STATE TRACT 786

Operated by ALTA MESA SERVICES, LP (P-5 15721) in the INDIAN POINT (UPPER FRIO CONS.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 13411District 04Field 44441800OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$8.7 M
Feb 2007 – Feb 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$1.2 M
at the published price for each month
Months reported
49
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 3 leases and 7 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
2006-12-19
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 field rule took effect on 2007-05-15.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ONE WELL FIELD EFF 10/01/11.

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
OilDisposition65,041 bbl$4,726,472
Casinghead gasProduction552,695 Mcf$4,014,159
Total$8,740,631

Wells on this lease (5)

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 27.8634, -97.3744. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

27.86317, -97.37425 · 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%
5 of 5 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 5 wells
Median depth
11,480 ft
5 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
5100.0%
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

Between 9,850 and 13,569 ft, median 11,480 ft, over the 5 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Oct 2006 – May 2009
5 of 5 wells

5 wells

42-35506056813,569 ftMay 2009Yes
42-3550599569,850 ftApr 2009Yes
42-35502497210,010 ftApr 2009Yes
42-355304121011,525 ftApr 2007Yes
42-35506375911,480 ftOct 2006Yes

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 (49)

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

49 months

Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20101,8053,14980.843.80$157,868
Oct 20101,9284,92478.103.51$167,855
Sep 20101,8835,12872.633.98$157,169
Aug 20101,8604,89673.684.42$158,682
Jul 20108255,44772.554.74$85,653
Jun 20101,6956,10870.364.91$149,253
May 20108066,32571.124.24$84,110
Apr 20101,4814,71881.694.12$140,434
Mar 20107745,26378.394.39$83,771
Feb 20101,3713,20073.585.44$118,294
Jan 20101,6163,11674.365.96$138,750
Dec 20091,0774,26571.445.48$100,329
Nov 20099015,95774.593.75$89,553
Oct 20091,7697,59972.544.11$159,557
Sep 20091,0485,12865.543.06$84,402
Aug 20091,0222,50067.423.22$76,949
Jul 20091,0472,79661.133.46$73,690
Jun 20091,0473,05266.163.90$81,157
May 20091,4053,10454.743.93$89,095
Apr 20092982,55546.773.59$23,104
Mar 20095114,93642.144.06$41,569
Feb 20095218,52832.814.63$56,604
Jan 20095856,92835.865.37$58,188
Dec 20086066,98737.105.98$64,245
Nov 20081,0796,40155.496.86$103,787
Oct 20081,1698,85175.246.92$149,222
Sep 20087108,453101.767.88$138,835
Aug 20081,0749,768114.228.48$205,534
Jul 20083739,745131.0811.39$159,883
Jun 20081,19111,881131.3313.03$311,255
May 20082,04318,969123.1711.57$471,189
Apr 200871018,041110.3110.45$266,936
Mar 20085699,778101.909.66$152,476
Feb 20081,0017,16792.538.77$155,481
Jan 20081,27210,40390.388.21$200,328
Dec 20071,67413,98488.337.30$249,975
Nov 20071,29927,04291.677.29$316,261
Oct 200732214,53382.856.92$127,275
Sep 200788719,22175.846.24$187,289
Aug 20071,31520,64669.066.39$222,699
Jul 20071,67727,63270.906.39$295,411
Jun 20072,65030,68362.007.55$395,909
May 20072,79536,56858.747.85$451,101
Apr 20073,52041,67159.617.81$535,078
Mar 20073,65043,02656.927.30$521,933
Feb 20076,18041,62355.108.22$682,493

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 2010 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                1,805 bbl  × $ 80.84 =   $145,916
Casinghead gas     3,149 Mcf  × $  3.80 =    $11,951

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Month total                                 $157,868

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/13411 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.