SMITH, LEONARD C.

Operated by JTB OIL COMPANY, INC. (P-5 448043) in the SINGLETON, E. (INGLE) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 7915District 02Field 83740350OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$53 k
Sep 1993 – Jul 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$7 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
59
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 4 leases and 4 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1980-02-29
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

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ALLOCATION FORMULA EFF. 7-1-80 PER AMENDMENT TO SWR 28 & 29

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
OilDisposition3,217 bbl$53,434
Casinghead gasProduction190 Mcf$0
Total$53,434

190 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 15 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 28.3934, -97.8590. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.39343, -97.85898 · 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
4,800 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
4.8 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 4,800 ft.

Completions filed
Aug 1993
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 1998
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 4.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 4.8 years and 4.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-0253267514,800 ftAug 1993May 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 (59)

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

59 months

Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 199818012.622.21$227
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19981012.802.31$13
Feb 1998148013.952.30$2,065
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19971016.322.41$16
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 199798019.253.15$1,887
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 1997168017.862.55$3,000
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 199779018.972.31$1,499
Apr 19971017.882.08$18
Mar 199770018.951.94$1,327
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 1997107023.483.54$2,512
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19963021.97$66
Oct 199690023.31$2,098
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 1996165020.26$3,343
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 199696018.73$1,798
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 199637021.51$796
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 1996156016.98$2,649
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 199567017.19$1,152
Nov 1995119016.00$1,904
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 199585015.92$1,353
Jul 199590015.24$1,372
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 199581016.44$1,332
Feb 199586016.58$1,426
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 19941351015.03$2,029
Nov 199401515.90$0
Oct 19941802015.58$2,804
Sep 199402015.29$0
Aug 19941782016.13$2,871
Jul 199412017.56$18
Jun 19941792017.09$3,059
May 199402015.88$0
Apr 19941702014.14$2,404
Mar 19941222012.46$1,520
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 1994141112.66$1,785
Dec 19930012.33$0
Nov 1993172114.49$2,492
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 1993173115.03$2,600

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.

May 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   18 bbl  × $ 12.62 =       $227
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.21 =         $0

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Month total                                     $227

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/7915 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.