WELDER, MINNIE S.

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

Operated by ABRAXAS PETROLEUM CORPORATION (P-5 3125) in the PORTILLA (7400 SAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 2178District 04Field 72484700OilCasinghead gasSave

Value, all time

$11.2 M

Jan 1993 – Nov 1996

Value, last 12 filed months

$2.1 M

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

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	687,964 bbl	$11,206,394
Casinghead gas	Production	1,653,529 Mcf	$0
Total			$11,206,394

1,653,529 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 44 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 (57)

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 28.0817, -97.4440. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.5 miles.

28.08095, -97.44384 · 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%

57 of 57 wells

With a plug date

36.8%

21 of 57 wells

Median depth

8,811 ft

50 wells filed one

Completion to plug

16.6 years

median over 15 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

57100.0%

A plug date is filed

2136.8%

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

2136.8%

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

10k

12k

15k

20k+

Total depth in feet, 50 of 57 wells. Median 8,811 ft, with the middle half between 8,322 and 9,000 ft; the shallowest is 2,195 ft and the deepest 17,966 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

50s

60s

70s

80s

90s

00s

10s

20s

Last completion by decade, 44 of 57 wells, Sep 1952 – Mar 2020. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed

Sep 1952 – Mar 2020

44 of 57 wells; 13 filed none

Plug dates filed

Apr 1973 – Feb 2026

21 of 57 wells; 36 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.6 years across the 15 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 5.7 years and 22.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

57 wells


42-40901175	8	—	—	—	Yes
42-40901176	26	—	—	—	Yes
42-40901180	52	—	—	—	Yes
42-40901648	11 L	9,000 ft	—	Nov 1989	Yes
42-40901651	14	8,405 ft	—	Oct 1973	Yes
42-40901655	18 L	8,300 ft	—	Dec 1989	Yes
42-40901665	29	9,150 ft	—	Oct 1973	Yes
42-40901676	41 L	—	—	—	Yes
42-40901678	43 L	8,300 ft	—	Apr 2019	Yes
42-40901685	53	—	—	—	Yes
42-40901691	59	—	—	—	Yes
42-40980462	39 L	—	—	—	Yes
42-40980466	4	2,195 ft	—	Oct 1981	Yes
42-40901684	50	8,386 ft	Mar 2020	—	Yes
42-40901657	20	8,859 ft	Mar 2018	—	Yes
42-40901682	48D	7,253 ft	Apr 2017	Aug 2025	Yes
42-40932447	80 U	8,800 ft	Sep 2014	—	Yes
42-40901683	49	9,100 ft	Apr 2014	—	Yes
42-40901670	34	9,250 ft	Apr 2012	—	Yes
42-40901661	24 L	8,500 ft	Jun 2011	Dec 2022	Yes
42-40901656	19	9,305 ft	Dec 2008	—	Yes
42-40901653	16	9,110 ft	May 2008	—	Yes
42-40901650	13 L	9,000 ft	Nov 2007	Jun 2024	Yes
42-40901177	35	8,719 ft	Jun 2007	—	Yes
42-40901659	22 L	8,300 ft	Mar 2007	—	Yes
42-40901663	27 L	17,966 ft	Apr 2006	—	Yes
42-40932446	79 L	7,500 ft	Sep 2005	—	Yes
42-40932166	72	8,600 ft	Nov 2002	—	Yes
42-40901687	55	9,265 ft	Oct 2002	Feb 2026	Yes
42-40901642	1	8,822 ft	Sep 2001	—	Yes
42-40901660	23 L	9,003 ft	Mar 2001	—	Yes
42-40901647	10 L	9,260 ft	Jul 1999	—	Yes
42-40901644	4 L	8,420 ft	Aug 1998	—	Yes
42-40932451	81 U	8,919 ft	Mar 1998	—	Yes
42-40901649	12 L	9,000 ft	Jan 1998	May 2020	Yes
42-40931893	66	8,600 ft	Jun 1997	—	Yes
42-40932469	83 U	9,000 ft	May 1997	—	Yes
42-40901640	6	8,897 ft	Mar 1997	—	Yes
42-40932440	78	8,910 ft	May 1996	—	Yes
42-40901658	21	8,800 ft	Dec 1995	—	Yes
42-40901652	15 U	8,847 ft	Jul 1995	—	Yes
42-40931704	64	10,668 ft	Jan 1995	—	Yes
42-40901179	51	7,574 ft	Mar 1988	Dec 1989	Yes
42-40901639	5 L	8,566 ft	Aug 1987	—	Yes
42-40901646	9 L	8,650 ft	Apr 1987	Jun 2016	Yes
42-40901662	25 L	8,850 ft	Mar 1987	Mar 1990	Yes
42-40901666	30 L	8,850 ft	Jan 1987	Feb 2026	Yes
42-40901178	46 L	7,625 ft	Jun 1985	—	Yes
42-40901641	7 L	8,850 ft	Jun 1984	—	Yes
42-40901664	28 L	8,144 ft	Mar 1984	Apr 2002	Yes
42-40901654	17	8,702 ft	Oct 1983	Nov 1995	Yes
42-40901692	60	7,650 ft	May 1983	Dec 1985	Yes
42-40901671	36 L	8,260 ft	Feb 1981	Feb 2004	Yes
42-40901173	3 L	8,990 ft	Aug 1980	Oct 1981	Yes
42-40901688	56	7,600 ft	Jul 1980	—	Yes
42-40901690	58	7,525 ft	Jul 1979	—	Yes
42-40901686	54	9,011 ft	Sep 1952	Apr 1973	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 (47)

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

47 months


Nov 1996	0	0	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	0	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	1,263	0	22.22	—	$28,064
Aug 1996	11,596	18,839	20.26	—	$234,935
Jul 1996	10,911	19,749	19.55	—	$213,310
Jun 1996	12,009	34,043	18.73	—	$224,929
May 1996	13,016	29,395	19.43	—	$252,901
Apr 1996	9,785	27,385	21.51	—	$210,475
Mar 1996	10,756	6,674	19.38	—	$208,451
Feb 1996	6,764	13,172	16.98	—	$114,853
Jan 1996	12,224	40,749	17.07	—	$208,664
Dec 1995	20,945	93,056	17.19	—	$360,045
Nov 1995	23,147	49,772	16.00	—	$370,352
Oct 1995	22,162	41,354	15.43	—	$341,960
Sep 1995	17,059	62,198	16.18	—	$276,015
Aug 1995	19,169	66,286	15.92	—	$305,170
Jul 1995	23,122	71,357	15.24	—	$352,379
Jun 1995	22,192	66,240	16.41	—	$364,171
May 1995	12,525	32,089	17.56	—	$219,939
Apr 1995	15,263	11,814	17.73	—	$270,613
Mar 1995	16,477	31,722	16.44	—	$270,882
Feb 1995	16,042	39,350	16.58	—	$265,976
Jan 1995	19,302	40,206	15.92	—	$307,288
Dec 1994	21,585	40,995	15.03	—	$324,423
Nov 1994	24,904	54,809	15.90	—	$395,974
Oct 1994	29,168	40,110	15.58	—	$454,437
Sep 1994	30,296	45,159	15.29	—	$463,226
Aug 1994	13,264	29,182	16.13	—	$213,948
Jul 1994	10,672	27,107	17.56	—	$187,400
Jun 1994	10,114	15,485	17.09	—	$172,848
May 1994	11,696	19,424	15.88	—	$185,732
Apr 1994	11,035	22,949	14.14	—	$156,035
Mar 1994	13,176	31,162	12.46	—	$164,173
Feb 1994	12,064	26,912	12.50	—	$150,800
Jan 1994	11,741	22,065	12.66	—	$148,641
Dec 1993	13,676	26,894	12.33	—	$168,625
Nov 1993	13,236	20,709	14.49	—	$191,790
Oct 1993	14,276	26,811	15.85	—	$226,275
Sep 1993	15,184	25,886	15.03	—	$228,216
Aug 1993	16,288	25,770	15.66	—	$255,070
Jul 1993	16,642	22,613	15.46	—	$257,285
Jun 1993	13,773	25,371	16.79	—	$231,249
May 1993	11,194	17,171	17.68	—	$197,910
Apr 1993	12,711	43,958	18.05	—	$229,434
Mar 1993	13,298	206,523	18.14	—	$241,226
Feb 1993	14,897	17,524	17.90	—	$266,656
Jan 1993	17,345	23,490	16.93	—	$293,651

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.

Sep 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                1,263 bbl  × $ 22.22 =    $28,064
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                  $28,064

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/2178 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.