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Operated by MELROSE OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 559593) in the IATAN, EAST HOWARD field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 17604District 08Field 44148500Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$182 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
138
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 154 leases and 2,716 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1926-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
400 ft
minimum
From a lease line
200 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 5 acres. The field rule took effect on 2008-07-29.

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: DKT 08-0257306 APPROVED 07/29/2008 - UPDATE SPACING TO 200/400FT

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
OilDisposition9,296 bbl$181,779
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$181,779

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 (2)

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 32.3398, -101.1273. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

32.33986, -101.12726 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
50.0%
1 of 2 wells
Median depth
3,426 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
2.2 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
150.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
150.0%
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 3,426 ft.

Completions filed
Jan 2013
1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none
Plug dates filed
Mar 2015
1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 2.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 2.2 years and 2.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-335100031Yes
42-3351000423,426 ftJan 2013Mar 2015Yes

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 (138)

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

138 months

Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 200323030.315.58$697
Dec 2002114026.914.85$3,068
Nov 2002104024.664.14$2,565
Oct 200259026.464.23$1,561
Sep 200271027.443.64$1,948
Aug 200264025.963.16$1,661
Jul 200283024.583.06$2,040
Jun 200268023.733.34$1,614
May 2002117024.663.58$2,885
Apr 200267023.653.51$1,585
Mar 200297022.003.10$2,134
Feb 200275018.222.38$1,367
Jan 2002115017.172.38$1,975
Dec 200163016.932.36$1,067
Nov 2001106018.072.41$1,915
Oct 2001104019.782.53$2,057
Sep 200137024.262.25$898
Aug 200194024.873.05$2,338
Jul 200190023.933.20$2,154
Jun 2001110024.563.82$2,702
May 200174025.524.31$1,888
Apr 200183024.685.34$2,048
Mar 2001118024.545.38$2,896
Feb 200168027.755.77$1,887
Jan 2001110027.478.40$3,022
Dec 200093026.889.12$2,500
Nov 200068032.215.66$2,190
Oct 200094031.235.15$2,936
Sep 200062031.875.19$1,976
Aug 200085029.644.54$2,519
Jul 200080028.534.09$2,282
Jun 200092029.304.40$2,696
May 200078027.263.68$2,126
Apr 200079024.513.12$1,936
Mar 200094028.422.86$2,671
Feb 200068027.622.73$1,878
Jan 200094025.272.48$2,375
Dec 199999024.282.42$2,404
Nov 199987023.192.43$2,018
Oct 199997020.982.80$2,035
Sep 199964021.752.62$1,392
Aug 1999110019.262.88$2,119
Jul 199979017.892.37$1,413
Jun 1999108015.942.36$1,722
May 199983015.792.32$1,311
Apr 199979015.102.21$1,193
Mar 1999103012.471.84$1,284
Feb 19997609.981.82$758
Jan 199988010.381.90$913
Dec 19989409.201.77$865
Nov 199867010.892.19$730
Oct 199892012.421.97$1,143
Sep 199879012.592.08$995
Aug 199862011.301.91$701
Jul 199827011.742.24$317
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 199825012.622.21$316
Apr 199881013.042.51$1,056
Mar 199858012.802.31$742
Feb 199871013.952.30$990
Jan 199879014.702.15$1,161
Dec 199787016.322.41$1,420
Nov 199765018.193.09$1,182
Oct 199766019.253.15$1,271
Sep 199790017.742.95$1,597
Aug 199763017.862.55$1,125
Jul 1997151017.582.25$2,655
Jun 199775017.242.26$1,293
May 199784018.972.31$1,593
Apr 199779017.882.08$1,413
Mar 199797018.951.94$1,838
Feb 1997102020.492.21$2,090
Jan 1997114023.483.54$2,677
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 1996213021.97$4,680
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 1996205022.22$4,555
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 1996148019.43$2,876
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 1996166019.38$3,217
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 1995185015.43$2,855
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 1995191015.24$2,911
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 1995195017.73$3,457
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 1995180015.92$2,866
Dec 1994177015.03$2,660
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 1994208116.13$3,355
Jul 19940117.56$0
Jun 1994208117.09$3,555
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 1994208112.46$2,592
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 1993198112.33$2,441
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 1993204115.85$3,233
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 1993207115.46$3,200
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 1993211117.68$3,730
Apr 19930118.05$0
Mar 1993210118.14$3,809
Feb 19930117.90$0
Jan 19930116.93$0

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.

Jan 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   23 bbl  × $ 30.31 =       $697
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.58 =         $0

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Month total                                     $697

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/17604 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.