NORRIS ESTATE

Operated by REYNOLDS DRILLING CO., INC. (P-5 704332) in the WILLOW SPRINGS (TRAVIS PEAK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 13565District 06Field 97752830OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$188 k
Aug 1996 – Nov 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$1 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
64
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 311 leases and 315 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1954-01-30
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2000-06-22.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: #06-0224806.

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
OilDisposition5,790 bbl$92,082
Casinghead gasProduction45,536 Mcf$95,852
Total$187,934

3,478 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 5 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 32.4233, -94.8091. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.42329, -94.80906 · 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
7,800 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
7.4 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 7,800 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 1994
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2001
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.4 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 7.4 years and 7.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-1833106327,800 ftApr 1994Sep 2001Yes

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 (64)

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

64 months

Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 200147024.262.25$1,140
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 1999197015.942.36$3,140
May 1999069515.792.32$1,613
Apr 199902,19215.102.21$4,840
Mar 19992962,24612.471.84$7,820
Feb 19991921,6779.981.82$4,965
Jan 19991972,09710.381.90$6,029
Dec 19981961,6559.201.77$4,738
Nov 19981941,63110.892.19$5,678
Oct 19981941,57012.421.97$5,501
Sep 199816765112.592.08$3,458
Aug 19981931,63711.301.91$5,303
Jul 19981931,90711.742.24$6,532
Jun 199801,19711.242.24$2,678
May 19981901,82412.622.21$6,422
Apr 19983371,86313.042.51$9,062
Mar 199801,39112.802.31$3,212
Feb 19983311,24113.952.30$7,471
Jan 199801,38114.702.15$2,976
Dec 19971831,38816.322.41$6,333
Nov 19971951,73318.193.09$8,899
Oct 19971891,88619.253.15$9,579
Sep 19971841,67217.742.95$8,205
Aug 19973871,48317.862.55$10,701
Jul 199701,07017.582.25$2,404
Jun 19971811,04217.242.26$5,472
May 19973771,27718.972.31$10,100
Apr 199701,14917.882.08$2,393
Mar 19973051,17418.951.94$8,056
Feb 199716171720.492.21$4,881
Jan 199713161223.483.54$5,242
Dec 199615543023.32$3,615
Nov 1996111221.97$22
Oct 199619899823.31$4,615
Sep 19962051,30822.22$4,555
Aug 19961463020.26$284

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 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   47 bbl  × $ 24.26 =     $1,140
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.25 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,140

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/13565 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.