WEIL-B

Operated by NEWMAN OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 607391) in the SARNOSA field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 9794District 04Field 81130001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$188 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$10 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
118
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 8 leases and 36 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1932-04-19
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
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 10 acres.

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
OilDisposition10,095 bbl$187,615
Casinghead gasProduction1,090 Mcf$0
Total$187,615

1,090 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 (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 27.7787, -98.6511. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

27.77860, -98.65125 · 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
2,635 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
20.9 years
median over 4 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 2,507 and 3,007 ft, median 2,635 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Apr 1981 – Oct 1985
4 of 4 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2002 – Oct 2002
4 of 4 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 20.9 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 19.6 years and 21.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-1313678372,661 ftOct 1985Sep 2002Yes
42-1313573152,608 ftApr 1982Sep 2002Yes
42-1313517443,007 ftApr 1981Sep 2002Yes
42-1313497432,507 ftApr 1981Oct 2002Yes

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 (118)

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

118 months

Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 2002151025.963.16$3,920
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 2002163022.003.10$3,586
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 2002164017.172.38$2,816
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 2001168019.782.53$3,323
Sep 2001164024.262.25$3,979
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 2001168023.933.20$4,020
Jun 2001161024.563.82$3,954
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 2001321024.685.34$7,922
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 2001154027.755.77$4,274
Jan 2001165027.478.40$4,533
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 2000164032.215.66$5,282
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 2000154031.875.19$4,908
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 2000174029.304.40$5,098
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 2000152024.513.12$3,726
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 2000148027.622.73$4,088
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 1999148024.282.42$3,593
Nov 1999141023.192.43$3,270
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 1999161021.752.62$3,502
Aug 1999151019.262.88$2,908
Jul 1999160017.892.37$2,862
Jun 1999152015.942.36$2,423
May 1999153015.792.32$2,416
Apr 1999307015.102.21$4,636
Mar 1999307012.471.84$3,828
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19989012.802.31$115
Feb 19982013.952.30$28
Jan 19983014.702.15$44
Dec 19977016.322.41$114
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
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 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 1995157016.00$2,512
Oct 1995156015.43$2,407
Sep 1995156016.18$2,524
Aug 1995161015.92$2,563
Jul 1995306015.24$4,663
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 1995146017.73$2,589
Mar 1995146016.44$2,400
Feb 1995151016.58$2,504
Jan 1995260015.92$4,139
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 1994255015.90$4,055
Oct 1994264015.58$4,113
Sep 1994265115.29$4,052
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 1994251117.56$4,408
Jun 19942566317.09$4,375
May 199405915.88$0
Apr 19942615814.14$3,691
Mar 19942645712.46$3,289
Feb 19942656012.50$3,313
Jan 199406312.66$0
Dec 199306212.33$0
Nov 19932626014.49$3,796
Oct 199305915.85$0
Sep 19932626115.03$3,938
Aug 19932586015.66$4,040
Jul 199305915.46$0
Jun 19932646316.79$4,433
May 19932646117.68$4,668
Apr 19932666018.05$4,801
Mar 199305918.14$0
Feb 19932616217.90$4,672
Jan 19932666116.93$4,503

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 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  151 bbl  × $ 25.96 =     $3,920
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.16 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,920

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/9794 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.