TARVER, WILLIE LEE UNIT "B"

Operated by APACHE CORPORATION (P-5 27200) 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 15104District 03Field 14710500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$232 k
Jan 1993 – Jul 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$371
at the published price for each month
Months reported
139
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
NGPA1none

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
OilDisposition10,028 bbl$186,564
Casinghead gasProduction28,124 Mcf$45,000
Total$231,564

16,535 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 35 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 30.5673, -96.5659. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.56729, -96.56593 · 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
8,275 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
11.0 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 8,275 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 1993
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 2004
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 11.0 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 11.0 years and 11.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-0513208318,275 ftJun 1993Jun 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 (139)

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

139 months

Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
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 20030428.174.76$19
Sep 200303326.314.75$157
Aug 200303829.765.13$195
Jul 200304129.415.17$212
Jun 200307228.565.98$431
May 200304126.595.97$245
Apr 200305326.675.41$287
Mar 200304631.146.10$280
Feb 200304933.487.93$388
Jan 2003556530.315.58$2,030
Dec 200206326.914.85$306
Nov 200205424.664.14$223
Oct 200206826.464.23$288
Sep 200205727.443.64$207
Aug 2002010925.963.16$345
Jul 20021758124.583.06$4,550
Jun 2002010623.733.34$354
May 200209424.663.58$337
Apr 200209623.653.51$337
Mar 20021729222.003.10$4,069
Feb 2002111218.222.38$284
Jan 2002110817.172.38$274
Dec 200114610016.932.36$2,708
Nov 200109718.072.41$233
Oct 200107119.782.53$180
Sep 20011723924.262.25$4,261
Aug 200103324.873.05$101
Jul 200101723.933.20$54
Jun 20011776224.563.82$4,584
May 2001211725.524.31$555
Apr 200117013524.685.34$4,916
Mar 2001125324.545.38$1,385
Feb 200116427127.755.77$6,114
Jan 2001039627.478.40$3,326
Dec 200018816626.889.12$6,568
Nov 2000036432.215.66$2,060
Oct 200018761831.235.15$9,020
Sep 2000035931.875.19$1,862
Aug 2000253029.644.54$2,466
Jul 200016289828.534.09$8,294
Jun 200019473829.304.40$8,929
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 19989209.201.77$846
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 199705216.322.41$125
Nov 199718140218.193.09$4,534
Oct 1997025719.253.15$810
Sep 1997035517.742.95$1,049
Aug 199716427817.862.55$3,639
Jul 1997150217.582.25$1,146
Jun 199717346217.242.26$4,025
May 1997143918.972.31$1,032
Apr 1997047517.882.08$989
Mar 199717348618.951.94$4,221
Feb 1997048120.492.21$1,061
Jan 199717365423.483.54$6,377
Dec 1996039423.32$0
Nov 199618457621.97$4,042
Oct 199615863523.31$3,683
Sep 1996031622.22$0
Aug 1996036820.26$0
Jul 199617937219.55$3,499
Jun 199617856018.73$3,334
May 1996032119.43$0
Apr 199617817821.51$3,829
Mar 1996030819.38$0
Feb 199615753516.98$2,666
Jan 199617742617.07$3,021
Dec 199516949717.19$2,905
Nov 199517834316.00$2,848
Oct 199517192015.43$2,639
Sep 199534450916.18$5,566
Aug 199517936915.92$2,850
Jul 199533361915.24$5,075
Jun 199518251716.41$2,987
May 199517379117.56$3,038
Apr 199535255717.73$6,241
Mar 199517942216.44$2,943
Feb 199554650616.58$9,053
Jan 199567545015.92$10,746
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19940015.29$0
Aug 19940016.13$0
Jul 19940017.56$0
Jun 19942117.09$34
May 19940015.88$0
Apr 19944114.14$57
Mar 19947112.46$87
Feb 199410112.50$125
Jan 19940412.66$0
Dec 19932112.33$25
Nov 19930014.49$0
Oct 199336057415.85$5,706
Sep 199335990515.03$5,396
Aug 19937121,60615.66$11,150
Jul 19939531,81615.46$14,733
Jun 1993013616.79$0
May 19930017.68$0
Apr 19930018.05$0
Mar 19930018.14$0
Feb 19930017.90$0
Jan 19930016.93$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.

Oct 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    0 bbl  × $ 28.17 =         $0
Casinghead gas         4 Mcf  × $  4.76 =        $19

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Month total                                      $19

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/15104 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.