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Operated by OLSEN ENERGY INC. (P-5 621750) in the DUNE field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 16550District 08Field 26538001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$481 k
Jan 1993 – Apr 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$12 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
88
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 113 leases and 1,569 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1938-01-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
660 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 acres.

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: 10 ACRE OPTIONAL 933' DIAGONAL

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
OilDisposition29,631 bbl$481,257
Casinghead gasProduction45 Mcf$0
Total$481,257

45 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 45 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 31.5423, -102.3674. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

31.54230, -102.36758 · 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
4,028 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
34.2 years
median over 3 wells

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 4,000 and 4,050 ft, median 4,028 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jan 1962 – Oct 1973
3 of 3 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 1996 – Oct 1999
3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 34.2 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 30.1 years and 36.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-1033084134,050 ftOct 1973Oct 1999Yes
42-1030471624,028 ftJan 1962Mar 1996Yes
42-1030471514,000 ftJan 1962Oct 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 (88)

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

88 months

Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 200096027.622.73$2,652
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 1999205021.752.62$4,459
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 1999159015.942.36$2,534
May 1999118015.792.32$1,863
Apr 1999165015.102.21$2,492
Mar 1999157012.471.84$1,958
Feb 199916709.981.82$1,667
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 199816009.201.77$1,472
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 1998166012.421.97$2,062
Sep 1998156012.592.08$1,964
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 1998160011.742.24$1,878
Jun 1998318011.242.24$3,574
May 1998478012.622.21$6,032
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 1998441012.802.31$5,645
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 1997451016.322.41$7,360
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 1997454019.253.15$8,740
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 1997454017.862.55$8,108
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 1997449017.242.26$7,741
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 1997444017.882.08$7,939
Mar 1997466018.951.94$8,831
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 1997410023.483.54$9,627
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 1996441021.97$9,689
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960122.22$0
Aug 1996439120.26$8,894
Jul 19960119.55$0
Jun 1996397118.73$7,436
May 1996469119.43$9,113
Apr 19960121.51$0
Mar 1996446119.38$8,643
Feb 19960116.98$0
Jan 1996470117.07$8,023
Dec 1995473117.19$8,131
Nov 19950116.00$0
Oct 1995468115.43$7,221
Sep 1995457116.18$7,394
Aug 1995465115.92$7,403
Jul 1995467115.24$7,117
Jun 1995440116.41$7,220
May 19950117.56$0
Apr 1995469117.73$8,315
Mar 1995429116.44$7,053
Feb 1995938116.58$15,552
Jan 19950115.92$0
Dec 1994808115.03$12,144
Nov 1994468115.90$7,441
Oct 1994471115.58$7,338
Sep 1994475115.29$7,263
Aug 1994473116.13$7,629
Jul 1994460117.56$8,078
Jun 1994930117.09$15,894
May 1994463115.88$7,352
Apr 1994906114.14$12,811
Mar 1994407112.46$5,071
Feb 1994962112.50$12,025
Jan 1994467112.66$5,912
Dec 1993957112.33$11,800
Nov 1993473114.49$6,854
Oct 1993925115.85$14,661
Sep 1993467115.03$7,019
Aug 1993934115.66$14,626
Jul 1993476115.46$7,359
Jun 1993469116.79$7,875
May 1993480117.68$8,486
Apr 1993486118.05$8,772
Mar 19931,432118.14$25,976
Feb 1993929117.90$16,629
Jan 1993971116.93$16,439

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.

Feb 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   96 bbl  × $ 27.62 =     $2,652
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.73 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,652

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/16550 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.