MOSS, PAUL -48-

Operated by CHASE, MACK C. (P-5 146677) in the HARPER field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 19326District 08Field 39176001Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$13 k
Jan 1993 – Jul 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
55
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 109 leases and 893 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1933-12-31
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 10 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.

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA1none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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
OilDisposition729 bbl$13,302
Casinghead gasProduction92 Mcf$0
Total$13,302

92 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 46 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 31.7709, -102.5238. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

31.77095, -102.52377 · 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
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
4,295 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

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

Between 4,229 and 4,360 ft, median 4,295 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Plug dates filed
Jul 1995 – Sep 1996
2 of 2 wells

2 wells

42-1351086114,360 ftSep 1996Yes
42-1351086224,229 ftJul 1995Yes

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 (55)

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

55 months

Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 199626021.97$571
Oct 19960223.31$0
Sep 19960222.22$0
Aug 1996192220.26$3,890
Jul 19960219.55$0
Jun 19960218.73$0
May 19960219.43$0
Apr 19960221.51$0
Mar 19960219.38$0
Feb 19960216.98$0
Jan 19960217.07$0
Dec 19950217.19$0
Nov 19950216.00$0
Oct 19950215.43$0
Sep 19950216.18$0
Aug 19950215.92$0
Jul 19950215.24$0
Jun 19950216.41$0
May 1995164217.56$2,880
Apr 19950217.73$0
Mar 19950216.44$0
Feb 19950216.58$0
Jan 19950215.92$0
Dec 19940215.03$0
Nov 19940215.90$0
Oct 19940215.58$0
Sep 19940215.29$0
Aug 1994164216.13$2,645
Jul 19940217.56$0
Jun 19940217.09$0
May 19940215.88$0
Apr 19940214.14$0
Mar 19940212.46$0
Feb 19940212.50$0
Jan 19940212.66$0
Dec 19930212.33$0
Nov 19930214.49$0
Oct 19930215.85$0
Sep 19930215.03$0
Aug 19930215.66$0
Jul 19930215.46$0
Jun 19930216.79$0
May 19930217.68$0
Apr 19930218.05$0
Mar 1993180218.14$3,265
Feb 19930217.90$0
Jan 19933216.93$51

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.

Nov 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   26 bbl  × $ 21.97 =       $571
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                     $571

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/19326 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.