ORSON, HENRY

Operated by PIONEER NATURAL RES. USA, INC. (P-5 665748) 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 28718District 08Field 85280300NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$176 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
87
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.

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
NGPA1none

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
OilDisposition8,615 bbl$145,331
Casinghead gasProduction73,209 Mcf$31,110
Total$176,441

60,562 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 32.2933, -102.0635. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.29326, -102.06345 · 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
11,181 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
15.9 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 11,181 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 1984
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 2000
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.9 years and 15.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-31732789111,181 ftFeb 1984Jan 2000Yes

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 (87)

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

87 months

Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 200032925.272.48$831
Dec 199903224.282.42$78
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 199926017.892.37$465
Jun 19990815.942.36$19
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 199906715.102.21$148
Mar 1999010412.471.84$191
Feb 199901599.981.82$289
Jan 1999016410.381.90$312
Dec 199801879.201.77$332
Nov 199802810.892.19$61
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19981808811.301.91$2,202
Jul 1998046711.742.24$1,045
Jun 1998051011.242.24$1,141
May 1998073212.622.21$1,615
Apr 199818353313.042.51$3,722
Mar 1998040212.802.31$928
Feb 1998047313.952.30$1,087
Jan 199817139614.702.15$3,367
Dec 1997044616.322.41$1,075
Nov 1997152918.193.09$1,652
Oct 199733669419.253.15$8,654
Sep 1997078317.742.95$2,314
Aug 1997049917.862.55$1,275
Jul 1997038017.582.25$854
Jun 199717544717.242.26$4,026
May 1997094418.972.31$2,179
Apr 1997081017.882.08$1,687
Mar 199735678018.951.94$8,259
Feb 1997092520.492.21$2,040
Jan 199701,05123.483.54$3,720
Dec 19963341,05823.32$7,789
Nov 199601,04421.97$0
Oct 199601,10023.31$0
Sep 19963531,03222.22$7,844
Aug 199601,06720.26$0
Jul 19961711,09819.55$3,343
Jun 19961741,10218.73$3,259
May 199601,16019.43$0
Apr 199601,09821.51$0
Mar 19963481,10419.38$6,744
Feb 199601,04816.98$0
Jan 19963661,11117.07$6,248
Dec 199501,13117.19$0
Nov 199501,01916.00$0
Oct 19953531,10215.43$5,447
Sep 199501,11116.18$0
Aug 199511,16015.92$16
Jul 19953351,11115.24$5,105
Jun 1995083216.41$0
May 19953461,00917.56$6,076
Apr 199501,03717.73$0
Mar 199501,15716.44$0
Feb 19953501,00716.58$5,803
Jan 199501,94815.92$0
Dec 19943622,01215.03$5,441
Nov 199401,93215.90$0
Oct 199401,95615.58$0
Sep 19943451,98615.29$5,275
Aug 199401,82916.13$0
Jul 19943281,82017.56$5,760
Jun 199401,50117.09$0
May 19943361,43815.88$5,336
Apr 199401,60314.14$0
Mar 19941801,56512.46$2,243
Feb 199401,49212.50$0
Jan 19943071,39512.66$3,887
Dec 199301,24712.33$0
Nov 19933691,10914.49$5,347
Oct 199301,16915.85$0
Sep 19933611,15315.03$5,426
Aug 199301,09815.66$0
Jul 19933581,10015.46$5,535
Jun 199301,04316.79$0
May 19933631,14817.68$6,418
Apr 199301,09918.05$0
Mar 19933551,10818.14$6,440
Feb 1993091417.90$0
Jan 19933601,19916.93$6,095

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.

Jan 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   32 bbl  × $ 25.27 =       $809
Casinghead gas         9 Mcf  × $  2.48 =        $22

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Month total                                     $831

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/28718 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.