PRATHER

Operated by NELSON, JAMES L. (P-5 604295) in the ARNECKEVILLE (YEGUA 4870,E) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 5454District 02Field 03690759OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$595 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$11 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
219
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 18 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1973-04-07
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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
OilDisposition6,512 bbl$142,002
Casinghead gasProduction69,796 Mcf$453,163
Total$595,164

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 (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 28.9541, -97.2886. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.95414, -97.28855 · 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
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
5,112 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
34.7 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
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 5,112 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 1977
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2012
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 34.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 34.7 years and 34.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-1233077015,112 ftJul 1977Mar 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 (219)

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

219 months

Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 2011127086.504.59$10,986
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 20100072.554.74$0
Jun 20100070.364.91$0
May 20100071.124.24$0
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 20100078.394.39$0
Feb 20100073.585.44$0
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20090042.144.06$0
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
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 200603360.085.04$166
Aug 2006042268.717.34$3,097
Jul 2006091069.376.34$5,772
Jun 200601,01566.286.38$6,480
May 2006066866.016.42$4,292
Apr 2006023164.397.36$1,700
Mar 2006058556.707.08$4,144
Feb 200601,16157.597.75$8,999
Jan 200601,38760.598.93$12,391
Dec 200501,95254.9413.42$26,187
Nov 2005065454.6910.59$6,925
Oct 200501,28558.3413.80$17,728
Sep 200501,30961.4512.08$15,811
Aug 200501,40561.519.80$13,765
Jul 2005038655.697.84$3,028
Jun 200507552.337.38$554
May 200501,81345.226.65$12,059
Apr 2005049649.207.36$3,651
Mar 2005063950.377.15$4,572
Feb 200501,69345.226.31$10,686
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 200401,02139.866.75$6,893
Nov 2004019445.286.33$1,228
Oct 200402,23349.706.52$14,548
Sep 2004732,34043.245.28$15,521
Aug 200401,58842.375.55$8,814
Jul 200401,54438.286.08$9,394
Jun 200401,90036.106.43$12,223
May 200402,17837.486.49$14,145
Apr 2004062334.475.86$3,650
Mar 200401,93734.365.53$10,712
Feb 20041622,76632.455.51$20,497
Jan 200402,45132.036.30$15,440
Dec 200301,38530.266.30$8,728
Nov 200301,13828.804.60$5,229
Oct 20031912,23428.174.76$16,014
Sep 200302,14926.314.75$10,206
Aug 200302,26029.765.13$11,593
Jul 20031611,95229.415.17$14,828
Jun 200301,00928.565.98$6,037
May 200302,66226.595.97$15,899
Apr 200302,38326.675.41$12,886
Mar 20031442,04131.146.10$16,926
Feb 200302,31433.487.93$18,340
Jan 20031602,71630.315.58$20,010
Dec 200202,35126.914.85$11,411
Nov 20021723,06624.664.14$16,925
Oct 200201,22126.464.23$5,164
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 2002169025.963.16$4,387
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 2002153024.663.58$3,773
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 200240018.222.38$729
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 2001174016.932.36$2,946
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 2001190024.262.25$4,609
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 2001198024.685.34$4,887
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 2000195029.644.54$5,780
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 2000189028.422.86$5,371
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 1999173021.752.62$3,763
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 1999188015.942.36$2,997
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 1999200012.471.84$2,494
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 1998186012.622.21$2,347
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 1998187013.952.30$2,609
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 1997188019.253.15$3,619
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 1997189017.242.26$3,258
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 1997109020.492.21$2,233
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 1996163023.31$3,800
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 1996197020.26$3,991
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 1996175019.38$3,392
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 1995155015.43$2,392
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 1995152015.24$2,316
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 1995105017.73$1,862
Mar 1995137016.44$2,252
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 1994178015.03$2,675
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 1994183115.29$2,798
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 19940117.56$0
Jun 1994177117.09$3,025
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 1994192112.46$2,392
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 1993193112.33$2,380
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 1993195115.66$3,054
Jul 19930115.46$0
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 1993193117.68$3,412
Apr 19930118.05$0
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 19930117.90$0
Jan 1993199116.93$3,369

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 2011 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  127 bbl  × $ 86.50 =    $10,986
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.59 =         $0

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Month total                                  $10,986

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/5454 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.