ARCO SECTION-179

Operated by PETRO-GUARD PRODUCTION,L.L.C. (P-5 660044) in the BEECH CREEK, SW. (Y-9) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 13089District 03Field 06760500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.2 M
Jan 1993 – Nov 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$23 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
143
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 9 leases and 13 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1978-03-02
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: DOCKET #3-77,429.

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
OilDisposition60,164 bbl$1,152,516
Casinghead gasProduction20 Mcf$0
Total$1,152,516

20 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 20 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 (3)

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 30.4822, -94.2628. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

30.48212, -94.26228 · 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%
3 of 3 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
3 of 3 wells
Median depth
7,166 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
8.8 years
median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
3100.0%
A plug date is filed
3100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
3100.0%
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 7,080 and 7,632 ft, median 7,166 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Dec 1981 – Mar 1985
3 of 3 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 1988 – May 2004
3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 8.8 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 7.9 years and 14.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-1993125117,080 ftMar 1985Jan 1994Yes
42-199321881 A7,632 ftJan 1985May 2004Yes
42-1993165727,166 ftDec 1981Dec 1988Yes

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 (143)

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

143 months

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 200496036.106.43$3,466
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 200459034.365.53$2,027
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 2004376032.036.30$12,043
Dec 2003195030.266.30$5,901
Nov 2003196028.804.60$5,645
Oct 2003384028.174.76$10,817
Sep 2003286026.314.75$7,525
Aug 2003190029.765.13$5,654
Jul 2003369029.415.17$10,852
Jun 2003231028.565.98$6,597
May 2003204026.595.97$5,424
Apr 2003358026.675.41$9,548
Mar 2003358031.146.10$11,148
Feb 2003386033.487.93$12,923
Jan 2003263030.315.58$7,972
Dec 2002370026.914.85$9,957
Nov 2002381024.664.14$9,395
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 2002343025.963.16$8,904
Jul 2002343024.583.06$8,431
Jun 2002369023.733.34$8,756
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 2002371023.653.51$8,774
Mar 2002379022.003.10$8,338
Feb 2002376018.222.38$6,851
Jan 2002355017.172.38$6,095
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 2001361018.072.41$6,523
Oct 2001366019.782.53$7,239
Sep 2001357024.262.25$8,661
Aug 2001369024.873.05$9,177
Jul 2001363023.933.20$8,687
Jun 2001368024.563.82$9,038
May 2001352025.524.31$8,983
Apr 20011024.685.34$25
Mar 2001343024.545.38$8,417
Feb 2001294027.755.77$8,159
Jan 2001352027.478.40$9,669
Dec 2000359026.889.12$9,650
Nov 2000363032.215.66$11,692
Oct 2000256031.235.15$7,995
Sep 2000546031.875.19$17,401
Aug 2000374029.644.54$11,085
Jul 2000363028.534.09$10,356
Jun 2000726029.304.40$21,272
May 20001027.263.68$27
Apr 2000346024.513.12$8,480
Mar 2000720028.422.86$20,462
Feb 2000352027.622.73$9,722
Jan 2000363025.272.48$9,173
Dec 1999366024.282.42$8,886
Nov 1999349023.192.43$8,093
Oct 1999359020.982.80$7,532
Sep 1999373021.752.62$8,113
Aug 1999717019.262.88$13,809
Jul 1999386017.892.37$6,906
Jun 1999358015.942.36$5,707
May 1999353015.792.32$5,574
Apr 1999729015.102.21$11,008
Mar 1999362012.471.84$4,514
Feb 199972309.981.82$7,216
Jan 1999360010.381.90$3,737
Dec 199872609.201.77$6,679
Nov 1998371010.892.19$4,040
Oct 1998365012.421.97$4,533
Sep 1998737012.592.08$9,279
Aug 1998364011.301.91$4,113
Jul 1998730011.742.24$8,570
Jun 1998379011.242.24$4,260
May 1998705012.622.21$8,897
Apr 1998181013.042.51$2,360
Mar 1998375012.802.31$4,800
Feb 1998381013.952.30$5,315
Jan 1998375014.702.15$5,513
Dec 1997390016.322.41$6,365
Nov 1997761018.193.09$13,843
Oct 1997383019.253.15$7,373
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 1997733017.862.55$13,091
Jul 1997399017.582.25$7,014
Jun 1997771017.242.26$13,292
May 1997759018.972.31$14,398
Apr 1997575017.882.08$10,281
Mar 1997397018.951.94$7,523
Feb 1997592020.492.21$12,130
Jan 1997397023.483.54$9,322
Dec 1996764023.32$17,816
Nov 1996388021.97$8,524
Oct 1996384023.31$8,951
Sep 1996379022.22$8,421
Aug 1996763020.26$15,458
Jul 1996382019.55$7,468
Jun 1996544018.73$10,189
May 1996570019.43$11,075
Apr 1996391021.51$8,410
Mar 1996776019.38$15,039
Feb 1996364016.98$6,181
Jan 1996781017.07$13,332
Dec 1995397017.19$6,824
Nov 1995567016.00$9,072
Oct 1995562015.43$8,672
Sep 1995368016.18$5,954
Aug 1995744015.92$11,844
Jul 1995363015.24$5,532
Jun 1995732016.41$12,012
May 1995374017.56$6,567
Apr 1995386017.73$6,844
Mar 1995753016.44$12,379
Feb 1995378016.58$6,267
Jan 1995374015.92$5,954
Dec 1994755015.03$11,348
Nov 1994375015.90$5,963
Oct 1994745015.58$11,607
Sep 1994377015.29$5,764
Aug 1994384116.13$6,194
Jul 1994756117.56$13,275
Jun 1994383117.09$6,545
May 1994759115.88$12,053
Apr 1994381114.14$5,387
Mar 1994764112.46$9,519
Feb 1994377112.50$4,713
Jan 1994770112.66$9,748
Dec 1993385112.33$4,747
Nov 1993384114.49$5,564
Oct 1993765115.85$12,125
Sep 1993761115.03$11,438
Aug 1993381115.66$5,966
Jul 1993759115.46$11,734
Jun 1993757116.79$12,710
May 1993760117.68$13,437
Apr 1993385118.05$6,949
Mar 19931,165118.14$21,133
Feb 1993766117.90$13,711
Jan 1993772116.93$13,070

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.

Jun 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   96 bbl  × $ 36.10 =     $3,466
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.43 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,466

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/13089 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.