SAYERS

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 15533District 08Field 91903333Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.3 M
Jan 1993 – Dec 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$92 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
OilDisposition72,485 bbl$1,333,957
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$1,333,957

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 (9)

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 32.3451, -101.1217. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

32.34555, -101.12158 · 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%
9 of 9 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
9 of 9 wells
Median depth
3,205 ft
9 wells filed one
Completion to plug
29.6 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
9100.0%
A plug date is filed
9100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
9100.0%
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

Total depth in feet, 9 of 9 wells. Median 3,205 ft, with the middle half between 3,202 and 3,299 ft; the shallowest is 3,144 ft and the deepest 3,368 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, 4 of 9 wells, Mar 1984 – Mar 1997. 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 1984 – Mar 1997
4 of 9 wells; 5 filed none
Plug dates filed
Apr 2003 – May 2023
9 of 9 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 29.6 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 25.8 years and 34.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

9 wells

42-3350004613,270 ftApr 2003Yes
42-3351001623,363 ftMar 2017Yes
42-3351001733,299 ftJun 2016Yes
42-3351001843,368 ftApr 2017Yes
42-3351030653,144 ftMay 2023Yes
42-3353387393,205 ftMar 1997Apr 2022Yes
42-3353374983,202 ftApr 1996Apr 2022Yes
42-3353332273,200 ftMay 1987Jul 2020Yes
42-3353268563,202 ftMar 1984Jul 2020Yes

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 2002742027.443.64$20,360
Aug 2002312025.963.16$8,100
Jul 2002278024.583.06$6,833
Jun 2002290023.733.34$6,882
May 2002468024.663.58$11,541
Apr 2002446023.653.51$10,548
Mar 2002475022.003.10$10,450
Feb 2002422018.222.38$7,689
Jan 2002562017.172.38$9,650
Dec 2001307016.932.36$5,198
Nov 2001422018.072.41$7,626
Oct 2001589019.782.53$11,650
Sep 2001149024.262.25$3,615
Aug 2001268024.873.05$6,665
Jul 2001474023.933.20$11,343
Jun 2001413024.563.82$10,143
May 2001314025.524.31$8,013
Apr 2001470024.685.34$11,600
Mar 2001263024.545.38$6,454
Feb 2001332027.755.77$9,213
Jan 2001442027.478.40$12,142
Dec 2000527026.889.12$14,166
Nov 2000333032.215.66$10,726
Oct 2000461031.235.15$14,397
Sep 2000325031.875.19$10,358
Aug 2000415029.644.54$12,301
Jul 2000494028.534.09$14,094
Jun 2000481029.304.40$14,093
May 2000478027.263.68$13,030
Apr 2000488024.513.12$11,961
Mar 2000491028.422.86$13,954
Feb 2000309027.622.73$8,535
Jan 2000492025.272.48$12,433
Dec 1999481024.282.42$11,679
Nov 1999494023.192.43$11,456
Oct 1999512020.982.80$10,742
Sep 1999334021.752.62$7,265
Aug 1999675019.262.88$13,001
Jul 1999525017.892.37$9,392
Jun 1999614015.942.36$9,787
May 1999508015.792.32$8,021
Apr 1999531015.102.21$8,018
Mar 1999688012.471.84$8,579
Feb 199968109.981.82$6,796
Jan 1999497010.381.90$5,159
Dec 199862809.201.77$5,778
Nov 1998542010.892.19$5,902
Oct 1998687012.421.97$8,533
Sep 1998715012.592.08$9,002
Aug 1998508011.301.91$5,740
Jul 1998350011.742.24$4,109
Jun 1998392011.242.24$4,406
May 1998332012.622.21$4,190
Apr 1998808013.042.51$10,536
Mar 1998564012.802.31$7,219
Feb 1998753013.952.30$10,504
Jan 1998916014.702.15$13,465
Dec 1997867016.322.41$14,149
Nov 1997723018.193.09$13,151
Oct 1997501019.253.15$9,644
Sep 1997893017.742.95$15,842
Aug 1997719017.862.55$12,841
Jul 19971,145017.582.25$20,129
Jun 1997491017.242.26$8,465
May 1997929018.972.31$17,623
Apr 19971,122017.882.08$20,061
Mar 19971,277018.951.94$24,199
Feb 19971,107020.492.21$22,682
Jan 19971,189023.483.54$27,918
Dec 1996782023.32$18,236
Nov 1996599021.97$13,160
Oct 19961,324023.31$30,862
Sep 1996606022.22$13,465
Aug 1996976020.26$19,774
Jul 1996588019.55$11,495
Jun 1996746018.73$13,973
May 1996768019.43$14,922
Apr 1996777021.51$16,713
Mar 1996602019.38$11,667
Feb 1996584016.98$9,916
Jan 1996609017.07$10,396
Dec 1995807017.19$13,872
Nov 1995613016.00$9,808
Oct 1995611015.43$9,428
Sep 1995568016.18$9,190
Aug 1995764015.92$12,163
Jul 1995595015.24$9,068
Jun 1995809016.41$13,276
May 1995604017.56$10,606
Apr 1995617017.73$10,939
Mar 1995612016.44$10,061
Feb 1995624016.58$10,346
Jan 1995612015.92$9,743
Dec 1994823015.03$12,370
Nov 1994613015.90$9,747
Oct 1994621015.58$9,675
Sep 1994815115.29$12,461
Aug 1994821116.13$13,243
Jul 1994614117.56$10,782
Jun 1994615117.09$10,510
May 1994813115.88$12,910
Apr 1994603114.14$8,526
Mar 1994873112.46$10,878
Feb 1994608112.50$7,600
Jan 1994626112.66$7,925
Dec 1993762112.33$9,395
Nov 1993828114.49$11,998
Oct 1993829115.85$13,140
Sep 1993618115.03$9,289
Aug 1993625115.66$9,788
Jul 1993813115.46$12,569
Jun 1993822116.79$13,801
May 1993611117.68$10,802
Apr 1993827118.05$14,927
Mar 1993831118.14$15,074
Feb 1993627117.90$11,223
Jan 1993620116.93$10,497

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                  742 bbl  × $ 27.44 =    $20,360
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.64 =         $0

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Month total                                  $20,360

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/15533 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.