CHAPMAN J. O.

Operated by DECKER OPERATING CO., L.L.C. (P-5 209347) in the CHAPMAN RANCH (5600) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 12911District 04Field 17075667OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.4 M
Dec 1999 – Mar 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
100
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 6 leases and 13 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1973-05-17
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: CHAPMAN RANCH (UPPER FRIO CONS) 17075667

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
OilDisposition28,401 bbl$984,406
Casinghead gasProduction64,961 Mcf$444,062
Total$1,428,469

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 27.6250, -97.5255. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

27.62501, -97.52545 · 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
6,997 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
16.0 years
median over 2 wells

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 6,953 and 7,040 ft, median 6,997 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Apr 1998 – Mar 2002
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 2012 – Feb 2020
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.0 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.0 years and 16.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-355334181367,040 ftMar 2002Feb 2020Yes
42-355307771156,953 ftApr 1998Apr 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 (100)

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

100 months

Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20062346054.906.01$13,207
Sep 200625026160.085.04$16,335
Aug 200622699568.717.34$22,832
Jul 20062893,36169.376.34$41,366
Jun 20062232,38666.286.38$30,012
May 20064212,68766.016.42$45,054
Apr 20064242,69864.397.36$47,160
Mar 20065252,53456.707.08$47,716
Feb 20063932,41657.597.75$41,360
Jan 20064423,17960.598.93$55,180
Dec 20052743,06254.9413.42$56,132
Nov 20052971,70554.6910.59$34,296
Oct 20051231,45258.3413.80$27,207
Sep 2005044261.4512.08$5,339
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20054682355.697.84$9,017
Jun 20051451,32552.337.38$17,368
May 20053391,31745.226.65$24,089
Apr 20055814,07249.207.36$58,557
Mar 20055554,11650.377.15$57,405
Feb 20058574,43645.226.31$66,753
Jan 20051,1292,95443.166.32$67,403
Dec 200429833639.866.75$14,147
Nov 200435546945.286.33$19,043
Oct 200410571149.706.52$9,851
Sep 200434774643.245.28$18,946
Aug 200448858242.375.55$23,907
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 2004277037.486.49$10,382
Apr 20044533134.475.86$3,490
Mar 2004425934.365.53$1,769
Feb 20042410132.455.51$1,335
Jan 2004106032.036.30$3,395
Dec 20034422830.266.30$2,768
Nov 20032606728.804.60$7,796
Oct 20035148128.174.76$3,726
Sep 2003105026.314.75$2,763
Aug 200335751429.765.13$13,261
Jul 200340275929.415.17$15,747
Jun 200338463028.565.98$14,736
May 200330868826.595.97$12,299
Apr 2003849926.675.41$2,776
Mar 200353231.146.10$1,663
Feb 200314571533.487.93$10,522
Jan 200316418130.315.58$5,981
Dec 200226680626.914.85$11,070
Nov 200244447924.664.14$12,931
Oct 200232335026.464.23$10,027
Sep 200247535927.443.64$14,339
Aug 200276967125.963.16$22,086
Jul 200268051024.583.06$18,276
Jun 200268449023.733.34$17,867
May 20021,12585024.663.58$30,789
Apr 20021,1881,27423.653.51$32,571
Mar 200239690922.003.10$11,532
Feb 200215313718.222.38$3,113
Jan 200218818517.172.38$3,667
Dec 200113210016.932.36$2,471
Nov 2001119018.072.41$2,150
Oct 200177019.782.53$1,523
Sep 2001186024.262.25$4,512
Aug 2001141024.873.05$3,507
Jul 2001733023.933.20$17,541
Jun 2001428024.563.82$10,512
May 2001307025.524.31$7,835
Apr 2001471024.685.34$11,624
Mar 2001205024.545.38$5,031
Feb 2001427027.755.77$11,849
Jan 2001692027.478.40$19,009
Dec 2000755026.889.12$20,294
Nov 2000333032.215.66$10,726
Oct 20003031.235.15$94
Sep 20007031.875.19$223
Aug 200035029.644.54$1,037
Jul 2000178028.534.09$5,078
Jun 2000214029.304.40$6,270
May 2000312027.263.68$8,505
Apr 20002872824.513.12$7,122
Mar 200043850028.422.86$13,878
Feb 200085456827.622.73$25,136
Jan 20009971,26725.272.48$28,337
Dec 19991,1621,49824.282.42$31,844

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.

Oct 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  234 bbl  × $ 54.90 =    $12,847
Casinghead gas        60 Mcf  × $  6.01 =       $361

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Month total                                  $13,207

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/O/12911 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.