ALVARDO

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

Oil lease lease 2862District 01Field 06469001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$44 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
183
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 67 leases and 287 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1947-09-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
467 ft
minimum
From a lease line
233 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 acres. The field rule took effect on 1984-12-10.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: SLEEPY CREEK (NAVARRO) TRANSFERRED INTO THIS FIELD 1/1/63.

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
OilDisposition2,453 bbl$44,446
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$44,446

21 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 (8)

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 29.1096, -98.8573. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

29.10955, -98.85725 · 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%
8 of 8 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
8 of 8 wells
Median depth
2,205 ft
8 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
8100.0%
A plug date is filed
8100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
8100.0%
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

Total depth in feet, 8 of 8 wells. Median 2,205 ft, with the middle half between 2,190 and 2,207 ft; the shallowest is 2,187 ft and the deepest 2,220 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

Plug dates filed
Jan 2006
8 of 8 wells

8 wells

42-3250141512,212 ftJan 2006Yes
42-3250141622,220 ftJan 2006Yes
42-3250141732,205 ftJan 2006Yes
42-3250141842,205 ftJan 2006Yes
42-3250141952,205 ftJan 2006Yes
42-3250142062,187 ftJan 2006Yes
42-3250142172,187 ftJan 2006Yes
42-3250142282,191 ftJan 2006Yes

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 (183)

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

183 months

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 200775058.747.85$4,406
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 20050054.6910.59$0
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 20020027.443.64$0
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 200168019.782.53$1,345
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 200156025.524.31$1,429
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 200066028.534.09$1,883
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 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 199815809.201.77$1,454
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 1998147011.242.24$1,652
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 1997161016.322.41$2,628
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 1997158017.582.25$2,778
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 1997158020.492.21$3,237
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 1996159022.22$3,533
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 1996160019.38$3,101
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 1995155015.43$2,392
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 1995159015.24$2,423
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 1995158017.56$2,774
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 1995157016.44$2,581
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 1994158015.58$2,462
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 19940117.56$0
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 1994157114.14$2,220
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 1993143115.03$2,149
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 19930115.46$0
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 19930117.68$0
Apr 19930118.05$0
Mar 19930118.14$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                   75 bbl  × $ 58.74 =     $4,406
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  7.85 =         $0

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Month total                                   $4,406

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/2862 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.