WARDNER, G.P.

Operated by UNION PACIFIC RESOURCES COMPANY (P-5 876645) in the STRATTON (E-49-13) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 9601District 04Field 86508240NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$50 k
Jan 1993 – Apr 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$269
at the published price for each month
Months reported
52
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 4 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1962-03-27
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

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: CONSOL INTO STRATTON (CONSOLIDATED) FLD 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
OilDisposition3,072 bbl$49,754
Casinghead gasProduction40,059 Mcf$0
Total$49,754

40,059 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 29 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 (2)

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 27.6376, -97.9341. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

27.63755, -97.93406 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
7,050 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
21.0 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
2100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2100.0%
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 6,950 and 7,150 ft, median 7,050 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jul 1980 – Oct 2008
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 2005 – Mar 2026
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 21.0 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 19.2 years and 22.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-355315031436,950 ftOct 2008Mar 2026Yes
42-273001421037,150 ftJul 1980Jan 2005Yes

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 (52)

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

52 months

Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19962023.31$47
Sep 1996105222.22$222
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 19951016.18$16
Aug 199534515.92$48
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19951017.73$18
Mar 19951511016.44$247
Feb 19955446016.58$895
Jan 19955247515.92$828
Dec 19943421715.03$511
Nov 19944021515.90$636
Oct 19944427215.58$686
Sep 19941732515.29$260
Aug 19946677716.13$1,065
Jul 19948990817.56$1,563
Jun 199411796617.09$2,000
May 19941321,23515.88$2,096
Apr 199416592714.14$2,333
Mar 19948594512.46$1,059
Feb 19942210412.50$275
Jan 19947329112.66$924
Dec 19938548812.33$1,048
Nov 199312578414.49$1,811
Oct 199312896815.85$2,029
Sep 19931301,27515.03$1,954
Aug 19931463,51315.66$2,286
Jul 19931834,25415.46$2,829
Jun 19931631,95216.79$2,737
May 19931752,98417.68$3,094
Apr 19932063,80718.05$3,718
Mar 19932383,82218.14$4,317
Feb 19932364,49817.90$4,224
Jan 19932353,39016.93$3,979

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                    2 bbl  × $ 23.31 =        $47
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                      $47

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/9601 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.