MORRISON -35-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 17572District 08Field 91903333Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$222 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$27 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
OilDisposition11,155 bbl$222,215
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$222,215

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 32.3617, -101.1273. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

32.36163, -101.12742 · 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
3,110 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 2,877 and 3,308 ft, median 3,110 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Apr 2013
1 of 4 wells; 3 filed none
Plug dates filed
Jun 1996 – Mar 2015
3 of 4 wells; 1 filed none

4 wells

42-3351000733,143 ftJun 1996Yes
42-3351000923,077 ftDec 2003Yes
42-3351001142,877 ftMar 2015Yes
42-3351000813,308 ftApr 2013

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 2002129027.443.64$3,540
Aug 2002225025.963.16$5,841
Jul 2002124024.583.06$3,048
Jun 2002101023.733.34$2,397
May 200288024.663.58$2,170
Apr 2002119023.653.51$2,814
Mar 2002116022.003.10$2,552
Feb 2002132018.222.38$2,405
Jan 2002140017.172.38$2,404
Dec 2001129016.932.36$2,184
Nov 200192018.072.41$1,662
Oct 200193019.782.53$1,840
Sep 200163024.262.25$1,528
Aug 200189024.873.05$2,213
Jul 2001132023.933.20$3,159
Jun 200197024.563.82$2,382
May 2001172025.524.31$4,389
Apr 2001100024.685.34$2,468
Mar 2001220024.545.38$5,399
Feb 2001299027.755.77$8,297
Jan 2001123027.478.40$3,379
Dec 2000139026.889.12$3,736
Nov 2000123032.215.66$3,962
Oct 200078031.235.15$2,436
Sep 2000134031.875.19$4,271
Aug 2000137029.644.54$4,061
Jul 2000134028.534.09$3,823
Jun 200080029.304.40$2,344
May 2000104027.263.68$2,835
Apr 2000137024.513.12$3,358
Mar 2000180028.422.86$5,116
Feb 200092027.622.73$2,541
Jan 200099025.272.48$2,502
Dec 1999194024.282.42$4,710
Nov 1999118023.192.43$2,736
Oct 1999117020.982.80$2,455
Sep 199962021.752.62$1,349
Aug 199966019.262.88$1,271
Jul 199971017.892.37$1,270
Jun 19999015.942.36$143
May 199967015.792.32$1,058
Apr 199963015.102.21$951
Mar 199958012.471.84$723
Feb 19995509.981.82$549
Jan 199937010.381.90$384
Dec 19983109.201.77$285
Nov 199855010.892.19$599
Oct 199867012.421.97$832
Sep 199812012.592.08$151
Aug 199814011.301.91$158
Jul 19989011.742.24$106
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 199821012.622.21$265
Apr 199859013.042.51$769
Mar 199847012.802.31$602
Feb 199843013.952.30$600
Jan 199860014.702.15$882
Dec 199775016.322.41$1,224
Nov 199757018.193.09$1,037
Oct 199788019.253.15$1,694
Sep 199775017.742.95$1,331
Aug 199751017.862.55$911
Jul 199772017.582.25$1,266
Jun 199778017.242.26$1,345
May 199797018.972.31$1,840
Apr 199753017.882.08$948
Mar 199769018.951.94$1,308
Feb 199736020.492.21$738
Jan 1997102023.483.54$2,395
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 1996154019.55$3,011
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 1996140019.38$2,713
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 1995152017.19$2,613
Nov 1995156016.00$2,496
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 1995162016.18$2,621
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 1995155015.24$2,362
Jun 1995157016.41$2,576
May 1995174017.56$3,055
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 1995160016.44$2,630
Feb 1995153016.58$2,537
Jan 1995161015.92$2,563
Dec 1994169015.03$2,540
Nov 1994182015.90$2,894
Oct 1994181015.58$2,820
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 1994167116.13$2,694
Jul 19940117.56$0
Jun 1994178117.09$3,042
May 1994176115.88$2,795
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 1994180112.46$2,243
Feb 1994184112.50$2,300
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 1993182112.33$2,244
Nov 1993171114.49$2,478
Oct 1993182115.85$2,885
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 1993178115.66$2,787
Jul 1993186115.46$2,876
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 1993182117.68$3,218
Apr 19930118.05$0
Mar 1993183118.14$3,320
Feb 1993179117.90$3,204
Jan 1993163116.93$2,760

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                  129 bbl  × $ 27.44 =     $3,540
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.64 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,540

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/17572 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.