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KING RANCH STRATTON

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

Oil lease lease 7657District 04Field 86508840OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$10 k
Jan 1993 – Nov 1996
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
47
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead gas

The STRATTON (WARDNER WEST) field

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 5 leases and 38 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1938-04-23
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 field rule took effect on 1989-07-14.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “PER DOC. NO. 04-0213460 EFFECTIVE 12-1-96.”

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
OilDisposition685 bbl$10,180
Casinghead gasProduction876 Mcf$0
Total$10,180

876 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 5 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 (30)

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 27.6230, -97.9524. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 19.9 miles.

27.50342, -97.99957 · 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%
30 of 30 wells
With a plug date
86.7%
26 of 30 wells
Median depth
6,440 ft
26 wells filed one
Completion to plug
6.7 years
median over 22 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
30100.0%
A plug date is filed
2686.7%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2686.7%
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, 26 of 30 wells. Median 6,440 ft, with the middle half between 6,400 and 7,100 ft; the shallowest is 6,375 ft and the deepest 8,617 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, 22 of 30 wells, Apr 1970 – Jun 2000. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Apr 1970 – Jun 2000
22 of 30 wells; 8 filed none
Plug dates filed
Sep 1978 – Sep 2013
26 of 30 wells; 4 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 6.7 years across the 22 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 20 months and 14.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

30 wells

42-24930074A 486,390 ft—Nov 1991Yes
42-27300145A 23 F———Yes
42-27300148A 26———Yes
42-27330095A 32———Yes
42-27330162A 576,409 ft—Aug 1991Yes
42-27330163A 55 C7,700 ft—Sep 1978Yes
42-27330166A 49———Yes
42-27330251A 77 W6,505 ft—Apr 1987Yes
42-24930108A 547,125 ftJun 2000Jan 2006Yes
42-27330100A 357,150 ftJul 1999Feb 2001Yes
42-27330265A 71 D7,100 ftApr 1997Nov 1997Yes
42-27330170A 596,425 ftSep 1996Jul 2000Yes
42-27330113A 416,400 ftAug 1996Dec 1996Yes
42-24930106A 536,377 ftJul 1996Sep 2013Yes
42-24930093A 516,410 ftJun 1996Aug 2000Yes
42-24930063A 447,100 ftJun 1996Dec 1997Yes
42-24930072A 45 F6,375 ftMay 1996Aug 2000Yes
42-27330114A 397,065 ftMay 1996Aug 1996Yes
42-27330110A 40 D6,400 ftMay 1996Oct 1996Yes
42-27301735A 27 D8,617 ftDec 1989Sep 1991Yes
42-27330093A 34 D7,085 ftMay 1983Feb 1991Yes
42-27330092A 33 F7,100 ftApr 1979Dec 1991Yes
42-24932240A 366,380 ftJun 1975Nov 1991Yes
42-24930073A 466,400 ftFeb 1974Oct 1984Yes
42-24930094A 50 W6,455 ftJul 1971Jan 1987Yes
42-24930062A 43 D7,140 ftSep 1970Mar 1992Yes
42-24930060A 426,390 ftAug 1970Oct 1985Yes
42-27330108A 37 F7,090 ftJul 1970Aug 1991Yes
42-24930054A 386,400 ftJul 1970Dec 1982Yes
42-27330078A 316,415 ftApr 1970Feb 1984Yes

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 19960021.97—$0
Oct 19960023.31—$0
Sep 19960022.22—$0
Aug 19960020.26—$0
Jul 19960019.55—$0
Jun 19960018.73—$0
May 19960019.43—$0
Apr 19960021.51—$0
Mar 19960019.38—$0
Feb 19960016.98—$0
Jan 19960017.07—$0
Dec 19950017.19—$0
Nov 19950016.00—$0
Oct 19950015.43—$0
Sep 19950016.18—$0
Aug 19950015.92—$0
Jul 19950015.24—$0
Jun 19950016.41—$0
May 19950017.56—$0
Apr 19950017.73—$0
Mar 19950016.44—$0
Feb 19950016.58—$0
Jan 19950015.92—$0
Dec 19940015.03—$0
Nov 19940015.90—$0
Oct 19940015.58—$0
Sep 19940015.29—$0
Aug 19940016.13—$0
Jul 19940017.56—$0
Jun 19940017.09—$0
May 19940015.88—$0
Apr 19940014.14—$0
Mar 19940012.46—$0
Feb 19940012.50—$0
Jan 19940012.66—$0
Dec 1993117112.33—$1,443
Nov 1993142114.49—$2,058
Oct 199313218915.85—$2,092
Sep 199320068415.03—$3,006
Aug 199326115.66—$407
Jul 19930015.46—$0
Jun 19930016.79—$0
May 19931017.68—$18
Apr 19931018.05—$18
Mar 19935018.14—$91
Feb 199316017.90—$286
Jan 199345016.93—$762

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.

Dec 1993 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  117 bbl  × $ 12.33 =     $1,443
Casinghead gas         1 Mcf  ×  no price            —

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $1,443

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/7657 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.