One of the established Caddo waterflood units of Stephens County, Texas — operated by BASA Resources on acreage first leased during the 1917-1921 Breckenridge oil boom.
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County: Stephens County, Texas
Field: Stephens County Regular (RRC catch-all)
Producing formation: Caddo Limestone (Pennsylvanian)
Operator: BASA Resources
Recovery method: waterflood (with selective Caddo Disposal directional re-entries)
The Curry Unit is one of the established producing units of Stephens County and a textbook case of a long-life Caddo waterflood: many wells, each producing at modest stripper rates, sustained by decades of water injection. For county-level context, see the Stephens County activity profile and the Stephens County production distribution, which show aggregates only.
The unit has seen modern operator investment in the form of BASA’s directional re-entry program into the Caddo Disposal interval, alongside long-producing vertical wells.
Many original Curry Unit lease bonus payments date to the 1917-1921 Breckenridge oil boom, meaning current mineral interests have typically passed through 3-5 generations of heirs.
Mineral interests in the Curry Unit typically take one of these forms:
Producing royalty interest — your tract’s contribution to the unit’s monthly revenue, paid by the operator
Non-producing mineral interest — fee mineral ownership in a tract currently outside active producing zones
Overriding royalty interest (ORRI) — royalty carved out of a working interest
Non-participating royalty interest (NPRI) — royalty interest with no leasing or development rights
Many Curry Unit interests trace their original lease bonus payment to the 1917-1925 Breckenridge oil boom era, with current ownership typically having passed through 3-5 generations of heirs.
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