MURPHY, JOHN

Operated by COKER, JONATHAN C., INC. (P-5 167008) in the PAPALOTE, E. (3250) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 3233District 02Field 69044498OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$21 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 2007
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
174
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 20 leases and 41 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1963-02-26
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 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
OilDisposition1,263 bbl$21,050
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$21,050

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 (7)

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 28.1760, -97.5716. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

28.17601, -97.57109 · 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%
7 of 7 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
7 of 7 wells
Median depth
3,283 ft
7 wells filed one
Completion to plug
14.4 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
7100.0%
A plug date is filed
7100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
7100.0%
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

Between 3,249 and 3,469 ft, median 3,283 ft, over the 7 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jun 1968 – Aug 2000
4 of 7 wells; 3 filed none
Plug dates filed
Aug 1982 – Nov 2006
7 of 7 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.4 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 10.0 years and 21.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

7 wells

42-0250208513,283 ftAug 1984Yes
42-0250264463,461 ftAug 1984Yes
42-0258028923,273 ftAug 1982Yes
42-025027851A3,249 ftAug 2000Aug 2004Yes
42-0250285093,273 ftNov 1994Nov 2006Yes
42-0250264673,331 ftOct 1987Aug 2004Yes
42-0250285483,469 ftJun 1968Aug 2004Yes

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 (174)

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

174 months

Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
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 20022018.222.38$36
Jan 20022017.172.38$34
Dec 20012016.932.36$34
Nov 20011018.072.41$18
Oct 20011019.782.53$20
Sep 20011024.262.25$24
Aug 20011024.873.05$25
Jul 20011023.933.20$24
Jun 20011024.563.82$25
May 20012025.524.31$51
Apr 20012024.685.34$49
Mar 20011024.545.38$25
Feb 20013027.755.77$83
Jan 20012027.478.40$55
Dec 20002026.889.12$54
Nov 20002032.215.66$64
Oct 20002031.235.15$62
Sep 20003031.875.19$96
Aug 20002029.644.54$59
Jul 20003028.534.09$86
Jun 20003029.304.40$88
May 20005027.263.68$136
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 200019027.622.73$525
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 19997017.892.37$125
Jun 199910015.942.36$159
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 199917012.471.84$212
Feb 19991109.981.82$110
Jan 199925010.381.90$260
Dec 19981009.201.77$92
Nov 199814010.892.19$152
Oct 199814012.421.97$174
Sep 199812012.592.08$151
Aug 199810011.301.91$113
Jul 199811011.742.24$129
Jun 199813011.242.24$146
May 199813012.622.21$164
Apr 199811013.042.51$143
Mar 199810012.802.31$128
Feb 19988013.952.30$112
Jan 199810014.702.15$147
Dec 19978016.322.41$131
Nov 199712018.193.09$218
Oct 19978019.253.15$154
Sep 19976017.742.95$106
Aug 19977017.862.55$125
Jul 19976017.582.25$105
Jun 199717017.242.26$293
May 19976018.972.31$114
Apr 199712017.882.08$215
Mar 199716018.951.94$303
Feb 19978020.492.21$164
Jan 199712023.483.54$282
Dec 19969023.32$210
Nov 199615021.97$330
Oct 199611023.31$256
Sep 199613022.22$289
Aug 199610020.26$203
Jul 199618019.55$352
Jun 199618018.73$337
May 19969019.43$175
Apr 199618021.51$387
Mar 199614019.38$271
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19963017.07$51
Dec 199514017.19$241
Nov 199521016.00$336
Oct 19959015.43$139
Sep 199512016.18$194
Aug 199511015.92$175
Jul 199513015.24$198
Jun 199517016.41$279
May 199512017.56$211
Apr 19958017.73$142
Mar 199520016.44$329
Feb 199523016.58$381
Jan 199527015.92$430
Dec 199419015.03$286
Nov 199420015.90$318
Oct 199417015.58$265
Sep 199418115.29$275
Aug 199418116.13$290
Jul 199420117.56$351
Jun 199418117.09$308
May 199415115.88$238
Apr 199418114.14$255
Mar 199420112.46$249
Feb 199412112.50$150
Jan 199415112.66$190
Dec 19939112.33$111
Nov 199319114.49$275
Oct 199323115.85$365
Sep 199321115.03$316
Aug 199319115.66$298
Jul 199378115.46$1,206
Jun 199361116.79$1,024
May 199322117.68$389
Apr 199318118.05$325
Mar 199319118.14$345
Feb 199327117.90$483
Jan 199325116.93$423

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 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    2 bbl  × $ 18.22 =        $36
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.38 =         $0

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Month total                                      $36

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/3233 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.