TILLER, D.G. -F-

Operated by SPILLER, J.A. (P-5 809855) in the SALT FLAT field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 11956District 01Field 79905001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$66 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$15 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
54
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead gas

The Railroad Commission's own record for the field this lease produces from, including the spacing rule that governs how close together its wells may be drilled.

These are facts about the field, not about this lease. The field holds 415 leases and 1,904 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1928-05-28
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
300 ft
minimum
From a lease line
150 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 2 acres. The field rule took effect on 1952-08-04.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: 100 % % DELIVERABILITY SHOULD BE USED (DAMEKI NYERI).

What this lease produced, and what it was worth

Oil and condensate are valued on the volume the state records as disposed of; gas and casinghead gas on the volume produced. They are different columns of different files, and the difference is not cosmetic.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
OilDisposition3,774 bbl$64,897
Casinghead gasProduction9,727 Mcf$1,181
Total$66,078

9,323 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 months, carries no value here. No free Texas wellhead gas price exists before 1997, so those months are left out of the total rather than valued at zero. The total above is therefore a floor, not an estimate.

Wells on this lease (6)

Every wellbore the Railroad Commission records against this lease key, with the depth, the last completion and the plug date exactly as filed. A well with no plug date is not stated to be producing — the state files no such flag.

These wells centre on 29.7163, -97.6140. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.1 miles.

29.71660, -97.61400 · centre of the wells drawn, derived

What these wells add up to

Every figure below is counted over all of this lease's wells, not over the rows listed above. The Railroad Commission files two facts about a well's state — a plug date and a proration-schedule flag — and a well can carry both, so they are published as separate counts and never merged into a status.

On the schedule
100.0%
6 of 6 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
6 of 6 wells
Median depth
2,652 ft
6 wells filed one
Completion to plug
30.3 years
median over 6 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
6100.0%
A plug date is filed
6100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
6100.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
00.0%

A plug date is the date the Commission recorded the wellbore as sealed with cement and abandoned. It is the only end-of-life fact Texas files. There is no "active" flag on a well, so this page does not print one — a well with no plug date is not stated to be producing.

How deep they were drilled

Between 2,632 and 2,665 ft, median 2,652 ft, over the 6 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Nov 1987 – Aug 1988
6 of 6 wells
Plug dates filed
Aug 2018 – Nov 2018
6 of 6 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 30.3 years across the 6 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 30.1 years and 30.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

6 wells

42-0553427818F2,651 ftAug 1988Nov 2018Yes
42-0553427919F2,665 ftAug 1988Oct 2018Yes
42-0553427616F2,632 ftAug 1988Aug 2018Yes
42-0553427515F2,640 ftAug 1988Sep 2018Yes
42-055342749F2,660 ftNov 1987Sep 2018Yes
42-0553427717F2,652 ftNov 1987Sep 2018Yes

The API number is the state's, prefixed 42 for Texas. A well is matched to this lease by the lease key the Commission files on the wellbore record, so a well that has moved between leases appears under each one it was filed against.

Every month this lease reported (54)

Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.

54 months

Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19978418720.492.21$2,134
Jan 199710421723.483.54$3,210
Dec 19965122323.32$1,189
Nov 19964421621.97$967
Oct 19969924523.31$2,308
Sep 199610223722.22$2,266
Aug 19963924620.26$790
Jul 199610626219.55$2,072
Jun 19964522818.73$843
May 19964823819.43$933
Apr 19968718521.51$1,871
Mar 19964418119.38$853
Feb 19968819516.98$1,494
Jan 19966819017.07$1,161
Dec 19952819617.19$481
Nov 19956922116.00$1,104
Oct 19957025115.43$1,080
Sep 19958026816.18$1,294
Aug 19957824815.92$1,242
Jul 19958327115.24$1,265
Jun 19957626616.41$1,247
May 19957727217.56$1,352
Apr 19957527117.73$1,330
Mar 199581116.44$1,332
Feb 199539116.58$647
Jan 199573115.92$1,162
Dec 199482115.03$1,232
Nov 199478115.90$1,240
Oct 199479115.58$1,231
Sep 199475115.29$1,147
Aug 1994112116.13$1,807
Jul 199475117.56$1,317
Jun 19944219117.09$718
May 19948415315.88$1,334
Apr 199487114.14$1,230
Mar 19943424712.46$424
Feb 19947220012.50$900
Jan 19947522912.66$950
Dec 19937632412.33$937
Nov 19936023314.49$869
Oct 19939628415.85$1,522
Sep 19939727615.03$1,458
Aug 199310027415.66$1,566
Jul 19937330215.46$1,129
Jun 199310630616.79$1,780
May 19937329417.68$1,291
Apr 199310530718.05$1,895
Mar 19937319818.14$1,324
Feb 19937327317.90$1,307
Jan 199310931216.93$1,845

How to read this page

The arithmetic is one multiplication per stream per month. Here it is, worked, on a real row from the table above.

Feb 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   84 bbl  × $ 20.49 =     $1,721
Casinghead gas       187 Mcf  × $  2.21 =       $413

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Month total                                   $2,134

The volumes are the state's, unchanged

Every barrel and every Mcf on this page is a number the Railroad Commission of Texas published in its monthly production query. Nothing is modelled, estimated or filled in.

The dollars are a multiplication, not a valuation

Volume × a published monthly price. It is not what the operator was paid: it takes no account of a contract, a differential, a transportation deduction, or the share any one owner holds.

Oil and gas are priced differently

Oil is a Texas realisation — the crude oil first purchase price. Gas is a benchmark, because no free Texas wellhead gas series exists at any date. The prices page publishes the difference rather than correcting it away.

A lease is not a well

The state reports oil on lease and gas on well, and this page is the lease grain. 01/O/11956 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.