MORRISON -38-A-

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 16214District 08Field 91903333Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$110 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$6 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
OilDisposition6,418 bbl$109,591
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$109,591

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 (3)

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 32.3510, -101.1161. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

32.35074, -101.11550 · 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%
3 of 3 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
3 of 3 wells
Median depth
3,210 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
27.3 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
3100.0%
A plug date is filed
3100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
3100.0%
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

Between 3,156 and 3,267 ft, median 3,210 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Mar 1984
1 of 3 wells; 2 filed none
Plug dates filed
Sep 2004 – Jul 2011
3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 27.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 27.3 years and 27.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-3350004013,267 ftJan 2009Yes
42-3350004323,210 ftSep 2004Yes
42-3353268333,156 ftMar 1984Jul 2011Yes

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 2002138027.443.64$3,787
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 200224024.663.58$592
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 200232022.003.10$704
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 200277017.172.38$1,322
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 200194018.072.41$1,699
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 200144023.933.20$1,053
Jun 200137024.563.82$909
May 200137025.524.31$944
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 200122027.755.77$611
Jan 200126027.478.40$714
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 200044031.875.19$1,402
Aug 200049029.644.54$1,452
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 200032024.513.12$784
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 200056025.272.48$1,415
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19997020.982.80$147
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 199929019.262.88$559
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 199915015.792.32$237
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 19981109.201.77$101
Nov 199813010.892.19$142
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 199816012.592.08$201
Aug 199818011.301.91$203
Jul 199840011.742.24$470
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 199833013.042.51$430
Mar 199838012.802.31$486
Feb 199823013.952.30$321
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 199716016.322.41$261
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 199712019.253.15$231
Sep 19978017.742.95$142
Aug 19975017.862.55$89
Jul 199713017.582.25$229
Jun 199720017.242.26$345
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 199718018.951.94$341
Feb 199746020.492.21$943
Jan 1997200023.483.54$4,696
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 1996174019.43$3,381
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 1996161016.98$2,734
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 1995202015.92$3,216
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 1995200017.56$3,512
Apr 1995194017.73$3,440
Mar 1995204016.44$3,354
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 1994214015.03$3,216
Nov 1994216015.90$3,434
Oct 1994210015.58$3,272
Sep 1994200115.29$3,058
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 19940117.56$0
Jun 1994209117.09$3,572
May 1994217115.88$3,446
Apr 1994205114.14$2,899
Mar 1994213112.46$2,654
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 1994204112.66$2,583
Dec 1993209112.33$2,577
Nov 1993213114.49$3,086
Oct 1993216115.85$3,424
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 1993210115.66$3,289
Jul 1993216115.46$3,339
Jun 1993203116.79$3,408
May 1993200117.68$3,536
Apr 1993217118.05$3,917
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 1993214117.90$3,831
Jan 1993204116.93$3,454

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                  138 bbl  × $ 27.44 =     $3,787
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.64 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,787

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/16214 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.