MORRISON-JONES

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 20950District 08Field 91903333Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$945 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$93 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
OilDisposition47,117 bbl$945,091
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$945,091

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 (7)

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 32.3639, -101.1189. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

32.36364, -101.11900 · 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
57.1%
4 of 7 wells
With a plug date
57.1%
4 of 7 wells
Median depth
3,200 ft
7 wells filed one
Completion to plug
15.7 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
457.1%
A plug date is filed
457.1%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
457.1%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
342.9%

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 2,900 and 3,205 ft, median 3,200 ft, over the 7 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Feb 1996 – Jun 2022
5 of 7 wells; 2 filed none
Plug dates filed
Mar 1985 – May 2021
4 of 7 wells; 3 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.7 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 10.8 years and 20.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

7 wells

42-3350076812,996 ftMar 1985Yes
42-3351038522,900 ftNov 2003Yes
42-3353380053,205 ftJun 2022
42-3353386563,205 ftOct 2013
42-3353386973,172 ftApr 1997Apr 2003Yes
42-3353379943,200 ftJul 1996
42-3353374833,202 ftFeb 1996May 2021Yes

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 2002527027.443.64$14,461
Aug 2002477025.963.16$12,383
Jul 2002416024.583.06$10,225
Jun 2002431023.733.34$10,228
May 2002239024.663.58$5,894
Apr 2002397023.653.51$9,389
Mar 2002435022.003.10$9,570
Feb 2002603018.222.38$10,987
Jan 2002595017.172.38$10,216
Dec 2001229016.932.36$3,877
Nov 2001451018.072.41$8,150
Oct 2001619019.782.53$12,244
Sep 2001285024.262.25$6,914
Aug 2001267024.873.05$6,640
Jul 2001529023.933.20$12,659
Jun 2001788024.563.82$19,353
May 2001732025.524.31$18,681
Apr 2001611024.685.34$15,079
Mar 20011,001024.545.38$24,565
Feb 2001412027.755.77$11,433
Jan 2001412027.478.40$11,318
Dec 2000594026.889.12$15,967
Nov 2000412032.215.66$13,271
Oct 2000277031.235.15$8,651
Sep 2000570031.875.19$18,166
Aug 2000291029.644.54$8,625
Jul 2000382028.534.09$10,898
Jun 2000285029.304.40$8,351
May 2000390027.263.68$10,631
Apr 2000370024.513.12$9,069
Mar 2000513028.422.86$14,579
Feb 2000236027.622.73$6,518
Jan 2000231025.272.48$5,837
Dec 1999498024.282.42$12,091
Nov 1999394023.192.43$9,137
Oct 1999718020.982.80$15,064
Sep 1999282021.752.62$6,134
Aug 1999442019.262.88$8,513
Jul 1999473017.892.37$8,462
Jun 1999171015.942.36$2,726
May 1999447015.792.32$7,058
Apr 1999461015.102.21$6,961
Mar 1999389012.471.84$4,851
Feb 199944509.981.82$4,441
Jan 1999492010.381.90$5,107
Dec 199849209.201.77$4,526
Nov 1998498010.892.19$5,423
Oct 1998624012.421.97$7,750
Sep 1998582012.592.08$7,327
Aug 1998377011.301.91$4,260
Jul 1998525011.742.24$6,164
Jun 1998544011.242.24$6,115
May 1998494012.622.21$6,234
Apr 1998603013.042.51$7,863
Mar 1998496012.802.31$6,349
Feb 1998461013.952.30$6,431
Jan 1998614014.702.15$9,026
Dec 1997635016.322.41$10,363
Nov 1997459018.193.09$8,349
Oct 1997406019.253.15$7,816
Sep 1997727017.742.95$12,897
Aug 1997642017.862.55$11,466
Jul 1997821017.582.25$14,433
Jun 1997805017.242.26$13,878
May 1997947018.972.31$17,965
Apr 1997838017.882.08$14,983
Mar 1997980018.951.94$18,571
Feb 1997846020.492.21$17,335
Jan 19971,119023.483.54$26,274
Dec 19961,211023.32$28,241
Nov 1996756021.97$16,609
Oct 1996998023.31$23,263
Sep 1996753022.22$16,732
Aug 1996900020.26$18,234
Jul 1996935019.55$18,279
Jun 1996938018.73$17,569
May 1996713019.43$13,854
Apr 19961,110021.51$23,876
Mar 1996713019.38$13,818
Feb 1996390016.98$6,622
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 1995195016.18$3,155
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 1995205017.56$3,600
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 1995251015.92$3,996
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 1994265115.29$4,052
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 19940117.56$0
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 1994264114.14$3,733
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 1993237114.49$3,434
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 1993268115.46$4,143
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 19930117.68$0
Apr 1993261118.05$4,711
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 19930117.90$0
Jan 19930116.93$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.

Sep 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  527 bbl  × $ 27.44 =    $14,461
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.64 =         $0

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Month total                                  $14,461

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/20950 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.