SMELLEY, W. H. SR.

Operated by BOWLES ENERGY, INC. (P-5 84097) in the ALPINE (PETTIT) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 13032District 06Field 01940400OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$771 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$50 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
140
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 4 leases and 4 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1980-01-11
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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
OilDisposition29,715 bbl$577,691
Casinghead gasProduction84,226 Mcf$193,349
Total$771,040

30,242 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 45 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 32.5400, -94.6863. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.54000, -94.68628 · 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
8,975 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
11.8 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 8,975 ft.

Completions filed
May 1992
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2004
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 11.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 11.8 years and 11.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2033060918,975 ftMay 1992Mar 2004Yes

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 (140)

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

140 months

Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 2004155036.106.43$5,596
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 2004173032.036.30$5,541
Dec 200333861130.266.30$14,078
Nov 200317284028.804.60$8,814
Oct 200316691628.174.76$9,036
Sep 200315159726.314.75$6,808
Aug 200332018329.765.13$10,462
Jul 200318071029.415.17$8,965
Jun 2003052528.565.98$3,141
May 200315240526.595.97$6,461
Apr 2003079726.675.41$4,310
Mar 200317180331.146.10$10,220
Feb 200317575433.487.93$11,835
Jan 200318775130.315.58$9,860
Dec 200217778226.914.85$8,559
Nov 2002377724.664.14$3,288
Oct 200235266726.464.23$12,135
Sep 2002481527.443.64$3,072
Aug 200218780425.963.16$7,399
Jul 200217376524.583.06$6,595
Jun 200217368423.733.34$6,389
May 200217880124.663.58$7,260
Apr 200217477023.653.51$6,820
Mar 200217461622.003.10$5,739
Feb 200217677418.222.38$5,046
Jan 200217495717.172.38$5,261
Dec 200117292216.932.36$5,092
Nov 200118297818.072.41$5,641
Oct 200117582619.782.53$5,550
Sep 200117763224.262.25$5,717
Aug 200117959324.873.05$6,262
Jul 2001248123.933.20$1,586
Jun 200115875224.563.82$6,756
May 200115872825.524.31$7,168
Apr 200132345724.685.34$10,410
Mar 2001347424.545.38$2,622
Feb 200115260027.755.77$7,678
Jan 200132279427.478.40$15,514
Dec 2000358426.889.12$5,408
Nov 200017262232.215.66$9,059
Oct 200017379531.235.15$9,493
Sep 200018585031.875.19$10,304
Aug 200015789629.644.54$8,722
Jul 200017489328.534.09$8,616
Jun 200034243929.304.40$11,951
May 2000415227.263.68$668
Apr 200016861624.513.12$6,037
Mar 200018468128.422.86$7,177
Feb 200018058827.622.73$6,575
Jan 200035673925.272.48$10,829
Dec 1999489524.282.42$2,266
Nov 199918085723.192.43$6,260
Oct 199915088220.982.80$5,620
Sep 199928090321.752.62$8,455
Aug 199918298119.262.88$6,326
Jul 199917994217.892.37$5,437
Jun 199918393715.942.36$5,130
May 199918368815.792.32$4,486
Apr 199936074515.102.21$7,081
Mar 199934660212.471.84$5,421
Feb 1999029.981.82$4
Jan 19991958110.381.90$2,178
Dec 19981576919.201.77$2,670
Nov 199817284810.892.19$3,727
Oct 199835941112.421.97$5,268
Sep 1998124112.592.08$515
Aug 19983491,02911.301.91$5,906
Jul 199819477211.742.24$4,005
Jun 199817433211.242.24$2,699
May 199817798312.622.21$4,403
Apr 199817860713.042.51$3,842
Mar 199831384812.802.31$5,965
Feb 199818093813.952.30$4,668
Jan 199835891514.702.15$7,234
Dec 199716686416.322.41$4,792
Nov 19973701,15618.193.09$10,300
Oct 199755675719.253.15$13,087
Sep 1997251017.742.95$1,542
Aug 1997137117.862.55$966
Jul 1997189017.582.25$3,323
Jun 19971017.242.26$17
May 1997179018.972.31$3,396
Apr 1997193017.882.08$3,451
Mar 1997325018.951.94$6,159
Feb 1997132020.492.21$2,705
Jan 1997299023.483.54$7,021
Dec 1996333023.32$7,766
Nov 1996166021.97$3,647
Oct 19961921,04823.31$4,476
Sep 1996277022.22$6,155
Aug 199630193520.26$6,098
Jul 199629857119.55$5,826
Jun 199616446118.73$3,072
May 199625684719.43$4,974
Apr 199629576821.51$6,345
Mar 199630165319.38$5,833
Feb 199634769716.98$5,892
Jan 199618253717.07$3,107
Dec 199532685617.19$5,604
Nov 199534648616.00$5,536
Oct 199512648215.43$1,944
Sep 19952761,04516.18$4,466
Aug 19952231,25815.92$3,550
Jul 19952991,10215.24$4,557
Jun 199529093116.41$4,759
May 199525461617.56$4,460
Apr 199537484517.73$6,631
Mar 199513845116.44$2,269
Feb 199527121216.58$4,493
Jan 199528491715.92$4,521
Dec 199431427915.03$4,719
Nov 199428518415.90$4,532
Oct 199426532915.58$4,129
Sep 199431390915.29$4,786
Aug 19943551,14716.13$5,726
Jul 19942831,20717.56$4,969
Jun 19942781,35417.09$4,751
May 199442089815.88$6,670
Apr 199428787714.14$4,058
Mar 199430551812.46$3,800
Feb 19942901712.50$3,625
Jan 199434224412.66$4,330
Dec 199332465612.33$3,995
Nov 199318275114.49$2,637
Oct 19934321,22915.85$6,847
Sep 199334289615.03$5,140
Aug 19933261,02415.66$5,105
Jul 199333382915.46$5,148
Jun 199345345116.79$7,606
May 199333833817.68$5,976
Apr 1993365118.05$6,588
Mar 1993181118.14$3,283
Feb 199344415317.90$7,948
Jan 199328623216.93$4,842

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 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  155 bbl  × $ 36.10 =     $5,596
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.43 =         $0

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Month total                                   $5,596

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/13032 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.