WARDNER, G. P.

Operated by UNION PACIFIC RESOURCES COMPANY (P-5 876645) in the STRATTON (F-39-10) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 4995District 04Field 86508330NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$52 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$6 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
51
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 10 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1961-04-27
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

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

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: CONSOL INTO STRATTON (CONSOLIDATED) EFF 11/1/96

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
OilDisposition3,259 bbl$51,511
Casinghead gasProduction43,568 Mcf$0
Total$51,511

43,568 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 41 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 (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 27.6154, -97.9356. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.9 miles.

27.61960, -97.93421 · 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
60.0%
3 of 5 wells
Median depth
7,825 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
10.3 years
median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
5100.0%
A plug date is filed
360.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
360.0%
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 7,025 and 7,973 ft, median 7,825 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
May 1961 – Mar 1993
5 of 5 wells
Plug dates filed
Oct 1997 – Jun 2010
3 of 5 wells; 2 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 10.3 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 10.3 years and 13.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

5 wells

42-35532770191 D7,973 ftMar 1993Jun 2010Yes
42-27330119118 H7,025 ftDec 1988Yes
42-27300162847,950 ftAug 1987Nov 1997Yes
42-2730015693 L7,700 ftAug 1987Oct 1997Yes
42-2730015594 TMay 1961Yes

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 (51)

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

51 months

Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 199636023.31$839
Sep 1996194122.22$422
Aug 1996293820.26$588
Jul 1996322519.55$626
Jun 1996365718.73$674
May 1996395119.43$758
Apr 19968235021.51$1,764
Mar 19967424219.38$1,434
Feb 19966320816.98$1,070
Jan 19966126217.07$1,041
Dec 19956944317.19$1,186
Nov 1995732216.00$1,168
Oct 19958473315.43$1,296
Sep 1995254,82216.18$405
Aug 1995204,48615.92$318
Jul 19954858815.24$732
Jun 1995244,66516.41$394
May 1995274,33817.56$474
Apr 1995284,61517.73$496
Mar 1995351,29416.44$575
Feb 1995381,79516.58$630
Jan 19953564115.92$557
Dec 19942329315.03$346
Nov 19942829815.90$445
Oct 19943237615.58$499
Sep 1994391,71315.29$596
Aug 19944094616.13$645
Jul 19943976617.56$685
Jun 19944876517.09$820
May 19944988315.88$778
Apr 19945657114.14$792
Mar 199413758212.46$1,707
Feb 199413549212.50$1,688
Jan 199417450612.66$2,203
Dec 199316454512.33$2,022
Nov 199320852014.49$3,014
Oct 19931701,76615.85$2,695
Sep 199315867115.03$2,375
Aug 199318097915.66$2,819
Jul 199324044715.46$3,710
Jun 199319632116.79$3,291
May 199316641217.68$2,935
Apr 19930018.05$0
Mar 19930018.14$0
Feb 19930017.90$0
Jan 19930016.93$0

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 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   36 bbl  × $ 23.31 =       $839
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                     $839

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/4995 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.