MCKNIGHT, M. B.

Operated by PENNZOIL EXPLORATION & PROD. CO. (P-5 652352) in the SAND HILLS (JUDKINS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 150034District 08Field 80473248Hydrogen sulphide fieldCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$58 k
Apr 1994 – Mar 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$41 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
48
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 452 leases and 1,103 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1960-09-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 acres. The field rule took effect on 2025-01-29.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ORDER 8-48935 EFF. 6/6/62.

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
CondensateDisposition1,260 bbl$22,123
GasProduction154,932 Mcf$36,158
Total$58,281

139,735 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 33 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 31.5515, -102.6721. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.55152, -102.67213 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
3,620 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
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 3,620 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 1994
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-103329401283,620 ftApr 1994Yes

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 (48)

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

48 months

Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 1998106013.952.30$1,479
Jan 199899114.702.15$1,457
Dec 1997115116.322.41$1,879
Nov 1997167018.193.09$3,038
Oct 1997372019.253.15$7,161
Sep 1997399017.742.95$7,078
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 199702,03217.582.25$4,566
Jun 199702,11217.242.26$4,767
May 199702,17418.972.31$5,019
Apr 199702,33517.882.08$4,863
Mar 199702,19518.951.94$4,256
Feb 199702,02820.492.21$4,474
Jan 199702,31923.483.54$8,209
Dec 199602,37423.32$0
Nov 199602,46021.97$0
Oct 199602,69023.31$0
Sep 199602,64722.22$0
Aug 199602,71220.26$0
Jul 199602,82519.55$0
Jun 199602,85118.73$0
May 199602,92719.43$0
Apr 199602,86821.51$0
Mar 199602,94919.38$0
Feb 199602,81816.98$0
Jan 199603,07817.07$0
Dec 199503,16117.19$0
Nov 199503,08416.00$0
Oct 199503,39415.43$0
Sep 199503,43816.18$0
Aug 199503,73515.92$0
Jul 199503,87215.24$0
Jun 199503,63416.41$0
May 199504,23217.56$0
Apr 199504,20017.73$0
Mar 199504,47716.44$0
Feb 199504,21916.58$0
Jan 199504,87215.92$0
Dec 199405,22215.03$0
Nov 199405,44715.90$0
Oct 199406,12915.58$0
Sep 199406,52715.29$0
Aug 199407,37016.13$0
Jul 199427,79417.56$35
Jun 199409,60117.09$0
May 199408,81615.88$0
Apr 199403,31214.14$0

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.

Feb 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate           106 bbl  × $ 13.95 =     $1,479
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  2.30 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,479

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. 08/G/150034 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.