K barrels of oil and 732K mcf of gas since August 2006, last reporting volume in April 2025.

Operator of record

Valence Operating Company

Permitted by J-W Operating Co.; the EWA schedule now lists a different operator.

Based in
Kingwood, TX
P-5 status
Active (A)
P-5 last filed
Jun 4, 2026
Permits on file
990
Phone
(281) 359-3659

SOURCE · RRC EWA WELLBORE SCHEDULE

What each RRC source says

Wellbore scheduleValence Operating Company
Production reportsValence Operating Companythrough Apr 2025
Latest permitJ-W Operating Co.Jun 9, 2006

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

12,729
total depth, ft
1
permits on file
Jun 9, 2006
last permit issued
Aug 23, 2006
completed
1.21K
cumulative oil, bbl
732K
cumulative gas, mcf

PRODUCTION FROM PDQ LEASE REPORTS · Aug 2006 THROUGH Apr 2025

Regulatory status · RRC wellbore file

Schedule
ON SCHEDULE
Completed
Aug 23, 2006
Shut in
May 1, 2025
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.

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
Cloke G-6-222682Chapel Hill (Cotton Valley)Valence Operating Company11.21K732KAug 2006 – Apr 2025

Gas, mcf lease total

Last 12 months 0 · prior 12 257(-100%)

0200400600202420252026

Chain of custody

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

  1. 1J-W Operating Co.Aug 2006 → Sep 2013
  2. 2Valence Operating CompanyOct 2013 → Apr 2025

Permits

PermitTypeOperatorReceivedIssuedSpudDepth
620582-99DrillJ-W Operating Co.Jun 7, 2006Jun 9, 2006Jun 22, 200613,000

Completions

CompletedLeaseFieldOperatorStatusDepth
Aug 23, 2006Cloke G-6-222682Chapel Hill (Cotton Valley)Valence Operating CompanyTemp Abandoned · shut in May 1, 202512,729

Formation tops

As filed on W-2/G-1. Subsea from 444 ft elevation.Download CSV →

FormationMD ftSubsea
Massive Anhydrite (marker)MASSIVE ANHYDRITE6,885-6,441
Rodessa7,080-6,636
B. Massive Anhydrite7,487-7,043
Rodessa7,487-7,043
Pettit7,675-7,231
Travis Peak7,805-7,361
Pettit8,169-7,725
Travis Peak8,329-7,885
Cotton Valley9,640-9,196
Taylor10,770-10,326
Taylor11,422-10,978

Perforations

Perforated and open-hole intervals.

FromToType
11,87511,877Perforated
12,10012,152Perforated
12,50012,502Perforated

Casing

Strings as reported, shallowest first.

Casing inSet atHole inCement
8.6252,23511640 S
5.512,5847.875464 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
00Nov 14, 2007Sep 27, 2007—
00Apr 4, 2007Oct 27, 2006Yes
00Dec 5, 2006——

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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