MCELROY

Operated by MILLWEE, JOHN F. (P-5 569342) in the GIB field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 169880District 08Field 34639001Hydrogen sulphide fieldCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$19 k
Aug 1998 – Jul 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
60
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 25 leases and 34 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1947-11-09
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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: NET GOR 500

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
CondensateDisposition4 bbl$107
GasProduction5,102 Mcf$19,347
Total$19,454

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 31.3469, -102.3597. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.34695, -102.35966 · 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
3,055 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 3,055 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 1987
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-1033382013,055 ftDec 1987Yes

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 (60)

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

60 months

Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20034026.675.41$107
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 200304230.315.58$234
Dec 2002010026.914.85$485
Nov 2002010124.664.14$418
Oct 2002010326.464.23$436
Sep 2002010427.443.64$378
Aug 200208425.963.16$266
Jul 200206924.583.06$211
Jun 200206323.733.34$210
May 2002010324.663.58$369
Apr 200209723.653.51$341
Mar 2002010222.003.10$316
Feb 200209318.222.38$221
Jan 2002010817.172.38$257
Dec 2001011416.932.36$270
Nov 2001010918.072.41$262
Oct 2001011519.782.53$291
Sep 2001010324.262.25$232
Aug 200108924.873.05$272
Jul 200107423.933.20$237
Jun 200107424.563.82$283
May 2001011625.524.31$500
Apr 2001011524.685.34$614
Mar 2001013524.545.38$726
Feb 2001012627.755.77$727
Jan 2001014527.478.40$1,218
Dec 2000015726.889.12$1,432
Nov 2000016032.215.66$905
Oct 2000017631.235.15$906
Sep 2000017931.875.19$928
Aug 2000019429.644.54$881
Jul 2000019328.534.09$789
Jun 200003829.304.40$167
May 200006727.263.68$247
Apr 200004724.513.12$146
Mar 200007128.422.86$203
Feb 200005827.622.73$158
Jan 200008725.272.48$216
Dec 199909124.282.42$221
Nov 199908523.192.43$207
Oct 199904220.982.80$118
Sep 199904221.752.62$110
Aug 199904819.262.88$138
Jul 199905817.892.37$138
Jun 199907015.942.36$165
May 199904115.792.32$95
Apr 199906815.102.21$150
Mar 199904612.471.84$85
Feb 19990819.981.82$147
Jan 199906110.381.90$116
Dec 19980979.201.77$172
Nov 199809310.892.19$203
Oct 199809912.421.97$195
Sep 199808612.592.08$179
Aug 199808311.301.91$158

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.

Apr 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             4 bbl  × $ 26.67 =       $107
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  5.41 =         $0

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Month total                                     $107

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/169880 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.