MORRISON -36-

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 16801District 08Field 91903333Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$266 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$16 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
OilDisposition15,091 bbl$266,251
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$266,251

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 (4)

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 32.3580, -101.1092. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

32.35807, -101.10876 · 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
75.0%
3 of 4 wells
With a plug date
75.0%
3 of 4 wells
Median depth
3,125 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
375.0%
A plug date is filed
375.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
375.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
125.0%

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 2,577 and 3,563 ft, median 3,125 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Aug 1996
1 of 4 wells; 3 filed none
Plug dates filed
Oct 1997 – Jul 2020
3 of 4 wells; 1 filed none

4 wells

42-3350123022,577 ftMar 2017Yes
42-3353005033,244 ftJul 2020Yes
42-3353005343,005 ftOct 1997Yes
42-3350003913,563 ftAug 1996

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 2002265027.443.64$7,272
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 200296024.663.58$2,367
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 2002121022.003.10$2,662
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 2002243017.172.38$4,172
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 2001282018.072.41$5,096
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 2001108023.933.20$2,584
Jun 2001123024.563.82$3,021
May 2001106025.524.31$2,705
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 2001126027.755.77$3,497
Jan 2001147027.478.40$4,038
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 2000108031.875.19$3,442
Aug 200079029.644.54$2,342
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 2000119024.513.12$2,917
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 2000118025.272.48$2,982
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 199924020.982.80$504
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 1999154019.262.88$2,966
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 1999169015.792.32$2,669
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 19981809.201.77$166
Nov 1998174010.892.19$1,895
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 1998187012.592.08$2,354
Aug 1998151011.301.91$1,706
Jul 1998336011.742.24$3,945
Jun 1998192011.242.24$2,158
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 1998304013.042.51$3,964
Mar 1998162012.802.31$2,074
Feb 1998190013.952.30$2,651
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 1997190016.322.41$3,101
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 1997174019.253.15$3,350
Sep 1997203017.742.95$3,601
Aug 1997178017.862.55$3,179
Jul 1997362017.582.25$6,364
Jun 1997315017.242.26$5,431
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 1997355018.951.94$6,727
Feb 1997173020.492.21$3,545
Jan 1997392023.483.54$9,204
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 1996200021.97$4,394
Oct 1996190023.31$4,429
Sep 1996213022.22$4,733
Aug 1996185020.26$3,748
Jul 1996185019.55$3,617
Jun 1996191018.73$3,577
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 1996190021.51$4,087
Mar 1996189019.38$3,663
Feb 1996194016.98$3,294
Jan 1996170017.07$2,902
Dec 1995198017.19$3,404
Nov 1995184016.00$2,944
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 1995180016.18$2,912
Aug 1995190015.92$3,025
Jul 1995201015.24$3,063
Jun 1995202016.41$3,315
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 1995197017.73$3,493
Mar 1995189016.44$3,107
Feb 1995191016.58$3,167
Jan 1995195015.92$3,104
Dec 1994388015.03$5,832
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 1994206015.58$3,209
Sep 1994214115.29$3,272
Aug 1994212116.13$3,420
Jul 1994211117.56$3,705
Jun 1994208117.09$3,555
May 1994213115.88$3,382
Apr 1994212114.14$2,998
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 1994211112.50$2,638
Jan 1994203112.66$2,570
Dec 1993212112.33$2,614
Nov 1993213114.49$3,086
Oct 1993211115.85$3,344
Sep 1993210115.03$3,156
Aug 1993208115.66$3,257
Jul 1993212115.46$3,278
Jun 1993212116.79$3,559
May 1993213117.68$3,766
Apr 1993213118.05$3,845
Mar 1993211118.14$3,828
Feb 1993208117.90$3,723
Jan 1993212116.93$3,589

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                  265 bbl  × $ 27.44 =     $7,272
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.64 =         $0

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Month total                                   $7,272

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/16801 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.