GORDEN-WELLS

Operated by CALTEX ENERGY CO. (P-5 125991) in the KAYE (NAVARRO) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 1957District 01Field 48380333OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$63 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 2009
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
193
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 100 leases and 293 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1956-02-07
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
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 5 acres. The field rule took effect on 2013-08-06.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: FORMULA 100% ACRES, PLATS REQ'D AND OPTIONAL UNIT ADDED

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
OilDisposition3,338 bbl$63,391
Casinghead gasProduction71 Mcf$62
Total$63,453

44 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 44 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 (3)

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 29.2332, -98.1285. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

29.23309, -98.12843 · 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%
3 of 3 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
3 of 3 wells
Median depth
2,660 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
26.6 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
3100.0%
A plug date is filed
3100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
3100.0%
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 2,660 and 2,690 ft, median 2,660 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Apr 1982
1 of 3 wells; 2 filed none
Plug dates filed
Feb 2008 – Nov 2008
3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 26.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 26.6 years and 26.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-4930127312,660 ftFeb 2008Yes
42-4930127622,660 ftFeb 2008Yes
42-4933100532,690 ftApr 1982Nov 2008Yes

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 (193)

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

193 months

Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 200750058.747.85$2,937
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 200511054.6910.59$602
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 200264027.443.64$1,756
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 2001196025.524.31$5,002
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 2000125026.889.12$3,360
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 200058029.644.54$1,719
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 1999114019.262.88$2,196
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990112.471.84$2
Feb 1999019.981.82$2
Jan 19990110.381.90$2
Dec 1998019.201.77$2
Nov 19980110.892.19$2
Oct 19980112.421.97$2
Sep 19980112.592.08$2
Aug 19980111.301.91$2
Jul 19980111.742.24$2
Jun 19980111.242.24$2
May 199862112.622.21$785
Apr 199852113.042.51$681
Mar 19980112.802.31$2
Feb 199831113.952.30$435
Jan 199851114.702.15$752
Dec 19970116.322.41$2
Nov 199789118.193.09$1,622
Oct 19970119.253.15$3
Sep 1997144117.742.95$2,558
Aug 19970117.862.55$3
Jul 19970117.582.25$2
Jun 199795117.242.26$1,640
May 19970118.972.31$2
Apr 1997220117.882.08$3,936
Mar 19970118.951.94$2
Feb 19970120.492.21$2
Jan 19970123.483.54$4
Dec 19960123.32$0
Nov 1996122121.97$2,680
Oct 19960123.31$0
Sep 19960122.22$0
Aug 1996109120.26$2,208
Jul 19960119.55$0
Jun 1996155118.73$2,903
May 19960119.43$0
Apr 1996159121.51$3,420
Mar 19960119.38$0
Feb 19960116.98$0
Jan 1996120117.07$2,048
Dec 19950117.19$0
Nov 19950116.00$0
Oct 19950115.43$0
Sep 19950116.18$0
Aug 1995155115.92$2,468
Jul 19950115.24$0
Jun 19950116.41$0
May 19950117.56$0
Apr 199589117.73$1,578
Mar 19950116.44$0
Feb 1995159116.58$2,636
Jan 19950115.92$0
Dec 19940115.03$0
Nov 1994170115.90$2,703
Oct 19940115.58$0
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 199437117.56$650
Jun 1994138117.09$2,358
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 1994124112.46$1,545
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 199488112.66$1,114
Dec 199381112.33$999
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 1993125115.03$1,879
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 1993145015.46$2,242
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 19930017.68$0
Apr 19930018.05$0
Mar 19930018.14$0
Feb 19930117.90$0
Jan 19930116.93$0

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.

May 2007 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   50 bbl  × $ 58.74 =     $2,937
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  7.85 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,937

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/1957 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.