RIETZ

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

Operated by DEL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (P-5 213090) in the CISTERN field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 20772District 03Field 18322001OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$164 k

Jan 1993 – Mar 2008

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

183

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The CISTERN 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 13 leases and 17 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1943-09-20

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

660 ft

minimum

From a lease line

330 ft

minimum

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

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “SAND (2875')”

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	8,744 bbl	$164,231
Casinghead gas	Production	83 Mcf	$133
Total			$164,364

45 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 45 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 29.8236, -97.2151. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.82357, -97.21507 · 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

2,750 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

13.3 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 2,750 ft.

Completions filed

Aug 1990

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Nov 2003

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 13.3 years and 13.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-14932402	4	2,750 ft	Aug 1990	Nov 2003	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 (183)

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

183 months


Mar 2008	0	0	101.90	9.66	$0
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	0	0	90.38	8.21	$0
Dec 2007	0	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	0	0	91.67	7.29	$0
Oct 2007	0	0	82.85	6.92	$0
Sep 2007	0	0	75.84	6.24	$0
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	0	0	70.90	6.39	$0
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	0	0	58.74	7.85	$0
Apr 2007	0	0	59.61	7.81	$0
Mar 2007	0	0	56.92	7.30	$0
Feb 2007	0	0	55.10	8.22	$0
Jan 2007	0	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	0	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	0	0	54.20	7.62	$0
Oct 2006	0	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	0	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	0	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	0	0	66.28	6.38	$0
May 2006	0	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	0	0	64.39	7.36	$0
Mar 2006	0	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	0	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	0	0	60.59	8.93	$0
Dec 2005	0	0	54.94	13.42	$0
Nov 2005	0	0	54.69	10.59	$0
Oct 2005	0	0	58.34	13.80	$0
Sep 2005	0	0	61.45	12.08	$0
Aug 2005	0	0	61.51	9.80	$0
Jul 2005	0	0	55.69	7.84	$0
Jun 2005	0	0	52.33	7.38	$0
May 2005	0	0	45.22	6.65	$0
Apr 2005	0	0	49.20	7.36	$0
Mar 2005	0	0	50.37	7.15	$0
Feb 2005	0	0	45.22	6.31	$0
Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	0	0	39.86	6.75	$0
Nov 2004	0	0	45.28	6.33	$0
Oct 2004	0	0	49.70	6.52	$0
Sep 2004	0	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	0	0	42.37	5.55	$0
Jul 2004	0	0	38.28	6.08	$0
Jun 2004	0	0	36.10	6.43	$0
May 2004	0	0	37.48	6.49	$0
Apr 2004	0	0	34.47	5.86	$0
Mar 2004	0	0	34.36	5.53	$0
Feb 2004	0	0	32.45	5.51	$0
Jan 2004	0	0	32.03	6.30	$0
Dec 2003	0	0	30.26	6.30	$0
Nov 2003	173	0	28.80	4.60	$4,982
Oct 2003	0	0	28.17	4.76	$0
Sep 2003	0	0	26.31	4.75	$0
Aug 2003	0	0	29.76	5.13	$0
Jul 2003	0	0	29.41	5.17	$0
Jun 2003	0	1	28.56	5.98	$6
May 2003	161	1	26.59	5.97	$4,287
Apr 2003	0	1	26.67	5.41	$5
Mar 2003	0	1	31.14	6.10	$6
Feb 2003	0	1	33.48	7.93	$8
Jan 2003	0	1	30.31	5.58	$6
Dec 2002	193	1	26.91	4.85	$5,198
Nov 2002	0	0	24.66	4.14	$0
Oct 2002	0	0	26.46	4.23	$0
Sep 2002	0	0	27.44	3.64	$0
Aug 2002	0	1	25.96	3.16	$3
Jul 2002	174	0	24.58	3.06	$4,277
Jun 2002	0	0	23.73	3.34	$0
May 2002	0	1	24.66	3.58	$4
Apr 2002	160	0	23.65	3.51	$3,784
Mar 2002	0	0	22.00	3.10	$0
Feb 2002	0	0	18.22	2.38	$0
Jan 2002	0	1	17.17	2.38	$2
Dec 2001	0	0	16.93	2.36	$0
Nov 2001	162	0	18.07	2.41	$2,927
Oct 2001	0	1	19.78	2.53	$3
Sep 2001	0	0	24.26	2.25	$0
Aug 2001	0	0	24.87	3.05	$0
Jul 2001	141	1	23.93	3.20	$3,377
Jun 2001	0	0	24.56	3.82	$0
May 2001	0	1	25.52	4.31	$4
Apr 2001	166	1	24.68	5.34	$4,102
Mar 2001	0	0	24.54	5.38	$0
Feb 2001	174	0	27.75	5.77	$4,829
Jan 2001	0	0	27.47	8.40	$0
Dec 2000	0	1	26.88	9.12	$9
Nov 2000	0	0	32.21	5.66	$0
Oct 2000	0	0	31.23	5.15	$0
Sep 2000	149	0	31.87	5.19	$4,749
Aug 2000	0	0	29.64	4.54	$0
Jul 2000	0	0	28.53	4.09	$0
Jun 2000	162	0	29.30	4.40	$4,747
May 2000	0	1	27.26	3.68	$4
Apr 2000	0	0	24.51	3.12	$0
Mar 2000	164	1	28.42	2.86	$4,664
Feb 2000	0	1	27.62	2.73	$3
Jan 2000	153	1	25.27	2.48	$3,869
Dec 1999	0	0	24.28	2.42	$0
Nov 1999	0	0	23.19	2.43	$0
Oct 1999	0	0	20.98	2.80	$0
Sep 1999	150	1	21.75	2.62	$3,265
Aug 1999	0	1	19.26	2.88	$3
Jul 1999	169	0	17.89	2.37	$3,023
Jun 1999	0	0	15.94	2.36	$0
May 1999	0	1	15.79	2.32	$2
Apr 1999	0	1	15.10	2.21	$2
Mar 1999	165	0	12.47	1.84	$2,058
Feb 1999	0	1	9.98	1.82	$2
Jan 1999	0	0	10.38	1.90	$0
Dec 1998	167	1	9.20	1.77	$1,538
Nov 1998	0	1	10.89	2.19	$2
Oct 1998	0	1	12.42	1.97	$2
Sep 1998	171	0	12.59	2.08	$2,153
Aug 1998	0	1	11.30	1.91	$2
Jul 1998	0	0	11.74	2.24	$0
Jun 1998	166	0	11.24	2.24	$1,866
May 1998	160	0	12.62	2.21	$2,019
Apr 1998	0	0	13.04	2.51	$0
Mar 1998	0	0	12.80	2.31	$0
Feb 1998	0	0	13.95	2.30	$0
Jan 1998	130	1	14.70	2.15	$1,913
Dec 1997	0	0	16.32	2.41	$0
Nov 1997	0	1	18.19	3.09	$3
Oct 1997	0	1	19.25	3.15	$3
Sep 1997	163	1	17.74	2.95	$2,895
Aug 1997	0	0	17.86	2.55	$0
Jul 1997	168	1	17.58	2.25	$2,956
Jun 1997	0	0	17.24	2.26	$0
May 1997	0	1	18.97	2.31	$2
Apr 1997	166	1	17.88	2.08	$2,970
Mar 1997	172	1	18.95	1.94	$3,261
Feb 1997	0	1	20.49	2.21	$2
Jan 1997	0	1	23.48	3.54	$4
Dec 1996	170	1	23.32	—	$3,964
Nov 1996	0	1	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	163	1	23.31	—	$3,800
Sep 1996	0	1	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	1	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	153	1	19.55	—	$2,991
Jun 1996	0	1	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	158	1	19.43	—	$3,070
Apr 1996	0	1	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	159	1	19.38	—	$3,081
Feb 1996	0	1	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	158	1	17.07	—	$2,697
Dec 1995	161	1	17.19	—	$2,768
Nov 1995	0	1	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	160	1	15.43	—	$2,469
Sep 1995	164	1	16.18	—	$2,654
Aug 1995	0	1	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	161	1	15.24	—	$2,454
Jun 1995	0	0	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	164	0	17.56	—	$2,880
Apr 1995	0	1	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	167	0	16.44	—	$2,745
Feb 1995	153	1	16.58	—	$2,537
Jan 1995	164	1	15.92	—	$2,611
Dec 1994	0	1	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	163	1	15.90	—	$2,592
Oct 1994	0	1	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	156	1	15.29	—	$2,385
Aug 1994	0	1	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	160	1	17.56	—	$2,810
Jun 1994	167	1	17.09	—	$2,854
May 1994	0	1	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	164	1	14.14	—	$2,319
Mar 1994	0	1	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	157	1	12.50	—	$1,963
Jan 1994	167	1	12.66	—	$2,114
Dec 1993	154	1	12.33	—	$1,899
Nov 1993	0	1	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	169	1	15.85	—	$2,679
Sep 1993	160	1	15.03	—	$2,405
Aug 1993	0	1	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	162	1	15.46	—	$2,505
Jun 1993	0	1	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	161	1	17.68	—	$2,846
Apr 1993	160	1	18.05	—	$2,888
Mar 1993	151	1	18.14	—	$2,739
Feb 1993	159	1	17.90	—	$2,846
Jan 1993	0	1	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.

Nov 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  173 bbl  × $ 28.80 =     $4,982
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.60 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $4,982

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/20772 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.