BAKER "A"

Operated by RANGE PRODUCTION COMPANY (P-5 691703) in the LAURA LA VELLE, S. (1600) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 10454District 06Field 52278700OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.3 M
Jan 1993 – Nov 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$114 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
131
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 37 leases and 161 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1980-09-03
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
300 ft
minimum
From a lease line
150 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 acres. The field rule took effect on 1992-02-03.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: 10 ACRE OPT-MAX DIAG 1500'

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
OilDisposition66,456 bbl$1,339,060
Casinghead gasProduction27 Mcf$0
Total$1,339,060

27 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 27 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 31.2637, -95.2054. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.1 miles.

31.26338, -95.20535 · 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
25.0%
1 of 4 wells
Median depth
1,708 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
14.9 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
4100.0%
A plug date is filed
125.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
125.0%
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 1,589 and 1,800 ft, median 1,708 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Oct 1995 – Apr 2018
4 of 4 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2010
1 of 4 wells; 3 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.9 years and 14.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-2253095641,715 ftApr 2018Yes
42-2253050021,589 ftJan 2013Yes
42-2253038611,800 ftDec 1995Nov 2010Yes
42-2253091431,701 ftOct 1995Yes

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 (131)

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

131 months

Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 2003140029.765.13$4,166
Jul 2003458029.415.17$13,470
Jun 2003306028.565.98$8,739
May 2003459026.595.97$12,205
Apr 2003456026.675.41$12,162
Mar 2003466031.146.10$14,511
Feb 2003443033.487.93$14,832
Jan 2003691030.315.58$20,944
Dec 2002464026.914.85$12,486
Nov 2002302024.664.14$7,447
Oct 2002774026.464.23$20,480
Sep 2002609027.443.64$16,711
Aug 2002453025.963.16$11,760
Jul 2002539024.583.06$13,249
Jun 2002604023.733.34$14,333
May 2002459024.663.58$11,319
Apr 2002306023.653.51$7,237
Mar 2002463022.003.10$10,186
Feb 2002454018.222.38$8,272
Jan 2002444017.172.38$7,623
Dec 2001438016.932.36$7,415
Nov 2001444018.072.41$8,023
Oct 2001448019.782.53$8,861
Sep 2001441024.262.25$10,699
Aug 2001449024.873.05$11,167
Jul 2001598023.933.20$14,310
Jun 2001616024.563.82$15,129
May 2001595025.524.31$15,184
Apr 2001464024.685.34$11,452
Mar 2001610024.545.38$14,969
Feb 2001631027.755.77$17,510
Jan 2001459027.478.40$12,609
Dec 2000601026.889.12$16,155
Nov 2000476032.215.66$15,332
Oct 2000648031.235.15$20,237
Sep 2000623031.875.19$19,855
Aug 2000659029.644.54$19,533
Jul 2000821028.534.09$23,423
Jun 2000824029.304.40$24,143
May 2000782027.263.68$21,317
Apr 2000800024.513.12$19,608
Mar 2000829028.422.86$23,560
Feb 20001,121027.622.73$30,962
Jan 20001,470025.272.48$37,147
Dec 19991,010024.282.42$24,523
Nov 1999778023.192.43$18,042
Oct 1999816020.982.80$17,120
Sep 1999796021.752.62$17,313
Aug 19991,021019.262.88$19,664
Jul 1999813017.892.37$14,545
Jun 1999619015.942.36$9,867
May 1999800015.792.32$12,632
Apr 1999651015.102.21$9,830
Mar 1999804012.471.84$10,026
Feb 199978509.981.82$7,834
Jan 1999944010.381.90$9,799
Dec 199865609.201.77$6,035
Nov 1998943010.892.19$10,269
Oct 1998658012.421.97$8,172
Sep 1998627012.592.08$7,894
Aug 1998592011.301.91$6,690
Jul 1998783011.742.24$9,192
Jun 1998606011.242.24$6,811
May 1998770012.622.21$9,717
Apr 1998614013.042.51$8,007
Mar 19981,052012.802.31$13,466
Feb 1998464013.952.30$6,473
Jan 1998375014.702.15$5,513
Dec 1997315016.322.41$5,141
Nov 1997440018.193.09$8,004
Oct 1997302019.253.15$5,814
Sep 1997427017.742.95$7,575
Aug 1997459017.862.55$8,198
Jul 1997486017.582.25$8,544
Jun 1997478017.242.26$8,241
May 1997460018.972.31$8,726
Apr 1997334017.882.08$5,972
Mar 1997477018.951.94$9,039
Feb 1997481020.492.21$9,856
Jan 1997475023.483.54$11,153
Dec 1996456023.32$10,634
Nov 1996321021.97$7,052
Oct 1996451023.31$10,513
Sep 1996474022.22$10,532
Aug 1996457020.26$9,259
Jul 1996467019.55$9,130
Jun 1996323018.73$6,050
May 1996599019.43$11,639
Apr 1996598021.51$12,863
Mar 1996595019.38$11,531
Feb 1996454016.98$7,709
Jan 1996605017.07$10,327
Dec 1995144017.19$2,475
Nov 1995427016.00$6,832
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 1995448015.92$7,132
Jul 1995314015.24$4,785
Jun 1995447016.41$7,335
May 1995300017.56$5,268
Apr 1995460017.73$8,156
Mar 1995305116.44$5,014
Feb 1995312116.58$5,173
Jan 1995463115.92$7,371
Dec 1994301115.03$4,524
Nov 1994470115.90$7,473
Oct 1994316115.58$4,923
Sep 1994303115.29$4,633
Aug 1994315116.13$5,081
Jul 1994304117.56$5,338
Jun 1994456117.09$7,793
May 1994314115.88$4,986
Apr 1994493114.14$6,971
Mar 1994319112.46$3,975
Feb 1994469112.50$5,863
Jan 1994311112.66$3,937
Dec 1993453112.33$5,585
Nov 1993335114.49$4,854
Oct 1993468115.85$7,418
Sep 1993497115.03$7,470
Aug 1993313115.66$4,902
Jul 1993459115.46$7,096
Jun 1993469116.79$7,875
May 1993475117.68$8,398
Apr 1993331118.05$5,975
Mar 1993158118.14$2,866
Feb 1993150117.90$2,685
Jan 1993309116.93$5,231

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 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  140 bbl  × $ 29.76 =     $4,166
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.13 =         $0

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Month total                                   $4,166

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. 06/O/10454 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.