SMITH, LYNN - STATE

Operated by CHEVRON U. S. A. INC. (P-5 148113) in the CRAWAR (DEVONIAN, NORTH) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 18636District 08Field 21577180Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$364 k
Jan 1993 – May 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$24 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
77
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 36 leases and 75 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1958-06-20
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,100 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 1964-06-01.

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: NET GOR FOR FIELD 500 MCF.

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
OilDisposition8,790 bbl$148,402
Casinghead gasProduction129,307 Mcf$215,099
Total$363,501

42,492 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 (1)

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 31.5652, -102.7640. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.56522, -102.76402 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
6,838 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
23 months
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
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 6,838 ft.

Completions filed
May 1997
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 1999
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 23 months across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 23 months and 23 months. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-1030328616,838 ftMay 1997Apr 1999Yes

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 (77)

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

77 months

May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 1999203012.471.84$2,531
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 19980239.201.77$41
Nov 199801910.892.19$42
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980712.592.08$15
Aug 19983472,05711.301.91$7,845
Jul 199802,67911.742.24$5,994
Jun 19981542,58311.242.24$7,510
May 19981803,82112.622.21$10,702
Apr 19983324,36713.042.51$15,270
Mar 199804,09112.802.31$9,448
Feb 199801,52513.952.30$3,506
Jan 19983226,22714.702.15$18,151
Dec 19975018,72016.322.41$29,201
Nov 19975209,92118.193.09$40,097
Oct 19972046,65019.253.15$24,873
Sep 199716178017.742.95$5,161
Aug 19971994,61917.862.55$15,354
Jul 199760910,03017.582.25$33,243
Jun 199761610,25617.242.26$33,770
May 199702,13318.972.31$4,924
Apr 1997062217.882.08$1,295
Mar 19971871,76818.951.94$6,972
Feb 199701,76320.492.21$3,889
Jan 19972012,15423.483.54$12,344
Dec 19961782,27523.32$4,151
Nov 199602,16421.97$0
Oct 19961862,32723.31$4,336
Sep 19961942,30122.22$4,311
Aug 19961992,06820.26$4,032
Jul 19961501,00819.55$2,933
Jun 1996088518.73$0
May 1996085919.43$0
Apr 199620384321.51$4,367
Mar 1996076219.38$0
Feb 199617875116.98$3,022
Jan 1996086117.07$0
Dec 199515078217.19$2,579
Nov 1995082516.00$0
Oct 1995091915.43$0
Sep 1995088916.18$0
Aug 199518872815.92$2,993
Jul 1995072815.24$0
Jun 199520287616.41$3,315
May 1995090717.56$0
Apr 1995090717.73$0
Mar 199520389416.44$3,337
Feb 1995083016.58$0
Jan 199520577415.92$3,264
Dec 19940115.03$0
Nov 19940115.90$0
Oct 199417191615.58$2,664
Sep 1994084315.29$0
Aug 1994088416.13$0
Jul 19941989517.56$3,477
Jun 1994088017.09$0
May 199420288615.88$3,208
Apr 1994082214.14$0
Mar 19947980412.46$984
Feb 1994076312.50$0
Jan 199412983612.66$1,633
Dec 199317986212.33$2,207
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 1993160115.85$2,536
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 199317485615.66$2,725
Jul 1993083915.46$0
Jun 199317383616.79$2,905
May 1993089617.68$0
Apr 199318582418.05$3,339
Mar 1993086218.14$0
Feb 199316878417.90$3,007
Jan 1993083616.93$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.

Mar 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  203 bbl  × $ 12.47 =     $2,531
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  1.84 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,531

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/18636 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.