ELLETT -B-

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 15819District 08Field 91903333Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$417 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$35 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
OilDisposition22,049 bbl$416,584
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$416,584

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 (5)

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 32.3722, -101.1128. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

32.37286, -101.11266 · 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
60.0%
3 of 5 wells
With a plug date
60.0%
3 of 5 wells
Median depth
2,808 ft
5 wells filed one
Completion to plug
20.7 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
360.0%
A plug date is filed
360.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
360.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
240.0%

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

Between 2,790 and 3,310 ft, median 2,808 ft, over the 5 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jun 1961 – Apr 2013
4 of 5 wells; 1 filed none
Plug dates filed
Nov 1987 – Jun 2016
3 of 5 wells; 2 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 20.7 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 11.9 years and 29.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

5 wells

42-3350002912,797 ftNov 1987Yes
42-3350003122,790 ftApr 2013Jun 2016Yes
42-3353394353,217 ftDec 2010
42-3353387143,310 ftMar 1997
42-3350003332,808 ftJun 1961Aug 1999Yes

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 2002207027.443.64$5,680
Aug 2002238025.963.16$6,178
Jul 2002142024.583.06$3,490
Jun 2002104023.733.34$2,468
May 2002119024.663.58$2,935
Apr 2002170023.653.51$4,021
Mar 2002110022.003.10$2,420
Feb 2002174018.222.38$3,170
Jan 2002252017.172.38$4,327
Dec 200192016.932.36$1,558
Nov 2001196018.072.41$3,542
Oct 2001232019.782.53$4,589
Sep 2001258024.262.25$6,259
Aug 2001163024.873.05$4,054
Jul 2001228023.933.20$5,456
Jun 2001226024.563.82$5,551
May 2001219025.524.31$5,589
Apr 2001142024.685.34$3,505
Mar 2001148024.545.38$3,632
Feb 2001217027.755.77$6,022
Jan 2001227027.478.40$6,236
Dec 2000307026.889.12$8,252
Nov 2000137032.215.66$4,413
Oct 2000137031.235.15$4,279
Sep 2000195031.875.19$6,215
Aug 2000127029.644.54$3,764
Jul 2000166028.534.09$4,736
Jun 2000451029.304.40$13,214
May 2000160027.263.68$4,362
Apr 2000260024.513.12$6,373
Mar 2000193028.422.86$5,485
Feb 2000176027.622.73$4,861
Jan 2000265025.272.48$6,697
Dec 1999295024.282.42$7,163
Nov 1999126023.192.43$2,922
Oct 1999291020.982.80$6,105
Sep 1999255021.752.62$5,546
Aug 1999211019.262.88$4,064
Jul 1999241017.892.37$4,311
Jun 1999211015.942.36$3,363
May 1999243015.792.32$3,837
Apr 1999184015.102.21$2,778
Mar 1999221012.471.84$2,756
Feb 199944209.981.82$4,411
Jan 1999393010.381.90$4,079
Dec 199843409.201.77$3,993
Nov 1998364010.892.19$3,964
Oct 1998355012.421.97$4,409
Sep 1998392012.592.08$4,935
Aug 1998225011.301.91$2,543
Jul 1998129011.742.24$1,514
Jun 1998133011.242.24$1,495
May 1998250012.622.21$3,155
Apr 1998284013.042.51$3,703
Mar 1998364012.802.31$4,659
Feb 1998308013.952.30$4,297
Jan 1998323014.702.15$4,748
Dec 1997369016.322.41$6,022
Nov 1997229018.193.09$4,166
Oct 1997412019.253.15$7,931
Sep 1997356017.742.95$6,315
Aug 1997693017.862.55$12,377
Jul 1997437017.582.25$7,682
Jun 1997291017.242.26$5,017
May 1997470018.972.31$8,916
Apr 1997234017.882.08$4,184
Mar 1997318018.951.94$6,026
Feb 199758020.492.21$1,188
Jan 1997143023.483.54$3,358
Dec 199685023.32$1,982
Nov 1996111021.97$2,439
Oct 1996205023.31$4,779
Sep 1996112022.22$2,489
Aug 1996196020.26$3,971
Jul 199636019.55$704
Jun 199690018.73$1,686
May 199688019.43$1,710
Apr 1996116021.51$2,495
Mar 1996184019.38$3,566
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 1995169017.19$2,905
Nov 1995188016.00$3,008
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 1995213015.92$3,391
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 1995189016.41$3,101
May 1995184017.56$3,231
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 1995177016.44$2,910
Feb 1995204016.58$3,382
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 1994177015.03$2,660
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 1994209015.58$3,256
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 1994205116.13$3,307
Jul 19940117.56$0
Jun 1994206117.09$3,521
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 1994209114.14$2,955
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 1994201112.50$2,513
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 1993161114.49$2,333
Oct 1993209115.85$3,313
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 1993205115.66$3,210
Jul 19930115.46$0
Jun 1993206116.79$3,459
May 19930117.68$0
Apr 1993200118.05$3,610
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 1993192117.90$3,437
Jan 19930116.93$0

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                  207 bbl  × $ 27.44 =     $5,680
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.64 =         $0

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Month total                                   $5,680

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/15819 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.