FOSTER, ROSS

Operated by AGGIETECH OIL, LTD. (P-5 8718) in the PAROCHIAL-BADE, E. (GLORIETA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 17822District 08Field 69352333Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$717 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 2005
Value, last 12 filed months
$65 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
150
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 19 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1963-07-19
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
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 20 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
OilDisposition37,329 bbl$717,138
Casinghead gasProduction117 Mcf$215
Total$717,352

48 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 (7)

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 31.8139, -101.1258. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

31.81381, -101.12654 · 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
71.4%
5 of 7 wells
With a plug date
57.1%
4 of 7 wells
Median depth
2,209 ft
5 wells filed one
Completion to plug
5.8 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
571.4%
A plug date is filed
457.1%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
457.1%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
228.6%

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 2,172 and 2,242 ft, median 2,209 ft, over the 5 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Apr 1990 – Jan 2008
5 of 7 wells; 2 filed none
Plug dates filed
Feb 1989 – Feb 1996
4 of 7 wells; 3 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 5.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 5.8 years and 5.8 years. A further 3 wells are excluded, because the last completion the Commission holds for them is dated after the plug date. Both dates are the latest of their kind on the wellbore record and they are filed separately, so the two need not run in order. The gap is the distance between two filed dates — it is not a statement of how long the well produced.

7 wells

42-431800515DYes
42-431100371
42-4311004262,172 ftJan 2008Feb 1989Yes
42-4311004042,209 ftMay 2006Mar 1992Yes
42-4311003822,242 ftApr 2005Mar 1992Yes
42-431329151D2,222 ftApr 1998
42-4311003932,203 ftApr 1990Feb 1996Yes

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 (150)

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

150 months

Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 2005406050.377.15$20,450
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 2005179043.166.32$7,726
Dec 2004153039.866.75$6,099
Nov 2004177045.286.33$8,015
Oct 20042049.706.52$99
Sep 2004356043.245.28$15,393
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 2004180038.286.08$6,890
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 2004178037.486.49$6,671
Apr 2004138034.475.86$4,757
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20041032.455.51$32
Jan 20043032.036.30$96
Dec 2003186030.266.30$5,628
Nov 20032028.804.60$58
Oct 2003185028.174.76$5,211
Sep 20039026.314.75$237
Aug 20031029.765.13$30
Jul 2003184029.415.17$5,411
Jun 20031028.565.98$29
May 2003366026.595.97$9,732
Apr 20033026.675.41$80
Mar 2003166031.146.10$5,169
Feb 20036033.487.93$201
Jan 2003167030.315.58$5,062
Dec 2002344026.914.85$9,257
Nov 20023024.664.14$74
Oct 2002177026.464.23$4,683
Sep 2002190127.443.64$5,217
Aug 2002192125.963.16$4,987
Jul 2002166124.583.06$4,083
Jun 2002359123.733.34$8,522
May 20022124.663.58$53
Apr 2002183123.653.51$4,331
Mar 2002179122.003.10$3,941
Feb 2002174118.222.38$3,173
Jan 20025117.172.38$88
Dec 2001184116.932.36$3,117
Nov 20011118.072.41$20
Oct 2001174119.782.53$3,444
Sep 20012124.262.25$51
Aug 2001347124.873.05$8,633
Jul 2001174123.933.20$4,167
Jun 2001176124.563.82$4,326
May 20013125.524.31$81
Apr 2001188124.685.34$4,645
Mar 2001183124.545.38$4,496
Feb 2001173127.755.77$4,807
Jan 2001166127.478.40$4,568
Dec 20000126.889.12$9
Nov 20000132.215.66$6
Oct 20000131.235.15$5
Sep 20000131.875.19$5
Aug 20000129.644.54$5
Jul 20000128.534.09$4
Jun 20000129.304.40$4
May 20000127.263.68$4
Apr 2000180124.513.12$4,415
Mar 2000179128.422.86$5,090
Feb 200099127.622.73$2,737
Jan 2000164125.272.48$4,147
Dec 1999167124.282.42$4,057
Nov 1999171123.192.43$3,968
Oct 1999165120.982.80$3,465
Sep 1999170121.752.62$3,700
Aug 1999334119.262.88$6,436
Jul 1999166117.892.37$2,972
Jun 1999169115.942.36$2,696
May 1999159115.792.32$2,513
Apr 1999167115.102.21$2,524
Mar 1999168112.471.84$2,097
Feb 199916719.981.82$1,668
Jan 1999344110.381.90$3,573
Dec 199817219.201.77$1,584
Nov 1998172110.892.19$1,875
Oct 1998334112.421.97$4,150
Sep 1998174112.592.08$2,193
Aug 1998160111.301.91$1,810
Jul 1998322111.742.24$3,783
Jun 1998164111.242.24$1,846
May 1998164112.622.21$2,072
Apr 1998338113.042.51$4,410
Mar 1998510112.802.31$6,530
Feb 1998165113.952.30$2,304
Jan 1998331114.702.15$4,868
Dec 1997161116.322.41$2,630
Nov 1997339118.193.09$6,170
Oct 1997344119.253.15$6,625
Sep 19970117.742.95$3
Aug 1997517117.862.55$9,236
Jul 1997338117.582.25$5,944
Jun 1997332117.242.26$5,726
May 1997337118.972.31$6,395
Apr 1997166117.882.08$2,970
Mar 1997223118.951.94$4,228
Feb 1997169120.492.21$3,465
Jan 1997497123.483.54$11,673
Dec 19960123.32$0
Nov 1996508121.97$11,161
Oct 1996339123.31$7,902
Sep 1996330122.22$7,333
Aug 1996341120.26$6,909
Jul 1996329119.55$6,432
Jun 1996494118.73$9,253
May 1996348119.43$6,762
Apr 1996503121.51$10,820
Mar 1996338119.38$6,550
Feb 1996486116.98$8,252
Jan 1996340117.07$5,804
Dec 1995504117.19$8,664
Nov 1995330116.00$5,280
Oct 1995495115.43$7,638
Sep 1995503116.18$8,139
Aug 1995497115.92$7,912
Jul 1995489115.24$7,452
Jun 1995496116.41$8,139
May 1995164117.56$2,880
Apr 1995482117.73$8,546
Mar 1995461116.44$7,579
Feb 1995470116.58$7,793
Jan 1995159115.92$2,531
Dec 1994488115.03$7,335
Nov 1994484115.90$7,696
Oct 1994325115.58$5,064
Sep 1994636115.29$9,724
Aug 1994475116.13$7,662
Jul 1994320117.56$5,619
Jun 1994478117.09$8,169
May 1994476115.88$7,559
Apr 1994632114.14$8,936
Mar 1994637112.46$7,937
Feb 1994486112.50$6,075
Jan 1994119112.66$1,507
Dec 1993163112.33$2,010
Nov 1993483114.49$6,999
Oct 1993632115.85$10,017
Sep 1993485115.03$7,290
Aug 1993495115.66$7,752
Jul 1993663115.46$10,250
Jun 1993482116.79$8,093
May 1993815117.68$14,409
Apr 1993623118.05$11,245
Mar 1993513118.14$9,306
Feb 1993658117.90$11,778
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.

Mar 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  406 bbl  × $ 50.37 =    $20,450
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  7.15 =         $0

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Month total                                  $20,450

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/17822 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.