WILPITZ, ERNEST A.

Operated by LAYLINE PETROLEUM I, LLC (P-5 491375) 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 24118District 03Field 12306001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.5 M
Oct 2001 – Jul 2009
Value, last 12 filed months
$19 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
94
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
OilDisposition28,261 bbl$1,337,260
Casinghead gasProduction32,757 Mcf$115,091
Total$1,452,351

Wells on this lease (3)

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 29.7741, -96.0110. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

29.77426, -96.01079 · 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%
3 of 3 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
3 of 3 wells
Median depth
3,160 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
19 months
median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
3100.0%
A plug date is filed
3100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
3100.0%
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 3,160 and 3,241 ft, median 3,160 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Oct 2001 – Nov 2007
3 of 3 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2003 – Jan 2009
3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 19 months across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 10 months and 3.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-4733079633,160 ftNov 2007Dec 2007Yes
42-4733090443,160 ftSep 2004Jan 2009Yes
42-4733068713,241 ftOct 2001May 2003Yes

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 (94)

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

94 months

Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20090042.144.06$0
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 2009103035.865.37$3,694
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 20081520101.767.88$15,468
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 20081560131.0811.39$20,448
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 20081530123.1711.57$18,845
Apr 20081570110.3110.45$17,319
Mar 20081580101.909.66$16,100
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 2008165090.388.21$14,913
Dec 2007159088.337.30$14,044
Nov 2007157091.677.29$14,392
Oct 2007315082.856.92$26,098
Sep 2007158075.846.24$11,983
Aug 2007303069.066.39$20,925
Jul 2007161070.906.39$11,415
Jun 2007307062.007.55$19,034
May 2007159058.747.85$9,340
Apr 2007317059.617.81$18,896
Mar 2007157056.927.30$8,936
Feb 2007312055.108.22$17,191
Jan 2007155050.306.73$7,797
Dec 2006317056.656.92$17,958
Nov 2006312054.207.62$16,910
Oct 2006309054.906.01$16,964
Sep 2006313060.085.04$18,805
Aug 2006465068.717.34$31,950
Jul 2006314069.376.34$21,782
Jun 2006480066.286.38$31,814
May 2006791066.016.42$52,214
Apr 2006469064.397.36$30,199
Mar 2006629056.707.08$35,664
Feb 2006472057.597.75$27,182
Jan 2006624060.598.93$37,808
Dec 20051,118054.9413.42$61,423
Nov 20051,728054.6910.59$94,504
Oct 20052,215058.3413.80$129,223
Sep 2005157061.4512.08$9,648
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 2005309055.697.84$17,208
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 2005154045.226.65$6,964
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 2005313050.377.15$15,766
Feb 2005155045.226.31$7,009
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 2004623039.866.75$24,833
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 2004155043.245.28$6,702
Aug 2004153042.375.55$6,483
Jul 2004154038.286.08$5,895
Jun 2004189036.106.43$6,823
May 2004326037.486.49$12,218
Apr 2004310034.475.86$10,686
Mar 2004153034.365.53$5,257
Feb 2004151032.455.51$4,900
Jan 2004317032.036.30$10,154
Dec 20031030.266.30$30
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 2003619028.174.76$17,437
Sep 2003454026.314.75$11,945
Aug 2003309029.765.13$9,196
Jul 20031,067029.415.17$31,380
Jun 2003927028.565.98$26,475
May 20031,512026.595.97$40,204
Apr 20032,710026.675.41$72,276
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 2003164030.315.58$4,971
Dec 200201,89026.914.85$9,174
Nov 200201,13224.664.14$4,683
Oct 2002070526.464.23$2,982
Sep 2002043527.443.64$1,581
Aug 20021511225.963.16$3,958
Jul 200231213824.583.06$8,091
Jun 20024624,66623.733.34$26,539
May 200245914,84024.663.58$64,506
Apr 20023152,37923.653.51$15,806
Mar 20029204,82522.003.10$35,211
Feb 200201,73518.222.38$4,122
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$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.

Jan 2009 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  103 bbl  × $ 35.86 =     $3,694
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.37 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,694

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/24118 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.