WHEELER -B-

Operated by WELHAUSEN OPERATING COMPANY, LP (P-5 907544) in the WHEELER-MAG (1200) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 3627District 01Field 96775666OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$399 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 2006
Value, last 12 filed months
$6 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
157
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 5 leases and 46 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1965-11-06
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 5 acres.

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
OilDisposition22,898 bbl$399,250
Casinghead gasProduction26 Mcf$0
Total$399,250

26 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 26 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 (13)

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 28.3294, -98.4356. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.7 miles.

28.32904, -98.43420 · 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%
13 of 13 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
13 of 13 wells
Median depth
1,219 ft
13 wells filed one
Completion to plug
38.6 years
median over 9 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
13100.0%
A plug date is filed
13100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
13100.0%
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, 13 of 13 wells. Median 1,219 ft, with the middle half between 1,210 and 1,226 ft; the shallowest is 1,174 ft and the deepest 1,704 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 9 of 13 wells, Apr 1966 – May 1999. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Apr 1966 – May 1999
9 of 13 wells; 4 filed none
Plug dates filed
May 1999 – Oct 2005
13 of 13 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 38.6 years across the 9 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 24.1 years and 39.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

13 wells

42-3110108211,219 ftMay 1999Yes
42-3110108321,212 ftMay 1999Yes
42-3110108431,228 ftMay 2000Yes
42-31102377101,174 ftMay 2000Yes
42-31130204131,201 ftMay 1999Oct 2005Yes
42-31130196111,210 ftMay 1999Sep 2003Yes
42-31130441141,250 ftApr 1975May 1999Yes
42-3110231191,210 ftMar 1967Oct 2005Yes
42-3110231281,220 ftMar 1967Oct 2005Yes
42-3110229571,213 ftSep 1966Oct 2005Yes
42-3110108961,225 ftAug 1966Oct 2005Yes
42-3110108851,704 ftJul 1966Oct 2005Yes
42-3110108541,226 ftApr 1966Oct 2005Yes

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 (157)

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

157 months

Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 2005110058.3413.80$6,417
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 2003153029.765.13$4,553
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 2003145028.565.98$4,141
May 2003157026.595.97$4,175
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 200399031.146.10$3,083
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 2002288023.653.51$6,811
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 2002149018.222.38$2,715
Jan 2002149017.172.38$2,558
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 2001302018.072.41$5,457
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 2001143024.262.25$3,469
Aug 20011024.873.05$25
Jul 200157023.933.20$1,364
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 2001299024.545.38$7,337
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 2000290031.875.19$9,242
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
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 2000162027.622.73$4,474
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 1999164023.192.43$3,803
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 1999175021.752.62$3,806
Aug 1999318019.262.88$6,125
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 1999157015.942.36$2,503
May 1999459015.792.32$7,248
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 1998314011.301.91$3,548
Jul 1998232011.742.24$2,724
Jun 199868011.242.24$764
May 1998159012.622.21$2,007
Apr 1998476013.042.51$6,207
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 1998153014.702.15$2,249
Dec 1997164016.322.41$2,676
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 1997149019.253.15$2,868
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 1997318017.862.55$5,679
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 1997160017.242.26$2,758
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 1997166017.882.08$2,968
Mar 1997165018.951.94$3,127
Feb 1997327020.492.21$6,700
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 1996160023.32$3,731
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 1996222023.31$5,175
Sep 1996164022.22$3,644
Aug 1996348020.26$7,050
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 1996384018.73$7,192
May 1996221019.43$4,294
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 1996333019.38$6,454
Feb 1996172016.98$2,921
Jan 199687017.07$1,485
Dec 1995174017.19$2,991
Nov 199575016.00$1,200
Oct 1995241015.43$3,719
Sep 1995206016.18$3,333
Aug 1995188015.92$2,993
Jul 1995176015.24$2,682
Jun 1995203016.41$3,331
May 1995182017.56$3,196
Apr 1995356017.73$6,312
Mar 1995176016.44$2,893
Feb 1995190116.58$3,150
Jan 1995181115.92$2,882
Dec 1994529115.03$7,951
Nov 1994367115.90$5,835
Oct 1994544115.58$8,476
Sep 1994525115.29$8,027
Aug 1994527116.13$8,501
Jul 1994558117.56$9,798
Jun 1994534117.09$9,126
May 1994365115.88$5,796
Apr 1994178114.14$2,517
Mar 1994711112.46$8,859
Feb 1994772112.50$9,650
Jan 1994310112.66$3,925
Dec 1993463112.33$5,709
Nov 1993314114.49$4,550
Oct 1993311115.85$4,929
Sep 1993475115.03$7,139
Aug 1993470115.66$7,360
Jul 1993632115.46$9,771
Jun 1993484116.79$8,126
May 1993652117.68$11,527
Apr 1993634118.05$11,444
Mar 1993326118.14$5,914
Feb 1993658117.90$11,778
Jan 1993492116.93$8,330

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.

Oct 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  110 bbl  × $ 58.34 =     $6,417
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $ 13.80 =         $0

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Month total                                   $6,417

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/3627 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.