[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-\u002Fblog\u002Feagle-ford-shale-screening-texas-leases-with-rrc-wells-production-history-and-the-texas-pack":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"cover":139,"date":140,"description":141,"draft":142,"extension":143,"meta":144,"navigation":147,"path":148,"seo":149,"stem":150,"tags":151,"__hash__":156},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Feagle-ford-shale-screening-texas-leases-with-rrc-wells-production-history-and-the-texas-pack.md","Eagle Ford Lease Due Diligence: Screening South Texas Tracts with RRC Wells, Production History, and the Texas Pack",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":128},"minimark",[9,13,16,21,24,38,42,45,64,67,71,74,81,85,88,96,100,103,106,110,113,117,120],[10,11,12],"p",{},"A landman looking at a fresh Eagle Ford lease in Karnes or DeWitt County starts with a legal description that most mapping tools cannot place. South Texas tracts are described by Abstract, Block, and Survey, the grid the General Land Office (GLO) laid out, not by the section, township, and range of the Public Land Survey System (PLSS). Before you commit to a lease, you want to know what is already producing next to the tract, who operates it, whether a competitor has a permit pending, and how the takeaway looks. Eagle Ford lease due diligence with the Texas pack puts those answers on one map, starting from the Abstract description itself.",[10,14,15],{},"This guide walks a pre-acquisition screen for a South Texas oil and gas tract. First you place the tract from its Abstract and Survey, then you read Railroad Commission (RRC) wells, production history, pending permits, and pipeline records against the parcel you resolved.",[17,18,20],"h2",{"id":19},"why-south-texas-tracts-do-not-carry-township-and-range","Why South Texas tracts do not carry township and range",[10,22,23],{},"The Eagle Ford runs across a band of South Texas counties, La Salle, McMullen, Karnes, DeWitt, Gonzales, and Atascosa among them, where deeds and leases read like \"Abstract 123, J. Smith Survey\" with no township or range attached. Most of Texas was never surveyed on the rectangular PLSS grid, so a national PLSS converter stops at the state line. The usual workaround is to open a county appraisal viewer, search the abstract number, and eyeball a pin into a map by hand. Abstract numbers repeat across counties, so that manual step is where a tract lands in the wrong survey.",[10,25,26,27,32,33,37],{},"Township America resolves the Texas Abstract, Block, and Survey (GLO) grid directly to coordinates, free on every plan, in the same search box that handles PLSS. No other PLSS converter covers the Texas grid. Because the resolver returns a full GeoJSON polygon of the survey rather than a single center point, you see the real footprint of the tract, which is what every offset and pipeline check depends on. You can walk through the placement step in the ",[28,29,31],"a",{"href":30},"\u002Fguides\u002Fconvert-texas-abstract-to-coordinates","Texas Abstract to coordinates guide"," or start straight from the ",[28,34,36],{"href":35},"\u002Ftexas","free Texas grid resolver",".",[17,39,41],{"id":40},"the-pre-acquisition-checklist-for-an-eagle-ford-lease","The pre-acquisition checklist for an Eagle Ford lease",[10,43,44],{},"Once the tract is on the map, a South Texas screen comes down to a short list of questions:",[46,47,48,52,55,58,61],"ul",{},[49,50,51],"li",{},"Active wells: what is producing on and around the tract, and who operates it?",[49,53,54],{},"Pending permits: has anyone filed to drill nearby but not spudded yet?",[49,56,57],{},"Takeaway: where does the nearest pipeline run, and does a gathering line already reach the acreage?",[49,59,60],{},"Production context: how have the offset leases performed, and where is the section producing?",[49,62,63],{},"Surface and state interest: do GLO leases, pooled units, or state lands touch the tract?",[10,65,66],{},"The Texas pack adds 18 Texas data layers on top of the free grid resolver, and those layers answer each question against the parcel you already placed. The rest of this guide takes them in the order a screen usually runs.",[17,68,70],{"id":69},"rrc-active-wells-and-t-4-pipelines-who-is-operating-and-where-the-takeaway-runs","RRC active wells and T-4 pipelines: who is operating and where the takeaway runs",[10,72,73],{},"Turn on the Texas pack and it overlays RRC active wells on the resolved tract. That tells you at a glance which operators hold the offsets and how developed the immediate area is, without querying the Railroad Commission by lease and API number one record at a time. In the oil and condensate windows of the Eagle Ford, a cluster of recent horizontals on the neighboring survey is a very different acquisition from a quiet corner with one old vertical.",[10,75,76,77,37],{},"The pack also draws T-4 pipelines near the tract, which is your first read on takeaway. A gathering or transmission line already crossing or bordering the acreage changes how a well gets to market and how the tract is valued. Reading active wells and T-4 pipelines together, against the same boundary, gives you the operating picture before you price anything. For the full oil and gas layer list, see the ",[28,78,80],{"href":79},"\u002Findustries\u002Foil-and-gas","oil and gas industry page",[17,82,84],{"id":83},"w-1-pending-permits-reading-intent-before-a-lease-expires","W-1 pending permits: reading intent before a lease expires",[10,86,87],{},"Active wells tell you what has happened. W-1 pending permits tell you what is about to. The Texas pack shows RRC W-1 drilling permit applications that have been filed but not yet drilled, so a pending permit on the adjoining lease is a direct signal that an operator is moving. That matters for two reasons on an Eagle Ford tract: it can trigger offset obligations, and it tells you whether to act before a lease expires or a competitor locks up the acreage first.",[10,89,90,91,95],{},"Checking pending permits against the resolved tract, rather than scanning a county permit list by hand, is the difference between reacting to a well that is already spudding and seeing the intent while you still have room to negotiate. The ",[28,92,94],{"href":93},"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary\u002Ftexas-railroad-commission","Texas Railroad Commission"," is the agency of record for those filings, and the pack keeps them on the same map as the wells and pipelines.",[17,97,99],{"id":98},"lease-production-history-and-the-production-heatmap","Lease production history and the production heatmap",[10,101,102],{},"For the acreage that is already producing, the Texas pack carries RRC lease production history in barrels of oil equivalent (BOE), plus a production heatmap that shows where a section is producing and where it is not. On an Eagle Ford screen, that heatmap is how you place a target tract in context against its neighbors: strong offsets on two sides and a cold corner tell you something the raw well count does not.",[10,104,105],{},"Production history is reported at the lease level by the RRC, so treat it as offset context rather than a forecast for a specific undrilled tract. It shows what nearby leases have produced. It does not by itself predict what a new well on your tract will do. Read alongside the well and permit layers, it gives you a grounded read on how the immediate area has performed before you commit capital.",[17,107,109],{"id":108},"glo-leases-pooled-units-and-surface-context","GLO leases, pooled units, and surface context",[10,111,112],{},"The last layer of a South Texas screen is who else holds an interest. The Texas pack draws GLO leases across all classes and pooled unit boundaries, along with Permanent School Fund (PSF) lands and state-agency surface. In several Eagle Ford counties that means state acreage can sit in the chain, so seeing which lease blocks and units touch the tract matters before you assume clean title. The pack also carries UIC disposal and injection wells, worth a look when saltwater disposal on or near the acreage affects surface use.",[17,114,116],{"id":115},"running-the-screen-and-exporting-the-file","Running the screen and exporting the file",[10,118,119],{},"Export the Texas Land Report PDF for the diligence file. Business adds batch conversion and CSV, KML, Shapefile, GeoJSON, and DXF exports for prospect areas.",[10,121,122,123,127],{},"The Texas grid resolver stays free on every plan, which is what pulls South Texas users in before they need the paid data. The Texas pack attaches to Pro or Business, so a working Eagle Ford desk runs with the RRC wells, production history, W-1 permits, T-4 pipelines, and GLO layers all reading against one resolved tract. Compare tiers on the ",[28,124,126],{"href":125},"\u002Fpricing","pricing page",". 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