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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 16755District 08Field 26538001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$771 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$8 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
73
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
OilDisposition45,900 bbl$771,146
Casinghead gasProduction45 Mcf$0
Total$771,146

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 31.5665, -102.3883. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

31.56672, -102.38788 · 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
4,037 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
30.5 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 3,993 and 4,064 ft, median 4,037 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Apr 1962 – Dec 1962
3 of 3 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 1993 – Dec 1998
3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 30.5 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 30.3 years and 33.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-1031024834,064 ftDec 1962Feb 1993Yes
42-1030458524,037 ftAug 1962Feb 1993Yes
42-1030458713,993 ftApr 1962Dec 1998Yes

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 (73)

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

73 months

Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 1998101012.421.97$1,254
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 1998365012.802.31$4,672
Feb 1998183013.952.30$2,553
Jan 1998513014.702.15$7,541
Dec 1997351016.322.41$5,728
Nov 1997372018.193.09$6,767
Oct 1997673019.253.15$12,955
Sep 1997346017.742.95$6,138
Aug 1997505017.862.55$9,019
Jul 1997703017.582.25$12,359
Jun 1997359017.242.26$6,189
May 1997405018.972.31$7,683
Apr 1997446017.882.08$7,974
Mar 1997901018.951.94$17,074
Feb 1997446020.492.21$9,139
Jan 1997448023.483.54$10,519
Dec 1996449023.32$10,471
Nov 1996895021.97$19,663
Oct 1996455023.31$10,606
Sep 1996450122.22$9,999
Aug 1996923120.26$18,700
Jul 1996458119.55$8,954
Jun 1996855118.73$16,014
May 1996911119.43$17,701
Apr 1996457121.51$9,830
Mar 1996935119.38$18,120
Feb 1996937116.98$15,910
Jan 19960117.07$0
Dec 1995884117.19$15,196
Nov 1995953116.00$15,248
Oct 1995938115.43$14,473
Sep 1995913116.18$14,772
Aug 1995927115.92$14,758
Jul 1995459115.24$6,995
Jun 1995945116.41$15,507
May 1995467117.56$8,201
Apr 1995466117.73$8,262
Mar 1995952116.44$15,651
Feb 1995936116.58$15,519
Jan 1995471115.92$7,498
Dec 19941,259115.03$18,923
Nov 1994477115.90$7,584
Oct 1994925115.58$14,412
Sep 1994923115.29$14,113
Aug 1994915116.13$14,759
Jul 1994466117.56$8,183
Jun 19941,367117.09$23,362
May 1994880115.88$13,974
Apr 1994908114.14$12,839
Mar 1994926112.46$11,538
Feb 1994912112.50$11,400
Jan 1994943112.66$11,938
Dec 19931,262112.33$15,560
Nov 1993923114.49$13,374
Oct 19931,354115.85$21,461
Sep 1993945115.03$14,203
Aug 19931,352115.66$21,172
Jul 1993473115.46$7,313
Jun 1993795116.79$13,348
May 1993943117.68$16,672
Apr 19930118.05$0
Mar 1993935118.14$16,961
Feb 1993912117.90$16,325
Jan 1993952116.93$16,117

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.

Oct 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  101 bbl  × $ 12.42 =     $1,254
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  1.97 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,254

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/16755 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.