WADDELL, W. N., ETAL

Name: WADDELL, W. N., ETAL lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by BURLINGTON RES O & G CO-MIDLAND (P-5 109336) in the SAND HILLS, N. (ELLENBURGER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 11695District 08Field 80475500Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$4.2 M

Jan 1993 – Jan 2005

Value, last 12 filed months

$284 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

145

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The SAND HILLS, N. (ELLENBURGER) field

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 2 leases and 9 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1957-09-07

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

933 ft

minimum

From a lease line

467 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres.

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.

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.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	2	none	—	—

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	181,240 bbl	$3,712,227
Casinghead gas	Production	176,119 Mcf	$515,380
Total			$4,227,607

36,221 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 (8)

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 31.5399, -102.5815. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 12.0 miles.

31.54790, -102.55958 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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%

8 of 8 wells

With a plug date

37.5%

3 of 8 wells

Median depth

6,009 ft

8 wells filed one

Completion to plug

56.3 years

median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

8100.0%

A plug date is filed

337.5%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

337.5%

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

Total depth in feet, 8 of 8 wells. Median 6,009 ft, with the middle half between 3,548 and 6,019 ft; the shallowest is 3,450 ft and the deepest 6,053 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 8 of 8 wells, Mar 1959 – Dec 2025. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed

Mar 1959 – Dec 2025

8 of 8 wells

Plug dates filed

Nov 1999 – Jan 2025

3 of 8 wells; 5 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 56.3 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 33.0 years and 61.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

8 wells


42-10302073	624	6,015 ft	Dec 2025	—	Yes
42-10302061	612 L	6,007 ft	Apr 2025	—	Yes
42-10301355	521	3,450 ft	Mar 2025	—	Yes
42-10332222	1150	6,030 ft	Dec 2022	—	Yes
42-10302047	598 L	6,010 ft	Aug 2022	—	Yes
42-10332070	1127	6,053 ft	Feb 1990	Nov 1999	Yes
42-10301424	592 L	3,550 ft	Oct 1967	Jan 2024	Yes
42-10301422	590 L	3,540 ft	Mar 1959	Jan 2025	Yes

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 (145)

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

145 months


Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	0	0	39.86	6.75	$0
Nov 2004	0	0	45.28	6.33	$0
Oct 2004	0	0	49.70	6.52	$0
Sep 2004	0	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	46	0	42.37	5.55	$1,949
Jul 2004	1,369	2,368	38.28	6.08	$66,813
Jun 2004	1,489	1,863	36.10	6.43	$65,738
May 2004	2,107	3,382	37.48	6.49	$100,935
Apr 2004	15	0	34.47	5.86	$517
Mar 2004	443	597	34.36	5.53	$18,523
Feb 2004	732	1,104	32.45	5.51	$29,836
Jan 2004	945	1,030	32.03	6.30	$36,757
Dec 2003	853	900	30.26	6.30	$31,483
Nov 2003	796	815	28.80	4.60	$26,670
Oct 2003	795	1,202	28.17	4.76	$28,116
Sep 2003	785	1,174	26.31	4.75	$26,229
Aug 2003	851	1,342	29.76	5.13	$32,210
Jul 2003	831	1,361	29.41	5.17	$31,477
Jun 2003	973	1,341	28.56	5.98	$35,812
May 2003	915	1,273	26.59	5.97	$31,933
Apr 2003	942	1,377	26.67	5.41	$32,569
Mar 2003	967	2,393	31.14	6.10	$44,700
Feb 2003	733	1,879	33.48	7.93	$39,434
Jan 2003	954	1,070	30.31	5.58	$34,889
Dec 2002	1,025	948	26.91	4.85	$32,184
Nov 2002	1,001	811	24.66	4.14	$28,040
Oct 2002	860	915	26.46	4.23	$26,625
Sep 2002	972	1,109	27.44	3.64	$30,703
Aug 2002	1,131	1,113	25.96	3.16	$32,882
Jul 2002	1,184	1,141	24.58	3.06	$32,596
Jun 2002	1,056	1,117	23.73	3.34	$28,788
May 2002	1,129	1,098	24.66	3.58	$31,776
Apr 2002	1,063	1,244	23.65	3.51	$29,509
Mar 2002	1,255	1,974	22.00	3.10	$33,735
Feb 2002	982	1,238	18.22	2.38	$20,833
Jan 2002	1,119	1,497	17.17	2.38	$22,770
Dec 2001	1,049	1,799	16.93	2.36	$22,013
Nov 2001	1,298	1,762	18.07	2.41	$27,693
Oct 2001	1,330	1,092	19.78	2.53	$29,069
Sep 2001	1,461	1,341	24.26	2.25	$38,463
Aug 2001	1,491	2,103	24.87	3.05	$43,502
Jul 2001	1,521	3,085	23.93	3.20	$46,261
Jun 2001	1,737	1,445	24.56	3.82	$48,187
May 2001	1,886	1,692	25.52	4.31	$55,419
Apr 2001	1,809	1,827	24.68	5.34	$54,394
Mar 2001	1,906	2,343	24.54	5.38	$59,370
Feb 2001	1,796	1,947	27.75	5.77	$61,068
Jan 2001	1,690	1,645	27.47	8.40	$60,240
Dec 2000	1,931	1,783	26.88	9.12	$68,171
Nov 2000	1,803	1,317	32.21	5.66	$65,526
Oct 2000	1,650	1,002	31.23	5.15	$56,685
Sep 2000	1,687	3,125	31.87	5.19	$69,973
Aug 2000	1,918	1,401	29.64	4.54	$63,211
Jul 2000	1,700	1,144	28.53	4.09	$53,180
Jun 2000	2,018	1,476	29.30	4.40	$65,618
May 2000	2,347	1,800	27.26	3.68	$70,603
Apr 2000	2,601	1,760	24.51	3.12	$69,235
Mar 2000	2,497	1,725	28.42	2.86	$75,898
Feb 2000	2,115	2,488	27.62	2.73	$65,200
Jan 2000	2,054	2,202	25.27	2.48	$57,367
Dec 1999	2,198	1,388	24.28	2.42	$56,732
Nov 1999	2,492	1,600	23.19	2.43	$61,684
Oct 1999	2,188	1,868	20.98	2.80	$51,142
Sep 1999	1,806	1,856	21.75	2.62	$44,141
Aug 1999	2,740	2,287	19.26	2.88	$59,349
Jul 1999	3,023	2,433	17.89	2.37	$59,853
Jun 1999	3,069	2,231	15.94	2.36	$54,190
May 1999	3,324	2,335	15.79	2.32	$57,906
Apr 1999	3,753	2,311	15.10	2.21	$61,773
Mar 1999	4,321	2,719	12.47	1.84	$58,881
Feb 1999	2,960	1,639	9.98	1.82	$32,520
Jan 1999	2,932	1,955	10.38	1.90	$34,149
Dec 1998	3,117	2,113	9.20	1.77	$32,423
Nov 1998	2,962	2,122	10.89	2.19	$36,894
Oct 1998	2,432	2,387	12.42	1.97	$34,906
Sep 1998	3,219	3,072	12.59	2.08	$46,925
Aug 1998	3,197	2,715	11.30	1.91	$41,305
Jul 1998	2,987	2,607	11.74	2.24	$40,900
Jun 1998	919	735	11.24	2.24	$11,974
May 1998	856	1,244	12.62	2.21	$13,547
Apr 1998	1,199	989	13.04	2.51	$18,113
Mar 1998	845	1,087	12.80	2.31	$13,326
Feb 1998	894	979	13.95	2.30	$14,722
Jan 1998	1,038	1,033	14.70	2.15	$17,485
Dec 1997	1,062	1,033	16.32	2.41	$19,823
Nov 1997	947	939	18.19	3.09	$20,126
Oct 1997	932	1,190	19.25	3.15	$21,689
Sep 1997	774	619	17.74	2.95	$15,560
Aug 1997	564	592	17.86	2.55	$11,585
Jul 1997	643	1,018	17.58	2.25	$13,591
Jun 1997	745	868	17.24	2.26	$14,803
May 1997	956	837	18.97	2.31	$20,068
Apr 1997	1,206	855	17.88	2.08	$23,344
Mar 1997	1,053	778	18.95	1.94	$21,463
Feb 1997	735	701	20.49	2.21	$16,606
Jan 1997	913	783	23.48	3.54	$24,209
Dec 1996	902	829	23.32	—	$21,035
Nov 1996	841	834	21.97	—	$18,477
Oct 1996	647	870	23.31	—	$15,082
Sep 1996	592	774	22.22	—	$13,154
Aug 1996	576	863	20.26	—	$11,670
Jul 1996	459	915	19.55	—	$8,973
Jun 1996	393	867	18.73	—	$7,361
May 1996	463	903	19.43	—	$8,996
Apr 1996	807	844	21.51	—	$17,359
Mar 1996	1,027	908	19.38	—	$19,903
Feb 1996	1,071	867	16.98	—	$18,186
Jan 1996	1,153	956	17.07	—	$19,682
Dec 1995	835	924	17.19	—	$14,354
Nov 1995	976	836	16.00	—	$15,616
Oct 1995	1,135	946	15.43	—	$17,513
Sep 1995	1,061	830	16.18	—	$17,167
Aug 1995	1,136	806	15.92	—	$18,085
Jul 1995	1,216	895	15.24	—	$18,532
Jun 1995	1,177	771	16.41	—	$19,315
May 1995	1,293	912	17.56	—	$22,705
Apr 1995	1,216	892	17.73	—	$21,560
Mar 1995	1,114	876	16.44	—	$18,314
Feb 1995	637	553	16.58	—	$10,561
Jan 1995	635	579	15.92	—	$10,109
Dec 1994	646	699	15.03	—	$9,709
Nov 1994	658	809	15.90	—	$10,462
Oct 1994	704	527	15.58	—	$10,968
Sep 1994	700	777	15.29	—	$10,703
Aug 1994	647	478	16.13	—	$10,436
Jul 1994	696	620	17.56	—	$12,222
Jun 1994	693	622	17.09	—	$11,843
May 1994	692	692	15.88	—	$10,989
Apr 1994	540	519	14.14	—	$7,636
Mar 1994	605	672	12.46	—	$7,538
Feb 1994	613	587	12.50	—	$7,663
Jan 1994	541	676	12.66	—	$6,849
Dec 1993	480	528	12.33	—	$5,918
Nov 1993	735	648	14.49	—	$10,650
Oct 1993	873	691	15.85	—	$13,837
Sep 1993	820	642	15.03	—	$12,325
Aug 1993	843	669	15.66	—	$13,201
Jul 1993	801	851	15.46	—	$12,383
Jun 1993	826	753	16.79	—	$13,869
May 1993	888	803	17.68	—	$15,700
Apr 1993	815	626	18.05	—	$14,711
Mar 1993	779	700	18.14	—	$14,131
Feb 1993	845	673	17.90	—	$15,126
Jan 1993	824	709	16.93	—	$13,950

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.

Aug 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   46 bbl  × $ 42.37 =     $1,949
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.55 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $1,949

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/O/11695 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.