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Operated by MELROSE OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 559593) in the TURNER-GREGORY (CLEAR FORK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 14049District 08Field 91903333Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$830 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$63 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
120
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 98 leases and 543 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1955-12-28
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 acres. The field rule took effect on 2014-01-07.

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: SO WISHES.

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
OilDisposition44,817 bbl$829,709
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$829,709

21 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 (7)

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 32.3796, -101.1151. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

32.37960, -101.11521 · 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
85.7%
6 of 7 wells
With a plug date
71.4%
5 of 7 wells
Median depth
2,890 ft
7 wells filed one
Completion to plug
25.7 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
685.7%
A plug date is filed
571.4%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
571.4%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
114.3%

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

Between 2,863 and 3,368 ft, median 2,890 ft, over the 7 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Aug 1996 – Jul 2011
3 of 7 wells; 4 filed none
Plug dates filed
Jun 1996 – Apr 2022
5 of 7 wells; 2 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 25.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 25.7 years and 25.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

7 wells

42-335000281 L2,890 ftMay 2019Yes
42-335000302 L2,865 ftJun 1996Yes
42-3350003232,863 ftAug 2004Yes
42-3350003442,878 ftMar 2017Yes
42-3353394063,368 ftJul 2011Yes
42-3353393973,200 ftJun 1997
42-3353377253,000 ftAug 1996Apr 2022Yes

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 (120)

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

120 months

Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 2002446027.443.64$12,238
Aug 2002290025.963.16$7,528
Jul 2002244024.583.06$5,998
Jun 2002293023.733.34$6,953
May 2002283024.663.58$6,979
Apr 2002417023.653.51$9,862
Mar 2002269022.003.10$5,918
Feb 2002133018.222.38$2,423
Jan 2002311017.172.38$5,340
Dec 2001119016.932.36$2,015
Nov 2001212018.072.41$3,831
Oct 2001360019.782.53$7,121
Sep 2001351024.262.25$8,515
Aug 2001281024.873.05$6,988
Jul 2001387023.933.20$9,261
Jun 2001387024.563.82$9,505
May 2001416025.524.31$10,616
Apr 2001478024.685.34$11,797
Mar 2001286024.545.38$7,018
Feb 2001404027.755.77$11,211
Jan 2001408027.478.40$11,208
Dec 2000442026.889.12$11,881
Nov 2000305032.215.66$9,824
Oct 2000259031.235.15$8,089
Sep 2000332031.875.19$10,581
Aug 2000218029.644.54$6,462
Jul 2000302028.534.09$8,616
Jun 2000208029.304.40$6,094
May 2000142027.263.68$3,871
Apr 2000275024.513.12$6,740
Mar 2000162028.422.86$4,604
Feb 2000282027.622.73$7,789
Jan 2000360025.272.48$9,097
Dec 1999232024.282.42$5,633
Nov 1999101023.192.43$2,342
Oct 1999259020.982.80$5,434
Sep 1999332021.752.62$7,221
Aug 1999369019.262.88$7,107
Jul 1999464017.892.37$8,301
Jun 1999184015.942.36$2,933
May 1999294015.792.32$4,642
Apr 1999234015.102.21$3,533
Mar 1999350012.471.84$4,365
Feb 199923309.981.82$2,325
Jan 1999287010.381.90$2,979
Dec 199829609.201.77$2,723
Nov 1998285010.892.19$3,104
Oct 1998307012.421.97$3,813
Sep 1998354012.592.08$4,457
Aug 1998192011.301.91$2,170
Jul 1998164011.742.24$1,925
Jun 1998168011.242.24$1,888
May 1998211012.622.21$2,663
Apr 1998290013.042.51$3,782
Mar 1998353012.802.31$4,518
Feb 1998299013.952.30$4,171
Jan 1998297014.702.15$4,366
Dec 1997528016.322.41$8,617
Nov 1997368018.193.09$6,694
Oct 1997659019.253.15$12,686
Sep 1997401017.742.95$7,114
Aug 1997589017.862.55$10,520
Jul 1997572017.582.25$10,056
Jun 1997364017.242.26$6,275
May 1997261018.972.31$4,951
Apr 1997294017.882.08$5,257
Mar 1997353018.951.94$6,689
Feb 1997289020.492.21$5,922
Jan 1997319023.483.54$7,490
Dec 1996386023.32$9,002
Nov 1996253021.97$5,558
Oct 1996478023.31$11,142
Sep 1996611022.22$13,576
Aug 1996348020.26$7,050
Jul 1996111019.55$2,170
Jun 1996270018.73$5,057
May 1996234019.43$4,547
Apr 1996484021.51$10,411
Mar 1996179019.38$3,469
Feb 1996175016.98$2,972
Jan 1996463017.07$7,903
Dec 1995452017.19$7,770
Nov 1995395016.00$6,320
Oct 1995743015.43$11,464
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 1995408015.92$6,495
Jul 1995371015.24$5,654
Jun 1995363016.41$5,957
May 1995198017.56$3,477
Apr 1995197017.73$3,493
Mar 1995196016.44$3,222
Feb 1995205016.58$3,399
Jan 1995404015.92$6,432
Dec 1994614015.03$9,228
Nov 1994409015.90$6,503
Oct 1994795015.58$12,386
Sep 1994570115.29$8,715
Aug 1994588116.13$9,484
Jul 1994396117.56$6,954
Jun 1994782117.09$13,364
May 1994569115.88$9,036
Apr 1994602114.14$8,512
Mar 1994661112.46$8,236
Feb 1994607112.50$7,588
Jan 1994586112.66$7,419
Dec 1993764112.33$9,420
Nov 1993624114.49$9,042
Oct 1993609115.85$9,653
Sep 1993616115.03$9,258
Aug 1993625115.66$9,788
Jul 1993808115.46$12,492
Jun 1993614116.79$10,309
May 1993831117.68$14,692
Apr 1993618118.05$11,155
Mar 1993844118.14$15,310
Feb 1993585117.90$10,472
Jan 1993562116.93$9,515

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.

Sep 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  446 bbl  × $ 27.44 =    $12,238
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.64 =         $0

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Month total                                  $12,238

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/14049 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.