CROOK, GEORGE H.

Operated by COX & PERKINS EXPLORATION, INC. (P-5 183345) in the CALDWELL (AUSTIN CHALK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 12543District 03Field 14710500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$111 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$11 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
84
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 256 leases and 330 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1978-06-29
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1991-11-25.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: PER DOCKET 3-97101 EFF 11-25-91, PERM RULES. 80 ACRE OPT/3250 DIAG

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA3none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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
OilDisposition5,954 bbl$98,754
Casinghead gasProduction56,420 Mcf$11,968
Total$110,723

51,278 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 30.5145, -96.5511. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

30.51455, -96.55112 · 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
8,431 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
18.5 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 8,407 and 8,455 ft, median 8,431 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Oct 1979 – Jul 1981
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 1998 – Sep 1999
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 18.5 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 18.3 years and 18.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-0513163328,455 ftJul 1981Sep 1999Yes
42-0513043318,407 ftOct 1979Jul 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 (84)

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

84 months

Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 199911416120.982.80$2,843
Sep 199904621.752.62$120
Aug 1999014919.262.88$428
Jul 199918214117.892.37$3,590
Jun 1999015915.942.36$376
May 1999018615.792.32$432
Apr 1999018615.102.21$411
Mar 199918216212.471.84$2,567
Feb 199901729.981.82$313
Jan 1999020510.381.90$389
Dec 199802179.201.77$385
Nov 1998018010.892.19$393
Oct 199817314512.421.97$2,434
Sep 1998014512.592.08$302
Aug 1998015511.301.91$296
Jul 1998014811.742.24$331
Jun 199817112511.242.24$2,202
May 1998014012.622.21$309
Apr 1998011713.042.51$293
Mar 1998010012.802.31$231
Feb 199817810213.952.30$2,718
Jan 1998019514.702.15$420
Dec 199709916.322.41$239
Nov 1997021618.193.09$667
Oct 199717817119.253.15$3,965
Sep 1997014217.742.95$420
Aug 1997016917.862.55$432
Jul 1997016217.582.25$364
Jun 19971679817.242.26$3,100
May 1997018018.972.31$416
Apr 1997017617.882.08$367
Mar 199717920818.951.94$3,795
Feb 199704920.492.21$108
Jan 1997013623.483.54$481
Dec 199618313823.32$4,268
Nov 1996026821.97$0
Oct 1996021223.31$0
Sep 199618214822.22$4,044
Aug 1996019420.26$0
Jul 199606319.55$0
Jun 199616430918.73$3,072
May 1996034819.43$0
Apr 1996023821.51$0
Mar 199616518519.38$3,198
Feb 1996022316.98$0
Jan 199619220417.07$3,277
Dec 1995022217.19$0
Nov 1995061916.00$0
Oct 19951831,33015.43$2,824
Sep 199511,15316.18$16
Aug 19951791,17315.92$2,850
Jul 199501,03115.24$0
Jun 199522069216.41$3,610
May 1995056717.56$0
Apr 1995070717.73$0
Mar 199520071916.44$3,288
Feb 1995049216.58$0
Jan 199518158115.92$2,882
Dec 1994062415.03$0
Nov 1994169115.90$16
Oct 199418181715.58$2,820
Sep 1994079115.29$0
Aug 199415894116.13$2,549
Jul 199401,00817.56$0
Jun 199417799917.09$3,025
May 1994551,23515.88$873
Apr 19943561,66214.14$5,034
Mar 1994483312.46$50
Feb 1994358912.50$38
Jan 199415385012.66$1,937
Dec 1993158212.33$12
Nov 19931801,80114.49$2,608
Oct 19931832,29915.85$2,901
Sep 199312,63915.03$15
Aug 19931772,45915.66$2,772
Jul 199322,70315.46$31
Jun 19931822,67616.79$3,056
May 19931963,51117.68$3,465
Apr 199302,85718.05$0
Mar 19931842,45818.14$3,338
Feb 19931901,81417.90$3,401
Jan 19931962,62316.93$3,318

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.

Oct 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  114 bbl  × $ 20.98 =     $2,392
Casinghead gas       161 Mcf  × $  2.80 =       $451

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Month total                                   $2,843

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. 03/O/12543 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.