LEWIS ET AL

Operated by ESCONDIDO PETROLEUM COMPANY, INC (P-5 254244) in the BROOKSHIRE field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 23867District 03Field 12306001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$340 k
Mar 2000 – Feb 2005
Value, last 12 filed months
$7 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
60
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 214 leases and 551 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1952-10-18
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 2004-03-11.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: TYPE SALT DOME.

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
OilDisposition7,422 bbl$216,392
Casinghead gasProduction33,114 Mcf$123,515
Total$339,907

Wells on this lease (2)

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 29.7526, -96.0239. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.1 miles.

29.75265, -96.02391 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
3,122 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
2.1 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
2100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2100.0%
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 2,700 and 3,543 ft, median 3,122 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Mar 2000
1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none
Plug dates filed
Apr 2002 – May 2002
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 2.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 2.1 years and 2.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-4733053933,543 ftMay 2002Yes
42-4733053012,700 ftMar 2000Apr 2002Yes

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 (60)

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

60 months

Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 2004154045.286.33$6,973
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 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
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 2001305224.545.38$7,495
Feb 20013112227.755.77$8,757
Jan 200146612527.478.40$13,851
Dec 2000017526.889.12$1,596
Nov 2000166032.215.66$5,347
Oct 200054142831.235.15$19,098
Sep 200046094631.875.19$19,567
Aug 20001,5553,10029.644.54$60,167
Jul 20001,2095,63628.534.09$57,543
Jun 20007583,51429.304.40$37,661
May 20001,4972,34627.263.68$49,441
Apr 2000016,82024.513.12$52,411
Mar 20000028.422.86$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 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  154 bbl  × $ 45.28 =     $6,973
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.33 =         $0

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Month total                                   $6,973

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/23867 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.