MORRISON -35-

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 15198District 08Field 91903333Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.2 M
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
OilDisposition64,920 bbl$1,183,973
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$1,183,973

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 (13)

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 32.3562, -101.1202. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.9 miles.

32.35594, -101.12113 · 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
92.3%
12 of 13 wells
With a plug date
76.9%
10 of 13 wells
Median depth
3,248 ft
13 wells filed one
Completion to plug
18.8 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1292.3%
A plug date is filed
1076.9%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1076.9%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
17.7%

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, 13 of 13 wells. Median 3,248 ft, with the middle half between 3,207 and 3,254 ft; the shallowest is 2,980 ft and the deepest 3,299 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, 6 of 13 wells, Jun 1962 – Aug 2013. 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 1962 – Aug 2013
6 of 13 wells; 7 filed none
Plug dates filed
Oct 1979 – Nov 2022
10 of 13 wells; 3 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 18.8 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.9 years and 20.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

13 wells

42-3350003813,251 ftJun 1996Yes
42-3350004433,248 ftOct 1997Yes
42-3351001043,299 ftDec 2003Yes
42-3351001253,251 ftJun 1996Yes
42-3351029973,264 ftOct 1979Yes
42-3351030563,297 ftYes
42-3353000793,010 ftDec 2003Yes
42-3353000682,980 ftAug 2013May 2021Yes
42-33533867143,215 ftDec 1996Nov 2015Yes
42-33533798123,200 ftAug 1996
42-33533747113,207 ftFeb 1996Nov 2022Yes
42-33530008103,230 ftMay 1990Jan 2009Yes
42-3350004123,254 ftJun 1962Yes

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 2002640027.443.64$17,562
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 2002494024.583.06$12,143
Jun 2002245023.733.34$5,814
May 2002251024.663.58$6,190
Apr 2002476023.653.51$11,257
Mar 2002270022.003.10$5,940
Feb 2002252018.222.38$4,591
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 2001511016.932.36$8,651
Nov 2001268018.072.41$4,843
Oct 2001529019.782.53$10,464
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 2001302024.873.05$7,511
Jul 2001406023.933.20$9,716
Jun 2001379024.563.82$9,308
May 2001420025.524.31$10,718
Apr 200194024.685.34$2,320
Mar 2001269024.545.38$6,601
Feb 2001201027.755.77$5,578
Jan 200125027.478.40$687
Dec 2000161026.889.12$4,328
Nov 2000125032.215.66$4,026
Oct 2000287031.235.15$8,963
Sep 2000156031.875.19$4,972
Aug 2000347029.644.54$10,285
Jul 2000348028.534.09$9,928
Jun 2000371029.304.40$10,870
May 2000507027.263.68$13,821
Apr 2000313024.513.12$7,672
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 2000153027.622.73$4,226
Jan 2000174025.272.48$4,397
Dec 1999193024.282.42$4,686
Nov 1999170023.192.43$3,942
Oct 1999175020.982.80$3,672
Sep 1999342021.752.62$7,439
Aug 1999179019.262.88$3,448
Jul 1999356017.892.37$6,369
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 1999160015.792.32$2,526
Apr 1999376015.102.21$5,678
Mar 1999175012.471.84$2,182
Feb 199934609.981.82$3,453
Jan 1999340010.381.90$3,529
Dec 199840409.201.77$3,717
Nov 1998433010.892.19$4,715
Oct 1998359012.421.97$4,459
Sep 1998546012.592.08$6,874
Aug 1998557011.301.91$6,294
Jul 1998360011.742.24$4,226
Jun 1998168011.242.24$1,888
May 1998508012.622.21$6,411
Apr 1998674013.042.51$8,789
Mar 1998780012.802.31$9,984
Feb 1998718013.952.30$10,016
Jan 1998730014.702.15$10,731
Dec 1997910016.322.41$14,851
Nov 1997701018.193.09$12,751
Oct 1997753019.253.15$14,495
Sep 1997709017.742.95$12,578
Aug 1997542017.862.55$9,680
Jul 19971,071017.582.25$18,828
Jun 1997777017.242.26$13,395
May 1997759018.972.31$14,398
Apr 1997945017.882.08$16,897
Mar 1997885018.951.94$16,771
Feb 19971,082020.492.21$22,170
Jan 19971,010023.483.54$23,715
Dec 19961,408023.32$32,835
Nov 19961,159021.97$25,463
Oct 19961,317023.31$30,699
Sep 1996681022.22$15,132
Aug 1996913020.26$18,497
Jul 1996922019.55$18,025
Jun 1996974018.73$18,243
May 19961,149019.43$22,325
Apr 19961,588021.51$34,158
Mar 19961,334019.38$25,853
Feb 1996788016.98$13,380
Jan 1996772017.07$13,178
Dec 1995745017.19$12,807
Nov 1995588016.00$9,408
Oct 1995625015.43$9,644
Sep 1995708016.18$11,455
Aug 1995566015.92$9,011
Jul 1995748015.24$11,400
Jun 19951,122016.41$18,412
May 1995923017.56$16,208
Apr 1995817017.73$14,485
Mar 1995345016.44$5,672
Feb 1995196016.58$3,250
Jan 1995362015.92$5,763
Dec 1994386015.03$5,802
Nov 1994191015.90$3,037
Oct 1994614015.58$9,566
Sep 1994574115.29$8,776
Aug 1994585116.13$9,436
Jul 1994420117.56$7,375
Jun 1994611117.09$10,442
May 1994639115.88$10,147
Apr 1994603114.14$8,526
Mar 1994619112.46$7,713
Feb 1994808112.50$10,100
Jan 1994595112.66$7,533
Dec 1993805112.33$9,926
Nov 1993843114.49$12,215
Oct 1993627115.85$9,938
Sep 1993818115.03$12,295
Aug 1993818115.66$12,810
Jul 1993819115.46$12,662
Jun 1993834116.79$14,003
May 1993842117.68$14,887
Apr 1993842118.05$15,198
Mar 1993844118.14$15,310
Feb 1993622117.90$11,134
Jan 1993644116.93$10,903

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                  640 bbl  × $ 27.44 =    $17,562
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.64 =         $0

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Month total                                  $17,562

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/15198 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.