ARCO-CALL

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

Operated by DELTA EXPLORATION COMPANY, INC. (P-5 213559) in the NEWTON field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 9946District 03Field 65393001OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.4 M

Jan 1993 – Aug 2007

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

176

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The NEWTON 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 25 leases and 52 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1949-02-06

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

660 ft

minimum

From a lease line

330 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2006-06-20.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “ADDED, NO PLATS REQUIRED”

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	44,060 bbl	$946,662
Casinghead gas	Production	125,615 Mcf	$458,475
Total			$1,405,137

9,734 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 30.5459, -93.7704. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

30.54594, -93.77043 · 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

100.0%

2 of 2 wells

With a plug date

50.0%

1 of 2 wells

Median depth

9,916 ft

2 wells filed one

Completion to plug

34.3 years

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

2100.0%

A plug date is filed

150.0%

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

150.0%

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 9,915 and 9,916 ft, median 9,916 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Feb 1972 – Sep 2006

2 of 2 wells

Plug dates filed

May 2006

1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 34.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 34.3 years and 34.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells


42-35130041	1	9,916 ft	Sep 2006	—	Yes
42-35130069	2	9,915 ft	Feb 1972	May 2006	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 (176)

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

176 months


Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	0	0	70.90	6.39	$0
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	0	0	58.74	7.85	$0
Apr 2007	0	0	59.61	7.81	$0
Mar 2007	0	0	56.92	7.30	$0
Feb 2007	0	0	55.10	8.22	$0
Jan 2007	0	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	0	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	0	0	54.20	7.62	$0
Oct 2006	0	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	0	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	0	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	352	0	66.28	6.38	$23,331
May 2006	0	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	0	0	64.39	7.36	$0
Mar 2006	0	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	0	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	0	0	60.59	8.93	$0
Dec 2005	0	0	54.94	13.42	$0
Nov 2005	0	0	54.69	10.59	$0
Oct 2005	0	0	58.34	13.80	$0
Sep 2005	0	0	61.45	12.08	$0
Aug 2005	0	22	61.51	9.80	$216
Jul 2005	0	0	55.69	7.84	$0
Jun 2005	251	0	52.33	7.38	$13,135
May 2005	0	2	45.22	6.65	$13
Apr 2005	0	12	49.20	7.36	$88
Mar 2005	289	27	50.37	7.15	$14,750
Feb 2005	0	28	45.22	6.31	$177
Jan 2005	146	684	43.16	6.32	$10,626
Dec 2004	0	554	39.86	6.75	$3,740
Nov 2004	201	444	45.28	6.33	$11,912
Oct 2004	0	592	49.70	6.52	$3,857
Sep 2004	198	645	43.24	5.28	$11,970
Aug 2004	198	738	42.37	5.55	$12,486
Jul 2004	196	531	38.28	6.08	$10,734
Jun 2004	197	527	36.10	6.43	$10,502
May 2004	543	632	37.48	6.49	$24,456
Apr 2004	4	457	34.47	5.86	$2,815
Mar 2004	2	385	34.36	5.53	$2,198
Feb 2004	345	403	32.45	5.51	$13,416
Jan 2004	1	442	32.03	6.30	$2,816
Dec 2003	185	454	30.26	6.30	$8,459
Nov 2003	0	621	28.80	4.60	$2,854
Oct 2003	13	719	28.17	4.76	$3,788
Sep 2003	182	544	26.31	4.75	$7,372
Aug 2003	183	585	29.76	5.13	$8,447
Jul 2003	2	490	29.41	5.17	$2,593
Jun 2003	2	545	28.56	5.98	$3,318
May 2003	0	517	26.59	5.97	$3,088
Apr 2003	35	135	26.67	5.41	$1,663
Mar 2003	21	401	31.14	6.10	$3,098
Feb 2003	27	2,617	33.48	7.93	$21,646
Jan 2003	43	2,463	30.31	5.58	$15,052
Dec 2002	95	2,695	26.91	4.85	$15,637
Nov 2002	63	3,224	24.66	4.14	$14,891
Oct 2002	36	718	26.46	4.23	$3,989
Sep 2002	291	351	27.44	3.64	$9,261
Aug 2002	755	3,897	25.96	3.16	$31,931
Jul 2002	694	2,372	24.58	3.06	$24,321
Jun 2002	618	1,912	23.73	3.34	$21,048
May 2002	552	2,044	24.66	3.58	$20,938
Apr 2002	935	2,066	23.65	3.51	$29,369
Mar 2002	563	1,553	22.00	3.10	$17,205
Feb 2002	575	2,399	18.22	2.38	$16,176
Jan 2002	104	0	17.17	2.38	$1,786
Dec 2001	566	2,256	16.93	2.36	$14,916
Nov 2001	703	2,069	18.07	2.41	$17,680
Oct 2001	748	2,699	19.78	2.53	$21,621
Sep 2001	324	1,454	24.26	2.25	$11,134
Aug 2001	323	858	24.87	3.05	$10,653
Jul 2001	321	1,875	23.93	3.20	$13,676
Jun 2001	408	1,932	24.56	3.82	$17,409
May 2001	161	1,913	25.52	4.31	$12,349
Apr 2001	328	1,206	24.68	5.34	$14,529
Mar 2001	325	1,968	24.54	5.38	$18,556
Feb 2001	248	1,094	27.75	5.77	$13,191
Jan 2001	258	1,991	27.47	8.40	$23,809
Dec 2000	171	2,245	26.88	9.12	$25,076
Nov 2000	255	2,666	32.21	5.66	$23,298
Oct 2000	518	2,811	31.23	5.15	$30,641
Sep 2000	323	2,450	31.87	5.19	$23,001
Aug 2000	387	2,543	29.64	4.54	$23,018
Jul 2000	485	2,415	28.53	4.09	$23,714
Jun 2000	409	2,628	29.30	4.40	$23,540
May 2000	0	1,347	27.26	3.68	$4,957
Apr 2000	299	1,622	24.51	3.12	$12,383
Mar 2000	390	1,833	28.42	2.86	$16,326
Feb 2000	439	1,865	27.62	2.73	$17,210
Jan 2000	369	1,519	25.27	2.48	$13,093
Dec 1999	302	1,140	24.28	2.42	$10,096
Nov 1999	1,183	2,837	23.19	2.43	$34,339
Oct 1999	1,341	4,068	20.98	2.80	$39,540
Sep 1999	1,357	1,102	21.75	2.62	$32,401
Aug 1999	178	0	19.26	2.88	$3,428
Jul 1999	1,417	0	17.89	2.37	$25,350
Jun 1999	0	0	15.94	2.36	$0
May 1999	0	0	15.79	2.32	$0
Apr 1999	0	0	15.10	2.21	$0
Mar 1999	100	0	12.47	1.84	$1,247
Feb 1999	165	710	9.98	1.82	$2,937
Jan 1999	331	730	10.38	1.90	$4,823
Dec 1998	328	740	9.20	1.77	$4,330
Nov 1998	326	740	10.89	2.19	$5,168
Oct 1998	325	740	12.42	1.97	$5,494
Sep 1998	165	750	12.59	2.08	$3,639
Aug 1998	333	750	11.30	1.91	$5,193
Jul 1998	334	760	11.74	2.24	$5,621
Jun 1998	166	780	11.24	2.24	$3,611
May 1998	340	780	12.62	2.21	$6,012
Apr 1998	326	780	13.04	2.51	$6,205
Mar 1998	327	785	12.80	2.31	$5,999
Feb 1998	166	780	13.95	2.30	$4,109
Jan 1998	330	790	14.70	2.15	$6,553
Dec 1997	330	790	16.32	2.41	$7,290
Nov 1997	334	795	18.19	3.09	$8,531
Oct 1997	172	790	19.25	3.15	$5,799
Sep 1997	349	780	17.74	2.95	$8,496
Aug 1997	175	750	17.86	2.55	$5,042
Jul 1997	336	750	17.58	2.25	$7,592
Jun 1997	347	750	17.24	2.26	$7,675
May 1997	336	750	18.97	2.31	$8,105
Apr 1997	170	715	17.88	2.08	$4,529
Mar 1997	332	740	18.95	1.94	$7,726
Feb 1997	336	728	20.49	2.21	$8,491
Jan 1997	335	75	23.48	3.54	$8,131
Dec 1996	179	70	23.32	—	$4,174
Nov 1996	175	70	21.97	—	$3,845
Oct 1996	347	70	23.31	—	$8,089
Sep 1996	150	65	22.22	—	$3,333
Aug 1996	102	41	20.26	—	$2,067
Jul 1996	74	36	19.55	—	$1,447
Jun 1996	0	13	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	118	19	19.43	—	$2,293
Apr 1996	88	15	21.51	—	$1,893
Mar 1996	0	15	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	80	15	16.98	—	$1,358
Jan 1996	0	5	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	133	65	17.19	—	$2,286
Nov 1995	0	75	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	231	210	15.43	—	$3,564
Sep 1995	276	240	16.18	—	$4,466
Aug 1995	323	250	15.92	—	$5,142
Jul 1995	283	250	15.24	—	$4,313
Jun 1995	315	250	16.41	—	$5,169
May 1995	332	250	17.56	—	$5,830
Apr 1995	302	250	17.73	—	$5,354
Mar 1995	302	250	16.44	—	$4,965
Feb 1995	282	250	16.58	—	$4,676
Jan 1995	283	250	15.92	—	$4,505
Dec 1994	257	260	15.03	—	$3,863
Nov 1994	319	260	15.90	—	$5,072
Oct 1994	290	260	15.58	—	$4,518
Sep 1994	322	260	15.29	—	$4,923
Aug 1994	298	240	16.13	—	$4,807
Jul 1994	332	260	17.56	—	$5,830
Jun 1994	330	260	17.09	—	$5,640
May 1994	332	260	15.88	—	$5,272
Apr 1994	329	260	14.14	—	$4,652
Mar 1994	325	260	12.46	—	$4,050
Feb 1994	291	265	12.50	—	$3,638
Jan 1994	301	265	12.66	—	$3,811
Dec 1993	443	290	12.33	—	$5,462
Nov 1993	327	290	14.49	—	$4,738
Oct 1993	421	290	15.85	—	$6,673
Sep 1993	304	290	15.03	—	$4,569
Aug 1993	460	290	15.66	—	$7,204
Jul 1993	333	290	15.46	—	$5,148
Jun 1993	447	290	16.79	—	$7,505
May 1993	496	290	17.68	—	$8,769
Apr 1993	449	290	18.05	—	$8,104
Mar 1993	336	290	18.14	—	$6,095
Feb 1993	423	350	17.90	—	$7,572
Jan 1993	473	350	16.93	—	$8,008

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.

Jun 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  352 bbl  × $ 66.28 =    $23,331
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.38 =         $0

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Month total                                  $23,331

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/9946 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.