SMITH, L. R.

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

Oil lease lease 3461District 05Field 93042830OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$28 k
Sep 1993 – Nov 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$8 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
51
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 25 leases and 31 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1967-10-11
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 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 1975-10-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: FIELD RULES EFF. 10-1-75 PER DOCKET #05-65387.

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
OilDisposition1,684 bbl$27,902
Casinghead gasProduction36 Mcf$0
Total$27,902

36 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 36 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 (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 32.5587, -95.6367. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.55868, -95.63668 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
6,500 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
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 6,500 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 1997
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-4673086746,500 ftJun 1997Yes

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 (51)

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

51 months

Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 1997100017.742.95$1,774
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 1997180017.582.25$3,164
Jun 1997177017.242.26$3,051
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 19960121.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960120.26$0
Jul 19960119.55$0
Jun 19960118.73$0
May 1996188119.43$3,653
Apr 19960121.51$0
Mar 19960119.38$0
Feb 19960116.98$0
Jan 19960117.07$0
Dec 1995180117.19$3,094
Nov 19950116.00$0
Oct 19950115.43$0
Sep 19950116.18$0
Aug 19950115.92$0
Jul 1995184115.24$2,804
Jun 19950116.41$0
May 19950117.56$0
Apr 19950117.73$0
Mar 19950116.44$0
Feb 1995180116.58$2,984
Jan 19950115.92$0
Dec 19940115.03$0
Nov 19940115.90$0
Oct 19940115.58$0
Sep 1994145115.29$2,217
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 19940117.56$0
Jun 1994171117.09$2,922
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 1994179112.50$2,238
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 19930015.03$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.

Sep 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  100 bbl  × $ 17.74 =     $1,774
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.95 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,774

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/3461 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.