MORRISON 36-B

Operated by MELROSE OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 559593) in the TURNER-GREGORY (CLEAR FORK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 25632District 08Field 91903333Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$776 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$76 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
120
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 98 leases and 543 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1955-12-28
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
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 10 acres. The field rule took effect on 2014-01-07.

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: SO WISHES.

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
OilDisposition40,890 bbl$775,562
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$775,562

21 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 32.3659, -101.1089. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

32.36596, -101.10874 · 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
50.0%
2 of 4 wells
With a plug date
50.0%
2 of 4 wells
Median depth
2,850 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
37.9 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
250.0%
A plug date is filed
250.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
250.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
250.0%

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 2,832 and 2,900 ft, median 2,850 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Oct 1979 – Jun 1980
3 of 4 wells; 1 filed none
Plug dates filed
Mar 2015 – Jul 2020
2 of 4 wells; 2 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 37.9 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 36.5 years and 39.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-3353171442,832 ft
42-3353171532,850 ftJun 1980
42-3353163422,900 ftFeb 1980Mar 2015Yes
42-3353152312,850 ftOct 1979Jul 2020Yes

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 (120)

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

120 months

Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 2002477027.443.64$13,089
Aug 2002352025.963.16$9,138
Jul 2002346024.583.06$8,505
Jun 2002365023.733.34$8,661
May 2002341024.663.58$8,409
Apr 2002352023.653.51$8,325
Mar 2002482022.003.10$10,604
Feb 2002257018.222.38$4,683
Jan 2002290017.172.38$4,979
Dec 2001336016.932.36$5,688
Nov 2001360018.072.41$6,505
Oct 2001290019.782.53$5,736
Sep 2001341024.262.25$8,273
Aug 2001336024.873.05$8,356
Jul 2001506023.933.20$12,109
Jun 2001355024.563.82$8,719
May 2001354025.524.31$9,034
Apr 2001344024.685.34$8,490
Mar 2001321024.545.38$7,877
Feb 2001167027.755.77$4,634
Jan 2001514027.478.40$14,120
Dec 2000304026.889.12$8,172
Nov 2000326032.215.66$10,500
Oct 2000345031.235.15$10,774
Sep 2000294031.875.19$9,370
Aug 2000334029.644.54$9,900
Jul 2000327028.534.09$9,329
Jun 2000324029.304.40$9,493
May 2000365027.263.68$9,950
Apr 2000521024.513.12$12,770
Mar 2000309028.422.86$8,782
Feb 2000313027.622.73$8,645
Jan 2000169025.272.48$4,271
Dec 1999161024.282.42$3,909
Nov 1999321023.192.43$7,444
Oct 1999152020.982.80$3,189
Sep 1999336021.752.62$7,308
Aug 1999308019.262.88$5,932
Jul 1999323017.892.37$5,778
Jun 1999170015.942.36$2,710
May 1999359015.792.32$5,669
Apr 1999297015.102.21$4,485
Mar 1999351012.471.84$4,377
Feb 199933109.981.82$3,303
Jan 1999332010.381.90$3,446
Dec 199835109.201.77$3,229
Nov 1998158010.892.19$1,721
Oct 1998496012.421.97$6,160
Sep 1998325012.592.08$4,092
Aug 1998344011.301.91$3,887
Jul 1998333011.742.24$3,909
Jun 1998163011.242.24$1,832
May 1998302012.622.21$3,811
Apr 1998177013.042.51$2,308
Mar 1998327012.802.31$4,186
Feb 1998348013.952.30$4,855
Jan 1998185014.702.15$2,720
Dec 1997315016.322.41$5,141
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 1997150019.253.15$2,888
Sep 1997353017.742.95$6,262
Aug 1997158017.862.55$2,822
Jul 1997493017.582.25$8,667
Jun 1997161017.242.26$2,776
May 1997166018.972.31$3,149
Apr 1997317017.882.08$5,668
Mar 1997505018.951.94$9,570
Feb 1997170020.492.21$3,483
Jan 1997522023.483.54$12,257
Dec 1996336023.32$7,836
Nov 1996325021.97$7,140
Oct 1996334023.31$7,786
Sep 1996511022.22$11,354
Aug 1996174020.26$3,525
Jul 1996477019.55$9,325
Jun 1996174018.73$3,259
May 1996326019.43$6,334
Apr 1996509021.51$10,949
Mar 1996349019.38$6,764
Feb 1996368016.98$6,249
Jan 1996512017.07$8,740
Dec 1995310017.19$5,329
Nov 1995341016.00$5,456
Oct 1995343015.43$5,292
Sep 1995366016.18$5,922
Aug 1995361015.92$5,747
Jul 1995500015.24$7,620
Jun 1995356016.41$5,842
May 1995369017.56$6,480
Apr 1995541017.73$9,592
Mar 1995366016.44$6,017
Feb 1995538016.58$8,920
Jan 1995190015.92$3,025
Dec 1994353015.03$5,306
Nov 1994360015.90$5,724
Oct 1994554015.58$8,631
Sep 1994370115.29$5,657
Aug 1994364116.13$5,871
Jul 1994547117.56$9,605
Jun 1994368117.09$6,289
May 1994554115.88$8,798
Apr 1994371114.14$5,246
Mar 1994363112.46$4,523
Feb 1994394112.50$4,925
Jan 1994535112.66$6,773
Dec 1993337112.33$4,155
Nov 1993548114.49$7,941
Oct 1993555115.85$8,797
Sep 1993184115.03$2,766
Aug 1993367115.66$5,747
Jul 1993549115.46$8,488
Jun 1993365116.79$6,128
May 1993544117.68$9,618
Apr 1993371118.05$6,697
Mar 1993371118.14$6,730
Feb 1993369117.90$6,605
Jan 1993544116.93$9,210

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.

Sep 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  477 bbl  × $ 27.44 =    $13,089
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.64 =         $0

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Month total                                  $13,089

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/25632 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.