CHAPMAN HEIRS -A-

Operated by PI ENERGY, INC. (P-5 664190) in the ARNOLD-DAVID (CHAPMAN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 4848District 04Field 03776200NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$335 k
Jan 1993 – Nov 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$19 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
95
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 29 leases and 90 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1960-08-09
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

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

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: PROD. ACRES HRG. 4-14-64

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA1none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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
OilDisposition19,800 bbl$333,500
Casinghead gasProduction2,161 Mcf$1,389
Total$334,889

1,564 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 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 (26)

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 27.5836, -97.5813. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.8 miles.

27.58610, -97.57964 · 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%
26 of 26 wells
With a plug date
73.1%
19 of 26 wells
Median depth
6,500 ft
21 wells filed one
Completion to plug
14.8 years
median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
26100.0%
A plug date is filed
1973.1%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1973.1%
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

Total depth in feet, 21 of 26 wells. Median 6,500 ft, with the middle half between 6,150 and 7,380 ft; the shallowest is 6,083 ft and the deepest 11,504 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

Last completion by decade, 4 of 26 wells, Oct 1962 – Jul 1989. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Oct 1962 – Jul 1989
4 of 26 wells; 22 filed none
Plug dates filed
Mar 1982 – Oct 2000
19 of 26 wells; 7 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.8 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 13.0 years and 17.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

26 wells

42-355038517836,154 ftApr 1982Yes
42-355038527846,561 ftMar 1986Yes
42-355038537857,380 ftMar 1982Yes
42-355038547876,650 ftOct 2000Yes
42-355038577810Yes
42-355039111318,560 ftOct 2000Yes
42-355039141326,200 ftMar 1982Yes
42-355039151336,083 ftOct 2000Yes
42-355039161347,600 ftApr 1987Yes
42-355039171356,513 ftSep 2000Yes
42-355039181366,150 ftOct 2000Yes
42-3550392113911,504 ftJun 1982Yes
42-3550392213106,500 ftSep 2000Yes
42-3550392313116,150 ftFeb 1987Yes
42-3550392413126,150 ftYes
42-355039297816,124 ftMay 1982Yes
42-355039307827,000 ftApr 1982Yes
42-355039317866,150 ftOct 2000Yes
42-35580847788Yes
42-35580848789Yes
42-355808511315Yes
42-355808521316Yes
42-355039201386,150 ftJul 1989Sep 2000Yes
42-355039191376,150 ftDec 1985Sep 2000Yes
42-35531274131911,504 ftFeb 1981Yes
42-3550392513139,444 ftOct 1962Apr 1982Yes

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 (95)

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

95 months

Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 2000656029.304.40$19,221
May 20002027.263.68$55
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000125.272.48$2
Dec 19992124.282.42$51
Nov 19990123.192.43$2
Oct 19990120.982.80$3
Sep 19990121.752.62$3
Aug 19990119.262.88$3
Jul 19990117.892.37$2
Jun 19990115.942.36$2
May 19990115.792.32$2
Apr 19990115.102.21$2
Mar 19990212.471.84$4
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990110.381.90$2
Dec 1998344209.201.77$3,200
Nov 19983231810.892.19$3,557
Oct 19983301612.421.97$4,130
Sep 19981761712.592.08$2,251
Aug 19983243011.301.91$3,718
Jul 19985063211.742.24$6,012
Jun 19981622111.242.24$1,868
May 19983342512.622.21$4,270
Apr 19984856013.042.51$6,475
Mar 19983406412.802.31$4,500
Feb 19983536013.952.30$5,062
Jan 19983601814.702.15$5,331
Dec 19974942016.322.41$8,110
Nov 19973592018.193.09$6,592
Oct 19975152019.253.15$9,977
Sep 19973462017.742.95$6,197
Aug 19975122017.862.55$9,195
Jul 19975051517.582.25$8,912
Jun 199701217.242.26$27
May 19975202518.972.31$9,922
Apr 1997167817.882.08$3,003
Mar 19976632518.951.94$12,612
Feb 19974841520.492.21$9,950
Jan 1997160323.483.54$3,767
Dec 19960523.32$0
Nov 1996163521.97$3,581
Oct 1996168523.31$3,916
Sep 1996165522.22$3,666
Aug 1996324520.26$6,564
Jul 19960519.55$0
Jun 1996319618.73$5,975
May 19961661019.43$3,225
Apr 19963121021.51$6,711
Mar 19961661019.38$3,217
Feb 19963281016.98$5,569
Jan 19963321017.07$5,667
Dec 19953361017.19$5,776
Nov 19951611016.00$2,576
Oct 19953201015.43$4,938
Sep 19952821216.18$4,563
Aug 1995314315.92$4,999
Jul 1995324315.24$4,938
Jun 1995319516.41$5,235
May 1995316317.56$5,549
Apr 1995319517.73$5,656
Mar 19953158816.44$5,179
Feb 199547514216.58$7,876
Jan 199504515.92$0
Dec 199431314015.03$4,704
Nov 19941562215.90$2,480
Oct 1994322115.58$5,017
Sep 1994312115.29$4,770
Aug 1994315116.13$5,081
Jul 1994158117.56$2,774
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 1994271012.50$338
Jan 19940012.66$0
Dec 19931777012.33$2,182
Nov 19931787514.49$2,579
Oct 19933567615.85$5,643
Sep 19931735515.03$2,600
Aug 199333912015.66$5,309
Jul 199337015315.46$5,720
Jun 19930616.79$0
May 199354216617.68$9,583
Apr 199335513618.05$6,408
Mar 19931819118.14$3,283
Feb 19930417.90$0
Jan 19931801016.93$3,047

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.

Jun 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  656 bbl  × $ 29.30 =    $19,221
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.40 =         $0

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Month total                                  $19,221

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/4848 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.