ARNOLD, MILDRED

Operated by HURD ENTERPRISES, LTD. (P-5 419886) in the CUTHBERTSON (MACKHANK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 7663District 02Field 22387400OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$197 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$71 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
63
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 8 leases and 16 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1990-06-30
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
OilDisposition6,596 bbl$111,118
Casinghead gasProduction477,300 Mcf$86,299
Total$197,416

441,850 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 (2)

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 28.9155, -97.3468. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

28.91551, -97.34675 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
8,204 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
7.0 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
2100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2100.0%
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 8,190 and 8,218 ft, median 8,204 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Dec 1990 – Jan 1991
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 1997 – Feb 1998
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.0 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.9 years and 7.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-1233166828,190 ftJan 1991Nov 1997Yes
42-1233166118,218 ftDec 1990Feb 1998Yes

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 (63)

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

63 months

Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 199791016.322.41$1,485
Nov 199726018.193.09$473
Oct 1997157019.253.15$3,022
Sep 1997075017.742.95$2,216
Aug 199704,25017.862.55$10,858
Jul 19971734,89217.582.25$14,033
Jun 19971743,35417.242.26$10,570
May 199705,21118.972.31$12,030
Apr 19972615,46417.882.08$16,047
Mar 199702,94118.951.94$5,703
Feb 199703,63620.492.21$8,021
Jan 199704,95223.483.54$17,529
Dec 19961685,36723.32$3,918
Nov 199605,29421.97$0
Oct 199605,63123.31$0
Sep 199605,58022.22$0
Aug 19961646,30320.26$3,323
Jul 199604,64419.55$0
Jun 19962925,50918.73$5,469
May 1996137,35019.43$253
Apr 1996167,31121.51$344
Mar 199618810,54019.38$3,643
Feb 199616110,13016.98$2,734
Jan 1996613,63717.07$102
Dec 199527612,65917.19$4,744
Nov 19954710,28316.00$752
Oct 199512,70115.43$15
Sep 199554,83716.18$81
Aug 19953307,16815.92$5,254
Jul 199508,63515.24$0
Jun 1995210,73116.41$33
May 199532412,75617.56$5,689
Apr 199506,83817.73$0
Mar 19951796,99416.44$2,943
Feb 19951877,62416.58$3,100
Jan 19951748,60715.92$2,770
Dec 19941767,75815.03$2,645
Nov 19941846,10515.90$2,926
Oct 199405,06415.58$0
Sep 199434,74415.29$46
Aug 19941846,70916.13$2,968
Jul 199409,05517.56$0
Jun 199402,98117.09$0
May 199405,95815.88$0
Apr 19943769,22714.14$5,317
Mar 199420711,33512.46$2,579
Feb 199409,34712.50$0
Jan 199418314,23412.66$2,317
Dec 1993311,09612.33$37
Nov 1993312,90414.49$43
Oct 199336611,26115.85$5,801
Sep 1993011,64015.03$0
Aug 199317313,84415.66$2,709
Jul 199318415,33915.46$2,845
Jun 1993212,42716.79$34
May 199336214,81917.68$6,400
Apr 1993413,28418.05$72
Mar 199338716,63418.14$7,020
Feb 1993213,46017.90$36
Jan 199338215,49616.93$6,467

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.

Dec 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   91 bbl  × $ 16.32 =     $1,485
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.41 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,485

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/7663 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.