WADDELL, W. N. ET AL

Operated by BLACKBEARD OPERATING, LLC (P-5 73056) in the RUNNING W (WICHITA-ALBANY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 25363District 08Field 78936900Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$10.9 M
Jan 1993 – May 2021
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
341
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 35 leases and 118 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1960-02-25
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2011-03-01.

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: PER SOUTHLAND ROYALTY CO.-MIDLAND REQUEST

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
NGPA2none

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
OilDisposition106,920 bbl$6,867,697
Casinghead gasProduction895,206 Mcf$4,057,616
Total$10,925,313

16,747 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 (9)

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 31.5150, -102.6824. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 2.2 miles.

31.51239, -102.68087 · 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%
9 of 9 wells
With a plug date
55.6%
5 of 9 wells
Median depth
6,187 ft
9 wells filed one
Completion to plug
4.6 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
9100.0%
A plug date is filed
555.6%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
555.6%
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, 9 of 9 wells. Median 6,187 ft, with the middle half between 6,165 and 6,200 ft; the shallowest is 6,050 ft and the deepest 9,410 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 9 wells, Jul 1979 – Feb 2026. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Jul 1979 – Feb 2026
9 of 9 wells
Plug dates filed
Aug 1971 – May 2023
5 of 9 wells; 4 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 4.6 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3.1 years and 6.7 years. A further 1 well is excluded, because the last completion the Commission holds for it is dated after the plug date. Both dates are the latest of their kind on the wellbore record and they are filed separately, so the two need not run in order. The gap is the distance between two filed dates — it is not a statement of how long the well produced.

9 wells

42-103020626136,187 ftFeb 2026Aug 1971Yes
42-1033075510846,200 ftJan 2026Yes
42-1033072910826,200 ftMar 2023Yes
42-103018774186,182 ftJun 2022Yes
42-1033147610876,100 ftAug 2019May 2023Yes
42-103018563976,165 ftOct 2015Yes
42-103104188826,240 ftJan 2014Dec 2014Yes
42-1033566919996,050 ftOct 2010Mar 2016Yes
42-103020756269,410 ftJul 1979Nov 1989Yes

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 (341)

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

341 months

May 20210063.483.02$0
Apr 20210060.362.76$0
Mar 20210061.302.72$0
Feb 20210057.805.55$0
Jan 20210050.412.81$0
Dec 20200044.642.68$0
Nov 20200038.772.71$0
Oct 20200036.972.48$0
Sep 20200037.091.99$0
Aug 20200039.982.39$0
Jul 20200038.371.83$0
Jun 20200034.901.69$0
May 20200016.921.81$0
Apr 20200014.751.80$0
Mar 20200030.341.86$0
Feb 20200049.881.98$0
Jan 20200057.252.09$0
Dec 20190059.012.30$0
Nov 20190055.302.75$0
Oct 20190053.472.42$0
Sep 20190055.052.66$0
Aug 20190053.112.30$0
Jul 20190056.272.46$0
Jun 20190052.782.49$0
May 20190058.482.74$0
Apr 20190062.632.75$0
Mar 20190056.803.06$0
Feb 20190050.852.79$0
Jan 20190046.033.23$0
Dec 20180046.594.19$0
Nov 20180052.934.24$0
Oct 20180061.443.40$0
Sep 20180059.543.11$0
Aug 20180059.403.07$0
Jul 20180065.142.93$0
Jun 20180060.183.08$0
May 20180065.382.90$0
Apr 20180063.842.90$0
Mar 20180061.222.79$0
Feb 20180061.782.77$0
Jan 20180062.874.01$0
Dec 20170057.272.92$0
Nov 20170055.423.12$0
Oct 20170049.292.98$0
Sep 20170047.523.09$0
Aug 20170045.373.00$0
Jul 20170043.873.09$0
Jun 20170042.493.09$0
May 20170045.373.26$0
Apr 20170047.933.21$0
Mar 20170046.772.98$0
Feb 20170050.452.95$0
Jan 20170049.413.42$0
Dec 20160048.763.72$0
Nov 20160042.492.64$0
Oct 20160046.193.09$0
Sep 20160041.553.10$0
Aug 20160041.442.92$0
Jul 20160041.622.92$0
Jun 20160045.352.69$0
May 20169694,66542.521.99$50,490
Apr 20161,1995,28336.561.99$54,354
Mar 20168914,32533.011.79$37,171
Feb 20165374,11926.472.06$22,714
Jan 20168374,92527.352.36$34,536
Dec 20158224,20632.362.00$35,018
Nov 20151,0387,03638.792.17$55,513
Oct 20159577,93243.552.43$60,925
Sep 20157706,83042.992.76$51,942
Aug 20157326,60440.162.87$48,367
Jul 20158394,77248.152.95$54,452
Jun 20151,1635,12056.152.88$80,063
May 20151,1144,96555.212.96$76,178
Apr 20151,0789,19449.822.71$78,590
Mar 20151,10712,06642.892.93$82,889
Feb 20151,66914,30444.662.98$117,109
Jan 20151,92513,20443.433.10$124,543
Dec 20142,51010,87954.693.59$176,342
Nov 20142,20910,35270.464.25$199,661
Oct 20141,38812,83978.303.90$158,765
Sep 201458810,46586.164.05$92,998
Aug 20141,12513,55289.394.04$155,248
Jul 201492613,45996.564.18$145,668
Jun 20141,0669,60698.164.74$150,141
May 20141,3318,56494.734.73$166,564
Apr 20141,1225,19395.944.81$132,618
Mar 20141,2475,84395.895.06$149,122
Feb 20141,1296,17097.406.19$148,169
Jan 20141,9049,08590.404.86$216,281
Dec 20133,5538,99291.824.35$365,392
Nov 20137404,47588.853.74$82,478
Oct 20137105,33997.423.78$89,346
Sep 20131,7329,606104.113.72$216,031
Aug 20139157,253104.253.52$120,938
Jul 20138968,728102.523.72$124,306
Jun 20138098,64794.403.93$110,382
May 201394623,73994.834.15$188,204
Apr 20131,01416,54393.964.28$166,122
Mar 20139976,05293.623.91$117,020
Feb 20136554,29091.233.42$74,427
Jan 20134223,50391.603.42$50,635
Dec 20126683,88286.773.42$71,239
Nov 20127594,31886.953.62$81,648
Oct 20129416,33989.383.40$105,657
Sep 20128986,41794.672.92$103,741
Aug 20121,1216,64192.662.91$123,185
Jul 20121,0876,50785.133.02$112,193
Jun 20128828,33879.822.52$91,405
May 20123955,92391.612.49$50,924
Apr 20124085,151101.652.00$51,759
Mar 20123275,167105.052.22$45,833
Feb 20126556,734101.102.57$83,529
Jan 20127707,81998.092.73$96,907
Dec 20117847,18696.873.24$99,227
Nov 20114815,06395.723.31$62,806
Oct 20117555,68284.983.65$84,891
Sep 20114595,63183.623.99$60,826
Aug 20114364,39283.404.15$54,586
Jul 20115935,50894.144.52$80,706
Jun 20118776,65592.904.64$112,352
May 20111,3387,96698.134.40$166,387
Apr 20118987,221105.964.33$126,443
Mar 20111,1728,68596.364.06$148,172
Feb 20111,3778,35885.644.18$152,863
Jan 20111,91211,07986.504.59$216,227
Dec 20102,52413,13285.734.35$273,477
Nov 20101,1168,38380.843.80$122,034
Oct 20103025,57978.103.51$43,162
Sep 2010703,53972.633.98$19,167
Aug 20101036,90473.684.42$38,100
Jul 20101167,19672.554.74$42,500
Jun 20101655,38070.364.91$38,027
May 2010824,61071.124.24$25,356
Apr 2010644,18481.694.12$22,477
Mar 2010873,82778.394.39$23,615
Feb 2010973,61673.585.44$26,817
Jan 20101084,01674.365.96$31,983
Dec 2009764,85271.445.48$32,037
Nov 2009654,23274.593.75$20,725
Oct 2009982,31472.544.11$16,620
Sep 2009962,70365.543.06$14,576
Aug 20091102,78367.423.22$16,373
Jul 20091322,97561.133.46$18,376
Jun 2009772,36866.163.90$14,318
May 20091101,26154.743.93$10,972
Apr 20091071,32646.773.59$9,761
Mar 2009842,65042.144.06$14,296
Feb 20091462,58032.814.63$16,743
Jan 20091992,18435.865.37$18,866
Dec 2008852,60437.105.98$18,718
Nov 20081833,26155.496.86$32,526
Oct 20081542,11375.246.92$26,213
Sep 20081321,867101.767.88$28,139
Aug 20081042,880114.228.48$36,310
Jul 2008962,889131.0811.39$45,488
Jun 2008942,448131.3313.03$44,249
May 20081093,095123.1711.57$49,248
Apr 20081002,966110.3110.45$42,040
Mar 20081212,952101.909.66$40,858
Feb 20081273,04092.538.77$38,414
Jan 20081213,00890.388.21$35,619
Dec 20071262,03388.337.30$25,974
Nov 20071173,01891.677.29$32,732
Oct 20071123,19082.856.92$31,360
Sep 20071152,26175.846.24$22,840
Aug 20071173,20369.066.39$28,541
Jul 20071532,91470.906.39$29,462
Jun 20071502,84762.007.55$30,790
May 20071763,18358.747.85$35,313
Apr 20071413,34159.617.81$34,482
Mar 20071853,42956.927.30$35,569
Feb 20071603,12655.108.22$34,499
Jan 20071603,12350.306.73$29,056
Dec 20061223,39356.656.92$30,386
Nov 20061473,38554.207.62$33,753
Oct 20062223,67354.906.01$34,276
Sep 20062103,53560.085.04$30,423
Aug 20061963,68768.717.34$40,529
Jul 20061553,67469.376.34$34,056
Jun 20061363,48166.286.38$31,236
May 20061363,92266.016.42$34,176
Apr 20061423,97064.397.36$38,364
Mar 20061414,46856.707.08$39,641
Feb 20062453,84757.597.75$43,928
Jan 20062493,67160.598.93$47,881
Dec 20051772,80154.9413.42$47,301
Nov 20051993,91854.6910.59$52,369
Oct 20052263,39858.3413.80$60,063
Sep 20054152,83161.4512.08$59,697
Aug 20055093,14261.519.80$62,090
Jul 20052432,28155.697.84$31,424
Jun 20051862,20252.337.38$25,986
May 20051011,78245.226.65$16,420
Apr 2005992,12349.207.36$20,497
Mar 20051542,75350.377.15$27,454
Feb 20051762,89745.226.31$26,244
Jan 20051902,97443.166.32$27,003
Dec 20041943,04339.866.75$28,276
Nov 20042553,14145.286.33$31,430
Oct 20044713,71349.706.52$47,599
Sep 20042333,25343.245.28$27,263
Aug 20042603,68442.375.55$31,465
Jul 20043403,48838.286.08$34,237
Jun 20044973,28736.106.43$39,087
May 20044764,01437.486.49$43,910
Apr 20044753,40634.475.86$36,327
Mar 20046693,84334.365.53$44,239
Feb 20049074,35732.455.51$53,438
Jan 20043273,47732.036.30$32,378
Dec 20035194,26830.266.30$42,600
Nov 20035064,13528.804.60$33,574
Oct 20035234,55328.174.76$36,404
Sep 20036684,77126.314.75$40,234
Aug 20037575,12829.765.13$48,834
Jul 20031,0295,37929.415.17$58,077
Jun 20039783,74328.565.98$50,326
May 20034228726.595.97$2,831
Apr 20031216,85626.675.41$40,299
Mar 20031431,75031.146.10$15,121
Feb 20031695,34933.487.93$48,054
Jan 200311157730.315.58$6,585
Dec 20028936426.914.85$4,162
Nov 20026435924.664.14$3,063
Oct 20026826326.464.23$2,912
Sep 20026729827.443.64$2,922
Aug 20026633025.963.16$2,758
Jul 20024233724.583.06$2,064
Jun 20023295223.733.34$3,937
May 2002481,04724.663.58$4,936
Apr 200212535323.653.51$4,196
Mar 200210035022.003.10$3,286
Feb 200212330818.222.38$2,973
Jan 200212934417.172.38$3,032
Dec 200111034016.932.36$2,666
Nov 20018830618.072.41$2,326
Oct 20019335819.782.53$2,745
Sep 200110336924.262.25$3,330
Aug 200114336624.873.05$4,674
Jul 200114038123.933.20$4,568
Jun 200111140124.563.82$4,260
May 200112441925.524.31$4,969
Apr 200113635424.685.34$5,245
Mar 200112926224.545.38$4,574
Feb 20019230627.755.77$4,318
Jan 20019235827.478.40$5,534
Dec 200011336326.889.12$6,349
Nov 20008142732.215.66$5,025
Oct 20006825431.235.15$3,431
Sep 20009147931.875.19$5,385
Aug 20009052829.644.54$5,065
Jul 20008848628.534.09$4,498
Jun 20006457229.304.40$4,390
May 20005060527.263.68$3,589
Apr 20007156824.513.12$3,510
Mar 20009656728.422.86$4,350
Feb 20009952727.622.73$4,171
Jan 200011354325.272.48$4,202
Dec 19998955224.282.42$3,499
Nov 19998553823.192.43$3,281
Oct 19998994220.982.80$4,508
Sep 19999685521.752.62$4,327
Aug 199910181919.262.88$4,300
Jul 19999073117.892.37$3,344
Jun 19999987415.942.36$3,643
May 19997988915.792.32$3,311
Apr 19998984515.102.21$3,210
Mar 199910192312.471.84$2,956
Feb 1999887849.981.82$2,303
Jan 19999687210.381.90$2,653
Dec 1998967669.201.77$2,242
Nov 19989179210.892.19$2,722
Oct 19986788512.421.97$2,575
Sep 19988596112.592.08$3,072
Aug 19989692311.301.91$2,845
Jul 19981031,09411.742.24$3,657
Jun 199810178311.242.24$2,887
May 199810479312.622.21$3,062
Apr 19986488813.042.51$3,059
Mar 1998931,00612.802.31$3,514
Feb 19987498913.952.30$3,306
Jan 19987191714.702.15$3,020
Dec 19971681,25816.322.41$5,775
Nov 199716815218.193.09$3,525
Oct 199714560319.253.15$4,691
Sep 199710725317.742.95$2,646
Aug 199710825117.862.55$2,570
Jul 19979724817.582.25$2,263
Jun 19978728717.242.26$2,148
May 19978229618.972.31$2,239
Apr 19978629717.882.08$2,156
Mar 199710127618.951.94$2,449
Feb 19978526120.492.21$2,317
Jan 199716833123.483.54$5,116
Dec 199618734223.32$4,361
Nov 199619624421.97$4,306
Oct 199621026223.31$4,895
Sep 199619728022.22$4,377
Aug 199620831820.26$4,214
Jul 199620925919.55$4,086
Jun 199619325218.73$3,615
May 199619922919.43$3,867
Apr 199625522721.51$5,485
Mar 199650039219.38$9,690
Feb 199610918016.98$1,851
Jan 199612415717.07$2,117
Dec 199515565617.19$2,664
Nov 199514575816.00$2,320
Oct 199518057115.43$2,777
Sep 199514656316.18$2,362
Aug 19951652,38815.92$2,627
Jul 199511927715.24$1,814
Jun 199511027616.41$1,805
May 199510126417.56$1,774
Apr 199511935717.73$2,110
Mar 199512927716.44$2,121
Feb 199514225716.58$2,354
Jan 19959326815.92$1,481
Dec 199412224715.03$1,834
Nov 199412025915.90$1,908
Oct 199412626715.58$1,963
Sep 199411625815.29$1,774
Aug 199411426016.13$1,839
Jul 199417631517.56$3,091
Jun 199414229717.09$2,427
May 199418232315.88$2,890
Apr 199412933514.14$1,824
Mar 199416424912.46$2,043
Feb 199417723412.50$2,213
Jan 199412928212.66$1,633
Dec 199314728312.33$1,813
Nov 199311338814.49$1,637
Oct 199311321015.85$1,791
Sep 199311534915.03$1,728
Aug 199314024515.66$2,192
Jul 199314627815.46$2,257
Jun 199319228016.79$3,224
May 199318829617.68$3,324
Apr 199318525318.05$3,339
Mar 199319330418.14$3,501
Feb 199313519817.90$2,417
Jan 199318628316.93$3,149

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 2016 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  969 bbl  × $ 42.52 =    $41,202
Casinghead gas     4,665 Mcf  × $  1.99 =     $9,288

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Month total                                  $50,490

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/25363 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.