DUVAL COUNTY RANCH CO. -G-

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

Oil lease lease 9018District 04Field 81136001OilSaveExport
Value, all time
$794
Jan 1993 – Oct 1993
Value, last 12 filed months
$794
at the published price for each month
Months reported
10
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
oil

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 19 leases and 55 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1949-10-25
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
660 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 0 acres. The field rule took effect on 1989-06-15.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ALLOCATION FORMULA EFFECTIVE 04/01/98.

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
OilDisposition51 bbl$794
Total$794

Wells on this lease (4)

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 27.7634, -98.6913. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

27.76455, -98.69352 · 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%
4 of 4 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
4 of 4 wells
Median depth
2,500 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
15.6 years
median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
4100.0%
A plug date is filed
4100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
4100.0%
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 2,500 and 2,500 ft, median 2,500 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Dec 1977 – Apr 1978
3 of 4 wells; 1 filed none
Plug dates filed
Oct 1980 – Jul 1993
4 of 4 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.6 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.4 years and 15.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-1313246572,500 ftOct 1980Yes
42-1313246452,500 ftApr 1978Jul 1993Yes
42-1313247192,500 ftDec 1977Jul 1993Yes
42-1313246742,500 ftDec 1977Jul 1993Yes

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 (10)

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

10 months

Oct 1993015.85$0
Sep 1993015.03$0
Aug 19932615.66$407
Jul 19932515.46$387
Jun 1993016.79$0
May 1993017.68$0
Apr 1993018.05$0
Mar 1993018.14$0
Feb 1993017.90$0
Jan 1993016.93$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.

Aug 1993 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   26 bbl  × $ 15.66 =       $407

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Month total                                     $407

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/9018 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.