GRIFFITH "A"

Name: GRIFFITH "A" lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by WALTER EXPLORATION INC. (P-5 895235) in the STUART CREEK (10200 WILCOX) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 18838District 03Field 86797450OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$2.3 M

Jan 1993 – Jan 2001

Value, last 12 filed months

$735 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The STUART CREEK (10200 WILCOX) 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 3 leases and 3 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1985-07-13

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 1990-11-29.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “GRIFFITH "A" #2 WELL.”

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	59,534 bbl	$1,042,434
Casinghead gas	Production	1,197,369 Mcf	$1,247,422
Total			$2,289,856

761,291 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 29.6821, -96.3260. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.68210, -96.32602 · 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%

1 of 1 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

1 of 1 wells

Median depth

10,999 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

30.8 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 10,999 ft.

Completions filed

Jul 1985

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

May 2016

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 30.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 30.8 years and 30.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-08931585	2	10,999 ft	Jul 1985	May 2016	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 (97)

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

97 months


Jan 2001	0	0	27.47	8.40	$0
Dec 2000	0	0	26.88	9.12	$0
Nov 2000	0	0	32.21	5.66	$0
Oct 2000	120	0	31.23	5.15	$3,748
Sep 2000	919	21,419	31.87	5.19	$140,378
Aug 2000	716	20,290	29.64	4.54	$113,354
Jul 2000	733	23,569	28.53	4.09	$117,304
Jun 2000	724	20,092	29.30	4.40	$109,563
May 2000	732	18,017	27.26	3.68	$86,252
Apr 2000	559	16,128	24.51	3.12	$63,956
Mar 2000	738	15,090	28.42	2.86	$64,128
Feb 2000	369	9,540	27.62	2.73	$36,203
Jan 2000	360	9,541	25.27	2.48	$32,764
Dec 1999	740	9,358	24.28	2.42	$40,648
Nov 1999	181	7,566	23.19	2.43	$22,613
Oct 1999	354	2,254	20.98	2.80	$13,746
Sep 1999	0	8,014	21.75	2.62	$20,987
Aug 1999	188	9,192	19.26	2.88	$30,053
Jul 1999	532	8,980	17.89	2.37	$30,821
Jun 1999	180	7,861	15.94	2.36	$21,438
May 1999	357	8,203	15.79	2.32	$24,676
Apr 1999	0	863	15.10	2.21	$1,906
Mar 1999	546	8,452	12.47	1.84	$22,346
Feb 1999	356	8,809	9.98	1.82	$19,566
Jan 1999	377	9,298	10.38	1.90	$21,579
Dec 1998	0	5,045	9.20	1.77	$8,946
Nov 1998	539	9,538	10.89	2.19	$26,717
Oct 1998	708	9,809	12.42	1.97	$28,109
Sep 1998	185	10,471	12.59	2.08	$24,136
Aug 1998	351	10,892	11.30	1.91	$24,741
Jul 1998	545	11,096	11.74	2.24	$31,223
Jun 1998	0	10,500	11.24	2.24	$23,491
May 1998	382	9,075	12.62	2.21	$24,843
Apr 1998	542	9,934	13.04	2.51	$31,956
Mar 1998	0	7,230	12.80	2.31	$16,697
Feb 1998	539	9,276	13.95	2.30	$28,846
Jan 1998	750	8,482	14.70	2.15	$29,302
Dec 1997	180	9,412	16.32	2.41	$25,631
Nov 1997	374	5,218	18.19	3.09	$22,918
Oct 1997	361	6,590	19.25	3.15	$27,707
Sep 1997	346	9,496	17.74	2.95	$34,198
Aug 1997	342	10,336	17.86	2.55	$32,514
Jul 1997	535	9,491	17.58	2.25	$30,731
Jun 1997	188	8,079	17.24	2.26	$21,477
May 1997	701	9,022	18.97	2.31	$34,125
Apr 1997	192	8,389	17.88	2.08	$20,905
Mar 1997	500	5,617	18.95	1.94	$20,367
Feb 1997	0	542	20.49	2.21	$1,196
Jan 1997	0	2	23.48	3.54	$7
Dec 1996	0	2	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	37	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	187	2,070	23.31	—	$4,359
Sep 1996	536	15,343	22.22	—	$11,910
Aug 1996	892	17,896	20.26	—	$18,072
Jul 1996	885	20,034	19.55	—	$17,302
Jun 1996	735	18,504	18.73	—	$13,767
May 1996	545	9,272	19.43	—	$10,589
Apr 1996	720	15,714	21.51	—	$15,487
Mar 1996	548	15,915	19.38	—	$10,620
Feb 1996	739	15,217	16.98	—	$12,548
Jan 1996	566	9,353	17.07	—	$9,662
Dec 1995	749	17,413	17.19	—	$12,875
Nov 1995	1,091	16,070	16.00	—	$17,456
Oct 1995	550	14,709	15.43	—	$8,487
Sep 1995	375	6,274	16.18	—	$6,068
Aug 1995	703	16,781	15.92	—	$11,192
Jul 1995	903	17,164	15.24	—	$13,762
Jun 1995	704	17,716	16.41	—	$11,553
May 1995	724	18,552	17.56	—	$12,713
Apr 1995	938	16,618	17.73	—	$16,631
Mar 1995	1,099	18,936	16.44	—	$18,068
Feb 1995	949	16,243	16.58	—	$15,734
Jan 1995	895	17,229	15.92	—	$14,248
Dec 1994	1,272	19,399	15.03	—	$19,118
Nov 1994	1,259	20,280	15.90	—	$20,018
Oct 1994	776	17,293	15.58	—	$12,090
Sep 1994	572	16,789	15.29	—	$8,746
Aug 1994	1,155	16,045	16.13	—	$18,630
Jul 1994	378	14,782	17.56	—	$6,638
Jun 1994	970	14,370	17.09	—	$16,577
May 1994	977	15,610	15.88	—	$15,515
Apr 1994	772	15,839	14.14	—	$10,916
Mar 1994	1,183	16,024	12.46	—	$14,740
Feb 1994	777	14,945	12.50	—	$9,713
Jan 1994	974	14,601	12.66	—	$12,331
Dec 1993	1,338	17,952	12.33	—	$16,498
Nov 1993	1,200	18,439	14.49	—	$17,388
Oct 1993	989	19,526	15.85	—	$15,676
Sep 1993	1,197	19,012	15.03	—	$17,991
Aug 1993	979	20,081	15.66	—	$15,331
Jul 1993	1,195	20,496	15.46	—	$18,475
Jun 1993	1,359	19,887	16.79	—	$22,818
May 1993	1,168	19,556	17.68	—	$20,650
Apr 1993	986	18,627	18.05	—	$17,797
Mar 1993	1,400	20,185	18.14	—	$25,396
Feb 1993	1,179	18,375	17.90	—	$21,104
Jan 1993	1,405	20,116	16.93	—	$23,787

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 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  120 bbl  × $ 31.23 =     $3,748
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.15 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,748

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/18838 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.