BEMIS, W. N. ESTATE "C"

Operated by WHATLEY, O.B. OIL COMPANY, INC. (P-5 913974) in the HAYNES (MITCHELL) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 12502District 06Field 39829664OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$299 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$30 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 66 leases and 214 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1954-08-13
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,100 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 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
OilDisposition15,875 bbl$299,398
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$299,398

21 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 (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 32.9340, -94.1866. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.93403, -94.18662 · 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
6,098 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
44.1 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 6,098 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 1958
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Aug 2002
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 44.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 44.1 years and 44.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-0670047246,098 ftJul 1958Aug 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 200261025.963.16$1,584
Jul 2002342024.583.06$8,406
Jun 2002173023.733.34$4,105
May 2002222024.663.58$5,475
Apr 200273023.653.51$1,726
Mar 200297022.003.10$2,134
Feb 200278018.222.38$1,421
Jan 200298017.172.38$1,683
Dec 200175016.932.36$1,270
Nov 2001101018.072.41$1,825
Oct 200154019.782.53$1,068
Sep 2001103024.262.25$2,499
Aug 200128024.873.05$696
Jul 2001102023.933.20$2,441
Jun 2001150024.563.82$3,684
May 200163025.524.31$1,608
Apr 2001125024.685.34$3,085
Mar 2001123024.545.38$3,018
Feb 2001130027.755.77$3,608
Jan 2001197027.478.40$5,412
Dec 200067026.889.12$1,801
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 2000130031.235.15$4,060
Sep 2000132031.875.19$4,207
Aug 2000125029.644.54$3,705
Jul 2000177028.534.09$5,050
Jun 2000136029.304.40$3,985
May 2000197027.263.68$5,370
Apr 2000143024.513.12$3,505
Mar 2000226028.422.86$6,423
Feb 2000194027.622.73$5,358
Jan 2000187025.272.48$4,725
Dec 1999138024.282.42$3,351
Nov 1999176023.192.43$4,081
Oct 1999117020.982.80$2,455
Sep 1999175021.752.62$3,806
Aug 1999131019.262.88$2,523
Jul 1999169017.892.37$3,023
Jun 1999172015.942.36$2,742
May 1999125015.792.32$1,974
Apr 1999250015.102.21$3,775
Mar 1999125012.471.84$1,559
Feb 199911809.981.82$1,178
Jan 1999130010.381.90$1,349
Dec 199817509.201.77$1,610
Nov 1998200010.892.19$2,178
Oct 1998150012.421.97$1,863
Sep 1998175012.592.08$2,203
Aug 1998250011.301.91$2,825
Jul 1998200011.742.24$2,348
Jun 1998175011.242.24$1,967
May 1998175012.622.21$2,209
Apr 1998200013.042.51$2,608
Mar 1998200012.802.31$2,560
Feb 199893013.952.30$1,297
Jan 1998200014.702.15$2,940
Dec 1997175016.322.41$2,856
Nov 1997134018.193.09$2,437
Oct 1997133019.253.15$2,560
Sep 1997200017.742.95$3,548
Aug 1997150017.862.55$2,679
Jul 1997200017.582.25$3,516
Jun 1997125017.242.26$2,155
May 1997132018.972.31$2,504
Apr 1997148017.882.08$2,646
Mar 1997219018.951.94$4,150
Feb 1997173020.492.21$3,545
Jan 1997175023.483.54$4,109
Dec 1996144023.32$3,358
Nov 1996155021.97$3,405
Oct 1996220023.31$5,128
Sep 1996100022.22$2,222
Aug 1996159020.26$3,221
Jul 1996110019.55$2,151
Jun 199680018.73$1,498
May 1996127019.43$2,468
Apr 1996100021.51$2,151
Mar 1996190019.38$3,682
Feb 1996100016.98$1,698
Jan 1996131017.07$2,236
Dec 1995170017.19$2,922
Nov 199565016.00$1,040
Oct 1995143015.43$2,206
Sep 199580016.18$1,294
Aug 1995141015.92$2,245
Jul 1995100015.24$1,524
Jun 1995100016.41$1,641
May 199565017.56$1,141
Apr 1995161017.73$2,855
Mar 1995119016.44$1,956
Feb 199596016.58$1,592
Jan 1995100015.92$1,592
Dec 1994101015.03$1,518
Nov 1994191015.90$3,037
Oct 1994176015.58$2,742
Sep 1994156115.29$2,385
Aug 1994144116.13$2,323
Jul 1994131117.56$2,300
Jun 199495117.09$1,624
May 1994100115.88$1,588
Apr 1994133114.14$1,881
Mar 1994150112.46$1,869
Feb 1994100112.50$1,250
Jan 1994100112.66$1,266
Dec 199375112.33$925
Nov 1993103114.49$1,492
Oct 199395115.85$1,506
Sep 1993100115.03$1,503
Aug 199399115.66$1,550
Jul 1993129115.46$1,994
Jun 1993145116.79$2,435
May 199351117.68$902
Apr 1993105118.05$1,895
Mar 1993148118.14$2,685
Feb 199350117.90$895
Jan 1993150116.93$2,540

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                   61 bbl  × $ 25.96 =     $1,584
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.16 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,584

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/12502 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.