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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 22699District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$144 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 2007
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
169
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
OilDisposition7,292 bbl$144,256
Casinghead gasProduction970 Mcf$0
Total$144,256

970 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 7 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 (1)

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 32.0624, -102.0540. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.06239, -102.05395 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
9,645 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
30.1 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 9,645 ft.

Completions filed
Jan 1973
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 2003
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 30.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 30.1 years and 30.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3293020719,645 ftJan 1973Feb 2003Yes

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 (169)

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

169 months

Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
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 200371033.487.93$2,377
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 2002188024.583.06$4,621
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 2002173024.663.58$4,266
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 2002187022.003.10$4,114
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 2001175018.072.41$3,162
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 2001172024.873.05$4,278
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 2001177025.524.31$4,517
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 2001169024.545.38$4,147
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 2000182026.889.12$4,892
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 2000164031.875.19$5,227
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 2000173028.534.09$4,936
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 2000174027.263.68$4,743
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 2000151027.622.73$4,171
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 1999161024.282.42$3,909
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 1999176021.752.62$3,828
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 1999172017.892.37$3,077
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 1999163015.792.32$2,574
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19991012.471.84$12
Feb 199918009.981.82$1,796
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 199816209.201.77$1,490
Nov 19981010.892.19$11
Oct 1998187012.421.97$2,323
Sep 19981012.592.08$13
Aug 1998176011.301.91$1,989
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 1998173011.242.24$1,945
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 1998150013.042.51$1,956
Mar 1998169012.802.31$2,163
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 1998179014.702.15$2,631
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 1997173019.253.15$3,330
Sep 1997166017.742.95$2,945
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 1997179017.242.26$3,086
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 1997173017.882.08$3,093
Mar 1997164018.951.94$3,108
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 1997174023.483.54$4,086
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 1996180021.97$3,955
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 1996157022.22$3,489
Aug 1996167020.26$3,383
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 1996146018.73$2,735
May 1996173019.43$3,361
Apr 1996142021.51$3,054
Mar 1996355019.38$6,880
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 19948015.03$120
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19940015.29$0
Aug 19940016.13$0
Jul 19940017.56$0
Jun 19940017.09$0
May 19940015.88$0
Apr 19940014.14$0
Mar 19940012.46$0
Feb 19940012.50$0
Jan 19940012.66$0
Dec 19930012.33$0
Nov 19930014.49$0
Oct 19930015.85$0
Sep 19930015.03$0
Aug 19930015.66$0
Jul 199311215015.46$1,732
Jun 199316913016.79$2,838
May 1993014017.68$0
Apr 199317815018.05$3,213
Mar 199310510018.14$1,905
Feb 1993015017.90$0
Jan 199316415016.93$2,777

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.

Feb 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   71 bbl  × $ 33.48 =     $2,377
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  7.93 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,377

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/22699 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.