MORRISON -36-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 18265District 08Field 91903333Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$585 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$51 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
OilDisposition30,647 bbl$585,446
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$585,446

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 32.3649, -101.1127. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

32.36511, -101.11282 · 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
50.0%
2 of 4 wells
With a plug date
50.0%
2 of 4 wells
Median depth
3,080 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
250.0%
A plug date is filed
250.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
250.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
250.0%

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 2,905 and 3,210 ft, median 3,080 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jul 1996 – Mar 2013
2 of 4 wells; 2 filed none
Plug dates filed
Apr 2003 – Oct 2018
2 of 4 wells; 2 filed none

4 wells

42-3351000612,960 ftApr 2003Yes
42-3351001322,905 ftOct 2018Yes
42-3353380243,210 ftMar 2013
42-3353380133,200 ftJul 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 2002323027.443.64$8,863
Aug 2002206025.963.16$5,348
Jul 2002190024.583.06$4,670
Jun 2002172023.733.34$4,082
May 2002299024.663.58$7,373
Apr 2002168023.653.51$3,973
Mar 2002360022.003.10$7,920
Feb 2002150018.222.38$2,733
Jan 2002351017.172.38$6,027
Dec 2001195016.932.36$3,301
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 2001354019.782.53$7,002
Sep 2001130024.262.25$3,154
Aug 2001309024.873.05$7,685
Jul 2001361023.933.20$8,639
Jun 2001202024.563.82$4,961
May 2001317025.524.31$8,090
Apr 2001136024.685.34$3,356
Mar 2001376024.545.38$9,227
Feb 2001169027.755.77$4,690
Jan 2001343027.478.40$9,422
Dec 2000192026.889.12$5,161
Nov 2000152032.215.66$4,896
Oct 2000298031.235.15$9,307
Sep 2000288031.875.19$9,179
Aug 2000316029.644.54$9,366
Jul 2000361028.534.09$10,299
Jun 2000209029.304.40$6,124
May 2000426027.263.68$11,613
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 2000149028.422.86$4,235
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 2000346025.272.48$8,743
Dec 1999198024.282.42$4,807
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 1999134020.982.80$2,811
Sep 1999183021.752.62$3,980
Aug 1999168019.262.88$3,236
Jul 1999173017.892.37$3,095
Jun 1999200015.942.36$3,188
May 1999173015.792.32$2,732
Apr 1999158015.102.21$2,386
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 199917909.981.82$1,786
Jan 1999209010.381.90$2,169
Dec 199820309.201.77$1,868
Nov 1998198010.892.19$2,156
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 1998186012.592.08$2,342
Aug 1998201011.301.91$2,271
Jul 1998200011.742.24$2,348
Jun 1998195011.242.24$2,192
May 1998169012.622.21$2,133
Apr 1998161013.042.51$2,099
Mar 1998189012.802.31$2,419
Feb 1998189013.952.30$2,637
Jan 1998193014.702.15$2,837
Dec 1997199016.322.41$3,248
Nov 1997168018.193.09$3,056
Oct 1997205019.253.15$3,946
Sep 1997198017.742.95$3,513
Aug 1997192017.862.55$3,429
Jul 1997198017.582.25$3,481
Jun 1997399017.242.26$6,879
May 1997412018.972.31$7,816
Apr 1997167017.882.08$2,986
Mar 1997367018.951.94$6,955
Feb 1997190020.492.21$3,893
Jan 1997557023.483.54$13,078
Dec 1996189023.32$4,407
Nov 1996366021.97$8,041
Oct 1996550023.31$12,821
Sep 1996360022.22$7,999
Aug 1996765020.26$15,499
Jul 1996179019.55$3,499
Jun 1996384018.73$7,192
May 1996190019.43$3,692
Apr 1996359021.51$7,722
Mar 1996401019.38$7,771
Feb 1996377016.98$6,401
Jan 1996187017.07$3,192
Dec 1995383017.19$6,584
Nov 1995200016.00$3,200
Oct 1995390015.43$6,018
Sep 1995192016.18$3,107
Aug 1995196015.92$3,120
Jul 1995386015.24$5,883
Jun 1995386016.41$6,334
May 1995197017.56$3,459
Apr 1995197017.73$3,493
Mar 1995199016.44$3,272
Feb 1995218016.58$3,614
Jan 1995403015.92$6,416
Dec 1994211015.03$3,171
Nov 1994414015.90$6,583
Oct 1994412015.58$6,419
Sep 1994214115.29$3,272
Aug 1994417116.13$6,726
Jul 1994206117.56$3,617
Jun 1994425117.09$7,263
May 1994419115.88$6,654
Apr 1994208114.14$2,941
Mar 1994421112.46$5,246
Feb 1994203112.50$2,538
Jan 1994424112.66$5,368
Dec 1993417112.33$5,142
Nov 1993201114.49$2,912
Oct 1993414115.85$6,562
Sep 1993423115.03$6,358
Aug 1993208115.66$3,257
Jul 1993420115.46$6,493
Jun 1993204116.79$3,425
May 1993396117.68$7,001
Apr 1993423118.05$7,635
Mar 1993213118.14$3,864
Feb 1993523117.90$9,362
Jan 1993218116.93$3,691

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                  323 bbl  × $ 27.44 =     $8,863
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.64 =         $0

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Month total                                   $8,863

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/18265 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.