KNAPE

Operated by MCGOWAN WORKING PARTNERS (P-5 549832) in the WALK MAN (FRIO 8000) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 20781District 03Field 94740390OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.1 M
Jan 1993 – Jul 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$67 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
55
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 2 leases and 2 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1989-05-25
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
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 1994-06-27.

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
OilDisposition64,287 bbl$1,073,314
Casinghead gasProduction39,604 Mcf$0
Total$1,073,314

39,604 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 42 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 29.3820, -95.2861. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.38196, -95.28605 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
10,200 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
14.8 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 10,200 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 2002
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 2017
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.8 years and 14.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-03932324110,200 ftApr 2002Jan 2017Yes

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 (55)

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

55 months

Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 1997107018.972.31$2,030
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 1997181018.951.94$3,430
Feb 1997372020.492.21$7,622
Jan 1997556023.483.54$13,055
Dec 1996908023.32$21,175
Nov 1996182021.97$3,999
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 1996353022.22$7,844
Aug 1996364020.26$7,375
Jul 199647347319.55$9,247
Jun 199618414418.73$3,446
May 199605419.43$0
Apr 199636830521.51$7,916
Mar 199653357719.38$10,330
Feb 199619313216.98$3,277
Jan 199656116217.07$9,576
Dec 199537517417.19$6,446
Nov 199572717416.00$11,632
Oct 199553118615.43$8,193
Sep 199553513216.18$8,656
Aug 199572318615.92$11,510
Jul 199553618615.24$8,169
Jun 199588017416.41$14,441
May 199572416817.56$12,713
Apr 199535413217.73$6,276
Mar 19951,26054116.44$20,714
Feb 19951,47176616.58$24,389
Jan 199571524915.92$11,383
Dec 199489714415.03$13,482
Nov 19941,77450515.90$28,207
Oct 19942,79255115.58$43,499
Sep 19942,24755315.29$34,357
Aug 19943,0192,02116.13$48,696
Jul 19941,7681,61117.56$31,046
Jun 19940017.09$0
May 199419729715.88$3,128
Apr 199457784814.14$8,159
Mar 199453183712.46$6,616
Feb 199475476112.50$9,425
Jan 199453553512.66$6,773
Dec 19931,0581,84112.33$13,045
Nov 19931,3951,79014.49$20,214
Oct 19932,1532,36615.85$34,125
Sep 19932,5042,90315.03$37,635
Aug 19932,6842,30315.66$42,031
Jul 19932,8802,12815.46$44,525
Jun 19933,1231,58116.79$52,435
May 19933,6571,60617.68$64,656
Apr 19933,9971,82618.05$72,146
Mar 19934,0982,49118.14$74,338
Feb 19933,3802,06217.90$60,502
Jan 19934,1013,12916.93$69,430

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.

May 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  107 bbl  × $ 18.97 =     $2,030
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.31 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,030

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/20781 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.