FREEMAN, J. A.

Operated by ROWAN, AL (P-5 730425) in the VAN field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 2444District 05Field 93042001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$83 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
82
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 130 leases and 710 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1929-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
400 ft
minimum
From a lease line
200 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 7 acres. The field rule took effect on 1989-03-13.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AMENDED RULES ESTABLISH NO TOLERANCE ACRES & 1300' DIAG. LIMIT

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
OilDisposition5,093 bbl$82,565
Casinghead gasProduction50 Mcf$8
Total$82,573

47 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 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 32.5289, -95.6172. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.1 miles.

32.52893, -95.61720 · 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
3,263 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
16.6 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 3,200 and 3,326 ft, median 3,263 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jun 1982 – Jun 1983
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 1999
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.6 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16.3 years and 16.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-4673055023,326 ftJun 1983Jul 1999Yes
42-4673052313,200 ftJun 1982Jul 1999Yes

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 (82)

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

82 months

Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 199952017.892.37$930
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 199914009.981.82$1,397
Jan 1999178010.381.90$1,848
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 1998174012.592.08$2,191
Aug 1998166011.301.91$1,876
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 1998174013.042.51$2,269
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 199840014.702.15$588
Dec 1997172016.322.41$2,807
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 1997174017.742.95$3,087
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 1997169017.242.26$2,914
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 1997172118.951.94$3,261
Feb 19970120.492.21$2
Jan 1997159123.483.54$3,737
Dec 19960123.32$0
Nov 1996171121.97$3,757
Oct 19960123.31$0
Sep 19960122.22$0
Aug 1996165120.26$3,343
Jul 1996175119.55$3,421
Jun 19960118.73$0
May 19960119.43$0
Apr 1996151121.51$3,248
Mar 19960119.38$0
Feb 1996174116.98$2,955
Jan 19960117.07$0
Dec 19950117.19$0
Nov 19950116.00$0
Oct 1995170115.43$2,623
Sep 19950116.18$0
Aug 19950115.92$0
Jul 1995155115.24$2,362
Jun 19950116.41$0
May 19950117.56$0
Apr 1995148117.73$2,624
Mar 19950116.44$0
Feb 1995179116.58$2,968
Jan 19950115.92$0
Dec 19940115.03$0
Nov 1994178115.90$2,830
Oct 19940115.58$0
Sep 1994172115.29$2,630
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 1994157117.56$2,757
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 1994167114.14$2,361
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 1994174112.50$2,175
Jan 1994172112.66$2,178
Dec 19930012.33$0
Nov 1993176114.49$2,550
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 1993175115.66$2,741
Jul 19930115.46$0
Jun 1993169116.79$2,838
May 19930117.68$0
Apr 1993173118.05$3,123
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 1993122117.90$2,184
Jan 19930116.93$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.

Jul 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   52 bbl  × $ 17.89 =       $930
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.37 =         $0

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Month total                                     $930

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/O/2444 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.