MARTIN, J. H.

Operated by STROUD PETROLEUM, INC. (P-5 828082) in the THOMAS LAKE (COTTON VALLEY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 168618District 05Field 894783002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$2.4 M
Apr 1998 – Jun 2007
Value, last 12 filed months
$5 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
111
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 22 leases and 22 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1979-05-28
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 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 2008-04-24.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: RULE 4 AMENDED CHANGING ALLOCATION FORMULA.

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
High Cost Gas111998-12-10139855
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
CondensateDisposition1,336 bbl$33,189
GasProduction810,075 Mcf$2,407,683
Total$2,440,872

Wells on this lease (1)

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 32.2538, -95.8452. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.25377, -95.84524 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
12,037 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
9.2 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 12,037 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 1998
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 2007
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 9.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.2 years and 9.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-21330785112,037 ftApr 1998Jun 2007Yes

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 (111)

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

111 months

Jun 200730062.007.55$1,860
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 200605860.085.04$292
Aug 2006304468.717.34$2,384
Jul 200601969.376.34$121
Jun 200601166.286.38$70
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20061156.707.08$64
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 2005258454.6910.59$6,293
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 2005028961.4512.08$3,491
Aug 2005087961.519.80$8,611
Jul 20050455.697.84$31
Jun 2005060752.337.38$4,480
May 200502,03245.226.65$13,515
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 2005076550.377.15$5,473
Feb 2005059745.226.31$3,768
Jan 200502,31943.166.32$14,661
Dec 200401,63839.866.75$11,058
Nov 200403,74245.286.33$23,688
Oct 200404,60249.706.52$29,982
Sep 200414,37043.245.28$23,134
Aug 200405,15842.375.55$28,630
Jul 2004174,98038.286.08$30,950
Jun 20041814,37136.106.43$34,653
May 2004184,51137.486.49$29,972
Apr 200403,09534.475.86$18,132
Mar 2004444,95934.365.53$28,936
Feb 2004571,06232.455.51$7,701
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20034028.174.76$113
Sep 20033026.314.75$79
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030628.565.98$36
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 2003068926.675.41$3,726
Mar 200305,34731.146.10$32,596
Feb 200309733.487.93$769
Jan 200304,03030.315.58$22,496
Dec 20021794,42426.914.85$26,290
Nov 200215,12724.664.14$21,235
Oct 200216,20026.464.23$26,247
Sep 200213,39927.443.64$12,383
Aug 200213,60525.963.16$11,433
Jul 200207,00124.583.06$21,435
Jun 200208,00723.733.34$26,729
May 200203,80724.663.58$13,644
Apr 200225,58323.653.51$19,657
Mar 200217,38122.003.10$22,923
Feb 200203,23018.222.38$7,673
Jan 200201,00917.172.38$2,397
Dec 200106,37216.932.36$15,066
Nov 200121,47618.072.41$3,587
Oct 200105,56319.782.53$14,068
Sep 200106,33124.262.25$14,253
Aug 200107,20424.873.05$21,995
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20011894,73424.563.82$22,745
May 200103,68025.524.31$15,851
Apr 200103,00124.685.34$16,011
Mar 200102,18224.545.38$11,731
Feb 200123,66427.755.77$21,186
Jan 200117,02627.478.40$59,037
Dec 200005,10326.889.12$46,552
Nov 200004,75632.215.66$26,909
Oct 2000012,51131.235.15$64,375
Sep 200008,86331.875.19$45,968
Aug 2000012,47929.644.54$56,664
Jul 2000019,69428.534.09$80,544
Jun 200006,62529.304.40$29,132
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 200005,80928.422.86$16,612
Feb 2000012,57327.622.73$34,280
Jan 2000011,01225.272.48$27,315
Dec 1999019,10024.282.42$46,293
Nov 199906,89023.192.43$16,770
Oct 1999012,18820.982.80$34,172
Sep 1999018,94821.752.62$49,622
Aug 1999019,44019.262.88$55,902
Jul 199919318,09117.892.37$46,371
Jun 1999023,92715.942.36$56,518
May 1999133,42515.792.32$77,596
Apr 1999023,36515.102.21$51,591
Mar 1999018,31412.471.84$33,667
Feb 1999018,7839.981.82$34,144
Jan 1999027,10710.381.90$51,502
Dec 1998042,0239.201.77$74,520
Nov 1998033,16610.892.19$72,492
Oct 199818823,75612.421.97$49,116
Sep 1998029,69812.592.08$61,850
Aug 1998034,51311.301.91$65,828
Jul 1998035,70711.742.24$79,886
Jun 199818635,91711.242.24$82,447
May 1998036,81712.622.21$81,231
Apr 1998028,60313.042.51$71,660

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.

Jun 2007 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            30 bbl  × $ 62.00 =     $1,860
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  7.55 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,860

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. 05/G/168618 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.