BLALOCK, V. C.

Operated by PETRO-HUNT, L.L.C. (P-5 660043) in the QUITMAN, NW. (PALUXY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 3183District 06Field 73848498OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$943 k
Jan 1993 – Sep 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$49
at the published price for each month
Months reported
117
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 13 leases and 18 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1959-06-17
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 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
OilDisposition56,525 bbl$918,953
Casinghead gasProduction42,850 Mcf$23,644
Total$942,597

32,163 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 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 (2)

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 32.8535, -95.4778. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.1 miles.

32.85349, -95.47784 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
6,328 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
13.6 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
2100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2100.0%
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 6,296 and 6,359 ft, median 6,328 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jan 1980 – Jun 1995
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 2001 – May 2001
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.6 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.8 years and 17.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-4990060436,359 ftJun 1995Apr 2001Yes
42-4990061546,296 ftJan 1980May 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 (117)

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

117 months

Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20022024.583.06$49
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
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 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 199893010.892.19$1,013
Oct 199849043412.421.97$6,940
Sep 199849342112.592.08$7,084
Aug 199847535911.301.91$6,052
Jul 199856449211.742.24$7,722
Jun 199850731311.242.24$6,399
May 199859061912.622.21$8,812
Apr 199848433213.042.51$7,143
Mar 199859021412.802.31$8,046
Feb 199840123813.952.30$6,141
Jan 19986013,58714.702.15$16,564
Dec 199770048916.322.41$12,603
Nov 19974727918.193.09$8,830
Oct 19973335419.253.15$6,580
Sep 199770352417.742.95$14,020
Aug 199741017.862.55$732
Jul 199724414917.582.25$4,624
Jun 1997603017.242.26$10,396
May 199755548518.972.31$11,648
Apr 199760856317.882.08$12,044
Mar 199762695518.951.94$13,715
Feb 199746738020.492.21$10,407
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 199631248523.32$7,276
Nov 199656139821.97$12,325
Oct 199676246723.31$17,762
Sep 199651344422.22$11,399
Aug 199656775320.26$11,487
Jul 199656689719.55$11,065
Jun 199638087518.73$7,117
May 199618724019.43$3,633
Apr 199660985921.51$13,100
Mar 199660386119.38$11,686
Feb 199657178016.98$9,696
Jan 199666081317.07$11,266
Dec 199563782417.19$10,950
Nov 199542070716.00$6,720
Oct 199573082415.43$11,264
Sep 199556877716.18$9,190
Aug 19956451,05215.92$10,268
Jul 199525565015.24$3,886
Jun 199511150016.41$1,822
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 199563352017.73$11,223
Mar 199599875916.44$16,407
Feb 199591175916.58$15,104
Jan 19951,05969615.92$16,859
Dec 19941,01574515.03$15,255
Nov 19941,10877715.90$17,617
Oct 19941,18674615.58$18,478
Sep 19941,06175815.29$16,223
Aug 19941,30173116.13$20,985
Jul 19941,11477017.56$19,562
Jun 19941,04271617.09$17,808
May 19941,04871615.88$16,642
Apr 19941,23574214.14$17,463
Mar 19941,13972512.46$14,192
Feb 199489652812.50$11,200
Jan 19941,41470812.66$17,901
Dec 19931,45842512.33$17,977
Nov 19931,356214.49$19,648
Oct 19931,60768215.85$25,471
Sep 19931,54372315.03$23,191
Aug 19931,49981115.66$23,474
Jul 19931,60183015.46$24,751
Jun 19931,66976416.79$28,023
May 19931,59871817.68$28,253
Apr 19931,77770718.05$32,075
Mar 19931,52166818.14$27,591
Feb 19931,60564717.90$28,730
Jan 19931,83258416.93$31,016

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.

Jul 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    2 bbl  × $ 24.58 =        $49
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.06 =         $0

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Month total                                      $49

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/3183 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.