Reading the state survey’s record for this well, the parcel beneath it, and what is permitted around it. This usually takes a few seconds the first time a well is opened.
Operator
Status
On the permit
John Long 250, API 47-103-02174, Wetzel County | WV Mineral Owners
API 47-103-02174, Grant district, Wetzel County. What the state survey records for this well, what is happening around it, and what none of that says about who owns the minerals beneath it.
Opens the map centered on the recorded surface location, with the tax district the counts below use outlined and the parcels around it. For a horizontal well the lateral runs underground away from that point, and the survey does not draw that path.
Production reported to the state, by year
In 2021, the operator reported 19 Mcf of gas from this well (TRIBUNE RESOURCES, LLC). Since 2008 the state has 6.6 MMcf of gas and 84 barrels of oil on record for it over 12 reporting years.
Gas reported each year, 2008 to 2021. A grey bar is a partial year. The shape is the well’s own decline, which is what a buyer prices and what an owner’s statements follow.
Year
Gas (Mcf)
Oil (bbl)
NGL (bbl)
Water (bbl)
Est. gross gas sales, year
By month (gas)
2021
19
0
0
0
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The surface tract, and the records behind this well
Surface parcel at this point
BROWN FREEDA M, 108.11 acres CO ROUTE 155 04 · 0006 · 0008.0000
Scanned well logs
None published by the survey
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
2008
Original Location: Completed, East Resources, Inc.. Mineral owner on permit: Bonnie M Higgins et al. Deepest formation Hampshire Group.
2022
Plugging: Completed, Tribune Resources, LLC. Lease John Long 250. Mineral owner on permit: B M Higgins et al.
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 Grant district of Wetzel County the survey lists 204 permits not yet completed and 44 wells completed since 2025. The largest permit holder in the district is West Virginia Land Resources, Inc. with 59.
Is a cousin on this lease too? Inherited interests are usually shared among relatives. Send them the page; nothing about you travels with it.
Tribune Resources, LLC in Wetzel County
31 wells completed since 2016 and 6 permits outstanding in this county. The operator page shows every county, the formations it targets, and news that names it.
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.
Questions owners ask
This well is on my royalty statement. Does the page match it?
Compare the API number and the operator. The survey records the operator at completion and the current producing operator when they differ; your statement shows whoever pays you now. If the lease name differs, that is common: operators rename units. If the API number is not here at all, say so in a case and a researcher checks the regulator's records.
My family name is on the permit. Do we own this?
Not necessarily. The mineral owner field is what the operator listed when it filed, and the interest may have been sold, divided, or passed through an estate since. It is exactly the kind of lead a free screening follows into the county records.
Can I get an alert when something changes here?
Yes. Enter your email in the watch box on this page. Every Monday you get one email with the well's operator and status, the newest production the state has for it with the change from the month before, any permit activity on it, and the county report. Same-day alerts for a status or operator change are planned. Watching a well is never treated as interest in selling.
2020
23
0
0
0
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2018
71
1
0
0
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2017
177
5
0
0
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2016
234
7
0
0
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Operator-reported volumes filed with WVDEP, not audited by the state. Gas in thousand cubic feet; oil, water, and natural gas liquids in barrels. Monthly detail since 2016; 7 earlier years are in the chart as annual totals. Estimated gross gas sales is a calendar-year figure: each quarter’s gas at the price the operator filed with the SEC for that quarter (or the five-operator average), added up. Gas only, before gathering, transport, severance tax, and royalties: sales, not profit, and not what any one owner received. Prices are on file from Q1 2025, so earlier years show a dash; the table further down breaks the same figure out by quarter.
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.
What this does not showWho owns the minerals, what the operator was paid for the gas, or whether anyone was paid at all. If your statements show less than your share of these volumes, ask the operator in writing.
The survey updates its database from state permit and completion records on its own schedule and does not guarantee completeness. This site re-reads it daily; the current year is always partial.
Operator-reported volumes by well, filed with the state and not audited by it. Annual reports 1985 to 2025, monthly detail since 2016; horizontal wells through month 6 of 2026.
Where to go next
Wetzel County pipeline Permitted and completed wells by year, and who holds the permits.