BROOKS, G.W. FEE

Name: BROOKS, G.W. FEE lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by MERIT ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 561136) in the SLESSINGER (WILCOX 10,000) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 15537District 03Field 84061500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$12 k

Jan 1993 – May 1998

Value, last 12 filed months

$5 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The SLESSINGER (WILCOX 10,000) field

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 10 leases and 12 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1970-01-28

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

2,640 ft

minimum

From a lease line

660 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 320 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “FIELD RULES PER ORDER 3-78,334”

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.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	1	none	—	—

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	537 bbl	$9,998
Casinghead gas	Production	1,653 Mcf	$1,553
Total			$11,551

1,038 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 44 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 30.4476, -94.1624. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.9 miles.

30.44708, -94.16085 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

33.3%

1 of 3 wells

Median depth

10,222 ft

3 wells filed one

Completion to plug

9.9 years

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

3100.0%

A plug date is filed

133.3%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

133.3%

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 10,215 and 10,354 ft, median 10,222 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Feb 1998 – Aug 2007

3 of 3 wells

Plug dates filed

Jan 2008

1 of 3 wells; 2 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 9.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.9 years and 9.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells


42-19930531	51	10,215 ft	Aug 2007	—	Yes
42-19931788	55	10,222 ft	Aug 1999	—	Yes
42-19931742	53	10,354 ft	Feb 1998	Jan 2008	Yes

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 (65)

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

65 months


May 1998	0	0	12.62	2.21	$0
Apr 1998	0	0	13.04	2.51	$0
Mar 1998	1	0	12.80	2.31	$13
Feb 1998	24	93	13.95	2.30	$549
Jan 1998	27	1	14.70	2.15	$399
Dec 1997	26	0	16.32	2.41	$424
Nov 1997	28	69	18.19	3.09	$722
Oct 1997	31	47	19.25	3.15	$745
Sep 1997	27	30	17.74	2.95	$568
Aug 1997	25	67	17.86	2.55	$618
Jul 1997	18	80	17.58	2.25	$496
Jun 1997	24	83	17.24	2.26	$601
May 1997	27	31	18.97	2.31	$584
Apr 1997	25	0	17.88	2.08	$447
Mar 1997	25	52	18.95	1.94	$575
Feb 1997	23	32	20.49	2.21	$542
Jan 1997	24	30	23.48	3.54	$670
Dec 1996	23	28	23.32	—	$536
Nov 1996	25	28	21.97	—	$549
Oct 1996	27	65	23.31	—	$629
Sep 1996	21	67	22.22	—	$467
Aug 1996	2	12	20.26	—	$41
Jul 1996	2	7	19.55	—	$39
Jun 1996	5	18	18.73	—	$94
May 1996	2	11	19.43	—	$39
Apr 1996	2	9	21.51	—	$43
Mar 1996	2	11	19.38	—	$39
Feb 1996	1	1	16.98	—	$17
Jan 1996	4	24	17.07	—	$68
Dec 1995	2	6	17.19	—	$34
Nov 1995	1	6	16.00	—	$16
Oct 1995	2	7	15.43	—	$31
Sep 1995	2	7	16.18	—	$32
Aug 1995	2	9	15.92	—	$32
Jul 1995	7	12	15.24	—	$107
Jun 1995	2	12	16.41	—	$33
May 1995	2	5	17.56	—	$35
Apr 1995	2	5	17.73	—	$35
Mar 1995	2	3	16.44	—	$33
Feb 1995	2	8	16.58	—	$33
Jan 1995	2	6	15.92	—	$32
Dec 1994	2	5	15.03	—	$30
Nov 1994	1	1	15.90	—	$16
Oct 1994	1	7	15.58	—	$16
Sep 1994	2	19	15.29	—	$31
Aug 1994	2	19	16.13	—	$32
Jul 1994	2	29	17.56	—	$35
Jun 1994	2	35	17.09	—	$34
May 1994	2	34	15.88	—	$32
Apr 1994	2	37	14.14	—	$28
Mar 1994	2	34	12.46	—	$25
Feb 1994	2	65	12.50	—	$25
Jan 1994	2	39	12.66	—	$25
Dec 1993	2	32	12.33	—	$25
Nov 1993	2	40	14.49	—	$29
Oct 1993	0	0	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	2	17	15.03	—	$30
Aug 1993	2	52	15.66	—	$31
Jul 1993	0	0	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	2	11	16.79	—	$34
May 1993	2	81	17.68	—	$35
Apr 1993	2	70	18.05	—	$36
Mar 1993	2	44	18.14	—	$36
Feb 1993	0	0	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	0	0	16.93	—	$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.

Mar 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                    1 bbl  × $ 12.80 =        $13
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.31 =         $0

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Month total                                      $13

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/15537 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.