WYOMING · WELLS · HOT SPRINGS COUNTY · API 49-017-21030

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ActiveHorizontal oil wellWOGCC status: Producing Oil Well

Operator of record: Merit Energy Company
County: Hot Springs
Field: Grass Creek

A horizontal oil well in Hot Springs County, Wyoming, operated by Merit Energy Company. WOGCC status: producing oil well.

Spudded March 12, 1998 and drilled to 4,750 ft measured depth.

Completed in 5 fields: Grass Creek, Grass Creek, Grass Creek, Grass Creek, and 1 more.

It has reported 188,395 bbl of oil, 50,916 Mcf of gas, and 16,333,468 bbl of water since April 1998; its last reported production was October 2023.

0: bbl oil, 12 months through Aug 2026
0: Mcf gas, same 12 months
0: bbl produced water, same 12 months
188,395: bbl oil since Apr 1998 · 50,916 Mcf gas

APD

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Status: Approved · WOGCC: Drilling or Drilled Permit
Approved: Jun 16, 2023
Operator: Merit Energy Company
Proposed formation: Phosphoria
Target depth: 3,714 ft

3 APDs on file for this well, newest first

Approved	Received	Operator	Status	Formation	Target depth
Jun 16, 2023	—	Merit Energy Company	ApprovedDrilling or Drilled Permit	Phosphoria	3,714 ft
Mar 19, 2004	—	Marathon Oil Company	ApprovedDrilling or Drilled Permit	Phosphoria-Tensleep-Madison	4,710 ft
Dec 11, 1997	—	Marathon Oil Company	ApprovedDrilling or Drilled Permit	—	4,120 ft

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Reported production

Every month on file for this well on form 2, summed across its fields and the operators that filed it. The newest months can still be amended.

12 months through Aug 2026 0 · prior 12 0

Completions

ONE PER RESERVOIR THE WELL IS COMPLETED IN

Field	Status	Perforations, ft	Completed	Produced	Oil, bbl	Gas, Mcf	Water, bbl
Grass CreekPhosphoria	—	3,831 to 4,750 MD	Apr 16, 1998	Feb 2017 to Oct 2023	1,050	738	74,586
Grass CreekPhosphoria-Tensleep-Madison	—	—	Aug 23, 2005	Sep 2005 to Jan 2016	105,725	28,999	13,182,242
Grass CreekMadison	—	4,546 to 4,586 MD	—	Nov 2004 to Aug 2005	25,850	3,100	415,301
Grass CreekPhosphoria-Tensleep	—	—	—	Apr 1998 to Oct 2004	55,770	18,079	2,661,339
Grass CreekTensleep	—	3,952 to 4,078 MD	Apr 16, 1998	—	—	—	—

Formation tops

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15 tops as filed, by depth. A formation filed more than once is listed each time.

Formation	Depth
Frontier	277 ft
Mowry	840 ft
Thermopolis	1,225 ft
Muddy	1,485 ft
Cloverly	1,747 ft
Fuson	1,830 ft
Lakota	1,866 ft
Morrison	2,038 ft
Sundance	2,207 ft
Gypsum Springs	2,567 ft
Curtis	2,812 ft
Alcova	2,857 ft
Chugwater	2,902 ft
Dinwoody	3,624 ft
Phosphoria	3,831 ft

Source: Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, "Geological Markers Based On Form 3"

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Operators of record

Operator	From	To
Merit Energy Company	Jul 1, 2016	today
Marathon Oil Company	Jan 1, 2000	Jul 1, 2016

Well record

API number: 49-017-21030
Location: NW NW 19-46N-98W · 118 FNL, 418 FWL
Coordinates: 43.94723, -108.66967 ↗
Elevation: 5,672 ft
Elevation KB: 5,684 ft
Measured depth: 4,750 ft
Total depth: 3,707 ft
Perforations: 3,831 to 4,750 ft
Land: Private
Basin, as WOGCC files it: Bighorn Basin
APD: Approved Jun 16, 2023
Proposed formation: Phosphoria
Target depth: 3,714 ft
Spudded: Mar 12, 1998

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About this data

Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (WOGCC), from its public database extracts. Status and type are in WOGCC's own words. Production and injection are what operators filed on form 2, by well and month; twelve-month figures end in Aug 2026, the last month whose filings are in. Locations are from the well's location plat and are approximate. The Commission's production file names each well's current operator on every month, so an operator's figures are those of the wells it operates today. Nothing is estimated.

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