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Operated by SMITH BROTHERS OIL & GAS, INC. (P-5 790179) 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 13768District 03Field 14710500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$62 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
99
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

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
OilDisposition3,002 bbl$49,238
Casinghead gasProduction65,547 Mcf$12,396
Total$61,634

60,152 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 30.4740, -96.5528. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.47404, -96.55277 · 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
9,000 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
19.6 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 9,000 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 1981
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2000
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 19.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 19.6 years and 19.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-0513109719,000 ftFeb 1981Sep 2000Yes

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 (99)

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

99 months

Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 1997204017.742.95$3,619
Aug 1997043517.862.55$1,111
Jul 1997051617.582.25$1,159
Jun 1997041917.242.26$946
May 1997064518.972.31$1,489
Apr 1997050717.882.08$1,056
Mar 199701,50618.951.94$2,920
Feb 199718284320.492.21$5,589
Jan 1997052423.483.54$1,855
Dec 199601,11123.32$0
Nov 1996028121.97$0
Oct 1996042323.31$0
Sep 199601,18022.22$0
Aug 19961842,05320.26$3,728
Jul 199601,72619.55$0
Jun 199601,85018.73$0
May 1996187519.43$19
Apr 1996025321.51$0
Mar 1996028519.38$0
Feb 1996054116.98$0
Jan 199618279417.07$3,107
Dec 1995059117.19$0
Nov 1995054516.00$0
Oct 1995113615.43$15
Sep 1995032516.18$0
Aug 1995133315.92$16
Jul 199561,30015.24$91
Jun 19951852,29816.41$3,036
May 199511,52417.56$18
Apr 199501,84417.73$0
Mar 1995096816.44$0
Feb 19951912,28816.58$3,167
Jan 199562,17115.92$96
Dec 199412,69415.03$15
Nov 19941894,29915.90$3,005
Oct 1994190715.58$16
Sep 1994196115.29$15
Aug 199411,07316.13$16
Jul 19941701,06017.56$2,985
Jun 1994092117.09$0
May 199411,08515.88$16
Apr 19941881,13614.14$2,658
Mar 199401,06412.46$0
Feb 199418989912.50$2,363
Jan 199401,02412.66$0
Dec 199318597512.33$2,281
Nov 19932011,28714.49$2,912
Oct 199301,45315.85$0
Sep 199301,43815.03$0
Aug 199301,55715.66$0
Jul 19933531,44315.46$5,457
Jun 199301,41116.79$0
May 199301,55117.68$0
Apr 199301,53718.05$0
Mar 19933781,62918.14$6,857
Feb 199301,48217.90$0
Jan 199301,57116.93$0

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.

Sep 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  204 bbl  × $ 17.74 =     $3,619
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.95 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,619

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/13768 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.