MCMINN, W. J., -A-

Operated by RICHEY PROPERTIES, INC. (P-5 709685) in the TYLER, SOUTH (PALUXY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 5088District 06Field 92183125OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$98 k
Jan 1993 – Feb 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
74
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 7 leases and 10 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1959-10-30
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
OilDisposition6,175 bbl$98,258
Casinghead gasProduction30 Mcf$0
Total$98,258

30 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 30 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 32.2587, -95.3354. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.25874, -95.33544 · 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
7,611 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
32.0 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 7,611 ft.

Completions filed
Jan 1967
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 1999
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 32.0 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 32.0 years and 32.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4230080817,611 ftJan 1967Jan 1999Yes

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 (74)

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

74 months

Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 1998105011.301.91$1,187
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 199847011.242.24$528
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 199849014.702.15$720
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 199755017.582.25$967
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 199665018.73$1,217
May 1996206019.43$4,003
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 1996135019.38$2,616
Feb 199669016.98$1,172
Jan 199664017.07$1,092
Dec 1995122017.19$2,097
Nov 199566116.00$1,056
Oct 1995201115.43$3,101
Sep 199568116.18$1,100
Aug 1995134115.92$2,133
Jul 199566115.24$1,006
Jun 1995225116.41$3,692
May 1995162117.56$2,845
Apr 19950117.73$0
Mar 1995171116.44$2,811
Feb 1995323116.58$5,355
Jan 1995335115.92$5,333
Dec 1994166115.03$2,495
Nov 1994161015.90$2,560
Oct 1994186015.58$2,898
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 19940017.56$0
Jun 1994180117.09$3,076
May 1994379115.88$6,019
Apr 1994188114.14$2,658
Mar 1994182112.46$2,268
Feb 1994195112.50$2,438
Jan 1994169112.66$2,140
Dec 1993181112.33$2,232
Nov 1993186114.49$2,695
Oct 1993343115.85$5,437
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 19930015.66$0
Jul 19930015.46$0
Jun 1993305116.79$5,121
May 199318117.68$318
Apr 1993320118.05$5,776
Mar 1993169118.14$3,066
Feb 19930117.90$0
Jan 1993179116.93$3,030

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 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  105 bbl  × $ 11.30 =     $1,187
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  1.91 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,187

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/5088 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.