PARKER, J. E. -9-

Operated by DURHAM, INC. (P-5 236330) in the PARKER (WOLFCAMP) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 22487District 08Field 69193710Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$241 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
70
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 22 leases and 171 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1953-09-17
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
1,120 ft
minimum
From a lease line
460 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 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.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: EFFECTIVE 9/13/11.

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
OilDisposition14,553 bbl$241,010
Casinghead gasProduction969 Mcf$26
Total$241,036

960 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 (4)

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 32.2675, -102.5525. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

32.26724, -102.55345 · 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%
4 of 4 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
4 of 4 wells
Median depth
9,130 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
11.9 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
4100.0%
A plug date is filed
4100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
4100.0%
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 9,125 and 9,350 ft, median 9,130 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jun 1972 – Nov 1989
4 of 4 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 1988 – Aug 1998
4 of 4 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 11.9 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.9 years and 15.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-003362371 A9,350 ftNov 1989Aug 1998Yes
42-0033040529,130 ftSep 1989Aug 1998Yes
42-0033041939,130 ftOct 1973Sep 1988Yes
42-0033032219,125 ftJun 1972Sep 1988Yes

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 (70)

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

70 months

Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 199843011.301.91$486
Jul 199888011.742.24$1,033
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 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 1997172118.972.31$3,265
Apr 19970117.882.08$2
Mar 19972118.951.94$40
Feb 19970120.492.21$2
Jan 19970523.483.54$18
Dec 199602023.32$0
Nov 199602021.97$0
Oct 19961782023.31$4,149
Sep 199622022.22$44
Aug 19961592020.26$3,221
Jul 19961652019.55$3,226
Jun 19964292018.73$8,035
May 19961662019.43$3,225
Apr 19966482021.51$13,938
Mar 199602019.38$0
Feb 19966162016.98$10,460
Jan 19966742017.07$11,505
Dec 199502017.19$0
Nov 19956182016.00$9,888
Oct 19951822015.43$2,808
Sep 199502016.18$0
Aug 19956322015.92$10,061
Jul 199502015.24$0
Jun 19951542016.41$2,527
May 19956522017.56$11,449
Apr 199502017.73$0
Mar 19951752016.44$2,877
Feb 19956452016.58$10,694
Jan 199502015.92$0
Dec 19946192015.03$9,304
Nov 19941712015.90$2,719
Oct 199402015.58$0
Sep 19941822015.29$2,783
Aug 19946272016.13$10,114
Jul 199402017.56$0
Jun 19946202017.09$10,596
May 19941802015.88$2,858
Apr 19941852014.14$2,616
Mar 19944412012.46$5,495
Feb 19941822012.50$2,275
Jan 19946282012.66$7,950
Dec 199302012.33$0
Nov 19936572014.49$9,520
Oct 199302015.85$0
Sep 199322015.03$30
Aug 19934662015.66$7,298
Jul 19936342015.46$9,802
Jun 19936522016.79$10,947
May 199302017.68$0
Apr 19936352018.05$11,462
Mar 19936432018.14$11,664
Feb 199302017.90$0
Jan 19936292016.93$10,649

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.

Aug 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   43 bbl  × $ 11.30 =       $486
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  1.91 =         $0

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Month total                                     $486

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/22487 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.