SMITH, F.J.

Operated by ANDERSON OIL LTD. (P-5 22499) in the SAXET (6210) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 169530District 04Field 81283650CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.0 M
Jul 1998 – Sep 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$102 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
51
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 6 leases and 6 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1978-08-19
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: FIELD RULES EFFECTIVE 1/1/79 PER SPEC ORDER 70,528

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
CondensateDisposition5,113 bbl$111,196
GasProduction295,029 Mcf$903,513
Total$1,014,709

Wells on this lease (1)

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 27.8254, -97.5301. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.82536, -97.53006 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
7,512 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 7,512 ft.

Completions filed
Oct 2012
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-3553262517,512 ftOct 2012Yes

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 (51)

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

51 months

Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 200218287424.583.06$7,150
Jun 20021781,36223.733.34$8,771
May 200201,97024.663.58$7,060
Apr 200202,94523.653.51$10,344
Mar 200202,09922.003.10$6,513
Feb 20021863,84918.222.38$12,533
Jan 200204,75217.172.38$11,289
Dec 20011995,46216.932.36$16,283
Nov 200105,88118.072.41$14,147
Oct 200102,95419.782.53$7,470
Sep 200103,01824.262.25$6,794
Aug 20011843,08624.873.05$13,998
Jul 200103,34723.933.20$10,701
Jun 200103,70324.563.82$14,161
May 20011853,98725.524.31$21,894
Apr 200103,85024.685.34$20,541
Mar 200104,17724.545.38$22,457
Feb 20011724,02627.755.77$27,991
Jan 200104,01927.478.40$33,755
Dec 20001633,97826.889.12$40,671
Nov 200004,23132.215.66$23,939
Oct 20001875,16931.235.15$32,437
Sep 200005,55231.875.19$28,795
Aug 20001725,77129.644.54$31,303
Jul 200006,30428.534.09$25,782
Jun 20001906,30029.304.40$33,270
May 20001897,08527.263.68$31,223
Apr 200007,80824.513.12$24,330
Mar 20001908,29828.422.86$29,130
Feb 20001899,71727.622.73$31,714
Jan 200018613,39425.272.48$37,924
Dec 199937212,88024.282.42$40,250
Nov 19991909,58423.192.43$27,733
Oct 199909,05220.982.80$25,379
Sep 19991918,32321.752.62$25,951
Aug 19991928,21119.262.88$27,309
Jul 199919211,80517.892.37$31,441
Jun 19991797,92015.942.36$21,561
May 19991889,10515.792.32$24,101
Apr 199905,94215.102.21$13,120
Mar 19991885,92712.471.84$13,240
Feb 199906,8129.981.82$12,383
Jan 19991876,72710.381.90$14,722
Dec 199808,3549.201.77$14,814
Nov 19983317,44910.892.19$19,886
Oct 19981497,75512.421.97$17,122
Sep 199807,46512.592.08$15,547
Aug 199808,39411.301.91$16,010
Jul 199824,35611.742.24$9,769

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.

Jul 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate           182 bbl  × $ 24.58 =     $4,474
Gas                  874 Mcf  × $  3.06 =     $2,676

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Month total                                   $7,150

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. 04/G/169530 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.