ELLETT, S. E.

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 20943District 08Field 91903333Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$309 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$28 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
OilDisposition16,175 bbl$308,792
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$308,792

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 (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 32.3749, -101.1115. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

32.37486, -101.11147 · 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
0.0%
0 of 2 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 2 wells
Median depth
3,210 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
00.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
2100.0%

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 3,210 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 1997
1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none

2 wells

42-335006801
42-3353394123,210 ftJun 1997

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 2002133027.443.64$3,650
Aug 2002215025.963.16$5,581
Jul 2002122024.583.06$2,999
Jun 200299023.733.34$2,349
May 200294024.663.58$2,318
Apr 2002120023.653.51$2,838
Mar 2002101022.003.10$2,222
Feb 2002151018.222.38$2,751
Jan 2002178017.172.38$3,056
Dec 200159016.932.36$999
Nov 2001108018.072.41$1,952
Oct 2001157019.782.53$3,105
Sep 2001107024.262.25$2,596
Aug 200166024.873.05$1,641
Jul 2001144023.933.20$3,446
Jun 2001193024.563.82$4,740
May 2001121025.524.31$3,088
Apr 2001127024.685.34$3,134
Mar 200195024.545.38$2,331
Feb 2001155027.755.77$4,301
Jan 2001121027.478.40$3,324
Dec 2000211026.889.12$5,672
Nov 200084032.215.66$2,706
Oct 200093031.235.15$2,904
Sep 2000195031.875.19$6,215
Aug 2000162029.644.54$4,802
Jul 2000252028.534.09$7,190
Jun 2000244029.304.40$7,149
May 2000142027.263.68$3,871
Apr 2000229024.513.12$5,613
Mar 2000167028.422.86$4,746
Feb 2000129027.622.73$3,563
Jan 2000231025.272.48$5,837
Dec 1999176024.282.42$4,273
Nov 1999133023.192.43$3,084
Oct 1999236020.982.80$4,951
Sep 1999185021.752.62$4,024
Aug 1999173019.262.88$3,332
Jul 1999188017.892.37$3,363
Jun 1999146015.942.36$2,327
May 1999198015.792.32$3,126
Apr 1999140015.102.21$2,114
Mar 1999190012.471.84$2,369
Feb 199912909.981.82$1,287
Jan 1999139010.381.90$1,443
Dec 199819409.201.77$1,785
Nov 1998142010.892.19$1,546
Oct 1998147012.421.97$1,826
Sep 1998186012.592.08$2,342
Aug 1998180011.301.91$2,034
Jul 199882011.742.24$963
Jun 199880011.242.24$899
May 1998198012.622.21$2,499
Apr 1998276013.042.51$3,599
Mar 1998267012.802.31$3,418
Feb 1998211013.952.30$2,943
Jan 1998199014.702.15$2,925
Dec 1997280016.322.41$4,570
Nov 1997202018.193.09$3,674
Oct 1997100019.253.15$1,925
Sep 1997431017.742.95$7,646
Aug 1997360017.862.55$6,430
Jul 1997395017.582.25$6,944
Jun 1997363017.242.26$6,258
May 199786018.972.31$1,631
Apr 199781017.882.08$1,448
Mar 1997132018.951.94$2,501
Feb 199767020.492.21$1,373
Jan 1997111023.483.54$2,606
Dec 1996120023.32$2,798
Nov 199667021.97$1,472
Oct 199694023.31$2,191
Sep 199684022.22$1,866
Aug 199670020.26$1,418
Jul 199635019.55$684
Jun 199631018.73$581
May 199677019.43$1,496
Apr 1996117021.51$2,517
Mar 199639019.38$756
Feb 1996146016.98$2,479
Jan 1996147017.07$2,509
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 1995125016.00$2,000
Oct 1995145015.43$2,237
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 1995154015.92$2,452
Jul 1995150015.24$2,286
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 1995166017.56$2,915
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 1995165016.44$2,713
Feb 1995169016.58$2,802
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 1994155015.03$2,330
Nov 1994171015.90$2,719
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 1994167115.29$2,553
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 1994165117.56$2,897
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 1994164115.88$2,604
Apr 1994152114.14$2,149
Mar 1994145112.46$1,807
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 1993168112.33$2,071
Nov 1993169114.49$2,449
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 1993168115.03$2,525
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 1993166115.46$2,566
Jun 1993169116.79$2,838
May 19930117.68$0
Apr 1993169118.05$3,050
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 1993173117.90$3,097
Jan 1993165116.93$2,793

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                  133 bbl  × $ 27.44 =     $3,650
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.64 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,650

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/20943 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.