API number

47-095-00868

County · district

Tyler · Centerville

Well type

Gas

Deepest formation

Benson

Depth

4,230 ft vertical

Field

Bearsville

Producing operator

—

Permit number

868

Surface owner on the permit

—

Logs on file with the survey

scanned to 4,244 ft
G,D,I,N,S,C,*

Production reported to the state, by year

In 2008, the operator reported 414 Mcf of gas from this well. Since 2008 the state has 414 Mcf of gas on record for it over 1 reporting year.

• What a royalty isYour decimal share of these volumes, times the price the operator received, minus the deductions the lease allows. The volumes are public; the price and the deductions are on your statement.
• Read the months, not just the yearA shale well declines steeply in its first years. Falling months on a young well are the curve, not a problem; falling months on an old well may be a shut-in or a sale of the well.
• A unit shares the volumeA horizontal well drains a unit of several tracts. Each owner is paid on their acres in the unit, so this well’s total is shared among everyone in it.

The surface tract, and the records behind this well

Surface parcel at this point

STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA (DEPT OF NATURAL RESOURCES), 214.01 acres
WHEELERS RUN
01 · 0004 · 0001.0000

Scanned well logs

gamma ray, density, neutron, caliper
gamma ray, induction
gamma ray, sonic, other
other

Hydraulic fracturing disclosure

None disclosed. Usual for anything but a shale well.

The surface parcel is the county assessor’s record of who owns the land at the marker. Minerals are often severed from the surface and held by someone else; the parcel is a place to start in the deed index, not an answer.

Records on file for this API number

• —
  Plugging: Permitted, WVDEP OFFICE OF OIL & GAS. Lease Ripely 1.
• 1980
  Original Location: Completed, Middle Island Construction Co., Inc.. Mineral owner on permit: Leroy E Ripley Jr. Deepest formation Benson.

One API number can carry several records: the original location, a deviated location, a recompletion, a plugging. The page summary above uses the most recent.

Around this well

In Centerville district of Tyler County the survey lists 22 permits not yet completed and 0 wells completed since 2025. The largest permit holder in the district is EQT Production Company with 9.

Permitted, not yet completed, in Centerville district

What this page does and does not tell you

• It does not say who owns the minerals. Only recorded deeds, wills, and estate files do. The mineral owner named on a permit is whoever the operator listed when it filed, often decades ago.
• A completed well is not necessarily producing. Status and year come from state records; the production and sales figures above come from separate, operator-reported filings and are estimates where the page says so.
• Nearby is not yours. A well in the same district is not necessarily producing from your tract. Only a lease, a unit, or a division order ties a well to an interest.
• The location is approximate. A surface point, not a surveyed boundary and not the subsurface path of a lateral.
• Activity is not value. Permits nearby change the odds of future development; they do not by themselves establish what an interest is worth.