TARVER-HARDIN -B-

Operated by RADCO OPERATIONS (P-5 687779) in the SOUR LAKE field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 3895District 03Field 84693001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$35 k
Jan 1993 – Jul 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$6 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
91
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 257 leases and 1,323 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1902-01-01
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: PER ORDER 3-20072 EFF 1-22-51, AMENDED RULE 2

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
OilDisposition2,035 bbl$34,907
Casinghead gasProduction20 Mcf$0
Total$34,907

20 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 20 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 (14)

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 30.1591, -94.4280. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

30.15962, -94.42860 · 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
92.9%
13 of 14 wells
With a plug date
64.3%
9 of 14 wells
Median depth
2,273 ft
10 wells filed one
Completion to plug
5.8 years
median over 5 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1392.9%
A plug date is filed
964.3%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
964.3%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
17.1%

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

Total depth in feet, 10 of 14 wells. Median 2,273 ft, with the middle half between 2,236 and 2,336 ft; the shallowest is 2,154 ft and the deepest 2,615 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 6 of 14 wells, Jun 1963 – Dec 1985. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Jun 1963 – Dec 1985
6 of 14 wells; 8 filed none
Plug dates filed
Oct 1972 – Nov 1994
9 of 14 wells; 5 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 5.8 years across the 5 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 4.2 years and 8.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

14 wells

42-199026831Yes
42-199026842Yes
42-1990268532,424 ftOct 1972Yes
42-1990268642,299 ftOct 1972Yes
42-1990268752,230 ftMay 1984Yes
42-1990268862,348 ftSep 1985Yes
42-199026908Yes
42-1990323210Yes
42-19932312182,172 ftDec 1985Nov 1994Yes
42-19932144172,154 ftAug 1984Jun 1988Yes
42-19931608142,615 ftJul 1981Sep 1985Yes
42-1990268972,286 ftSep 1978Jun 1984Yes
42-19930822122,254 ftFeb 1977
42-1990269192,259 ftJun 1963Sep 1985Yes

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 (91)

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

91 months

Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 200045028.422.86$1,279
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 1999190023.192.43$4,406
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 19985409.201.77$497
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
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 19977020.492.21$143
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 199661023.32$1,423
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 199522015.24$335
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 199492015.90$1,463
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 19940016.13$0
Jul 19940117.56$0
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 1994148115.88$2,350
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 1994179112.66$2,266
Dec 1993118112.33$1,455
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 1993238115.85$3,772
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 19930115.46$0
Jun 1993166116.79$2,787
May 1993474117.68$8,380
Apr 1993241118.05$4,350
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 19930117.90$0
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.

Mar 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   45 bbl  × $ 28.42 =     $1,279
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.86 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,279

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/3895 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.