PETTUS, J. M. 11, ET AL OIL UNIT

Operated by U.S. ENERCORP, LTD. (P-5 875468) in the RIVERDALE (9300) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 8457District 02Field 77017930OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$4.2 M
Aug 1999 – Jul 2005
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
72
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 1 leases and 2 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1954-10-02
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
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 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 1955-08-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: 5000-1 IF GAS IS PUT TO LEGAL USE

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
OilDisposition58,980 bbl$1,451,024
Casinghead gasProduction684,995 Mcf$2,760,862
Total$4,211,885

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 28.6659, -97.5437. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

28.66595, -97.54370 · 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
10,008 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
4.3 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 9,916 and 10,100 ft, median 10,008 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Aug 1999 – Feb 2001
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 2004 – May 2005
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 4.3 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 4.3 years and 4.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-1753328829,916 ftFeb 2001May 2005Yes
42-17533131110,100 ftAug 1999Jan 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 (72)

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

72 months

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 2004164034.475.86$5,653
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 200302930.315.58$162
Dec 20021754126.914.85$4,908
Nov 200217422524.664.14$5,222
Oct 2002022726.464.23$960
Sep 200232026427.443.64$9,740
Aug 20021758625.963.16$2,296
Jul 2002011524.583.06$352
Jun 2002338023.733.34$8,021
May 20025372,04924.663.58$20,586
Apr 200267212,75623.653.51$60,696
Mar 200266918,26622.003.10$71,392
Feb 200268016,21418.222.38$50,909
Jan 20021,16115,77217.172.38$57,404
Dec 200184612,58816.932.36$44,086
Nov 20011,09611,93118.072.41$48,505
Oct 20011,33912,53819.782.53$58,193
Sep 20018098,83624.262.25$39,519
Aug 20011,43620,36024.873.05$97,876
Jul 20011,32721,73523.933.20$101,244
Jun 20011,16919,99624.563.82$105,179
May 20011,47422,81925.524.31$135,905
Apr 20011,58722,87524.685.34$161,213
Mar 20011,46824,93924.545.38$170,108
Feb 20011,14624,62127.755.77$173,793
Jan 20011,16523,02827.478.40$225,409
Dec 20001,51322,95826.889.12$250,104
Nov 200090722,31232.215.66$155,456
Oct 20001,43725,75831.235.15$177,415
Sep 20001,62825,39231.875.19$183,580
Aug 20001,72426,59329.644.54$171,852
Jul 20001,35427,89628.534.09$152,717
Jun 20001,96627,23129.304.40$177,345
May 20002,18628,39427.263.68$164,073
Apr 20001,99628,74724.513.12$138,498
Mar 20002,18429,08128.422.86$145,234
Feb 20002,10122,42627.622.73$119,174
Jan 20002,47723,58225.272.48$121,089
Dec 19992,96222,00024.282.42$125,239
Nov 19992,95420,50023.192.43$118,400
Oct 19993,67619,45820.982.80$131,677
Sep 19994,13713,98121.752.62$126,594
Aug 19994,0095,87619.262.88$94,110

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.

Apr 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  164 bbl  × $ 34.47 =     $5,653
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.86 =         $0

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Month total                                   $5,653

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/8457 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.