WADDELL TR A

Operated by BLACKBEARD OPERATING, LLC (P-5 73056) in the SAND HILLS (ELLENBURGER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 12997District 08Field 80473124Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$2.1 M
Jan 1993 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
401
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead 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 14 leases and 31 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1958-05-22
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.

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
OilDisposition54,365 bbl$1,591,396
Casinghead gasProduction128,383 Mcf$504,471
Total$2,095,866

27,420 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 31.4903, -102.6337. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 11.0 miles.

31.44515, -102.63756 · 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
75.0%
6 of 8 wells
With a plug date
50.0%
4 of 8 wells
Median depth
5,961 ft
8 wells filed one
Completion to plug
7.4 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
675.0%
A plug date is filed
450.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
450.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
225.0%

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 5,961 ft, with the middle half between 5,799 and 6,086 ft; the shallowest is 5,769 ft and the deepest 6,300 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, Jun 2005 – Apr 2026. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Jun 2005 – Apr 2026
8 of 8 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2016 – Jul 2026
4 of 8 wells; 4 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.4 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 5.0 years and 9.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

8 wells

42-1033567320006,120 ftApr 2026Yes
42-10302018568D6,075 ftMay 2020Feb 2024Yes
42-10302333385,786 ftMar 2016Jul 2026Yes
42-1033528919585,871 ftFeb 2016Jun 2025Yes
42-103360442002D6,300 ftApr 2015
42-1033566919996,050 ftOct 2010Mar 2016Yes
42-103020205705,803 ftAug 2005Yes
42-103020195695,769 ftJun 2005

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 (401)

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

401 months

May 202600106.413.05$0
Apr 20260098.932.87$0
Mar 20260089.753.15$0
Feb 20260063.503.75$0
Jan 20260059.138.00$0
Dec 20250056.664.41$0
Nov 20250058.593.93$0
Oct 20250059.383.30$0
Sep 20250062.743.08$0
Aug 20250063.933.01$0
Jul 20250066.743.32$0
Jun 20250066.483.13$0
May 20250060.553.23$0
Apr 20250062.363.54$0
Mar 20250067.704.27$0
Feb 20250070.884.34$0
Jan 20250074.324.28$0
Dec 20240068.993.12$0
Nov 20240069.052.20$0
Oct 20240071.372.28$0
Sep 20240069.612.36$0
Aug 20240075.632.06$0
Jul 20240079.932.15$0
Jun 20240078.082.63$0
May 20240078.812.20$0
Apr 20240084.451.66$0
Mar 20240080.301.55$0
Feb 20240076.091.78$0
Jan 20240073.023.30$0
Dec 20230071.262.61$0
Nov 20230077.892.81$0
Oct 20230085.443.09$0
Sep 20230089.042.74$0
Aug 20230080.522.67$0
Jul 20230074.852.64$0
Jun 20230068.962.26$0
May 20230070.622.23$0
Apr 20230078.122.24$0
Mar 20230072.852.39$0
Feb 20230075.112.47$0
Jan 20230076.533.39$0
Dec 20220076.415.73$0
Nov 20220085.005.65$0
Oct 20220087.185.86$0
Sep 20220084.888.16$0
Aug 20220094.529.13$0
Jul 202200101.587.54$0
Jun 202200115.097.98$0
May 202200109.378.43$0
Apr 202200104.226.84$0
Mar 202200108.885.08$0
Feb 20220091.054.86$0
Jan 20220081.844.54$0
Dec 20210071.323.90$0
Nov 20210077.435.24$0
Oct 20210079.795.71$0
Sep 20210069.865.35$0
Aug 20210066.024.22$0
Jul 20210070.783.98$0
Jun 20210069.493.38$0
May 20210063.483.02$0
Apr 20210060.362.76$0
Mar 20210061.302.72$0
Feb 20210057.805.55$0
Jan 20210050.412.81$0
Dec 20200044.642.68$0
Nov 20200038.772.71$0
Oct 20200036.972.48$0
Sep 20200037.091.99$0
Aug 20200039.982.39$0
Jul 20200038.371.83$0
Jun 20200034.901.69$0
May 20200016.921.81$0
Apr 20200014.751.80$0
Mar 20200030.341.86$0
Feb 20200049.881.98$0
Jan 20200057.252.09$0
Dec 20190059.012.30$0
Nov 20190055.302.75$0
Oct 20190053.472.42$0
Sep 20190055.052.66$0
Aug 20190053.112.30$0
Jul 20190056.272.46$0
Jun 20190052.782.49$0
May 20190058.482.74$0
Apr 20190062.632.75$0
Mar 20190056.803.06$0
Feb 20190050.852.79$0
Jan 20190046.033.23$0
Dec 20180046.594.19$0
Nov 20180052.934.24$0
Oct 20180061.443.40$0
Sep 20180059.543.11$0
Aug 20180059.403.07$0
Jul 20180065.142.93$0
Jun 20180060.183.08$0
May 20180065.382.90$0
Apr 20180063.842.90$0
Mar 20180061.222.79$0
Feb 20180061.782.77$0
Jan 20180062.874.01$0
Dec 20170057.272.92$0
Nov 20170055.423.12$0
Oct 20170049.292.98$0
Sep 20170047.523.09$0
Aug 20170045.373.00$0
Jul 20170043.873.09$0
Jun 20170042.493.09$0
May 20170045.373.26$0
Apr 20170047.933.21$0
Mar 20170046.772.98$0
Feb 20170050.452.95$0
Jan 20170049.413.42$0
Dec 20160048.763.72$0
Nov 20160042.492.64$0
Oct 20160046.193.09$0
Sep 20160041.553.10$0
Aug 20160041.442.92$0
Jul 20160041.622.92$0
Jun 20160045.352.69$0
May 20160042.521.99$0
Apr 20160036.561.99$0
Mar 20160033.011.79$0
Feb 20160026.472.06$0
Jan 20160027.352.36$0
Dec 20150032.362.00$0
Nov 20150038.792.17$0
Oct 20150043.552.43$0
Sep 20150042.992.76$0
Aug 20150040.162.87$0
Jul 20150048.152.95$0
Jun 20150056.152.88$0
May 20150055.212.96$0
Apr 20150049.822.71$0
Mar 20150042.892.93$0
Feb 20150044.662.98$0
Jan 20150043.433.10$0
Dec 20140054.693.59$0
Nov 20140070.464.25$0
Oct 20140078.303.90$0
Sep 20140086.164.05$0
Aug 20140089.394.04$0
Jul 20140096.564.18$0
Jun 20140098.164.74$0
May 20140094.734.73$0
Apr 20140095.944.81$0
Mar 20140095.895.06$0
Feb 20140097.406.19$0
Jan 20140090.404.86$0
Dec 20130091.824.35$0
Nov 20130088.853.74$0
Oct 20130097.423.78$0
Sep 201300104.113.72$0
Aug 201300104.253.52$0
Jul 201300102.523.72$0
Jun 20130094.403.93$0
May 20130094.834.15$0
Apr 20130093.964.28$0
Mar 20130093.623.91$0
Feb 20130091.233.42$0
Jan 20130091.603.42$0
Dec 20120086.773.42$0
Nov 20120086.953.62$0
Oct 20120089.383.40$0
Sep 20120094.672.92$0
Aug 20120092.662.91$0
Jul 20120085.133.02$0
Jun 20120079.822.52$0
May 20120091.612.49$0
Apr 201200101.652.00$0
Mar 201200105.052.22$0
Feb 201200101.102.57$0
Jan 20120098.092.73$0
Dec 20110096.873.24$0
Nov 20110095.723.31$0
Oct 20110084.983.65$0
Sep 20110083.623.99$0
Aug 20110083.404.15$0
Jul 20110094.144.52$0
Jun 20110092.904.64$0
May 20110098.134.40$0
Apr 201100105.964.33$0
Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 20100072.554.74$0
Jun 20100070.364.91$0
May 20100071.124.24$0
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 20104078.394.39$314
Feb 20108325073.585.44$7,468
Jan 201011733074.365.96$10,668
Dec 20093521,97471.445.48$35,972
Nov 20091,5033,82174.593.75$126,443
Oct 200952644472.544.11$39,981
Sep 200940982965.543.06$29,347
Aug 20091,64885867.423.22$113,870
Jul 200956320661.133.46$35,130
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20090042.144.06$0
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 200723059.617.81$1,371
Mar 20076091,17156.927.30$43,215
Feb 20076931,18755.108.22$47,937
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 200519061.519.80$1,169
Jul 20051,2997,88155.697.84$134,157
Jun 20051,3308,31452.337.38$130,965
May 20051,9218,98645.226.65$146,635
Apr 200517665349.207.36$13,466
Mar 200510938250.377.15$8,223
Feb 200511939945.226.31$7,900
Jan 200518643043.166.32$10,746
Dec 200411938939.866.75$7,370
Nov 20049350545.286.33$7,408
Oct 200424586249.706.52$17,793
Sep 200419680543.245.28$12,729
Aug 200420978342.375.55$13,202
Jul 200425380838.286.08$14,601
Jun 200428884336.106.43$15,820
May 200432177537.486.49$17,064
Apr 200434082534.475.86$16,553
Mar 200434184634.365.53$16,395
Feb 200425585732.455.51$12,996
Jan 200432892632.036.30$16,339
Dec 200329295330.266.30$14,841
Nov 200325478228.804.60$10,909
Oct 200330080928.174.76$12,302
Sep 200330192726.314.75$12,322
Aug 200325698329.765.13$12,661
Jul 200317982929.415.17$9,551
Jun 20031481,05928.565.98$10,563
May 20031371,08626.595.97$10,129
Apr 20032911,18026.675.41$14,142
Mar 200341696531.146.10$18,837
Feb 200329764933.487.93$15,087
Jan 200328852030.315.58$11,632
Dec 200210020326.914.85$3,676
Nov 200224849524.664.14$8,163
Oct 200229763026.464.23$10,523
Sep 200221052127.443.64$7,656
Aug 2002346425.963.16$1,085
Jul 200229164724.583.06$9,134
Jun 200228360623.733.34$8,739
May 200230870724.663.58$10,129
Apr 200236470523.653.51$11,085
Mar 20024561,05422.003.10$13,302
Feb 20026061,16918.222.38$13,818
Jan 20026671,17517.172.38$14,244
Dec 200115042016.932.36$3,533
Nov 200119751718.072.41$4,803
Oct 200122947019.782.53$5,718
Sep 200124960524.262.25$7,403
Aug 200127768624.873.05$8,983
Jul 200128270723.933.20$9,009
Jun 200126768224.563.82$9,166
May 200132664925.524.31$11,115
Apr 200127560924.685.34$10,036
Mar 200126070524.545.38$10,171
Feb 200129861327.755.77$11,805
Jan 200132262927.478.40$14,128
Dec 200039470726.889.12$17,040
Nov 200039378832.215.66$17,117
Oct 200027248831.235.15$11,006
Sep 200026975631.875.19$12,494
Aug 200017472629.644.54$8,454
Jul 200019859028.534.09$8,062
Jun 200036960029.304.40$13,450
May 200022158727.263.68$8,184
Apr 200022764024.513.12$7,558
Mar 200028966928.422.86$10,127
Feb 200025967727.622.73$8,999
Jan 200035857125.272.48$10,463
Dec 199935457724.282.42$9,994
Nov 199921356323.192.43$6,310
Oct 199921258620.982.80$6,091
Sep 199928552921.752.62$7,584
Aug 199926649219.262.88$6,538
Jul 199931258217.892.37$6,962
Jun 199934449715.942.36$6,657
May 199928859315.792.32$5,924
Apr 199911025215.102.21$2,217
Mar 199915031112.471.84$2,442
Feb 19993074549.981.82$3,889
Jan 199925237510.381.90$3,328
Dec 19982724019.201.77$3,214
Nov 199826139610.892.19$3,708
Oct 199828653512.421.97$4,606
Sep 199831536212.592.08$4,720
Aug 199827740211.301.91$3,897
Jul 199841559411.742.24$6,201
Jun 199835763711.242.24$5,438
May 199840771312.622.21$6,709
Apr 19987975113.042.51$2,912
Mar 199830929012.802.31$4,625
Feb 199827143513.952.30$4,781
Jan 199839959214.702.15$7,141
Dec 199731569116.322.41$6,807
Nov 199727166518.193.09$6,983
Oct 199731069119.253.15$8,144
Sep 199732254317.742.95$7,317
Aug 199729156617.862.55$6,643
Jul 199725864417.582.25$5,983
Jun 199723152917.242.26$5,177
May 199727461518.972.31$6,618
Apr 199724665017.882.08$5,752
Mar 199737074318.951.94$8,452
Feb 199737488520.492.21$9,615
Jan 199730467423.483.54$9,524
Dec 199629970423.32$6,973
Nov 199628653021.97$6,283
Oct 199629964623.31$6,970
Sep 199634058822.22$7,555
Aug 199628059920.26$5,673
Jul 199628064319.55$5,474
Jun 199627658918.73$5,169
May 19962801,15119.43$5,440
Apr 19962821,35721.51$6,066
Mar 19963761,06319.38$7,287
Feb 199636139816.98$6,130
Jan 199631534117.07$5,377
Dec 199530040817.19$5,157
Nov 199523362016.00$3,728
Oct 199527443115.43$4,228
Sep 199523448916.18$3,786
Aug 199544968715.92$7,148
Jul 199540663215.24$6,187
Jun 199554025916.41$8,861
May 199531834617.56$5,584
Apr 199527536417.73$4,876
Mar 199533735016.44$5,540
Feb 199528835816.58$4,775
Jan 199533333915.92$5,301
Dec 199437038215.03$5,561
Nov 199433730315.90$5,358
Oct 199442127215.58$6,559
Sep 199429425815.29$4,495
Aug 199430732116.13$4,952
Jul 199432946717.56$5,777
Jun 199433234817.09$5,674
May 199432541615.88$5,161
Apr 199423451414.14$3,309
Mar 199436753512.46$4,573
Feb 199434736312.50$4,338
Jan 199437847912.66$4,785
Dec 199334641412.33$4,266
Nov 199337846114.49$5,477
Oct 199334292615.85$5,421
Sep 199333185015.03$4,975
Aug 199338080115.66$5,951
Jul 19933391,28915.46$5,241
Jun 19933401,33316.79$5,709
May 199335051517.68$6,188
Apr 19933341,10118.05$6,029
Mar 199335149818.14$6,367
Feb 199331431317.90$5,621
Jan 199329636916.93$5,011

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.

Mar 2010 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    4 bbl  × $ 78.39 =       $314
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.39 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                     $314

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/12997 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.