WILKES

Name: WILKES lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by O. H. B. INC. (P-5 617063) in the WARD, SOUTH field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 26082District 08Field 95138001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$201 k

Jan 1993 – Feb 2010

Value, last 12 filed months

$8 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

206

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The WARD, SOUTH field

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 206 leases and 1,363 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1938-12-31

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

330 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 1982-11-01.

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: “OP. 5 ACRE DIAG. 750”

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	9,908 bbl	$200,668
Casinghead gas	Production	21 Mcf	$0
Total			$200,668

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 (6)

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 31.4028, -102.9986. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.7 miles.

31.40371, -102.99944 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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%

6 of 6 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

6 of 6 wells

Median depth

2,745 ft

6 wells filed one

Completion to plug

26.8 years

median over 5 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

6100.0%

A plug date is filed

6100.0%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

6100.0%

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

Between 2,719 and 2,795 ft, median 2,745 ft, over the 6 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Aug 1980 – Mar 1983

5 of 6 wells; 1 filed none

Plug dates filed

Oct 1980 – Aug 2008

6 of 6 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 26.8 years across the 5 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 25.7 years and 27.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

6 wells


42-47532189	2	2,719 ft	—	Oct 1980	Yes
42-47532589	7	2,769 ft	Mar 1983	Jul 1984	Yes
42-47532586	4	2,730 ft	Dec 1982	Aug 2008	Yes
42-47532188	3	2,795 ft	Nov 1981	Aug 2008	Yes
42-47532212	2W	2,760 ft	Dec 1980	Aug 2008	Yes
42-47532154	1	2,730 ft	Aug 1980	Aug 2008	Yes

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 (206)

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

206 months


Feb 2010	0	0	73.58	5.44	$0
Jan 2010	0	0	74.36	5.96	$0
Dec 2009	0	0	71.44	5.48	$0
Nov 2009	0	0	74.59	3.75	$0
Oct 2009	0	0	72.54	4.11	$0
Sep 2009	0	0	65.54	3.06	$0
Aug 2009	0	0	67.42	3.22	$0
Jul 2009	131	0	61.13	3.46	$8,008
Jun 2009	0	0	66.16	3.90	$0
May 2009	0	0	54.74	3.93	$0
Apr 2009	0	0	46.77	3.59	$0
Mar 2009	0	0	42.14	4.06	$0
Feb 2009	0	0	32.81	4.63	$0
Jan 2009	0	0	35.86	5.37	$0
Dec 2008	0	0	37.10	5.98	$0
Nov 2008	0	0	55.49	6.86	$0
Oct 2008	0	0	75.24	6.92	$0
Sep 2008	0	0	101.76	7.88	$0
Aug 2008	0	0	114.22	8.48	$0
Jul 2008	0	0	131.08	11.39	$0
Jun 2008	0	0	131.33	13.03	$0
May 2008	0	0	123.17	11.57	$0
Apr 2008	0	0	110.31	10.45	$0
Mar 2008	0	0	101.90	9.66	$0
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	0	0	90.38	8.21	$0
Dec 2007	0	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	0	0	91.67	7.29	$0
Oct 2007	0	0	82.85	6.92	$0
Sep 2007	0	0	75.84	6.24	$0
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	0	0	70.90	6.39	$0
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	0	0	58.74	7.85	$0
Apr 2007	0	0	59.61	7.81	$0
Mar 2007	0	0	56.92	7.30	$0
Feb 2007	0	0	55.10	8.22	$0
Jan 2007	0	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	0	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	0	0	54.20	7.62	$0
Oct 2006	0	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	0	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	0	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	0	0	66.28	6.38	$0
May 2006	0	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	0	0	64.39	7.36	$0
Mar 2006	0	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	0	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	0	0	60.59	8.93	$0
Dec 2005	0	0	54.94	13.42	$0
Nov 2005	0	0	54.69	10.59	$0
Oct 2005	0	0	58.34	13.80	$0
Sep 2005	0	0	61.45	12.08	$0
Aug 2005	0	0	61.51	9.80	$0
Jul 2005	0	0	55.69	7.84	$0
Jun 2005	0	0	52.33	7.38	$0
May 2005	0	0	45.22	6.65	$0
Apr 2005	0	0	49.20	7.36	$0
Mar 2005	0	0	50.37	7.15	$0
Feb 2005	0	0	45.22	6.31	$0
Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	0	0	39.86	6.75	$0
Nov 2004	0	0	45.28	6.33	$0
Oct 2004	0	0	49.70	6.52	$0
Sep 2004	0	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	0	0	42.37	5.55	$0
Jul 2004	0	0	38.28	6.08	$0
Jun 2004	0	0	36.10	6.43	$0
May 2004	0	0	37.48	6.49	$0
Apr 2004	0	0	34.47	5.86	$0
Mar 2004	0	0	34.36	5.53	$0
Feb 2004	0	0	32.45	5.51	$0
Jan 2004	0	0	32.03	6.30	$0
Dec 2003	0	0	30.26	6.30	$0
Nov 2003	0	0	28.80	4.60	$0
Oct 2003	0	0	28.17	4.76	$0
Sep 2003	0	0	26.31	4.75	$0
Aug 2003	0	0	29.76	5.13	$0
Jul 2003	180	0	29.41	5.17	$5,294
Jun 2003	0	0	28.56	5.98	$0
May 2003	0	0	26.59	5.97	$0
Apr 2003	0	0	26.67	5.41	$0
Mar 2003	0	0	31.14	6.10	$0
Feb 2003	0	0	33.48	7.93	$0
Jan 2003	0	0	30.31	5.58	$0
Dec 2002	162	0	26.91	4.85	$4,359
Nov 2002	0	0	24.66	4.14	$0
Oct 2002	0	0	26.46	4.23	$0
Sep 2002	167	0	27.44	3.64	$4,582
Aug 2002	169	0	25.96	3.16	$4,387
Jul 2002	0	0	24.58	3.06	$0
Jun 2002	163	0	23.73	3.34	$3,868
May 2002	0	0	24.66	3.58	$0
Apr 2002	149	0	23.65	3.51	$3,524
Mar 2002	0	0	22.00	3.10	$0
Feb 2002	0	0	18.22	2.38	$0
Jan 2002	0	0	17.17	2.38	$0
Dec 2001	0	0	16.93	2.36	$0
Nov 2001	166	0	18.07	2.41	$3,000
Oct 2001	0	0	19.78	2.53	$0
Sep 2001	0	0	24.26	2.25	$0
Aug 2001	163	0	24.87	3.05	$4,054
Jul 2001	161	0	23.93	3.20	$3,853
Jun 2001	0	0	24.56	3.82	$0
May 2001	0	0	25.52	4.31	$0
Apr 2001	172	0	24.68	5.34	$4,245
Mar 2001	0	0	24.54	5.38	$0
Feb 2001	170	0	27.75	5.77	$4,718
Jan 2001	0	0	27.47	8.40	$0
Dec 2000	0	0	26.88	9.12	$0
Nov 2000	179	0	32.21	5.66	$5,766
Oct 2000	0	0	31.23	5.15	$0
Sep 2000	160	0	31.87	5.19	$5,099
Aug 2000	0	0	29.64	4.54	$0
Jul 2000	162	0	28.53	4.09	$4,622
Jun 2000	0	0	29.30	4.40	$0
May 2000	163	0	27.26	3.68	$4,443
Apr 2000	0	0	24.51	3.12	$0
Mar 2000	165	0	28.42	2.86	$4,689
Feb 2000	0	0	27.62	2.73	$0
Jan 2000	0	0	25.27	2.48	$0
Dec 1999	0	0	24.28	2.42	$0
Nov 1999	167	0	23.19	2.43	$3,873
Oct 1999	0	0	20.98	2.80	$0
Sep 1999	163	0	21.75	2.62	$3,545
Aug 1999	0	0	19.26	2.88	$0
Jul 1999	0	0	17.89	2.37	$0
Jun 1999	0	0	15.94	2.36	$0
May 1999	0	0	15.79	2.32	$0
Apr 1999	0	0	15.10	2.21	$0
Mar 1999	0	0	12.47	1.84	$0
Feb 1999	0	0	9.98	1.82	$0
Jan 1999	97	0	10.38	1.90	$1,007
Dec 1998	0	0	9.20	1.77	$0
Nov 1998	0	0	10.89	2.19	$0
Oct 1998	0	0	12.42	1.97	$0
Sep 1998	0	0	12.59	2.08	$0
Aug 1998	0	0	11.30	1.91	$0
Jul 1998	0	0	11.74	2.24	$0
Jun 1998	0	0	11.24	2.24	$0
May 1998	0	0	12.62	2.21	$0
Apr 1998	0	0	13.04	2.51	$0
Mar 1998	0	0	12.80	2.31	$0
Feb 1998	163	0	13.95	2.30	$2,274
Jan 1998	0	0	14.70	2.15	$0
Dec 1997	0	0	16.32	2.41	$0
Nov 1997	171	0	18.19	3.09	$3,110
Oct 1997	0	0	19.25	3.15	$0
Sep 1997	169	0	17.74	2.95	$2,998
Aug 1997	164	0	17.86	2.55	$2,929
Jul 1997	0	0	17.58	2.25	$0
Jun 1997	147	0	17.24	2.26	$2,534
May 1997	0	0	18.97	2.31	$0
Apr 1997	155	0	17.88	2.08	$2,771
Mar 1997	163	0	18.95	1.94	$3,089
Feb 1997	0	0	20.49	2.21	$0
Jan 1997	150	0	23.48	3.54	$3,522
Dec 1996	0	0	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	180	0	21.97	—	$3,955
Oct 1996	0	0	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	85	0	22.22	—	$1,889
Aug 1996	166	0	20.26	—	$3,363
Jul 1996	0	0	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	182	0	18.73	—	$3,409
May 1996	0	0	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	164	0	21.51	—	$3,528
Mar 1996	176	0	19.38	—	$3,411
Feb 1996	0	0	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	186	0	17.07	—	$3,175
Dec 1995	0	0	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	158	0	16.00	—	$2,528
Oct 1995	181	0	15.43	—	$2,793
Sep 1995	0	0	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	162	0	15.92	—	$2,579
Jul 1995	175	0	15.24	—	$2,667
Jun 1995	170	0	16.41	—	$2,790
May 1995	0	0	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	131	0	17.73	—	$2,323
Mar 1995	164	0	16.44	—	$2,696
Feb 1995	173	0	16.58	—	$2,868
Jan 1995	0	0	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	163	0	15.03	—	$2,450
Nov 1994	162	0	15.90	—	$2,576
Oct 1994	0	0	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	152	1	15.29	—	$2,324
Aug 1994	170	1	16.13	—	$2,742
Jul 1994	169	1	17.56	—	$2,968
Jun 1994	169	1	17.09	—	$2,888
May 1994	0	1	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	168	1	14.14	—	$2,376
Mar 1994	166	1	12.46	—	$2,068
Feb 1994	0	1	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	169	1	12.66	—	$2,140
Dec 1993	166	1	12.33	—	$2,047
Nov 1993	0	1	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	159	1	15.85	—	$2,520
Sep 1993	169	1	15.03	—	$2,540
Aug 1993	169	1	15.66	—	$2,647
Jul 1993	0	1	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	165	1	16.79	—	$2,770
May 1993	165	1	17.68	—	$2,917
Apr 1993	163	1	18.05	—	$2,942
Mar 1993	165	1	18.14	—	$2,993
Feb 1993	0	1	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	155	1	16.93	—	$2,624

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.

Jul 2009 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  131 bbl  × $ 61.13 =     $8,008
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.46 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $8,008

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/26082 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.