VYCHOPEN "A" UNIT
Operated by SMITH BROTHERS OIL & GAS, INC. (P-5 790179) in the CALDWELL (AUSTIN CHALK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.
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 256 leases and 330 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.
A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1991-11-25.
The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “PER DOCKET 3-97101 EFF 11-25-91, PERM RULES. 80 ACRE OPT/3250 DIAG”
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 | 599 bbl | $11,900 |
| Casinghead gas | Production | 1,143 Mcf | $2,585 |
| Total | $14,485 | ||
Wells on this lease (4)
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 30.4868, -96.5812. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.9 miles.
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.
What the state filed about each well
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 8,512 and 9,160 ft, median 8,898 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.
Last completion to plug: a median of 21.1 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 20.7 years and 21.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.
4 wells
| 42-05130617 | 1 | 8,512 ft | Jun 1980 | Aug 2000 | Yes |
| 42-05130451 | 5 | 8,864 ft | Oct 1979 | Aug 2000 | Yes |
| 42-05130375 | 4 | 8,932 ft | May 1979 | Aug 2000 | Yes |
| 42-05130330 | 2 | 9,160 ft | Jun 1978 | Sep 2000 | 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 (26)
Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.
26 months
| May 2001 | 0 | 0 | 25.52 | 4.31 | $0 |
| Apr 2001 | 0 | 0 | 24.68 | 5.34 | $0 |
| Mar 2001 | 0 | 0 | 24.54 | 5.38 | $0 |
| Feb 2001 | 0 | 0 | 27.75 | 5.77 | $0 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 31.23 | 5.15 | $0 |
| Sep 2000 | 0 | 0 | 31.87 | 5.19 | $0 |
| Aug 2000 | 0 | 0 | 29.64 | 4.54 | $0 |
| Jul 2000 | 0 | 0 | 28.53 | 4.09 | $0 |
| Jun 2000 | 0 | 0 | 29.30 | 4.40 | $0 |
| May 2000 | 0 | 0 | 27.26 | 3.68 | $0 |
| Apr 2000 | 0 | 0 | 24.51 | 3.12 | $0 |
| Mar 2000 | 0 | 0 | 28.42 | 2.86 | $0 |
| Feb 2000 | 0 | 0 | 27.62 | 2.73 | $0 |
| Jan 2000 | 0 | 0 | 25.27 | 2.48 | $0 |
| Dec 1999 | 311 | 0 | 24.28 | 2.42 | $7,551 |
| Nov 1999 | 0 | 0 | 23.19 | 2.43 | $0 |
| Oct 1999 | 0 | 0 | 20.98 | 2.80 | $0 |
| Sep 1999 | 0 | 0 | 21.75 | 2.62 | $0 |
| Aug 1999 | 0 | 0 | 19.26 | 2.88 | $0 |
| Jul 1999 | 0 | 0 | 17.89 | 2.37 | $0 |
| Jun 1999 | 0 | 0 | 15.94 | 2.36 | $0 |
| May 1999 | 0 | 542 | 15.79 | 2.32 | $1,258 |
| Apr 1999 | 288 | 601 | 15.10 | 2.21 | $5,676 |
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.
Oil 311 bbl × $ 24.28 = $7,551 Casinghead gas 0 Mcf × $ 2.42 = $0 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── Month total $7,551
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/23667 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.