WELL · 42-501-31762 · DISTRICT 8

Hicks #1

Plugged

Yoakum County · Brahaney (Devonian) field · Vertical

Hicks #1 (API 42-501-31762) is a plugged well in Yoakum County, plugged June 28, 1999, last operated by Prize Operating Company.

The RRC has issued one drilling permit, issued August 30, 1979, permitted to 11,500 ft.

It was permitted by Hilliard Oil & Gas, Inc. and has since transferred to Prize Operating Company on the wellbore schedule.

Its lease has reported 14.7K barrels of oil and 1.56K mcf of gas since January 1993, last reporting in May 2000.

Operator of record

Prize Operating Company

Permitted by Hilliard Oil & Gas, Inc.; the EWA schedule now lists a different operator.

Grapevine, TX · P-5 Y, filed Mar 1, 2002 · 129 permits on file

SOURCE · RRC EWA WELLBORE SCHEDULE

What each RRC source says

Wellbore schedule	Prize Operating Company
Production reports	Vista Resources, Inc. (A)through Oct 1998
Latest permit	Hilliard Oil & Gas, Inc.Aug 30, 1979

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 30, 1979: last permit issued
Oct 24, 1979: completed
14.7K: cumulative oil, bbl
1.56K: cumulative gas, mcf

PRODUCTION FROM PDQ LEASE REPORTS · Jan 1993 THROUGH May 2000

Regulatory status · RRC wellbore file

Schedule: OFF SCHEDULE
Completed: Oct 24, 1979
Shut in: —
Plugged: Jun 28, 1999

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
Hicks O-11-62602	Brahaney (Devonian)	Prize Operating Company	1	14.7K	1.56K	Jan 1993 – May 2000

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.

1Graham Royalty, Ltd.Jan 1993 → Mar 1993
2E.G. OperatingApr 1993 → Jun 1997
3Vista Resources, Inc. (A)Jul 1997 → Oct 1998

Permits

Permit	Type	Operator	Received	Issued	Spud	Depth
57473-99	Drill	Hilliard Oil & Gas, Inc.	Aug 30, 1979	Aug 30, 1979	Sep 2, 1979	11,500

Completions

Completed	Lease	Field	Operator	Status	Depth
—	— O-11-62602	—	—	—	—

Perforations

Perforated and open-hole intervals.

From	To	Type
11,503	11,506	Perforated

Casing

Strings as reported, shallowest first.

Casing in	Set at	Hole in	Cement
13.375	422	17.5	500 S
8.625	6,050	11	1,600 S
2.375	11,467	—	—
5.5	11,503	7.875	—

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	Oct 26, 1979	—

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 42-501-31762 → W-2, G-1, plugging reports, as PDFs
Completion packets for 42-501-31762 → 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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