CALDWELL, J. H.

Operated by BLS RESOURCES, INC. (P-5 76389) in the JULIFF (CALDWELL SAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 2530District 03Field 47625332OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$148 k
Jan 1993 – Nov 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
59
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 1 leases and 1 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1955-06-26
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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
OilDisposition8,555 bbl$147,937
Casinghead gasProduction25 Mcf$0
Total$147,937

25 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 25 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 29.4244, -95.4863. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.42435, -95.48627 · 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
8,286 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
15.1 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 8,286 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 1997
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2012
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.1 years and 15.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-0390137218,286 ftFeb 1997Mar 2012Yes

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 (59)

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

59 months

Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 199785020.492.21$1,742
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 199682023.32$1,912
Nov 1996264021.97$5,800
Oct 1996119023.31$2,774
Sep 1996127022.22$2,822
Aug 1996274020.26$5,551
Jul 1996200019.55$3,910
Jun 1996167018.73$3,128
May 1996332019.43$6,451
Apr 1996327021.51$7,034
Mar 1996120019.38$2,326
Feb 1996238016.98$4,041
Jan 1996291017.07$4,967
Dec 1995313017.19$5,380
Nov 1995455016.00$7,280
Oct 1995132015.43$2,037
Sep 1995309016.18$5,000
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 1995152015.24$2,316
Jun 1995459016.41$7,532
May 199572017.56$1,264
Apr 199575017.73$1,330
Mar 1995102016.44$1,677
Feb 1995113016.58$1,874
Jan 1995109115.92$1,735
Dec 1994266115.03$3,998
Nov 199495115.90$1,511
Oct 1994109115.58$1,698
Sep 1994102115.29$1,560
Aug 1994112116.13$1,807
Jul 1994256117.56$4,495
Jun 199475117.09$1,282
May 1994233115.88$3,700
Apr 199450114.14$707
Mar 1994177112.46$2,205
Feb 199456112.50$700
Jan 1994117112.66$1,481
Dec 199383112.33$1,023
Nov 199383114.49$1,203
Oct 1993291115.85$4,612
Sep 199381115.03$1,217
Aug 1993107115.66$1,676
Jul 1993204115.46$3,154
Jun 1993272116.79$4,567
May 199390117.68$1,591
Apr 1993229118.05$4,133
Mar 1993244118.14$4,426
Feb 1993131117.90$2,345
Jan 1993175116.93$2,963

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.

Feb 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   85 bbl  × $ 20.49 =     $1,742
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.21 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,742

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/2530 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.