BECKEN -65-

Operated by OLSEN ENERGY INC. (P-5 621750) 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 51842District 08Field 17438500Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$45 k
Jan 1993 – Jul 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$23 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
67
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 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

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA1none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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
CondensateDisposition1,490 bbl$23,253
GasProduction42,047 Mcf$21,331
Total$44,584

33,486 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 30.9545, -102.4423. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.95453, -102.44232 · 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
5,100 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
38.2 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 5,100 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 1971
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 2010
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 38.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 38.2 years and 38.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3713061015,100 ftDec 1971Feb 2010Yes

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 (67)

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

67 months

Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 199856012.622.21$707
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19981741,07512.802.31$4,710
Feb 1998287113.952.30$2,030
Jan 19981641,11014.702.15$4,803
Dec 199716675416.322.41$4,527
Nov 1997086718.193.09$2,678
Oct 1997172119.253.15$2,290
Sep 1997022417.742.95$662
Aug 1997326617.862.55$733
Jul 1997521017.582.25$560
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 1997147318.972.31$1,111
Apr 1997053517.882.08$1,114
Mar 1997054218.951.94$1,051
Feb 1997046120.492.21$1,017
Jan 1997045223.483.54$1,600
Dec 1996057423.32$0
Nov 1996066121.97$0
Oct 1996053423.31$0
Sep 1996053222.22$0
Aug 1996064320.26$0
Jul 199610855519.55$2,111
Jun 1996037618.73$0
May 1996042819.43$0
Apr 1996033221.51$0
Mar 1996064019.38$0
Feb 1996061116.98$0
Jan 1996065817.07$0
Dec 1995062717.19$0
Nov 1995062816.00$0
Oct 199516862215.43$2,592
Sep 1995051716.18$0
Aug 1995058115.92$0
Jul 1995063915.24$0
Jun 199503,23616.41$0
May 1995066217.56$0
Apr 1995047017.73$0
Mar 1995063916.44$0
Feb 1995060216.58$0
Jan 1995064015.92$0
Dec 199415272215.03$2,285
Nov 1994065815.90$0
Oct 1994071315.58$0
Sep 1994067915.29$0
Aug 1994075516.13$0
Jul 1994072117.56$0
Jun 1994069317.09$0
May 199417472915.88$2,763
Apr 1994063314.14$0
Mar 1994060712.46$0
Feb 1994070212.50$0
Jan 1994074912.66$0
Dec 1993065312.33$0
Nov 1993069214.49$0
Oct 1993076815.85$0
Sep 199315372515.03$2,300
Aug 1993076915.66$0
Jul 1993081215.46$0
Jun 1993178316.79$17
May 1993079517.68$0
Apr 199316274018.05$2,924
Mar 1993063618.14$0
Feb 1993062117.90$0
Jan 1993072416.93$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.

May 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            56 bbl  × $ 12.62 =       $707
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  2.21 =         $0

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Month total                                     $707

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/51842 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.