RODENBERG, ALTON T. -B-

Operated by GAUGE OIL COMPANY (P-5 297345) in the DUNLAP field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 9176District 01Field 26620001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$39 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
116
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 196 leases and 727 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1939-07-15
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 2 acres.

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: 2.07 ACRE UNITS & 1 ACRE TOLERANCE

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
OilDisposition1,544 bbl$30,666
Casinghead gasProduction2,504 Mcf$8,291
Total$38,958

294 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 (1)

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 29.6967, -97.6757. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.69665, -97.67573 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
2,415 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 2,415 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 1983
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-0553300362,415 ftSep 1983Yes

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 (116)

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

116 months

Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 2002424223.653.51$1,141
Mar 2002012122.003.10$375
Feb 2002334918.222.38$718
Jan 200203817.172.38$90
Dec 2001343416.932.36$656
Nov 200102418.072.41$58
Oct 200106019.782.53$152
Sep 2001359024.262.25$1,052
Aug 200105024.873.05$153
Jul 2001345323.933.20$983
Jun 200107024.563.82$268
May 2001359025.524.31$1,281
Apr 200107024.685.34$373
Mar 200108124.545.38$435
Feb 2001347027.755.77$1,347
Jan 200106827.478.40$571
Dec 2000369026.889.12$1,789
Nov 200003132.215.66$175
Oct 2000344531.235.15$1,293
Sep 2000205031.875.19$897
Aug 200008129.644.54$368
Jul 2000316528.534.09$1,150
Jun 200002429.304.40$106
May 200023827.263.68$656
Apr 2000322124.513.12$850
Mar 200005928.422.86$169
Feb 2000334827.622.73$1,042
Jan 200004025.272.48$99
Dec 1999216724.282.42$672
Nov 1999344223.192.43$891
Oct 199908920.982.80$250
Sep 1999325121.752.62$830
Aug 1999355219.262.88$824
Jul 199909317.892.37$221
Jun 19993311515.942.36$798
May 19993212015.792.32$784
Apr 199934915.102.21$533
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 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 199724018.193.09$437
Oct 199730019.253.15$578
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19975017.242.26$86
May 19977018.972.31$133
Apr 199710017.882.08$179
Mar 199715018.951.94$284
Feb 19979020.492.21$184
Jan 199714023.483.54$329
Dec 199617023.32$396
Nov 199614021.97$308
Oct 199616023.31$373
Sep 199616022.22$356
Aug 199628020.26$567
Jul 19969019.55$176
Jun 19967018.73$131
May 199611019.43$214
Apr 199610021.51$215
Mar 199614019.38$271
Feb 199613016.98$221
Jan 199610017.07$171
Dec 199511017.19$189
Nov 199510016.00$160
Oct 199512015.43$185
Sep 199512016.18$194
Aug 199514015.92$223
Jul 199520015.24$305
Jun 199513016.41$213
May 199513017.56$228
Apr 199515017.73$266
Mar 199517016.44$279
Feb 199518016.58$298
Jan 199518015.92$287
Dec 199416015.03$240
Nov 199419015.90$302
Oct 199422015.58$343
Sep 199421115.29$321
Aug 199418116.13$290
Jul 19949117.56$158
Jun 19949117.09$154
May 199410115.88$159
Apr 199416114.14$226
Mar 199422112.46$274
Feb 199420112.50$250
Jan 199416112.66$203
Dec 199315112.33$185
Nov 199319114.49$275
Oct 199311115.85$174
Sep 199315115.03$225
Aug 199315115.66$235
Jul 199319115.46$294
Jun 199318116.79$302
May 199318117.68$318
Apr 199322118.05$397
Mar 1993212718.14$381
Feb 19932214317.90$394
Jan 19932210616.93$372

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.

Apr 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   42 bbl  × $ 23.65 =       $993
Casinghead gas        42 Mcf  × $  3.51 =       $148

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Month total                                   $1,141

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/9176 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.