Commissioners to meet in the morning

The Fisher County commissioners are scheduled to have a special meeting tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. in the county courthouse.

The following items are on the agenda:

1. Consideration of an application for a pipeline road crossing permit for Peregrine Petroleum
2. Financial software for auditor's and treasurer's office
3. Revenue from pipeline permits
4. Holiday pay for law enforcement

Peregrine has permit applications in the western part of the county.

Oil, wind, solar, we've got it all

- Fisher Co Map -

Throw a bunch of cattle and cotton in there to make a full picture.

The legend for my poor ol' map that is pictured here is orange for wind, blue for oil, green for solar and pink for oil permits. This represents the month of October.

I am definitely not claiming accuracy, just that I did my best. The orange, blue and green tabs represent Texas File county records; the pink tabs represent Rail Road Commission records.

The county record tabs represent mentions of properties. A lot are new leases, but ratifications, transfers, etc. are included. I tabbed anything that seemed like it had to do with oil, wind or solar activity.

It's interesting to note that some lease extensions, east and north of the old Hobbs Baptist Church, names Richland Development Corporation as the lessor. The vice president of that company, Catherine Lebsack, is also named as the VP of Land and Exploration for Devon, according to the Devon website. Looking back in the records, since 2012, when Devon was a hot ticket around here, there's been a lot of back-and-forth activity between Devon and Richland. Perhaps Richland is a land management division of Devon. The current leases are from Richland to Clear Fork Inc.

Leasing still tight

The October county records have been updated. Click on the Fisher County Records tab to see the new information. Wind leasing records have been included this month.

Local celebrity joined daytime television for special episode

Here I am, a day late and a dollar short, to tell you Brad Maule, aka Dr. Tony Jones, appeared on General Hospital last week, November 8. I just remembered this morning that someone had mentioned it to me last week.

Brad Maule is the son of the late George and Josie Maule of Camp Springs, in Scurry County, Texas. He played Dr. Jones on General Hospital for twenty-two years, 1984-2006.

Drilling permits October 2019

Listed by API number, district, lease, well number, permitted operator, county, status date, status number, wellbore profile, filing purpose, amend, total depth, and status.

15133144 7B ZION 33 1H BROWNING OIL COMPANY, INC.(103088) FISHER Submitted: 10/01/2019 Approved: 10/02/2019 857605 Horizontal New Drill N 7500 APPROVED
10.45 miles SW of Rotan

15133089 7B EL CAPITAN 63 (32247) 1 CLEAR FORK, INCORPORATED(159500) FISHER Submitted: 10/04/2019 Approved: 10/09/2019 835723 Vertical New Drill Y 7132 APPROVED
9 miles SW of Rotan - this is on FM 1614, previously permitted, updated depth

15133144 7B ZION 33 1H BROWNING OIL COMPANY, INC.(103088) FISHER Submitted: 10/04/2019 Approved: 10/09/2019 857605 Horizontal New Drill Y 7500 APPROVED
As above, revision in paperwork

15133145 7B WILLINGHAM A 8601H PEREGRINE PETROLEUM PRTNR, LTD.(653271) FISHER Submitted: 10/07/2019 Approved: 10/09/2019 857782 Horizontal New Drill N 6830 APPROVED
15.15 miles SW of Rotan (permitted location in Scurry County)

15133146 7B CH 24 MP 16.602 1 ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS TEXAS OP LLC(253145) FISHER Submitted: 10/08/2019 857840 Vertical New Drill N 370 MAPPING
1.1 miles NW of Roby (cathode, not approved at this time, problems with survey lines)

15100544 7B WADDELL, BETTIE 2 NEW ATLANTIS II, LLC(606027) FISHER Submitted: 10/10/2019 Approved: 10/11/2019 857956 Vertical Recompletion N 6200 APPROVED
5 miles NE of Roby

15133147 7B MOODY 1 CHOLLA PETROLEUM, INC.(150683) FISHER Submitted: 10/10/2019 Approved: 10/11/2019 857952 Vertical New Drill N 7999 APPROVED
8 miles NE of Hermleigh

15132041 7B COCHRAN 1 MORIAH OPERATING,LLC(586557) FISHER Submitted: 10/16/2019 Approved: 10/18/2019 858101 Vertical Reenter N 6817 APPROVED
12 miles SW of Rotan, re-entry

15133148 7B WELCH 3 L.C.S. PRODUCTION COMPANY(479574) FISHER Submitted: 10/29/2019 858580 Vertical New Drill N 5500 MAPPING
7 miles NE of Eskota, application needs plat revision

15133149 7B WELCH 2 L.C.S. PRODUCTION COMPANY(479574) FISHER Submitted: 10/29/2019 858579 Vertical New Drill N 5500 MAPPING
7 miles NE of Eskota, application needs plat revision

Rotan Allsup's changes hands

- Allsup's sign removed -

Allsup's in Rotan has changed hands and changed names, now going by Hop-In.

The store was sold to West Texas Commercial Properties, LLC, a Georgia limited liability company. The sale was transacted August 19, according to records filed at the county clerk's office.

The real estate and personal property for this site is appraised at $171,530 on the appraisal district roll.

Lonnie Allsup, founder of the company, died in January 2018. His obituary can be found on the Muffley Funeral Home website.

Allsup's is a New Mexico based company.