GLASS

Operated by MERIT ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 561136) in the SPRABERRY (TREND AREA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 22177District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$115 k
Jan 1993 – Feb 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
134
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 16,587 leases and 43,997 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1952-12-22
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
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 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2018-02-13.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: SPRABERRY (TREND AREA) FIELD EFFECTIVE 10/1/2019.

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
OilDisposition6,928 bbl$114,210
Casinghead gasProduction8,667 Mcf$598
Total$114,808

8,410 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 32.1431, -102.0311. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

32.14305, -102.03106 · 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
9,997 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 9,280 and 10,713 ft, median 9,997 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Plug dates filed
Feb 1998 – Dec 2003
2 of 2 wells

2 wells

42-3173048619,280 ftDec 2003Yes
42-31730524210,713 ftFeb 1998Yes

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 (134)

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

134 months

Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
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 20010024.545.38$0
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 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 199853011.742.24$622
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970317.582.25$7
Jun 199701217.242.26$27
May 19970918.972.31$21
Apr 19971535217.882.08$2,844
Mar 19971547118.951.94$3,056
Feb 199706920.492.21$152
Jan 19971614123.483.54$3,925
Dec 199605023.32$0
Nov 199602321.97$0
Oct 19961652123.31$3,846
Sep 19960722.22$0
Aug 1996160320.26$3,242
Jul 199601219.55$0
Jun 1996170918.73$3,184
May 19960519.43$0
Apr 1996165321.51$3,549
Mar 19960419.38$0
Feb 1996172816.98$2,921
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 1995162417.19$2,785
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 1995162615.43$2,500
Sep 19950716.18$0
Aug 1995151615.92$2,404
Jul 19950715.24$0
Jun 1995163616.41$2,675
May 19950917.56$0
Apr 1995142917.73$2,518
Mar 199502816.44$0
Feb 19951564416.58$2,586
Jan 199505115.92$0
Dec 19941674615.03$2,510
Nov 19941798115.90$2,846
Oct 199417418815.58$2,711
Sep 199417134515.29$2,615
Aug 199434649916.13$5,581
Jul 1994040917.56$0
Jun 199414935417.09$2,546
May 199416034215.88$2,541
Apr 199417134514.14$2,418
Mar 199434235412.46$4,261
Feb 199433335212.50$4,163
Jan 1994333012.66$38
Dec 199317146012.33$2,108
Nov 199313537514.49$1,956
Oct 199333544015.85$5,310
Sep 199317046615.03$2,555
Aug 199315638015.66$2,443
Jul 199331434315.46$4,854
Jun 199316932416.79$2,838
May 199317432817.68$3,076
Apr 199315228218.05$2,744
Mar 199316732518.14$3,029
Feb 199332936717.90$5,889
Jan 199317235316.93$2,912

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.

Jul 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   53 bbl  × $ 11.74 =       $622
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.24 =         $0

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Month total                                     $622

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/22177 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.