SHAEFFER RANCH

Operated by SLAWSON EXPLORATION COMPANY, INC (P-5 787180) in the AMARGOSA (6000 SAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 169695District 04Field 02241700CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$686 k
May 1998 – Aug 2010
Value, last 12 filed months
$20 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
148
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
1950-09-14
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ALLOCATION FORMULA EFFECTIVE 07/01/2001.

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
CondensateDisposition2,469 bbl$58,680
GasProduction153,426 Mcf$626,862
Total$685,542

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 27.9746, -98.1390. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.97459, -98.13901 · 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
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
6,210 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
12.3 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
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 6,210 ft.

Completions filed
May 1998
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Aug 2010
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 12.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 12.3 years and 12.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2493220026,210 ftMay 1998Aug 2010Yes

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 (148)

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

148 months

Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 20100072.554.74$0
Jun 20100070.364.91$0
May 201019371.124.24$465
Apr 2010060581.694.12$2,494
Mar 2010056778.394.39$2,488
Feb 2010051773.585.44$2,814
Jan 2010050974.365.96$3,036
Dec 2009051271.445.48$2,808
Nov 2009056174.593.75$2,105
Oct 2009053372.544.11$2,191
Sep 2009047765.543.06$1,462
Aug 2009050167.423.22$1,612
Jul 2009053561.133.46$1,854
Jun 2009053066.163.90$2,064
May 2009049554.743.93$1,943
Apr 2009046846.773.59$1,679
Mar 2009041942.144.06$1,701
Feb 2009021032.814.63$973
Jan 2009030035.865.37$1,611
Dec 2008031937.105.98$1,907
Nov 2008016255.496.86$1,111
Oct 2008046575.246.92$3,219
Sep 20080421101.767.88$3,316
Aug 20080431114.228.48$3,656
Jul 20080505131.0811.39$5,752
Jun 20080504131.3313.03$6,568
May 20081543123.1711.57$6,408
Apr 20080528110.3110.45$5,520
Mar 20081439101.909.66$4,344
Feb 2008034892.538.77$3,052
Jan 2008049790.388.21$4,078
Dec 2007252188.337.30$3,981
Nov 2007051191.677.29$3,726
Oct 2007059282.856.92$4,098
Sep 2007040375.846.24$2,516
Aug 2007251169.066.39$3,402
Jul 2007052470.906.39$3,347
Jun 2007049562.007.55$3,736
May 2007050258.747.85$3,939
Apr 2007047559.617.81$3,707
Mar 2007048656.927.30$3,549
Feb 2007051555.108.22$4,231
Jan 2007036650.306.73$2,462
Dec 2006044556.656.92$3,079
Nov 2006040054.207.62$3,047
Oct 2006045854.906.01$2,754
Sep 2006040560.085.04$2,040
Aug 20067544868.717.34$8,442
Jul 2006050869.376.34$3,222
Jun 2006153366.286.38$3,469
May 2006055266.016.42$3,547
Apr 2006050164.397.36$3,688
Mar 2006036456.707.08$2,578
Feb 2006040057.597.75$3,100
Jan 2006046460.598.93$4,145
Dec 2005047754.9413.42$6,399
Nov 2005044654.6910.59$4,722
Oct 2005044258.3413.80$6,098
Sep 2005046161.4512.08$5,568
Aug 2005043061.519.80$4,213
Jul 2005040055.697.84$3,137
Jun 2005041852.337.38$3,085
May 2005047745.226.65$3,173
Apr 2005029449.207.36$2,164
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 200485049.706.52$4,225
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 2004043142.375.55$2,392
Jul 2004055438.286.08$3,371
Jun 2004034036.106.43$2,187
May 2004034837.486.49$2,260
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 200401,03734.365.53$5,735
Feb 2004069732.455.51$3,840
Jan 2004074032.036.30$4,662
Dec 200314275630.266.30$9,061
Nov 2003034128.804.60$1,567
Oct 2003043228.174.76$2,056
Sep 2003029526.314.75$1,401
Aug 2003050229.765.13$2,575
Jul 2003078129.415.17$4,038
Jun 200301,20528.565.98$7,209
May 200301,28626.595.97$7,681
Apr 200301,09826.675.41$5,937
Mar 200301,42931.146.10$8,711
Feb 20031811,72933.487.93$19,764
Jan 200302,08230.315.58$11,622
Dec 200203,14026.914.85$15,241
Nov 200223,19624.664.14$13,271
Oct 20021841,83726.464.23$12,638
Sep 2002028127.443.64$1,021
Aug 2002054025.963.16$1,709
Jul 2002065524.583.06$2,005
Jun 2002065023.733.34$2,170
May 20021052024.663.58$2,110
Apr 2002383123.653.51$2,990
Mar 2002098922.003.10$3,069
Feb 2002092818.222.38$2,205
Jan 200201,04117.172.38$2,473
Dec 200112394716.932.36$4,321
Nov 2001094018.072.41$2,261
Oct 200101,24519.782.53$3,148
Sep 200101,34324.262.25$3,024
Aug 200101,56924.873.05$4,790
Jul 200101,55323.933.20$4,965
Jun 200101,29324.563.82$4,945
May 20011771,22825.524.31$9,806
Apr 200101,29724.685.34$6,920
Mar 200101,37024.545.38$7,366
Feb 200101,11727.755.77$6,442
Jan 200111,43327.478.40$12,063
Dec 200001,40126.889.12$12,781
Nov 2000088932.215.66$5,030
Oct 200011,00031.235.15$5,177
Sep 20001721,36131.875.19$12,540
Aug 200001,54029.644.54$6,993
Jul 200012,00228.534.09$8,216
Jun 200011,78729.304.40$7,887
May 200001,65627.263.68$6,094
Apr 200001,32424.513.12$4,126
Mar 20001921,88728.422.86$10,853
Feb 200001,59527.622.73$4,349
Jan 200001,49925.272.48$3,718
Dec 19991782,22224.282.42$9,707
Nov 199902,43623.192.43$5,929
Oct 199902,53420.982.80$7,105
Sep 199902,30321.752.62$6,031
Aug 199902,36219.262.88$6,792
Jul 199902,33417.892.37$5,537
Jun 19991882,41715.942.36$8,706
May 199901,82415.792.32$4,234
Apr 199902,18315.102.21$4,820
Mar 199902,67412.471.84$4,916
Feb 19991862,5289.981.82$6,452
Jan 199902,85210.381.90$5,419
Dec 199802,7159.201.77$4,815
Nov 19982602,12910.892.19$7,485
Oct 199805,17212.421.97$10,185
Sep 199804,34412.592.08$9,047
Aug 19981863,62511.301.91$9,016
Jul 199804,45811.742.24$9,974
Jun 19981134,77811.242.24$11,960
May 199805,35112.622.21$11,806

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.

May 2010 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             1 bbl  × $ 71.12 =        $71
Gas                   93 Mcf  × $  4.24 =       $394

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Month total                                     $465

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/169695 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.