VANDEVENTER, MARTHA

Operated by J & L PARTNERS (P-5 427664) in the LIBERTY, SOUTH field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 2652District 03Field 53498001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$155 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
128
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 other leases, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1925-12-31
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 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: THIS IS A PIERCEMENT 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
OilDisposition9,704 bbl$155,374
Casinghead gasProduction36 Mcf$0
Total$155,374

36 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 36 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 (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 30.0091, -94.8001. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.00909, -94.80009 · 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
3,654 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
16.2 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 3,650 and 3,657 ft, median 3,654 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jun 1985
1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none
Plug dates filed
Aug 2001
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16.2 years and 16.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-2910359943,657 ftAug 2001Yes
42-2910359823,650 ftJun 1985Aug 2001Yes

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 (128)

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

128 months

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 200136024.873.05$895
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 1999168017.892.37$3,006
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 1999161012.471.84$2,008
Feb 199917009.981.82$1,697
Jan 1999162010.381.90$1,682
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 1998179012.421.97$2,223
Sep 1998178012.592.08$2,241
Aug 1998171011.301.91$1,932
Jul 1998155011.742.24$1,820
Jun 1998169011.242.24$1,900
May 1998168012.622.21$2,120
Apr 1998166013.042.51$2,165
Mar 1998162012.802.31$2,074
Feb 1998161013.952.30$2,246
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 1997149016.322.41$2,432
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 1997161019.253.15$3,099
Sep 1997161017.742.95$2,856
Aug 1997161017.862.55$2,875
Jul 1997166017.582.25$2,918
Jun 1997172017.242.26$2,965
May 1997172018.972.31$3,263
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 1996171023.32$3,988
Nov 1996162021.97$3,559
Oct 1996175023.31$4,079
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 1996164020.26$3,323
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 1996165019.43$3,206
Apr 1996154021.51$3,313
Mar 1996178019.38$3,450
Feb 1996161016.98$2,734
Jan 1996170017.07$2,902
Dec 19950117.19$0
Nov 1995161116.00$2,576
Oct 1995177115.43$2,731
Sep 1995160116.18$2,589
Aug 1995161115.92$2,563
Jul 1995183115.24$2,789
Jun 19950116.41$0
May 1995156117.56$2,739
Apr 1995336117.73$5,957
Mar 19950116.44$0
Feb 1995155116.58$2,570
Jan 19950115.92$0
Dec 1994148115.03$2,224
Nov 1994184115.90$2,926
Oct 19940115.58$0
Sep 1994168115.29$2,569
Aug 1994162116.13$2,613
Jul 1994164117.56$2,880
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 1994147115.88$2,334
Apr 1994182114.14$2,573
Mar 1994183112.46$2,280
Feb 1994177112.50$2,213
Jan 1994157112.66$1,988
Dec 1993187112.33$2,306
Nov 1993176114.49$2,550
Oct 1993168115.85$2,663
Sep 1993177115.03$2,660
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 1993164115.46$2,535
Jun 1993165116.79$2,770
May 1993168117.68$2,970
Apr 1993167118.05$3,014
Mar 1993166118.14$3,011
Feb 1993157117.90$2,810
Jan 19930116.93$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.

Aug 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   36 bbl  × $ 24.87 =       $895
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.05 =         $0

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Month total                                     $895

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/2652 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.