WELL · 42-459-30500 · DISTRICT 6

Barber J. R. Gas Unit #1 #1

Plugged

Upshur County · Rosewood (Cotton Valley) field · Vertical

Barber J. R. Gas Unit #1 #1 (API 42-459-30500) is a plugged well in Upshur County, plugged July 23, 2009, last operated by Buffco Production Inc..

The RRC has issued one drilling permit, issued August 17, 1981, permitted to 11,500 ft.

It was permitted by Mcbrayer Oil Corporation and has since transferred to Buffco Production Inc. on the wellbore schedule.

Operator of record

Buffco Production Inc.

Permitted by McBrayer Oil Corporation; the EWA schedule now lists a different operator.

Longview, TX · P-5 Y, filed Sep 4, 2025 · 396 permits on file · (903) 736-4697

SOURCE · RRC EWA WELLBORE SCHEDULE

What each RRC source says

Wellbore schedule	Buffco Production Inc.
Production reports	Ocean Energy, Inc.through Dec 2002
Latest permit	McBrayer Oil CorporationAug 17, 1981

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

11,500: total depth, ft
1: permits on file
Aug 17, 1981: last permit issued
Oct 7, 1981: completed
0: cumulative oil, bbl
17.4K: cumulative gas, mcf

PRODUCTION FROM PDQ LEASE REPORTS · Jan 1993 THROUGH Jul 2009

Regulatory status · RRC wellbore file

Schedule: OFF SCHEDULE
Completed: Oct 7, 1981
Shut in: —
Plugged: Jul 23, 2009

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 →

Lease	Field	Reporting operator	Wells	Oil, bbl	Gas, mcf	Reported
Barber, J. R. Gas Unit #1 G-6-95996	Rosewood (Cotton Valley)	Buffco Production Inc.	1	0	17.4K	Jan 1993 – Jul 2009

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.

1McBrayer Oil CorporationJan 1993 → Nov 1994
2BRG Petroleum, Inc.Dec 1994 → Jun 1998
3Seagull Energy E&P Inc.Jul 1998 → Oct 2000
4Ocean Energy, Inc.Nov 2000 → Dec 2002

Permits

Permit	Type	Operator	Received	Issued	Spud	Depth
132054-99	Drill	McBrayer Oil Corporation	Aug 17, 1981	Aug 17, 1981	—	11,500

Completions

Completed	Lease	Field	Operator	Status	Depth
—	— G-6-95996	—	—	—	—

Perforations

Perforated and open-hole intervals.

From	To	Type
10,840	11,000	Perforated

Casing

Strings as reported, shallowest first.

Casing in	Set at	Hole in	Cement
13.75	60	15	60 S
8.625	4,338	12.75	1,785 S
2.375	10,830	—	—
4.5	11,300	7.875	1,170 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 →

Suffix	Filed	W-2 / G-1 date	Logs referenced
00	Jan 12, 1984	Nov 4, 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.

Wellbore filings for 42-459-30500 → W-2, G-1, plugging reports, as PDFs
Completion packets for 42-459-30500 → 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.

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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