RAY, GEORGE A.

Operated by DEVON ENERGY PRODUCTION CO, L.P. (P-5 216378) in the PETTUS field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 1131District 02Field 70987001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$974 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
90
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 13 leases and 58 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1929-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 1995-10-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: FIELD RULES UPDATED TO REFLECT SAME RULES AS OIL SCHEDULE

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
OilDisposition59,926 bbl$973,632
Casinghead gasProduction11,511 Mcf$293
Total$973,925

11,410 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 (23)

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 28.6305, -97.7806. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.9 miles.

28.63003, -97.78005 · 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
69.6%
16 of 23 wells
With a plug date
69.6%
16 of 23 wells
Median depth
3,961 ft
18 wells filed one
Completion to plug
69.0 years
median over 8 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1669.6%
A plug date is filed
1669.6%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1669.6%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
730.4%

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, 18 of 23 wells. Median 3,961 ft, with the middle half between 3,950 and 3,982 ft; the shallowest is 3,864 ft and the deepest 4,843 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, 10 of 23 wells, Jan 1931 – Jul 2013. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Jan 1931 – Jul 2013
10 of 23 wells; 13 filed none
Plug dates filed
Sep 1994 – Aug 2012
16 of 23 wells; 7 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 69.0 years across the 8 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 60.0 years and 80.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

23 wells

42-02500120433,942 ftJun 2012Yes
42-02500121523,950 ftJun 2012Yes
42-02500122534,125 ftJun 2012Yes
42-02500123573,975 ftJul 2012Yes
42-02500145753,968 ftAug 2012Yes
42-02500147833,950 ftJul 2011Yes
42-02500148773,950 ftSep 1994Yes
42-02502213233,932 ftMay 2000Yes
42-0250012576
42-0250014682
42-0250020481
42-0250227156
42-0250227239
42-0250227454,843 ftJul 2013
42-02502209163,864 ftAug 1996Sep 2006Yes
42-02530228884,062 ftSep 1973Jul 2010Yes
42-02502866864,025 ftOct 1968
42-02502886613,984 ftNov 1944Jul 2012Yes
42-02500113603,972 ftSep 1943Jul 2012Yes
42-02500119403,950 ftApr 1932Jun 2012Yes
42-02502214313,975 ftMar 1931May 2000Yes
42-02500116343,953 ftMar 1931Aug 2012Yes
42-02500115263,948 ftJan 1931Jun 2012Yes

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 (90)

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

90 months

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 19970016.322.41$0
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 19979294820.492.21$19,141
Jan 19973565323.483.54$8,546
Dec 19963725323.32$8,675
Nov 199605221.97$0
Oct 19963635323.31$8,462
Sep 19967335322.22$16,287
Aug 199605320.26$0
Jul 19963615319.55$7,058
Jun 19967295218.73$13,654
May 199602319.43$0
Apr 19964465221.51$9,593
Mar 19961,062019.38$20,582
Feb 199605016.98$0
Jan 199605317.07$0
Dec 199501817.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19951,9749815.92$31,426
Jul 199543720315.24$6,660
Jun 19951,76828716.41$29,013
May 19951,76629517.56$31,011
Apr 19951,29028317.73$22,872
Mar 19951,75832116.44$28,902
Feb 19952,17027816.58$35,979
Jan 19951,77532315.92$28,258
Dec 19941,37332315.03$20,636
Nov 19941,78931115.90$28,445
Oct 19942,20331315.58$34,323
Sep 19941,36031115.29$20,794
Aug 19942,22331616.13$35,857
Jul 19941,30329017.56$22,881
Jun 19941,78127017.09$30,437
May 19941,79931315.88$28,568
Apr 19941,32437614.14$18,721
Mar 19942,73039712.46$34,016
Feb 19941,24729012.50$15,588
Jan 19941,37039712.66$17,344
Dec 19932,19339512.33$27,040
Nov 19931,80338514.49$26,125
Oct 19931,36939715.85$21,699
Sep 19931,80138515.03$27,069
Aug 19931,81642215.66$28,439
Jul 19931,27542215.46$19,712
Jun 19932,63040816.79$44,158
May 19931,31941717.68$23,320
Apr 19931,54840618.05$27,941
Mar 19932,23941718.14$40,615
Feb 199391337417.90$16,343
Jan 19932,22942216.93$37,737

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.

Feb 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  929 bbl  × $ 20.49 =    $19,035
Casinghead gas        48 Mcf  × $  2.21 =       $106

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Month total                                  $19,141

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. 02/O/1131 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.