Comparable wells before the bid.
Every driller's report filed near the parcel, ranked by how much it resembles the property, with the depth each one was completed to and the yield it reported. Then a depth band, and the zones on the parcel the record favours.
What the Drill-Ready report gives you.
Drill-Ready Report
Where to drill, how deep, and what it is likely to cost.
- Everything in the Due Diligence report
- Candidate drilling zones on the parcel, ranked
- Yield estimate with a likely range
- Estimated cost of a well at each depth band
- A driller briefing sheet
- Permit and district requirements to check first
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Or 2 credits on Beneath Pro. Bought from the free check, delivered in minutes as a web report and a PDF with a driller briefing sheet.
How the band is made.
The record
TWDB Submitted Driller's Reports (SDR)
Every well filed with the state within the search radius, with its location, completion depth, water level and yield as the driller reported them. Filed, not verified: positions are often approximate, and the report says so on every record.
Ranking
Most similar first
Comparables are ranked by distance, elevation, aquifer, completion date and the completeness of their record. The report shows the ranking and the similarity score, so you can see which wells the band stands on and discount the ones you would.
The band
A depth range, not a depth
The completion depths of the best comparables give the band, and the water levels give where water was struck. Yield is stated only where enough wells reported one. Every figure carries its confidence, capped at moderate until the Texas model is validated against held-out wells.
The parcel
Ranked zones
Where the parcel is large enough for it to matter, the report ranks zones on it by the comparables nearest each, and says when the record cannot tell them apart.
What it is not.
Said here because a driller budgets a rig on the difference.
Not a quote
The cost sensitivity is built from the depth band and published regional rates. Your price is yours.
Not a log
Lithology appears when a comparable's record carries it, quoted from that record, never interpolated.
Not a pump test
A yield is what neighbouring drillers reported. Where none did, the report leaves the figure blank.
Not a permit
The district is named; its spacing and permit rules are yours to confirm with it.
Questions from the bid desk.
- How many wells does it take before the report states a band?
- Enough of them, filed close enough, for a range to mean something. Where the record around a parcel is too thin the report says insufficient evidence and prints no band, rather than widening one until it is true and useless. Confidence is printed beside every inferred figure and is capped at moderate until the Texas model is validated against held-out wells.
- What happens when there are no wells on record near the parcel?
- You get the free check's answer for nothing: no comparables inside the search radius. A report bought on top of that would still name the aquifer and the groundwater district and list what the record does hold, but it would not invent a depth. If the check shows nothing, the honest advice is to keep the $199.
- How accurate are the well locations?
- Filed, not surveyed. TWDB Submitted Driller's Reports (SDR) carries the position the driller reported, and those are often approximate: a few hundred feet is common, and a well plotted on the wrong side of a fence line happens. Every record in the report says so, and the ranking discounts a comparable whose record is incomplete.
- Does this replace siting the well?
- No. The zone ranking says which part of the parcel the filed record favours, and where the record cannot tell the zones apart it says that instead. What it cannot do is read this ground: no geophysics, no walkover, no local knowledge of what the last three rigs hit. It is the desk work before that visit, not the visit.
- How current is the record it reads?
- The state's own filings, refreshed on a schedule, with the retrieval date printed on every report and on the free check. A well drilled last month may not be filed yet. TWDB Submitted Driller's Reports (SDR) is the source of record and the report names it, so anything you doubt can be looked up by its state record number.
- Can I buy one without a subscription?
- Yes. Drill-Ready Report is $199 once, bought straight from the free check, no account needed until checkout. Beneath Pro exists for the estimator running several a week: $149 a month for 15 credits, and this report costs 2.
Read next.
Where the numbers on a bid sheet come from.
What the public record holds about Texas groundwater
TWDB Submitted Driller's Reports (SDR), the groundwater database, the districts and the parcel layer: what each is, and where each stops being evidence.
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