DORA ROBERTS RANCH UNIT

Operated by OXY USA INC. (P-5 630591) in the DORA ROBERTS (PENNSYLVANIAN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 15850District 08Field 25395664OilCasinghead gasSave
Value, all time
$420 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 1995
Value, last 12 filed months
$71 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
36
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead gas

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
OilDisposition26,556 bbl$420,481
Casinghead gasProduction837,217 Mcf$0
Total$420,481

837,217 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 33 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 (18)

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 31.8165, -102.2691. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 2.7 miles.

31.81597, -102.27242 · 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%
18 of 18 wells
With a plug date
38.9%
7 of 18 wells
Median depth
13,136 ft
18 wells filed one
Completion to plug
25.8 years
median over 6 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
18100.0%
A plug date is filed
738.9%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
738.9%
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

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Total depth in feet, 18 of 18 wells. Median 13,136 ft, with the middle half between 12,400 and 13,167 ft; the shallowest is 10,260 ft and the deepest 13,378 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

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Last completion by decade, 15 of 18 wells, Oct 1955 – Dec 2019. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Oct 1955 – Dec 2019
15 of 18 wells; 3 filed none
Plug dates filed
Mar 1992 – Jul 2023
7 of 18 wells; 11 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 25.8 years across the 6 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 23.4 years and 28.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

18 wells

42-329004124211 C13,035 ftYes
42-32900429406 C13,142 ftJul 2022Yes
42-32902034901 C13,256 ftYes
42-3291030140412,179 ftDec 2019Yes
42-3291001750312,200 ftJan 2017Yes
42-329003974212 C13,000 ftDec 2016Yes
42-3290042190213,301 ftMar 2015Yes
42-32900411502 C13,346 ftJun 2011Yes
42-32900418410513,079 ftOct 1997Jul 2023Yes
42-329004014102 C13,137 ftMay 1997Apr 2023Yes
42-329004334214 C13,378 ftJun 1992Jan 2015Yes
42-32900301421011,925 ftMay 1991Yes
42-3290043741013,170 ftJan 1987Mar 1992Yes
42-135336903S10,800 ftOct 1983Jun 2013Yes
42-32900384412 C13,134 ftMay 1967Yes
42-32900392411 C13,156 ftJan 1957Yes
42-329001961003 T13,141 ftNov 1956Yes
42-329020494202 L10,260 ftOct 1955Oct 2009Yes

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 (36)

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

36 months

Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 199570432,95316.18$11,391
Aug 199537541,71515.92$5,970
Jul 199542449,02615.24$6,462
Jun 199543039,47916.41$7,056
May 199549442,25217.56$8,675
Apr 199552647,26317.73$9,326
Mar 199549928,13316.44$8,204
Feb 199543235,31716.58$7,163
Jan 199544237,05215.92$7,037
Dec 199454933,17815.03$8,251
Nov 199452930,89715.90$8,411
Oct 199458521,80215.58$9,114
Sep 199472022,48415.29$11,009
Aug 199453525,03016.13$8,630
Jul 199443112,32017.56$7,568
Jun 19941,09235,50617.09$18,662
May 19941,20532,23915.88$19,135
Apr 199471913,01414.14$10,167
Mar 199476912,14212.46$9,582
Feb 19948362512.50$10,450
Jan 199496319,38212.66$12,192
Dec 199377214,75012.33$9,519
Nov 19931,32811,63714.49$19,243
Oct 19931,38622,28615.85$21,968
Sep 199385315,94615.03$12,821
Aug 19931,12628,73215.66$17,633
Jul 19931,13618,19815.46$17,563
Jun 19931,37332,03716.79$23,053
May 19931,08817,47617.68$19,236
Apr 19931,05218,46518.05$18,989
Mar 199398016,93318.14$17,777
Feb 199395917,32817.90$17,166
Jan 19931,24412,22016.93$21,061

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 1995 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  704 bbl  × $ 16.18 =    $11,391
Casinghead gas    32,953 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                  $11,391

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/15850 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.