EAST, ALICE K., MRS., -B-

Operated by EXXON CORP. (P-5 257097) in the SAN ROMAN (4-A) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 6636District 04Field 80373875OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$211 k
Jan 1993 – Apr 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$368
at the published price for each month
Months reported
64
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 5 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1966-09-05
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

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
OilDisposition13,208 bbl$211,437
Casinghead gasProduction13,103 Mcf$0
Total$211,437

13,103 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 35 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 (3)

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 26.7435, -98.7768. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

26.74331, -98.77635 · 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%
3 of 3 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
3 of 3 wells
Median depth
4,900 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
7.8 years
median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
3100.0%
A plug date is filed
3100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
3100.0%
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 4,845 and 5,442 ft, median 4,900 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jun 1976 – May 1996
3 of 3 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 1982 – Feb 2004
3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.8 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 5.7 years and 14.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-427017434 D4,900 ftMay 1996Feb 2004Yes
42-4270174415,442 ftApr 1979Nov 1982Yes
42-4273081620 D4,845 ftJun 1976Dec 1997Yes

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 (64)

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

64 months

Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19981013.952.30$14
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19971016.322.41$16
Nov 19973018.193.09$55
Oct 19972019.253.15$39
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19974017.582.25$70
Jun 19979017.242.26$155
May 19971018.972.31$19
Apr 199719017.882.08$340
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 199694023.32$2,192
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 1996140020.26$2,836
Jul 1996116119.55$2,268
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 1996163019.43$3,167
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 199685019.38$1,647
Feb 199687016.98$1,477
Jan 1996782717.07$1,331
Dec 1995753317.19$1,289
Nov 199593016.00$1,488
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19952206216.18$3,560
Aug 199529416915.92$4,680
Jul 19952456815.24$3,734
Jun 19951439816.41$2,347
May 19953279517.56$5,742
Apr 199535011517.73$6,206
Mar 199545011516.44$7,398
Feb 1995304016.58$5,040
Jan 199538595215.92$6,129
Dec 19945663315.03$842
Nov 1994344115.90$5,470
Oct 1994257115.58$4,004
Sep 1994550115.29$8,410
Aug 199427010516.13$4,355
Jul 199442818517.56$7,516
Jun 199443831417.09$7,485
May 199446433915.88$7,368
Apr 199447552014.14$6,717
Mar 199444845812.46$5,582
Feb 199426366412.50$3,288
Jan 19947410212.66$937
Dec 19935798312.33$7,139
Nov 199392240414.49$13,360
Oct 199342669715.85$6,752
Sep 199334771715.03$5,215
Aug 199344066715.66$6,890
Jul 199365477815.46$10,111
Jun 199310741116.79$1,797
May 199348118517.68$8,504
Apr 19936081,20318.05$10,974
Mar 19933711,09718.14$6,730
Feb 199301,15217.90$0
Jan 199351765116.93$8,753

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.

Feb 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    1 bbl  × $ 13.95 =        $14
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.30 =         $0

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Month total                                      $14

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/6636 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.