SMITH, HOUSTON

Operated by TEXAS AMERICAN RESOURCES COMPANY (P-5 844344) in the GOOSE CREEK field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 1763District 03Field 35862001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$200 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 2006
Value, last 12 filed months
$6 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
166
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 141 leases and 588 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1906-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
0 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 0 acres. The field rule took effect on 2011-08-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: SUSPENDEDAND ALL OVERPRODUCTION CANCELLED.

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
OilDisposition11,510 bbl$200,493
Casinghead gasProduction27 Mcf$0
Total$200,493

27 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 27 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 29.7055, -94.9729. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

29.70553, -94.97310 · 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
3,031 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
38.5 years
median over 1 well

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 2,484 and 3,651 ft, median 3,031 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Feb 1967
1 of 3 wells; 2 filed none
Plug dates filed
May 2002 – Aug 2005
3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 38.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 38.5 years and 38.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-2010739812,484 ftAug 2005Yes
42-2010740283,031 ftMay 2002Yes
42-2010740693,651 ftFeb 1967Aug 2005Yes

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 (166)

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

166 months

Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 200688064.397.36$5,666
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
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 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 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 2002138024.663.58$3,403
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 2002152018.222.38$2,769
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
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 200047031.235.15$1,468
Sep 200036031.875.19$1,147
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 200058024.513.12$1,422
Mar 200093028.422.86$2,643
Feb 2000103027.622.73$2,845
Jan 2000257025.272.48$6,494
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 199970023.192.43$1,623
Oct 1999178020.982.80$3,734
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 1999176019.262.88$3,390
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 1999179015.792.32$2,826
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 1999169012.471.84$2,107
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 1999174010.381.90$1,806
Dec 199817609.201.77$1,619
Nov 1998168010.892.19$1,830
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 1998169011.242.24$1,900
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 1998175013.042.51$2,282
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 1998175013.952.30$2,441
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 1997162016.322.41$2,644
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 1997155019.253.15$2,984
Sep 1997161017.742.95$2,856
Aug 1997155017.862.55$2,768
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 1997168017.242.26$2,896
May 1997164018.972.31$3,111
Apr 1997163017.882.08$2,914
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 1997161020.492.21$3,299
Jan 1997169023.483.54$3,968
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 1996177021.97$3,889
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 1996165019.55$3,226
Jun 1996324018.73$6,069
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 1996326021.51$7,012
Mar 1996151019.38$2,926
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 1996130017.07$2,219
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 1995150016.00$2,400
Oct 1995150015.43$2,315
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 1995160015.92$2,547
Jul 1995147015.24$2,240
Jun 1995142016.41$2,330
May 1995171017.56$3,003
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 19950116.44$0
Feb 1995146116.58$2,421
Jan 1995328115.92$5,222
Dec 1994166115.03$2,495
Nov 1994163115.90$2,592
Oct 1994172115.58$2,680
Sep 1994176115.29$2,691
Aug 1994206116.13$3,323
Jul 1994211117.56$3,705
Jun 1994187117.09$3,196
May 1994199115.88$3,160
Apr 1994176114.14$2,489
Mar 1994192112.46$2,392
Feb 1994204112.50$2,550
Jan 1994205112.66$2,595
Dec 1993201112.33$2,478
Nov 1993195114.49$2,826
Oct 1993174115.85$2,758
Sep 1993221115.03$3,322
Aug 1993184115.66$2,881
Jul 1993194115.46$2,999
Jun 1993207116.79$3,476
May 1993184117.68$3,253
Apr 1993194118.05$3,502
Mar 1993180118.14$3,265
Feb 1993204117.90$3,652
Jan 1993209116.93$3,538

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 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   88 bbl  × $ 64.39 =     $5,666
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  7.36 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $5,666

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/1763 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.