TEXAS · WELLS · ZAPATA COUNTY · DE LOS SANTOS GAS UNIT 1 LEASE · API 42-505-32846 · DISTRICT 04

De Los Santos Gas Unit 1 #7

Shut in

Zapata County · Haynes (Middle Wilcox Cons.) field · Temp Abandoned  · Vertical

Permitted field
El Huerfano (10800)
The district's wildcat field is also on the permit.

De Los Santos Gas Unit 1 #7 (API 42-505-32846) is a well in Zapata County operated by Hilcorp Energy Company, completed April 30, 1992 and listed as temp abandoned on the RRC schedule, shut in August 1, 2014.

The RRC has issued one drilling permit, issued December 16, 1991, permitted to 11,800 ft.

It was permitted by Transamerican Natural Gas Corp. and has since transferred to Hilcorp Energy Company on the wellbore schedule.

Completion filings report 2 formation tops, including Wilcox, L/Wilcox.

Its lease has reported 139 barrels of oil and 4M mcf of gas since the record begins in January 1993, with no volume in the three years through August 2026.

Operator of record

Hilcorp Energy Company

Permitted by Transamerican Natural Gas Corp.; the EWA schedule now lists a different operator.

Based in
Houston, TX
P-5 status
Active (A)
P-5 last filed
Mar 27, 2026
Permits on file
3,459
Phone
(713) 209-2400

SOURCE · RRC EWA WELLBORE SCHEDULE

What each RRC source says

Wellbore scheduleHilcorp Energy Company
Production reportsHilcorp Energy Companythrough Jul 2014
Latest permitTransamerican Natural Gas Corp.Dec 16, 1991

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

11,800
total depth, ft
1
permits on file
Dec 16, 1991
last permit issued
Apr 30, 1992
completed
139
cumulative oil, bbl
4M
cumulative gas, mcf

PRODUCTION FROM PDQ LEASE REPORTS · ON RECORD FROM JAN 1993, THE RECORD'S FIRST MONTH, THROUGH JUL 2014

Regulatory status · RRC wellbore file

Schedule
ON SCHEDULE
Completed
Apr 30, 1992
Shut in
Aug 1, 2014
Plugged
—

Operator's P-5 on the schedule: Active (A)

Surface location

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Lease production

PDQ LEASE REPORTS · REPORTED THROUGH AUG 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
De Los Santos Gas Unit 1 G-4-141730Haynes (Middle Wilcox Cons.)Hilcorp Energy Company11394Mby Jan 1993 – Jul 2014

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

Wells named De Los Santos Gas Unit 1

Hilcorp Energy Company's other wells filed under this lease name in Zapata County, newest permit first. The RRC gives a gas well its own lease number, so the name is what joins the wells of a unit.

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Chain of custody

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

  1. 1Transamerican Natural Gas Corp.Jan 1993 → Jul 1993
  2. 2Transtexas Gas CorporationAug 1993 → Jun 1996
  3. 3Houston Exploration Company, TheJul 1996 → Jun 2007
  4. 4Forest Oil CorporationAug 2007 → Dec 2012
  5. 5Hilcorp Energy CompanyJan 2013 → Jul 2014

Permits

PermitTypeOperatorReceivedIssuedSpudDepth
394922-99DrillTransamerican Natural Gas Corp.Dec 11, 1991Dec 16, 1991Jan 20, 199211,800

Completions

CompletedLeaseFieldOperatorStatusDepth
Apr 30, 1992De Los Santos Gas Unit 1 G-4-141730Haynes (Middle Wilcox Cons.)Hilcorp Energy CompanyTemp Abandoned · shut in Aug 1, 201411,800

Formation tops

As filed on W-2/G-1. Subsea from 463 ft elevation.Download CSV →

FormationMD ftSubsea
Wilcox6,950-6,487
L/Wilcox9,500-9,037

Perforations

Perforated and open-hole intervals.

FromToType
10,91211,669Perforated

Casing

Strings as reported, shallowest first.

Casing inSet atHole inCement
10.7575714.75530 S
79,5008.75265 S
3.511,7956.25385 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
00Aug 4, 1992May 15, 1992Yes
00Jul 31, 1992——

The source documents

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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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