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El Clareno #10

Shut in

Zapata County · Roleta (Wilcox Consolidated) field · Producing  · Vertical

El Clareno #10 (API 42-505-35993) is a well in Zapata County operated by Merit Energy Company, completed December 7, 2007 and listed as producing on the RRC schedule, shut in November 1, 2025.

The RRC has issued one drilling permit, issued September 28, 2007, permitted to 9,652 ft.

It was permitted by El Paso E&P Zapata, L.P. and has since transferred to Merit Energy Company on the wellbore schedule.

Completion filings report one formation top, including Roleta.

Its lease has reported 237 barrels of oil and 62.6K mcf of gas since December 2007, last reporting volume in October 2025.

Operator of record

Merit Energy Company

Permitted by El Paso E&P Zapata, L.P.; the EWA schedule now lists a different operator.

Based in
Dallas, TX
P-5 status
Active (A)
P-5 last filed
Nov 7, 2025
Permits on file
1,049
Phone
(972) 701-8377

SOURCE · RRC EWA WELLBORE SCHEDULE

What each RRC source says

Wellbore scheduleMerit Energy Company
Production reportsMerit Energy Companythrough Oct 2025
Latest permitEl Paso E&P Zapata, L.P.Sep 28, 2007

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

9,652
total depth, ft
1
permits on file
Sep 28, 2007
last permit issued
Dec 7, 2007
completed
237
cumulative oil, bbl
62.6K
cumulative gas, mcf

PRODUCTION FROM PDQ LEASE REPORTS · Dec 2007 THROUGH Oct 2025

Regulatory status · RRC wellbore file

Schedule
ON SCHEDULE
Completed
Dec 7, 2007
Shut in
Nov 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
El Clareno G-4-233164Roleta (Wilcox Consolidated)Merit Energy Company123762.6KDec 2007 – Oct 2025

Gas, mcf lease total

Last 12 months 735 · prior 12 1,281(-43%)

0100200300202420252026

Chain of custody

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

  1. 1El Paso E&P Zapata, L.P.Dec 2007 → Dec 2010
  2. 2El Paso E & P Company, L. P.Jan 2011 → Jul 2012
  3. 3EP Energy E&P Company, L.P.Aug 2012 → Oct 2013
  4. 4Cantera Operating, LLCNov 2013 → Nov 2017
  5. 5Merit Energy CompanyDec 2017 → Oct 2025

Permits

PermitTypeOperatorReceivedIssuedSpudDepth
646748-99DrillEl Paso E&P Zapata, L.P.Sep 26, 2007Sep 28, 2007Nov 14, 200711,500

Completions

CompletedLeaseFieldOperatorStatusDepth
Dec 7, 2007El Clareno G-4-233164Roleta (Wilcox Consolidated)Merit Energy CompanyProducing · shut in Nov 1, 20259,652

Formation tops

As filed on W-2/G-1. Subsea from 384 ft elevation.Download CSV →

FormationMD ftSubsea
Roleta8,945-8,561

Perforations

Perforated and open-hole intervals.

FromToType
8,9468,956Perforated

Casing

Strings as reported, shallowest first.

Casing inSet atHole inCement
9.62573712.25310 S
77,4468.75390 S
4.59,6526.125100 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
00Jun 2, 2008Jan 11, 2008—
00Feb 29, 2008Dec 20, 2007Yes
00Feb 21, 2008——

Well logs

1 log loaded from the RRC's log index, the latest received Dec 29, 2010. Resistivity. These are the logs loaded into Petrora from the Railroad Commission's inventories, not necessarily every log run on the well. The RRC holds the files; each opens from its log search for the well. The kind is the RRC's description of the log; the interval is the one filed for it.

Open the RRC's log search for this well ↗
Logas describedFiles Intervalft, as filedDatereceivedSizeMB
RESISTIVITYSpans RoletaTIFF750 to 9,644Dec 29, 2010run Nov 28, 20071.28

"Spans" is by this well's own filed formation tops: a formation runs from its top to the next deeper top filed, and the deepest runs to the bottom of the log. Depths are measured along the wellbore, so on a horizontal the lateral counts in the formation it was landed in.

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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.

The logs loaded for this well are under Well logs, with the RRC's log search for it.

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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