DANIEL, ELMO

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 20942District 08Field 91903333Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$543 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$8 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
OilDisposition30,768 bbl$543,330
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$543,330

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 (5)

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 32.3717, -101.1190. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

32.37115, -101.11920 · 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%
5 of 5 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
5 of 5 wells
Median depth
2,850 ft
5 wells filed one
Completion to plug
34.5 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
5100.0%
A plug date is filed
5100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
5100.0%
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 2,800 and 3,073 ft, median 2,850 ft, over the 5 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Oct 1979 – Mar 1981
4 of 5 wells; 1 filed none
Plug dates filed
Jan 1981 – Jul 2019
5 of 5 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 34.5 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 32.4 years and 36.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

5 wells

42-3350076313,073 ftJan 1981Yes
42-3353188642,850 ftMar 1981Jul 2019Yes
42-3353188052,850 ftFeb 1981May 2016Yes
42-3353163332,800 ftMar 1980Nov 2008Yes
42-3353152222,860 ftOct 1979Jun 2013Yes

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 2002136027.443.64$3,732
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 200223024.663.58$567
Apr 2002162023.653.51$3,831
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 2001113024.545.38$2,773
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 2000147031.875.19$4,685
Aug 2000160029.644.54$4,742
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 2000352029.304.40$10,314
May 2000178027.263.68$4,852
Apr 2000176024.513.12$4,314
Mar 2000239028.422.86$6,792
Feb 2000168027.622.73$4,640
Jan 2000226025.272.48$5,711
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 1999229023.192.43$5,311
Oct 1999449020.982.80$9,420
Sep 1999157021.752.62$3,415
Aug 1999227019.262.88$4,372
Jul 1999168017.892.37$3,006
Jun 1999226015.942.36$3,602
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 1999159015.102.21$2,401
Mar 1999219012.471.84$2,731
Feb 199915609.981.82$1,557
Jan 1999232010.381.90$2,408
Dec 199815809.201.77$1,454
Nov 1998333010.892.19$3,626
Oct 1998171012.421.97$2,124
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 1998234013.042.51$3,051
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 1997188018.193.09$3,420
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 1997164017.742.95$2,909
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 1997224017.582.25$3,938
Jun 1997176017.242.26$3,034
May 1997265018.972.31$5,027
Apr 1997410017.882.08$7,331
Mar 1997413018.951.94$7,826
Feb 1997568020.492.21$11,638
Jan 1997425023.483.54$9,979
Dec 1996241023.32$5,620
Nov 1996438021.97$9,623
Oct 1996593023.31$13,823
Sep 1996420022.22$9,332
Aug 1996683020.26$13,838
Jul 1996407019.55$7,957
Jun 1996406018.73$7,604
May 1996164019.43$3,187
Apr 1996250021.51$5,378
Mar 1996395019.38$7,655
Feb 1996180016.98$3,056
Jan 1996659017.07$11,249
Dec 1995629017.19$10,813
Nov 1995413016.00$6,608
Oct 1995241015.43$3,719
Sep 1995347016.18$5,614
Aug 1995442015.92$7,037
Jul 1995429015.24$6,538
Jun 1995588016.41$9,649
May 1995446017.56$7,832
Apr 1995426017.73$7,553
Mar 1995207016.44$3,403
Feb 1995435016.58$7,212
Jan 1995599015.92$9,536
Dec 1994265015.03$3,983
Nov 1994444015.90$7,060
Oct 1994634015.58$9,878
Sep 1994425115.29$6,498
Aug 1994703116.13$11,339
Jul 1994439117.56$7,709
Jun 1994607117.09$10,374
May 1994703115.88$11,164
Apr 1994444114.14$6,278
Mar 1994449112.46$5,595
Feb 1994447112.50$5,588
Jan 1994623112.66$7,887
Dec 1993458112.33$5,647
Nov 1993699114.49$10,129
Oct 1993447115.85$7,085
Sep 1993451115.03$6,779
Aug 1993633115.66$9,913
Jul 1993708115.46$10,946
Jun 1993439116.79$7,371
May 1993449117.68$7,938
Apr 1993444118.05$8,014
Mar 1993890118.14$16,145
Feb 1993455117.90$8,145
Jan 1993443116.93$7,500

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                  136 bbl  × $ 27.44 =     $3,732
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.64 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,732

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/20942 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.