SUGARLAND, IND. -B-

Operated by ATLAS OIL & GAS EXPLORATION, LLC (P-5 36581) in the SUGARLAND field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 4065District 03Field 86980001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$681 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$32
at the published price for each month
Months reported
106
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 13 leases and 118 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1928-12-31
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
OilDisposition31,209 bbl$537,728
Casinghead gasProduction62,466 Mcf$142,925
Total$680,653

16,873 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 40 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 29.5570, -95.5799. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.1 miles.

29.55700, -95.57991 · 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
3,820 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
8.4 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 3,720 and 3,920 ft, median 3,820 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Apr 1984
1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none
Plug dates filed
Sep 1992 – Sep 2001
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 8.4 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.4 years and 8.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-1570281063,920 ftSep 2001Yes
42-1570085813,720 ftApr 1984Sep 1992Yes

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 (106)

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

106 months

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 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20001032.215.66$32
Oct 2000312,35231.235.15$13,070
Sep 2000751,95331.875.19$12,519
Aug 20001132,00129.644.54$12,435
Jul 20002492,35128.534.09$16,719
Jun 2000872,90829.304.40$15,336
May 20002802,13527.263.68$15,489
Apr 20002835,24424.513.12$23,277
Mar 20003621,82928.422.86$15,519
Feb 20005351,94027.622.73$20,066
Jan 200021121525.272.48$5,865
Dec 199929024424.282.42$7,633
Nov 19991362,00823.192.43$8,041
Oct 19992121,44920.982.80$8,510
Sep 199923724221.752.62$5,789
Aug 19994731,76019.262.88$14,171
Jul 19992982,11917.892.37$10,358
Jun 199923241715.942.36$4,683
May 199917146015.792.32$3,768
Apr 199917642615.102.21$3,598
Mar 199925037112.471.84$3,800
Feb 19993383709.981.82$4,046
Jan 199937240910.381.90$4,638
Dec 19982972639.201.77$3,199
Nov 199823934410.892.19$3,355
Oct 199820240412.421.97$3,304
Sep 199824040612.592.08$3,867
Aug 199825237411.301.91$3,561
Jul 19981945,69211.742.24$15,012
Jun 19989629111.242.24$1,730
May 199842131712.622.21$6,012
Apr 199853845413.042.51$8,153
Mar 19981064812.802.31$1,468
Feb 199817231313.952.30$3,119
Jan 199830672914.702.15$6,069
Dec 199722079016.322.41$5,495
Nov 199725945318.193.09$6,110
Oct 199729747819.253.15$7,223
Sep 199735212617.742.95$6,617
Aug 199734911017.862.55$6,514
Jul 199732212417.582.25$5,939
Jun 19973229517.242.26$5,766
May 199735412618.972.31$7,006
Apr 19972918917.882.08$5,388
Mar 199740411718.951.94$7,883
Feb 199735612220.492.21$7,564
Jan 199740512523.483.54$9,952
Dec 199640125123.32$9,351
Nov 19963659921.97$8,019
Oct 199638511123.31$8,974
Sep 199637310222.22$8,288
Aug 19963267620.26$6,605
Jul 199646213119.55$9,032
Jun 199653930718.73$10,095
May 199659219119.43$11,503
Apr 1996662321.51$1,420
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19951015.43$15
Sep 19957016.18$113
Aug 199563415.92$1,003
Jul 199536422815.24$5,547
Jun 199538451716.41$6,301
May 199531417617.56$5,514
Apr 19958017.73$142
Mar 199552316.44$855
Feb 199526326616.58$4,361
Jan 19955631,89715.92$8,963
Dec 199471137215.03$10,686
Nov 199453510315.90$8,507
Oct 19946391,19815.58$9,956
Sep 19942516415.29$3,838
Aug 19942836716.13$4,565
Jul 199428326417.56$4,969
Jun 199447747217.09$8,152
May 199437041715.88$5,876
Apr 199438738414.14$5,472
Mar 199451044812.46$6,355
Feb 199476277112.50$9,525
Jan 199478879112.66$9,976
Dec 199346642612.33$5,746
Nov 199387970114.49$12,737
Oct 199358464215.85$9,256
Sep 199361564815.03$9,243
Aug 199362665215.66$9,803
Jul 199368066715.46$10,513
Jun 199386397816.79$14,490
May 199329931417.68$5,286
Apr 199342546218.05$7,671
Mar 199349053818.14$8,889
Feb 199349752117.90$8,896
Jan 199385559116.93$14,475

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 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    1 bbl  × $ 32.21 =        $32
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.66 =         $0

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Month total                                      $32

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/4065 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.