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Operated by STEPHENS, AUTRY C. (P-5 817550) in the SULPHUR DRAW (DEAN 8790) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 25823District 08Field 87073333Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$82 k
Jan 1993 – Nov 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$10 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
71
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 122 leases and 183 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1966-05-18
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
933 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.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: OPTIONAL 80 ACRE, DIAG. 3250

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
OilDisposition5,013 bbl$81,894
Casinghead gasProduction33 Mcf$0
Total$81,894

33 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 33 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 32.5008, -101.8927. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.50080, -101.89271 · 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
9,170 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
19.3 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 9,170 ft.

Completions filed
May 1979
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Aug 1998
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 19.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 19.3 years and 19.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3173206829,170 ftMay 1979Aug 1998Yes

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 (71)

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

71 months

Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 199890012.592.08$1,133
Aug 1998142011.301.91$1,605
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 1998187011.242.24$2,102
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 1998183013.042.51$2,386
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 1998181013.952.30$2,525
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 1997178018.193.09$3,238
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 1997171017.742.95$3,034
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 1997181017.582.25$3,182
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 1997178018.972.31$3,377
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 1997186018.951.94$3,525
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 1997182023.483.54$4,273
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 1996186021.97$4,086
Oct 1996177023.31$4,126
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19951017.19$17
Nov 1995155116.00$2,480
Oct 1995173115.43$2,669
Sep 19950116.18$0
Aug 19950115.92$0
Jul 1995120115.24$1,829
Jun 1995158116.41$2,593
May 19950117.56$0
Apr 1995136117.73$2,411
Mar 1995170116.44$2,795
Feb 19950116.58$0
Jan 19950115.92$0
Dec 19940115.03$0
Nov 1994174115.90$2,767
Oct 1994169115.58$2,633
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 1994103117.56$1,809
Jun 1994139117.09$2,376
May 19941115.88$16
Apr 1994147114.14$2,079
Mar 1994164112.46$2,043
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 1994170112.66$2,152
Dec 1993174112.33$2,145
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 199358115.85$919
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 1993114115.66$1,785
Jul 1993126115.46$1,948
Jun 1993176116.79$2,955
May 1993163117.68$2,882
Apr 19930018.05$0
Mar 19930018.14$0
Feb 19930117.90$0
Jan 19930116.93$0

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 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   90 bbl  × $ 12.59 =     $1,133
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.08 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,133

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/25823 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.