FASKEN

Operated by ENERGEN RESOURCES CORPORATION (P-5 252002) in the MIDLAND FARMS, NORTH (GRAYBURG) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 28081District 08Field 61120500Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$2.2 M
Jan 1993 – Aug 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$151 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
128
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 5 leases and 83 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1953-07-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
880 ft
minimum
From a lease line
440 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 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: SEE FIELD RULES FOR CASING REQUIREMENTS.

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
NGPA4none

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
OilDisposition118,365 bbl$2,238,798
Casinghead gasProduction1,539 Mcf$0
Total$2,238,798

1,539 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 (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 32.2122, -102.4557. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

32.21201, -102.45637 · 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%
6 of 6 wells
With a plug date
50.0%
3 of 6 wells
Median depth
4,903 ft
6 wells filed one
Completion to plug
22 months
median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
6100.0%
A plug date is filed
350.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
350.0%
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 4,860 and 12,652 ft, median 4,903 ft, over the 6 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Mar 1983 – Feb 2015
6 of 6 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 1984 – Jan 2016
3 of 6 wells; 3 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 22 months across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15 months and 6.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

6 wells

42-003350191A4,884 ftFeb 2015Yes
42-0033485144,880 ftFeb 2004Jan 2016Yes
42-003348502A4,860 ftMay 1985Yes
42-0033392134,922 ftSep 1984Yes
42-00301090112,652 ftApr 1984Dec 1984Yes
42-00301085211,160 ftMar 1983Jan 1985Yes

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 (128)

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

128 months

Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 2003703026.675.41$18,749
Mar 2003476031.146.10$14,823
Feb 2003926033.487.93$31,002
Jan 2003446030.315.58$13,518
Dec 2002934026.914.85$25,134
Nov 2002460024.664.14$11,344
Oct 2002909026.464.23$24,052
Sep 2002437027.443.64$11,991
Aug 2002890025.963.16$23,104
Jul 2002894024.583.06$21,975
Jun 2002467023.733.34$11,082
May 2002910024.663.58$22,441
Apr 2002904023.653.51$21,380
Mar 2002915022.003.10$20,130
Feb 2002441018.222.38$8,035
Jan 20021,395017.172.38$23,952
Dec 2001473016.932.36$8,008
Nov 2001487018.072.41$8,800
Oct 2001888019.782.53$17,565
Sep 2001940024.262.25$22,804
Aug 2001477024.873.05$11,863
Jul 2001948023.933.20$22,686
Jun 2001935024.563.82$22,964
May 2001458025.524.31$11,688
Apr 2001958024.685.34$23,643
Mar 2001890024.545.38$21,841
Feb 2001470027.755.77$13,043
Jan 2001962027.478.40$26,426
Dec 2000943026.889.12$25,348
Nov 2000980032.215.66$31,566
Oct 2000480031.235.15$14,990
Sep 2000781031.875.19$24,890
Aug 2000954029.644.54$28,277
Jul 2000453028.534.09$12,924
Jun 2000958029.304.40$28,069
May 2000910027.263.68$24,807
Apr 2000489024.513.12$11,985
Mar 2000968028.422.86$27,511
Feb 2000489027.622.73$13,506
Jan 2000964025.272.48$24,360
Dec 1999963024.282.42$23,382
Nov 1999958023.192.43$22,216
Oct 1999927020.982.80$19,448
Sep 1999942021.752.62$20,489
Aug 1999352019.262.88$6,780
Jul 1999954017.892.37$17,067
Jun 1999955015.942.36$15,223
May 1999952015.792.32$15,032
Apr 1999302015.102.21$4,560
Mar 19991,408012.471.84$17,558
Feb 199948709.981.82$4,860
Jan 1999944010.381.90$9,799
Dec 199891609.201.77$8,427
Nov 1998930010.892.19$10,128
Oct 1998964012.421.97$11,973
Sep 1998963012.592.08$12,124
Aug 1998871011.301.91$9,842
Jul 1998931011.742.24$10,930
Jun 1998904011.242.24$10,161
May 1998933012.622.21$11,774
Apr 1998942013.042.51$12,284
Mar 19981,322012.802.31$16,922
Feb 1998925013.952.30$12,904
Jan 1998957014.702.15$14,068
Dec 19971,395016.322.41$22,766
Nov 1997973018.193.09$17,699
Oct 1997946019.253.15$18,211
Sep 1997938017.742.95$16,640
Aug 1997944017.862.55$16,860
Jul 1997957017.582.25$16,824
Jun 19971,386017.242.26$23,895
May 1997477018.972.31$9,049
Apr 1997966017.882.08$17,272
Mar 1997920018.951.94$17,434
Feb 1997974020.492.21$19,957
Jan 19971,403023.483.54$32,942
Dec 1996950023.32$22,154
Nov 1996967021.97$21,245
Oct 1996860023.31$20,047
Sep 1996946022.22$21,020
Aug 1996939020.26$19,024
Jul 1996956019.55$18,690
Jun 1996883018.73$16,539
May 1996934019.43$18,148
Apr 19961,298021.51$27,920
Mar 1996938019.38$18,178
Feb 1996951016.98$16,148
Jan 1996862017.07$14,714
Dec 19951,405017.19$24,152
Nov 1995946016.00$15,136
Oct 1995935015.43$14,427
Sep 19951,402316.18$22,684
Aug 19959134615.92$14,535
Jul 19959394015.24$14,310
Jun 19959374016.41$15,376
May 19951,3753817.56$24,145
Apr 19959603817.73$17,021
Mar 19951,4183316.44$23,312
Feb 19959342916.58$15,486
Jan 19959484015.92$15,092
Dec 19941,4474515.03$21,748
Nov 19949352115.90$14,867
Oct 19941,3821515.58$21,532
Sep 1994962815.29$14,709
Aug 19941,3911216.13$22,437
Jul 1994935517.56$16,419
Jun 19941,4101217.09$24,097
May 19949502015.88$15,086
Apr 19941,4121014.14$19,966
Mar 19941,4372412.46$17,905
Feb 19949714012.50$12,138
Jan 19949724712.66$12,306
Dec 19931,4295112.33$17,620
Nov 19931,3994814.49$20,272
Oct 19931,4186915.85$22,475
Sep 19939307215.03$13,978
Aug 19931,2576515.66$19,685
Jul 19931,3947715.46$21,551
Jun 19931,4226016.79$23,875
May 19939519017.68$16,814
Apr 19931,77213418.05$31,985
Mar 19931,44710718.14$26,249
Feb 19931,3269417.90$23,735
Jan 199347710616.93$8,076

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.

Apr 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  703 bbl  × $ 26.67 =    $18,749
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.41 =         $0

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Month total                                  $18,749

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/28081 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.