PURE WALTON

Operated by BASS ENTERPRISES PRODUCTION CO. (P-5 54700) in the KEYSTONE (ELLENBURGER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 153453District 08Field 49129330Hydrogen sulphide fieldCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$467 k
Feb 1995 – Jun 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$83 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
53
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 94 leases and 250 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1943-06-06
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2005-03-08.

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: EACH OPERATOR HAS PRODUCED ITS FULL ALLOCATED SHARE.

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
CondensateDisposition12,015 bbl$210,070
GasProduction175,026 Mcf$256,873
Total$466,942

64,234 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 23 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 31.9429, -103.0354. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.94291, -103.03536 · 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
9,968 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
4.6 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 9,968 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 2010
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 2015
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 4.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 4.6 years and 4.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4950046212E9,968 ftJul 2010Feb 2015Yes

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 (53)

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

53 months

Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999992,6659.981.82$5,832
Jan 19992002,39510.381.90$6,626
Dec 19982515,2419.201.77$11,603
Nov 19981484,46610.892.19$11,373
Oct 19982964,91712.421.97$13,359
Sep 19981944,17012.592.08$11,127
Aug 19981404,38611.301.91$9,948
Jul 1998975,46811.742.24$13,372
Jun 19981195,56311.242.24$13,783
May 19981115,30412.622.21$13,103
Apr 19981903,83813.042.51$12,093
Mar 19982313,44412.802.31$10,911
Feb 19982433,03613.952.30$10,370
Jan 19983123,52114.702.15$12,173
Dec 19974033,77716.322.41$15,684
Nov 19973983,78218.193.09$18,919
Oct 19974014,38619.253.15$21,534
Sep 19973164,72917.742.95$19,579
Aug 19974744,98717.862.55$21,206
Jul 19971574,75917.582.25$13,453
Jun 19973964,80817.242.26$17,680
May 19973114,94318.972.31$17,311
Apr 19974825,87517.882.08$20,854
Mar 19973184,18718.951.94$14,145
Feb 19974772,40520.492.21$15,079
Jan 19972443,74023.483.54$18,968
Dec 19964003,67523.32$9,328
Nov 19963203,09221.97$7,030
Oct 19963973,49523.31$9,254
Sep 19963213,74322.22$7,133
Aug 19963194,31620.26$6,463
Jul 19963134,71519.55$6,119
Jun 19963884,65718.73$7,267
May 19963172,23119.43$6,159
Apr 19962351,08321.51$5,055
Mar 199615792519.38$3,043
Feb 19961571,14016.98$2,666
Jan 19961662,06617.07$2,834
Dec 1995822,31117.19$1,410
Nov 19952452,33016.00$3,920
Oct 19952453,52715.43$3,780
Sep 19952373,31716.18$3,835
Aug 19951613,50815.92$2,563
Jul 19951603,86015.24$2,438
Jun 19951612,60516.41$2,642
May 199503,83617.56$0
Apr 19951472,69617.73$2,606
Mar 1995023516.44$0
Feb 19957987116.58$1,310

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 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            99 bbl  × $  9.98 =       $988
Gas                2,665 Mcf  × $  1.82 =     $4,844

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Month total                                   $5,832

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/153453 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.