THE SUPERIOR OIL CO. FEE

Operated by ALTA MESA SERVICES, LP (P-5 15721) in the GILLOCK (EAST SEGMENT) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 1649District 03Field 34925111OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.6 M
Jan 1993 – Aug 2015
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
272
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 12 leases and 43 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1949-07-14
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres.

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
OilDisposition65,930 bbl$1,593,379
Casinghead gasProduction22 Mcf$0
Total$1,593,379

22 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 22 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 (12)

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 29.4308, -94.9489. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.2 miles.

29.43116, -94.94765 · 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%
12 of 12 wells
With a plug date
83.3%
10 of 12 wells
Median depth
9,441 ft
11 wells filed one
Completion to plug
43.3 years
median over 7 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
12100.0%
A plug date is filed
1083.3%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1083.3%
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

Total depth in feet, 11 of 12 wells. Median 9,441 ft, with the middle half between 9,103 and 10,316 ft; the shallowest is 9,000 ft and the deepest 11,107 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 7 of 12 wells, Dec 1969 – Oct 1987. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Dec 1969 – Oct 1987
7 of 12 wells; 5 filed none
Plug dates filed
Dec 1993 – Jul 2015
10 of 12 wells; 2 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 43.3 years across the 7 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 32.7 years and 43.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

12 wells

42-1670097319,055 ftMay 2015Yes
42-1670097659,502 ftDec 1993Yes
42-1670097989,150 ftMay 2015Yes
42-16730073149,000 ftYes
42-167803326Yes
42-1673113418R10,962 ftOct 1987May 2015Yes
42-1673003110S9,249 ftMar 1987Apr 2015Yes
42-1670097429,441 ftApr 1978Jun 2015Yes
42-1673006111F9,020 ftFeb 1972May 2015Yes
42-1670097879,670 ftOct 1971Jul 2015Yes
42-167300521111,000 ftAug 1971May 2015Yes
42-16730023911,107 ftDec 1969May 2015Yes

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 (272)

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

272 months

Aug 20150040.162.87$0
Jul 20150048.152.95$0
Jun 20150056.152.88$0
May 20150055.212.96$0
Apr 201587049.822.71$4,334
Mar 20150042.892.93$0
Feb 20150044.662.98$0
Jan 20150043.433.10$0
Dec 20140054.693.59$0
Nov 20140070.464.25$0
Oct 20140078.303.90$0
Sep 20140086.164.05$0
Aug 20140089.394.04$0
Jul 20140096.564.18$0
Jun 20140098.164.74$0
May 20140094.734.73$0
Apr 20140095.944.81$0
Mar 20140095.895.06$0
Feb 20140097.406.19$0
Jan 20140090.404.86$0
Dec 20130091.824.35$0
Nov 20130088.853.74$0
Oct 20130097.423.78$0
Sep 201300104.113.72$0
Aug 201300104.253.52$0
Jul 201300102.523.72$0
Jun 20130094.403.93$0
May 20130094.834.15$0
Apr 20130093.964.28$0
Mar 20130093.623.91$0
Feb 20130091.233.42$0
Jan 20130091.603.42$0
Dec 20120086.773.42$0
Nov 20120086.953.62$0
Oct 20120089.383.40$0
Sep 2012163094.672.92$15,431
Aug 201261092.662.91$5,652
Jul 20120085.133.02$0
Jun 2012115079.822.52$9,179
May 20120091.612.49$0
Apr 20121710101.652.00$17,382
Mar 20121760105.052.22$18,489
Feb 20121780101.102.57$17,996
Jan 2012169098.092.73$16,577
Dec 2011175096.873.24$16,952
Nov 2011159095.723.31$15,219
Oct 2011172084.983.65$14,617
Sep 2011173083.623.99$14,466
Aug 2011170083.404.15$14,178
Jul 2011515094.144.52$48,482
Jun 20110092.904.64$0
May 20110098.134.40$0
Apr 201100105.964.33$0
Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 2010178085.734.35$15,260
Nov 2010180080.843.80$14,551
Oct 2010174078.103.51$13,589
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 2010176073.684.42$12,968
Jul 20100072.554.74$0
Jun 2010176070.364.91$12,383
May 2010175071.124.24$12,446
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 20100078.394.39$0
Feb 20100073.585.44$0
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 2009170061.133.46$10,392
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20091042.144.06$42
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 20081790101.909.66$18,240
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 2007179075.846.24$13,575
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 2007356058.747.85$20,911
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 2007178056.927.30$10,132
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 2006181056.656.92$10,254
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 2006174060.085.04$10,454
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 2006172066.286.38$11,400
May 2006180066.016.42$11,882
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 2006174057.597.75$10,021
Jan 2006179060.598.93$10,846
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 2005129061.4512.08$7,927
Aug 2005177061.519.80$10,887
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 2005176052.337.38$9,210
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 2005138049.207.36$6,790
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 2005308045.226.31$13,928
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
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 20040036.106.43$0
May 2004144037.486.49$5,397
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 2004181034.365.53$6,219
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 2003175030.266.30$5,296
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 2003181028.174.76$5,099
Sep 2003179026.314.75$4,709
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 2003179029.415.17$5,264
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 2003168026.595.97$4,467
Apr 2003182026.675.41$4,854
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 2003181033.487.93$6,060
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 2002287026.464.23$7,594
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 2002178025.963.16$4,621
Jul 2002179024.583.06$4,400
Jun 2002180023.733.34$4,271
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 2002361023.653.51$8,538
Mar 2002174022.003.10$3,828
Feb 2002182018.222.38$3,316
Jan 2002183017.172.38$3,142
Dec 2001330016.932.36$5,587
Nov 2001157018.072.41$2,837
Oct 2001128019.782.53$2,532
Sep 2001360024.262.25$8,734
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 2001355023.933.20$8,495
Jun 2001174024.563.82$4,273
May 2001176025.524.31$4,492
Apr 2001179024.685.34$4,418
Mar 2001367024.545.38$9,006
Feb 2001182027.755.77$5,051
Jan 2001528027.478.40$14,504
Dec 2000337026.889.12$9,059
Nov 2000343032.215.66$11,048
Oct 2000541031.235.15$16,895
Sep 2000529031.875.19$16,859
Aug 2000511029.644.54$15,146
Jul 2000694028.534.09$19,800
Jun 2000343029.304.40$10,050
May 2000539027.263.68$14,693
Apr 2000680024.513.12$16,667
Mar 2000722028.422.86$20,519
Feb 2000357027.622.73$9,860
Jan 2000175025.272.48$4,422
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 1999129023.192.43$2,992
Oct 1999257020.982.80$5,392
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 1999479015.942.36$7,635
May 1999178015.792.32$2,811
Apr 1999356015.102.21$5,376
Mar 1999352012.471.84$4,389
Feb 199933709.981.82$3,363
Jan 1999346010.381.90$3,591
Dec 199848809.201.77$4,490
Nov 1998539010.892.19$5,870
Oct 1998534012.421.97$6,632
Sep 1998455012.592.08$5,728
Aug 1998521011.301.91$5,887
Jul 1998715011.742.24$8,394
Jun 1998530011.242.24$5,957
May 1998672012.622.21$8,481
Apr 1998669013.042.51$8,724
Mar 1998876012.802.31$11,213
Feb 1998730013.952.30$10,184
Jan 1998696014.702.15$10,231
Dec 19971,088016.322.41$17,756
Nov 19971,031018.193.09$18,754
Oct 19971,263019.253.15$24,313
Sep 1997703017.742.95$12,471
Aug 1997893017.862.55$15,949
Jul 19971,402017.582.25$24,647
Jun 19971,247017.242.26$21,498
May 19971,223018.972.31$23,200
Apr 19971,414017.882.08$25,282
Mar 19971,576018.951.94$29,865
Feb 1997532020.492.21$10,901
Jan 1997541023.483.54$12,703
Dec 1996711023.32$16,581
Nov 1996514021.97$11,293
Oct 1996432023.31$10,070
Sep 1996351022.22$7,799
Aug 1996527020.26$10,677
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 1996704021.51$15,143
Mar 1996714019.38$13,837
Feb 1996542016.98$9,203
Jan 1996365017.07$6,231
Dec 1995353017.19$6,068
Nov 19951,069016.00$17,104
Oct 19951,056015.43$16,294
Sep 1995499016.18$8,074
Aug 19951,020015.92$16,238
Jul 1995778015.24$11,857
Jun 1995336016.41$5,514
May 1995292017.56$5,128
Apr 1995300017.73$5,319
Mar 1995134016.44$2,203
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 1994153015.90$2,433
Oct 1994166115.58$2,586
Sep 1994316115.29$4,832
Aug 1994333116.13$5,371
Jul 1994318117.56$5,584
Jun 1994561117.09$9,587
May 1994180115.88$2,858
Apr 1994969114.14$13,702
Mar 1994777112.46$9,681
Feb 1994998112.50$12,475
Jan 1994320112.66$4,051
Dec 1993833112.33$10,271
Nov 1993482114.49$6,984
Oct 1993804115.85$12,743
Sep 1993825115.03$12,400
Aug 1993829115.66$12,982
Jul 1993683115.46$10,559
Jun 1993869116.79$14,591
May 1993853117.68$15,081
Apr 1993689118.05$12,436
Mar 1993666118.14$12,081
Feb 1993706117.90$12,637
Jan 1993536116.93$9,074

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.

Apr 2015 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   87 bbl  × $ 49.82 =     $4,334
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.71 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $4,334

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/1649 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.