FASKEN -I-

Operated by MURCHISON OIL & GAS INC (P-5 593920) 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 25879District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$152 k
Jan 1993 – Apr 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$29 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
52
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.

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
OilDisposition8,958 bbl$152,254
Casinghead gasProduction35,172 Mcf$106
Total$152,360

35,142 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 (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 32.0020, -101.8677. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.00203, -101.86766 · 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
11,460 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
16.8 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 11,460 ft.

Completions filed
Mar 1980
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 1997
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16.8 years and 16.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-32900014911,460 ftMar 1980Jan 1997Yes

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 (52)

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

52 months

Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 199775020.492.21$1,537
Jan 199713023.483.54$130
Dec 19962143023.32$4,990
Nov 1996065821.97$0
Oct 199621171423.31$4,918
Sep 199619370522.22$4,288
Aug 199626074020.26$5,268
Jul 1996168719.55$20
Jun 199622160118.73$4,139
May 199620369319.43$3,944
Apr 199622273221.51$4,775
Mar 199632171219.38$6,221
Feb 1996077516.98$0
Jan 199630965217.07$5,275
Dec 1995072917.19$0
Nov 199520859716.00$3,328
Oct 199529168115.43$4,490
Sep 1995068116.18$0
Aug 199528573415.92$4,537
Jul 1995076615.24$0
Jun 199530273916.41$4,956
May 199527476917.56$4,811
Apr 1995074317.73$0
Mar 199527873516.44$4,570
Feb 1995068216.58$0
Jan 199542472615.92$6,750
Dec 1994066815.03$0
Nov 199426761815.90$4,245
Oct 1994066215.58$0
Sep 199420671515.29$3,150
Aug 199420675816.13$3,323
Jul 199434484417.56$6,041
Jun 199414682217.09$2,495
May 1994083015.88$0
Apr 199428580714.14$4,030
Mar 199435882612.46$4,461
Feb 1994074412.50$0
Jan 199428783612.66$3,633
Dec 199321583412.33$2,651
Nov 1993080414.49$0
Oct 199333284215.85$5,262
Sep 199347482015.03$7,124
Aug 1993084615.66$0
Jul 1993076515.46$0
Jun 199322382516.79$3,744
May 199342682317.68$7,532
Apr 1993079418.05$0
Mar 199345671518.14$8,272
Feb 1993078117.90$0
Jan 199344088216.93$7,449

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.

Feb 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   75 bbl  × $ 20.49 =     $1,537
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.21 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,537

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/25879 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.