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Operated by BENKE, MALVERN (P-5 64335) in the TAYLOR-INA field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 8070District 01Field 88534001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$14 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
128
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 230 leases and 2,444 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1936-02-02
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.

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
OilDisposition798 bbl$13,711
Casinghead gasProduction16 Mcf$0
Total$13,711

16 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 16 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 (26)

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 29.2607, -99.0426. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

29.25935, -99.04240 · 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%
26 of 26 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
26 of 26 wells
Median depth
400 ft
26 wells filed one
Completion to plug
11.3 years
median over 22 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
26100.0%
A plug date is filed
26100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
26100.0%
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, 26 of 26 wells. Median 400 ft, with the middle half between 400 and 400 ft; the shallowest is 200 ft and the deepest 400 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, 22 of 26 wells, Nov 1981 – Dec 1982. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Nov 1981 – Dec 1982
22 of 26 wells; 4 filed none
Plug dates filed
Apr 1984 – Feb 2002
26 of 26 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 11.3 years across the 22 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 11.1 years and 20.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

26 wells

42-325319193200 ftApr 1984Yes
42-325319204400 ftApr 1984Yes
42-3253218832200 ftApr 1984Yes
42-3253226920A200 ftApr 1984Yes
42-3253216995400 ftDec 1982Feb 2002Yes
42-32532207151400 ftFeb 1982Mar 1993Yes
42-3253224068400 ftFeb 1982Mar 1993Yes
42-32532208152400 ftFeb 1982Mar 1993Yes
42-32532209153400 ftFeb 1982Mar 1993Yes
42-32532210154400 ftFeb 1982Mar 1993Yes
42-3253223756400 ftFeb 1982Mar 1993Yes
42-3253223944400 ftFeb 1982Mar 1993Yes
42-3253226580400 ftJan 1982Mar 1993Yes
42-32532206163400 ftJan 1982Mar 1993Yes
42-3253223692400 ftJan 1982Jan 2002Yes
42-3253222193400 ftJan 1982Jan 2002Yes
42-3253222294400 ftJan 1982Jan 2002Yes
42-32532080119400 ftDec 1981Jan 2002Yes
42-32532074107400 ftDec 1981Jan 2002Yes
42-32532079131400 ftDec 1981Jan 2002Yes
42-32532078143400 ftDec 1981Jan 2002Yes
42-32532076164400 ftNov 1981Mar 1993Yes
42-32532075165400 ftNov 1981Mar 1993Yes
42-32532054166400 ftNov 1981Mar 1993Yes
42-32532055167400 ftNov 1981Feb 2002Yes
42-3253208115400 ftNov 1981Jan 2002Yes

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 (128)

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

128 months

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 200278017.172.38$1,339
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 20010025.524.31$0
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 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 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 1998009.201.77$0
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 19980011.242.24$0
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 1997112016.322.41$1,828
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 1996113023.32$2,635
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 1996124017.07$2,117
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 1994137015.03$2,059
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 19940117.56$0
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 199491112.66$1,152
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 19930015.46$0
Jun 19930016.79$0
May 19930017.68$0
Apr 1993143118.05$2,581
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 19930017.90$0
Jan 19930016.93$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.

Jan 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   78 bbl  × $ 17.17 =     $1,339
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.38 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,339

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/8070 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.