MIDLAND -A- FEE

Operated by TEXACO E & P INC. (P-5 844118) in the WAR-SAN (WOLFCAMP, LOWER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 17442District 08Field 95108875Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$98 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 1995
Value, last 12 filed months
$15 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
36
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 4 leases and 9 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1956-10-24
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 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.

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
OilDisposition6,044 bbl$98,483
Casinghead gasProduction21,084 Mcf$0
Total$98,483

21,084 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 (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 31.7292, -102.2238. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

31.72919, -102.22383 · 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%
4 of 4 wells
With a plug date
25.0%
1 of 4 wells
Median depth
12,215 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
14.1 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
4100.0%
A plug date is filed
125.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
125.0%
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 10,547 and 13,411 ft, median 12,215 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jun 1967 – Aug 2024
4 of 4 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 1996
1 of 4 wells; 3 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.1 years and 14.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-32910014710,547 ftAug 2024Yes
42-329017863 U13,411 ftOct 1999Yes
42-329100856 U12,100 ftJun 1982Jul 1996Yes
42-329100525 L12,330 ftJun 1967Yes

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 199524424016.18$3,948
Aug 1995424815.92$64
Jul 199513739615.24$2,088
Jun 1995021916.41$0
May 199514626317.56$2,564
Apr 1995028917.73$0
Mar 1995029616.44$0
Feb 199520029016.58$3,316
Jan 199517630315.92$2,802
Dec 1994042515.03$0
Nov 199425232715.90$4,007
Oct 199401,04915.58$0
Sep 199425953715.29$3,960
Aug 1994053816.13$0
Jul 199428261317.56$4,952
Jun 1994067917.09$0
May 199425055915.88$3,970
Apr 1994085314.14$0
Mar 199421820612.46$2,716
Feb 1994034912.50$0
Jan 199428427212.66$3,595
Dec 1993034812.33$0
Nov 199328744514.49$4,159
Oct 1993044115.85$0
Sep 199324643015.03$3,697
Aug 1993042815.66$0
Jul 199347736015.46$7,374
Jun 1993025416.79$0
May 19935131,37617.68$9,070
Apr 19935171,03118.05$9,332
Mar 19934912,10718.14$8,907
Feb 199302,46417.90$0
Jan 19931,0612,44916.93$17,963

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                  244 bbl  × $ 16.18 =     $3,948
Casinghead gas       240 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $3,948

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/17442 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.