WOLTERS, R. A. -A-

Name: WOLTERS, R. A. -A- lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by EXXON CORP. (P-5 257097) in the THOMPSON, SOUTH field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 4156District 03Field 89530001OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.9 M

Jan 1993 – Mar 2000

Value, last 12 filed months

$156 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The THOMPSON, SOUTH field

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 55 leases and 178 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1940-02-24

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

0 ft

minimum

From a lease line

233 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 acres. The field rule took effect on 2004-03-11.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “AND RESCINDED THE DIAGONAL REQUIREMENT.”

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	115,181 bbl	$1,671,536
Casinghead gas	Production	150,921 Mcf	$244,239
Total			$1,915,775

47,005 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 45 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 (7)

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 29.5863, -95.7186. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 69.8 miles, so treat it as the lease's centre and not as its location.

29.94676, -96.03193 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

85.7%

6 of 7 wells

With a plug date

85.7%

6 of 7 wells

Median depth

5,450 ft

7 wells filed one

Completion to plug

6.8 years

median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

685.7%

A plug date is filed

685.7%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

685.7%

NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.

114.3%

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 5,410 and 11,497 ft, median 5,450 ft, over the 7 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Feb 1984 – Aug 2014

4 of 7 wells; 3 filed none

Plug dates filed

Dec 1979 – Jan 2000

6 of 7 wells; 1 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 6.8 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 4.1 years and 7.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

7 wells


42-15702354	3	5,423 ft	—	Dec 1979	Yes
42-15702355	4	5,410 ft	—	Nov 1988	Yes
42-15702356	5	5,417 ft	—	Oct 1995	Yes
42-05133776	1H	9,835 ft	Aug 2014	—	—
42-15702357	6	5,570 ft	Sep 1998	Jan 2000	Yes
42-15730430	7	5,450 ft	Feb 1986	Dec 1992	Yes
42-15731041	28	11,497 ft	Feb 1984	Dec 1992	Yes

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 (87)

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

87 months


Mar 2000	0	0	28.42	2.86	$0
Feb 2000	0	0	27.62	2.73	$0
Jan 2000	0	0	25.27	2.48	$0
Dec 1999	0	0	24.28	2.42	$0
Nov 1999	612	0	23.19	2.43	$14,192
Oct 1999	0	0	20.98	2.80	$0
Sep 1999	0	261	21.75	2.62	$684
Aug 1999	0	4,944	19.26	2.88	$14,217
Jul 1999	0	2,945	17.89	2.37	$6,987
Jun 1999	17	0	15.94	2.36	$271
May 1999	3,051	2,441	15.79	2.32	$53,841
Apr 1999	4,133	1,538	15.10	2.21	$65,804
Mar 1999	1,872	1,150	12.47	1.84	$25,458
Feb 1999	5,562	4,869	9.98	1.82	$64,360
Jan 1999	6,990	5,429	10.38	1.90	$82,871
Dec 1998	9,121	5,018	9.20	1.77	$92,812
Nov 1998	5,475	2,842	10.89	2.19	$65,835
Oct 1998	5,399	2,304	12.42	1.97	$71,593
Sep 1998	7,804	7,997	12.59	2.08	$114,907
Aug 1998	14	0	11.30	1.91	$158
Jul 1998	385	0	11.74	2.24	$4,520
Jun 1998	3,273	2,363	11.24	2.24	$42,075
May 1998	486	4,105	12.62	2.21	$15,190
Apr 1998	475	3,666	13.04	2.51	$15,379
Mar 1998	99	1,496	12.80	2.31	$4,722
Feb 1998	901	3,694	13.95	2.30	$21,062
Jan 1998	933	3,880	14.70	2.15	$22,076
Dec 1997	433	4,550	16.32	2.41	$18,037
Nov 1997	461	6,502	18.19	3.09	$28,465
Oct 1997	1,080	3,766	19.25	3.15	$32,652
Sep 1997	463	3,318	17.74	2.95	$18,018
Aug 1997	457	710	17.86	2.55	$9,976
Jul 1997	896	3,864	17.58	2.25	$24,434
Jun 1997	452	3,645	17.24	2.26	$16,020
May 1997	895	4,316	18.97	2.31	$26,942
Apr 1997	413	3,459	17.88	2.08	$14,589
Mar 1997	455	2,347	18.95	1.94	$13,173
Feb 1997	466	3,213	20.49	2.21	$16,636
Jan 1997	936	3,284	23.48	3.54	$33,602
Dec 1996	926	2,779	23.32	—	$21,594
Nov 1996	945	2,816	21.97	—	$20,762
Oct 1996	930	2,313	23.31	—	$21,678
Sep 1996	945	1,132	22.22	—	$20,998
Aug 1996	938	965	20.26	—	$19,004
Jul 1996	929	1,641	19.55	—	$18,162
Jun 1996	1,297	212	18.73	—	$24,293
May 1996	1,365	225	19.43	—	$26,522
Apr 1996	884	213	21.51	—	$19,015
Mar 1996	908	1,799	19.38	—	$17,597
Feb 1996	1,329	1,740	16.98	—	$22,566
Jan 1996	1,497	1,208	17.07	—	$25,554
Dec 1995	1,279	1,393	17.19	—	$21,986
Nov 1995	1,075	1,546	16.00	—	$17,200
Oct 1995	1,362	2,383	15.43	—	$21,016
Sep 1995	459	151	16.18	—	$7,427
Aug 1995	1,469	1,500	15.92	—	$23,386
Jul 1995	1,403	1,741	15.24	—	$21,382
Jun 1995	931	582	16.41	—	$15,278
May 1995	1,477	708	17.56	—	$25,936
Apr 1995	1,413	967	17.73	—	$25,052
Mar 1995	1,947	4,021	16.44	—	$32,009
Feb 1995	1,342	2,482	16.58	—	$22,250
Jan 1995	1,762	1,546	15.92	—	$28,051
Dec 1994	1,341	835	15.03	—	$20,155
Nov 1994	1,846	968	15.90	—	$29,351
Oct 1994	1,311	865	15.58	—	$20,425
Sep 1994	2,054	833	15.29	—	$31,406
Aug 1994	1,943	510	16.13	—	$31,341
Jul 1994	2,181	1,030	17.56	—	$38,298
Jun 1994	2,683	587	17.09	—	$45,852
May 1994	2,272	746	15.88	—	$36,079
Apr 1994	1,892	1,195	14.14	—	$26,753
Mar 1994	1,779	1,163	12.46	—	$22,166
Feb 1994	455	787	12.50	—	$5,688
Jan 1994	405	412	12.66	—	$5,127
Dec 1993	481	633	12.33	—	$5,931
Nov 1993	458	22	14.49	—	$6,636
Oct 1993	457	296	15.85	—	$7,243
Sep 1993	0	0	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	417	0	15.66	—	$6,530
Jul 1993	0	8	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	0	4	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	0	0	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	0	8	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	0	8	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	0	12	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	385	20	16.93	—	$6,518

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 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  612 bbl  × $ 23.19 =    $14,192
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.43 =         $0

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Month total                                  $14,192

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/4156 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.