HEADLEE, E. V., TG

Operated by FOUR STAR OIL AND GAS COMPANY (P-5 280606) in the HEADLEE (ELLENBURGER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 2513District 08Field 39969600Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$3.8 M
Jan 1993 – Jul 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
79
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 19 leases and 49 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1953-01-06
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 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.

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
OilDisposition207,629 bbl$3,601,618
Casinghead gasProduction321,596 Mcf$163,572
Total$3,765,190

257,411 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 (12)

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 31.8975, -102.3095. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.3 miles.

31.89746, -102.30947 · 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%
12 of 12 wells
With a plug date
91.7%
11 of 12 wells
Median depth
13,255 ft
12 wells filed one
Completion to plug
16.0 years
median over 8 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
12100.0%
A plug date is filed
1191.7%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1191.7%
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

Total depth in feet, 12 of 12 wells. Median 13,255 ft, with the middle half between 13,217 and 13,338 ft; the shallowest is 13,161 ft and the deepest 13,526 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 9 of 12 wells, Jun 1953 – Jun 2009. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Jun 1953 – Jun 2009
9 of 12 wells; 3 filed none
Plug dates filed
Mar 1974 – Nov 2020
11 of 12 wells; 1 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.0 years across the 8 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.8 years and 20.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

12 wells

42-13506595713,416 ftSep 1974Yes
42-135065981013,260 ftJun 1980Yes
42-135066011313,250 ftMar 1974Yes
42-13506589113,319 ftJun 2009Nov 2020Yes
42-13506593513,172 ftMay 1999Aug 2020Yes
42-13506590213,526 ftJun 1989Feb 1995Yes
42-13506596813,161 ftMay 1988Aug 1994Yes
42-13506592413,299 ftMay 1987May 1998Yes
42-13506597913,245 ftOct 1971Yes
42-135066001213,232 ftMay 1954Aug 1979Yes
42-13506594613,172 ftSep 1953Mar 1974Yes
42-13506591313,393 ftJun 1953Apr 1974Yes

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 (79)

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

79 months

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 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 1998278012.622.21$3,508
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 199804113.952.30$94
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 199737035016.322.41$6,882
Nov 19973,5974,98518.193.09$80,824
Oct 19973,4254,93219.253.15$81,466
Sep 19973,7615,35617.742.95$82,546
Aug 19973,9245,87917.862.55$85,102
Jul 19973,7486,57917.582.25$80,672
Jun 19973,7405,88717.242.26$77,766
May 19974,3215,69518.972.31$95,116
Apr 19973,2336,23917.882.08$70,801
Mar 19973,4316,48118.951.94$77,585
Feb 19973,5025,66220.492.21$84,246
Jan 19973,9436,09923.483.54$114,170
Dec 19963,7526,47623.32$87,497
Nov 19963,7355,98621.97$82,058
Oct 19964,2596,89423.31$99,277
Sep 19963,3767,81122.22$75,015
Aug 19964,6308,49220.26$93,804
Jul 19964,3157,45519.55$84,358
Jun 19961,6233,67218.73$30,399
May 19968222,77919.43$15,971
Apr 19961,2972,58921.51$27,898
Mar 19962,0613,41419.38$39,942
Feb 19961,8542,87716.98$31,481
Jan 19961,8903,01417.07$32,262
Dec 19952,0133,18117.19$34,603
Nov 19952,0573,41016.00$32,912
Oct 19952,4644,01915.43$38,020
Sep 19952,2863,95216.18$36,987
Aug 19953,5655,60315.92$56,755
Jul 19954,2016,35615.24$64,023
Jun 19953,8617,19116.41$63,359
May 19953,5987,44917.56$63,181
Apr 19953,7397,35717.73$66,292
Mar 19954,2555,76016.44$69,952
Feb 19954,0373,82016.58$66,933
Jan 19954,8045,73415.92$76,480
Dec 19943,3843,92415.03$50,862
Nov 19943,6545,77815.90$58,099
Oct 19944,1115,73915.58$64,049
Sep 19944,4645,96215.29$68,255
Aug 19943,2095,54116.13$51,761
Jul 19944,6086,90317.56$80,916
Jun 19944,7008,17717.09$80,323
May 19943,7494,31315.88$59,534
Apr 19941,4052,31714.14$19,867
Mar 19942581,60112.46$3,215
Feb 19941,9301,42712.50$24,125
Jan 19945,1097,16112.66$64,680
Dec 19934,8927,57012.33$60,318
Nov 19934,0665,63814.49$58,916
Oct 19933,2764,86315.85$51,925
Sep 19932,7844,22115.03$41,844
Aug 19934,6485,12415.66$72,788
Jul 19935,2286,76215.46$80,825
Jun 19935,9189,21116.79$99,363
May 19935,4276,83917.68$95,949
Apr 19933,8435,61218.05$69,366
Mar 19934,3526,43118.14$78,945
Feb 19933,2015,92617.90$57,298
Jan 19933,6465,08016.93$61,727

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.

May 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  278 bbl  × $ 12.62 =     $3,508
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.21 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,508

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/2513 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.