DIRKS, M. D.

Name: DIRKS, M. D. lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by WELDER EXPLORATION & PROD., INC. (P-5 907297) in the MUDHILL (HOCKLEY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 7762District 02Field 63596333OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$202 k

Jan 1993 – Jun 2008

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

186

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The MUDHILL (HOCKLEY) field

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 12 leases and 16 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1955-01-07

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	10,645 bbl	$198,954
Casinghead gas	Production	2,506 Mcf	$3,186
Total			$202,140

1,626 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 (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 28.5510, -97.8220. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.55097, -97.82200 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

3,810 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

15.5 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 3,810 ft.

Completions filed

Nov 1991

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

May 2007

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.5 years and 15.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-02532373	1	3,810 ft	Nov 1991	May 2007	Yes

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 (186)

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

186 months


Jun 2008	0	0	131.33	13.03	$0
May 2008	0	0	123.17	11.57	$0
Apr 2008	0	0	110.31	10.45	$0
Mar 2008	0	0	101.90	9.66	$0
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	0	0	90.38	8.21	$0
Dec 2007	0	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	0	0	91.67	7.29	$0
Oct 2007	0	0	82.85	6.92	$0
Sep 2007	0	0	75.84	6.24	$0
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	0	0	70.90	6.39	$0
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	0	0	58.74	7.85	$0
Apr 2007	0	0	59.61	7.81	$0
Mar 2007	0	0	56.92	7.30	$0
Feb 2007	0	0	55.10	8.22	$0
Jan 2007	0	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	0	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	0	0	54.20	7.62	$0
Oct 2006	0	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	0	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	0	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	0	0	66.28	6.38	$0
May 2006	0	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	0	0	64.39	7.36	$0
Mar 2006	0	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	0	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	0	0	60.59	8.93	$0
Dec 2005	0	0	54.94	13.42	$0
Nov 2005	0	0	54.69	10.59	$0
Oct 2005	0	0	58.34	13.80	$0
Sep 2005	0	0	61.45	12.08	$0
Aug 2005	0	0	61.51	9.80	$0
Jul 2005	0	0	55.69	7.84	$0
Jun 2005	0	0	52.33	7.38	$0
May 2005	0	0	45.22	6.65	$0
Apr 2005	0	0	49.20	7.36	$0
Mar 2005	0	0	50.37	7.15	$0
Feb 2005	0	0	45.22	6.31	$0
Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	32	0	39.86	6.75	$1,276
Nov 2004	0	0	45.28	6.33	$0
Oct 2004	0	0	49.70	6.52	$0
Sep 2004	0	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	0	0	42.37	5.55	$0
Jul 2004	0	0	38.28	6.08	$0
Jun 2004	0	0	36.10	6.43	$0
May 2004	0	0	37.48	6.49	$0
Apr 2004	0	10	34.47	5.86	$59
Mar 2004	33	10	34.36	5.53	$1,189
Feb 2004	0	10	32.45	5.51	$55
Jan 2004	0	10	32.03	6.30	$63
Dec 2003	0	10	30.26	6.30	$63
Nov 2003	67	10	28.80	4.60	$1,976
Oct 2003	0	10	28.17	4.76	$48
Sep 2003	48	10	26.31	4.75	$1,310
Aug 2003	41	10	29.76	5.13	$1,271
Jul 2003	107	10	29.41	5.17	$3,199
Jun 2003	0	10	28.56	5.98	$60
May 2003	0	10	26.59	5.97	$60
Apr 2003	80	10	26.67	5.41	$2,188
Mar 2003	0	10	31.14	6.10	$61
Feb 2003	71	10	33.48	7.93	$2,456
Jan 2003	0	10	30.31	5.58	$56
Dec 2002	24	10	26.91	4.85	$694
Nov 2002	76	10	24.66	4.14	$1,916
Oct 2002	0	10	26.46	4.23	$42
Sep 2002	39	10	27.44	3.64	$1,107
Aug 2002	38	10	25.96	3.16	$1,018
Jul 2002	75	10	24.58	3.06	$1,874
Jun 2002	0	10	23.73	3.34	$33
May 2002	92	10	24.66	3.58	$2,305
Apr 2002	0	10	23.65	3.51	$35
Mar 2002	51	10	22.00	3.10	$1,153
Feb 2002	51	10	18.22	2.38	$953
Jan 2002	95	10	17.17	2.38	$1,655
Dec 2001	149	10	16.93	2.36	$2,546
Nov 2001	0	10	18.07	2.41	$24
Oct 2001	0	10	19.78	2.53	$25
Sep 2001	111	10	24.26	2.25	$2,715
Aug 2001	0	10	24.87	3.05	$31
Jul 2001	118	10	23.93	3.20	$2,856
Jun 2001	0	10	24.56	3.82	$38
May 2001	0	10	25.52	4.31	$43
Apr 2001	108	10	24.68	5.34	$2,719
Mar 2001	0	10	24.54	5.38	$54
Feb 2001	103	10	27.75	5.77	$2,916
Jan 2001	0	10	27.47	8.40	$84
Dec 2000	75	10	26.88	9.12	$2,107
Nov 2000	123	10	32.21	5.66	$4,018
Oct 2000	0	10	31.23	5.15	$51
Sep 2000	108	10	31.87	5.19	$3,494
Aug 2000	0	10	29.64	4.54	$45
Jul 2000	124	10	28.53	4.09	$3,579
Jun 2000	0	10	29.30	4.40	$44
May 2000	178	10	27.26	3.68	$4,889
Apr 2000	0	10	24.51	3.12	$31
Mar 2000	0	10	28.42	2.86	$29
Feb 2000	66	10	27.62	2.73	$1,850
Jan 2000	149	10	25.27	2.48	$3,790
Dec 1999	0	10	24.28	2.42	$24
Nov 1999	172	10	23.19	2.43	$4,013
Oct 1999	0	10	20.98	2.80	$28
Sep 1999	0	10	21.75	2.62	$26
Aug 1999	134	10	19.26	2.88	$2,610
Jul 1999	0	10	17.89	2.37	$24
Jun 1999	181	10	15.94	2.36	$2,909
May 1999	0	10	15.79	2.32	$23
Apr 1999	0	10	15.10	2.21	$22
Mar 1999	165	10	12.47	1.84	$2,076
Feb 1999	0	10	9.98	1.82	$18
Jan 1999	176	10	10.38	1.90	$1,846
Dec 1998	0	10	9.20	1.77	$18
Nov 1998	0	10	10.89	2.19	$22
Oct 1998	150	10	12.42	1.97	$1,883
Sep 1998	0	10	12.59	2.08	$21
Aug 1998	178	10	11.30	1.91	$2,030
Jul 1998	0	10	11.74	2.24	$22
Jun 1998	0	10	11.24	2.24	$22
May 1998	90	10	12.62	2.21	$1,158
Apr 1998	179	10	13.04	2.51	$2,359
Mar 1998	0	10	12.80	2.31	$23
Feb 1998	0	10	13.95	2.30	$23
Jan 1998	209	10	14.70	2.15	$3,094
Dec 1997	0	10	16.32	2.41	$24
Nov 1997	93	10	18.19	3.09	$1,723
Oct 1997	0	10	19.25	3.15	$32
Sep 1997	175	10	17.74	2.95	$3,134
Aug 1997	0	10	17.86	2.55	$26
Jul 1997	0	10	17.58	2.25	$22
Jun 1997	145	10	17.24	2.26	$2,522
May 1997	0	10	18.97	2.31	$23
Apr 1997	69	10	17.88	2.08	$1,255
Mar 1997	178	10	18.95	1.94	$3,392
Feb 1997	0	10	20.49	2.21	$22
Jan 1997	181	10	23.48	3.54	$4,285
Dec 1996	0	10	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	167	10	21.97	—	$3,669
Oct 1996	170	10	23.31	—	$3,963
Sep 1996	0	10	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	10	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	174	10	19.55	—	$3,402
Jun 1996	0	10	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	167	10	19.43	—	$3,245
Apr 1996	0	10	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	169	10	19.38	—	$3,275
Feb 1996	0	10	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	173	10	17.07	—	$2,953
Dec 1995	0	10	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	169	10	16.00	—	$2,704
Oct 1995	0	10	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	110	10	16.18	—	$1,780
Aug 1995	165	10	15.92	—	$2,627
Jul 1995	0	10	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	154	10	16.41	—	$2,527
May 1995	166	10	17.56	—	$2,915
Apr 1995	163	10	17.73	—	$2,890
Mar 1995	0	10	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	165	10	16.58	—	$2,736
Jan 1995	174	10	15.92	—	$2,770
Dec 1994	165	10	15.03	—	$2,480
Nov 1994	169	10	15.90	—	$2,687
Oct 1994	170	10	15.58	—	$2,649
Sep 1994	0	10	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	166	10	16.13	—	$2,678
Jul 1994	164	10	17.56	—	$2,880
Jun 1994	167	10	17.09	—	$2,854
May 1994	169	10	15.88	—	$2,684
Apr 1994	178	10	14.14	—	$2,517
Mar 1994	175	10	12.46	—	$2,181
Feb 1994	166	10	12.50	—	$2,075
Jan 1994	176	10	12.66	—	$2,228
Dec 1993	178	10	12.33	—	$2,195
Nov 1993	0	10	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	164	10	15.85	—	$2,599
Sep 1993	169	10	15.03	—	$2,540
Aug 1993	172	10	15.66	—	$2,694
Jul 1993	0	10	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	178	10	16.79	—	$2,989
May 1993	181	10	17.68	—	$3,200
Apr 1993	182	10	18.05	—	$3,285
Mar 1993	182	10	18.14	—	$3,301
Feb 1993	0	10	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	181	1,156	16.93	—	$3,064

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 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   32 bbl  × $ 39.86 =     $1,276
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.75 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $1,276

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/7762 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.