DUNCAN "D"

Operated by MARATHON OIL COMPANY (P-5 525380) in the CHENOT (WOLFCAMP) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 168862District 08Field 17438500Hydrogen sulphide fieldGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.0 M
Mar 1998 – Mar 2005
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
85
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
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 60 leases and 60 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1958-11-10
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 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1979-05-14.

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: R.K.G. ENGINEERING, INC. REQUEST

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
GasProduction367,921 Mcf$1,028,854
Total$1,028,854

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 30.9913, -102.4883. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.99127, -102.48829 · 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
5,000 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
3.3 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 5,000 ft.

Completions filed
Mar 2005
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 2008
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 3.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3.3 years and 3.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3713680935,000 ftMar 2005Jul 2008Yes

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 (85)

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

85 months

Mar 2005050.377.15$0
Feb 2005045.226.31$0
Jan 2005043.166.32$0
Dec 2004039.866.75$0
Nov 2004045.286.33$0
Oct 2004049.706.52$0
Sep 2004043.245.28$0
Aug 2004042.375.55$0
Jul 2004038.286.08$0
Jun 2004036.106.43$0
May 2004037.486.49$0
Apr 2004034.475.86$0
Mar 2004034.365.53$0
Feb 2004032.455.51$0
Jan 2004032.036.30$0
Dec 2003030.266.30$0
Nov 2003028.804.60$0
Oct 2003028.174.76$0
Sep 2003026.314.75$0
Aug 2003029.765.13$0
Jul 2003029.415.17$0
Jun 2003028.565.98$0
May 2003026.595.97$0
Apr 2003026.675.41$0
Mar 2003031.146.10$0
Feb 200387933.487.93$6,967
Jan 20031,20130.315.58$6,704
Dec 20021,32826.914.85$6,446
Nov 20021,27624.664.14$5,279
Oct 20021,27726.464.23$5,401
Sep 200221327.443.64$774
Aug 200216225.963.16$513
Jul 2002024.583.06$0
Jun 2002023.733.34$0
May 2002024.663.58$0
Apr 2002123.653.51$4
Mar 2002022.003.10$0
Feb 2002018.222.38$0
Jan 200211317.172.38$268
Dec 20011,07416.932.36$2,539
Nov 20011,56318.072.41$3,760
Oct 20012,05219.782.53$5,189
Sep 20012,49424.262.25$5,615
Aug 20013,00324.873.05$9,169
Jul 20013,00323.933.20$9,601
Jun 20011,38924.563.82$5,312
May 20013,00325.524.31$12,935
Apr 20012,42824.685.34$12,954
Mar 20013,15224.545.38$16,947
Feb 20013,55727.755.77$20,514
Jan 20013,86227.478.40$32,436
Dec 20004,05826.889.12$37,019
Nov 20004,71832.215.66$26,694
Oct 20004,58631.235.15$23,597
Sep 20005,43331.875.19$28,178
Aug 20005,39129.644.54$24,479
Jul 20005,20528.534.09$21,287
Jun 20005,37129.304.40$23,618
May 20006,02627.263.68$22,174
Apr 20006,94124.513.12$21,628
Mar 20007,70128.422.86$22,023
Feb 20007,49127.622.73$20,424
Jan 20008,77725.272.48$21,771
Dec 19998,86824.282.42$21,494
Nov 199910,15923.192.43$24,727
Oct 199911,57720.982.80$32,459
Sep 19999,78721.752.62$25,631
Aug 199911,25719.262.88$32,371
Jul 199910,00017.892.37$23,724
Jun 199911,90715.942.36$28,126
May 199913,23915.792.32$30,728
Apr 199912,67915.102.21$27,996
Mar 199914,49512.471.84$26,647
Feb 199914,6959.981.82$26,712
Jan 199917,66010.381.90$33,553
Dec 199815,9059.201.77$28,205
Nov 1998010.892.19$0
Oct 199818,89112.421.97$37,200
Sep 199816,49012.592.08$34,342
Aug 199815,32811.301.91$29,236
Jul 199822,74711.742.24$50,891
Jun 199823,50911.242.24$52,596
May 1998012.622.21$0
Apr 1998013.042.51$0
Mar 1998012.802.31$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 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  879 Mcf  × $  7.93 =     $6,967

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Month total                                   $6,967

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/168862 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.