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Operated by PIONEER NATURAL RES. USA, INC. (P-5 665748) 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 23061District 08Field 85280300NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$950 k
Jan 1993 – May 2005
Value, last 12 filed months
$554
at the published price for each month
Months reported
149
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.

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA1none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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
OilDisposition41,880 bbl$790,692
Casinghead gasProduction95,520 Mcf$159,055
Total$949,748

47,962 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 (3)

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 32.2697, -102.0576. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

32.26955, -102.05770 · 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%
3 of 3 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
3 of 3 wells
Median depth
9,550 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
11.7 years
median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
3100.0%
A plug date is filed
3100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
3100.0%
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 9,500 and 9,550 ft, median 9,550 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Dec 1973 – Mar 1995
3 of 3 wells
Plug dates filed
Aug 1985 – Sep 2004
3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 11.7 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.4 years and 21.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-3173231739,500 ftMar 1995Apr 2002Yes
42-3173109529,550 ftMay 1974Sep 2004Yes
42-3173108219,550 ftDec 1973Aug 1985Yes

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 (149)

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

149 months

May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 200511050.377.15$554
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 200434032.036.30$1,089
Dec 200318114930.266.30$6,416
Nov 2003025128.804.60$1,153
Oct 2003028228.174.76$1,342
Sep 200317930226.314.75$6,144
Aug 2003034629.765.13$1,775
Jul 200317737629.415.17$7,150
Jun 2003040128.565.98$2,399
May 200318339626.595.97$7,231
Apr 2003041626.675.41$2,249
Mar 200318632831.146.10$7,792
Feb 2003020433.487.93$1,617
Jan 2003018430.315.58$1,027
Dec 200218035026.914.85$6,543
Nov 2002041024.664.14$1,696
Oct 200217839126.464.23$6,363
Sep 200217836127.443.64$6,197
Aug 2002039825.963.16$1,259
Jul 2002035524.583.06$1,087
Jun 200217823623.733.34$5,012
May 2002032824.663.58$1,176
Apr 200217623023.653.51$4,970
Mar 2002020122.003.10$624
Feb 200218222618.222.38$3,853
Jan 2002026917.172.38$639
Dec 200118326416.932.36$3,722
Nov 2001033718.072.41$811
Oct 200118039619.782.53$4,562
Sep 2001046224.262.25$1,040
Aug 200118051024.873.05$6,034
Jul 2001051523.933.20$1,647
Jun 200117950224.563.82$6,316
May 2001052725.524.31$2,270
Apr 200118343124.685.34$6,816
Mar 200118459624.545.38$7,720
Feb 200136662627.755.77$13,767
Jan 200155264027.478.40$20,539
Dec 200018571226.889.12$11,468
Nov 200054962432.215.66$21,214
Oct 200018077931.235.15$9,630
Sep 200054474831.875.19$21,217
Aug 200036184829.644.54$14,551
Jul 200036084428.534.09$13,723
Jun 200054484329.304.40$19,646
May 200035888827.263.68$13,027
Apr 200054580824.513.12$15,876
Mar 200036483628.422.86$12,736
Feb 200054782327.622.73$17,352
Jan 200018568225.272.48$6,367
Dec 199954976524.282.42$15,184
Nov 199953852123.192.43$13,744
Oct 199954569220.982.80$13,374
Sep 199918063821.752.62$5,586
Aug 199936069619.262.88$8,935
Jul 199936576517.892.37$8,345
Jun 199918363815.942.36$4,424
May 199935766815.792.32$7,187
Apr 199917858815.102.21$3,986
Mar 199936163912.471.84$5,676
Feb 19993724839.981.82$4,591
Jan 199936634010.381.90$4,445
Dec 19981794439.201.77$2,432
Nov 1998145510.892.19$1,005
Oct 199817947412.421.97$3,157
Sep 199836358112.592.08$5,780
Aug 199853690211.301.91$7,777
Jul 199853683011.742.24$8,150
Jun 199869076211.242.24$9,460
May 199831958512.622.21$5,316
Apr 199869473613.042.51$10,894
Mar 199852691912.802.31$8,855
Feb 199867485613.952.30$11,370
Jan 199851291214.702.15$9,492
Dec 19971,01598816.322.41$18,947
Nov 199767494318.193.09$15,172
Oct 199734969319.253.15$8,901
Sep 1997050817.742.95$1,501
Aug 199770577217.862.55$14,564
Jul 199717277517.582.25$4,765
Jun 199752277217.242.26$10,742
May 199735283918.972.31$8,614
Apr 199733475617.882.08$7,547
Mar 199750971418.951.94$11,030
Feb 199735253920.492.21$8,401
Jan 199734774023.483.54$10,767
Dec 199667272023.32$15,671
Nov 199634268721.97$7,514
Oct 199634677723.31$8,065
Sep 199634576822.22$7,666
Aug 199669378820.26$14,040
Jul 1996078419.55$0
Jun 199669076218.73$12,924
May 199632478719.43$6,295
Apr 199634980121.51$7,507
Mar 199634574319.38$6,686
Feb 199632568716.98$5,519
Jan 199633572217.07$5,718
Dec 199535876517.19$6,154
Nov 199536259816.00$5,792
Oct 199533590115.43$5,169
Sep 199532679616.18$5,275
Aug 199534081615.92$5,413
Jul 199534881815.24$5,304
Jun 199533677416.41$5,514
May 199534680017.56$6,076
Apr 199534476017.73$6,099
Mar 199518367216.44$3,009
Feb 199518290616.58$3,018
Jan 199501,52315.92$0
Dec 19946911,48915.03$10,386
Nov 19943231,40015.90$5,136
Oct 19943521,56315.58$5,484
Sep 19943131,30915.29$4,786
Aug 19945151,52016.13$8,307
Jul 19943271,65217.56$5,742
Jun 19943271,42017.09$5,588
May 19943201,59015.88$5,082
Apr 19943151,53214.14$4,454
Mar 19946781,34712.46$8,448
Feb 19943151,19012.50$3,938
Jan 199435856512.66$4,532
Dec 199333398512.33$4,106
Nov 19933601,24314.49$5,216
Oct 19936531,46315.85$10,350
Sep 19933341,36215.03$5,020
Aug 199331293215.66$4,886
Jul 199365899615.46$10,173
Jun 199334990316.79$5,860
May 19935181,06317.68$9,158
Apr 199334281018.05$6,173
Mar 199332692218.14$5,914
Feb 199332985217.90$5,889
Jan 199366069916.93$11,174

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.

Mar 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   11 bbl  × $ 50.37 =       $554
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  7.15 =         $0

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Month total                                     $554

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/23061 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.