NOBLES

Operated by MIDKIFF, JOHN (P-5 565125) 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 29783District 08Field 85280300NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$110 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 2005
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
145
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
OilDisposition6,245 bbl$103,396
Casinghead gasProduction10,572 Mcf$6,709
Total$110,105

7,728 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 31.9984, -102.2322. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.99839, -102.23225 · 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
10,320 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
19.7 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 10,320 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 1985
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 2004
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 19.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 19.7 years and 19.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-32931289110,320 ftApr 1985Dec 2004Yes

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 (145)

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

145 months

Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 199927023.192.43$626
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 19980489.201.77$85
Nov 19981834810.892.19$2,098
Oct 1998010912.421.97$215
Sep 199818110712.592.08$2,502
Aug 1998012511.301.91$238
Jul 1998171111.742.24$2,010
Jun 199816810411.242.24$2,121
May 1998013112.622.21$289
Apr 1998012913.042.51$323
Mar 199816910412.802.31$2,403
Feb 199807113.952.30$163
Jan 1998013914.702.15$300
Dec 19970416.322.41$10
Nov 19971729218.193.09$3,413
Oct 1997010819.253.15$340
Sep 199717411017.742.95$3,412
Aug 1997010917.862.55$278
Jul 199717110017.582.25$3,231
Jun 199717922017.242.26$3,583
May 1997019618.972.31$452
Apr 199715427817.882.08$3,333
Mar 1997018118.951.94$351
Feb 1997016220.492.21$357
Jan 1997016823.483.54$595
Dec 199617715523.32$4,128
Nov 1996013121.97$0
Oct 199617913223.31$4,172
Sep 1996013522.22$0
Aug 199617815620.26$3,606
Jul 1996013119.55$0
Jun 199622012118.73$4,121
May 1996015219.43$0
Apr 1996016121.51$0
Mar 19963677919.38$7,112
Feb 1996010216.98$0
Jan 199601117.07$0
Dec 1995182117.19$3,129
Nov 1995013116.00$0
Oct 199507015.43$0
Sep 199518214816.18$2,945
Aug 199518016315.92$2,866
Jul 1995020615.24$0
Jun 199505616.41$0
May 1995010317.56$0
Apr 199518011717.73$3,191
Mar 1995014616.44$0
Feb 199535512616.58$5,886
Jan 1995013815.92$0
Dec 1994011715.03$0
Nov 1994014415.90$0
Oct 19941809415.58$2,804
Sep 199417815115.29$2,722
Aug 1994020016.13$0
Jul 1994028317.56$0
Jun 199417729617.09$3,025
May 1994035215.88$0
Apr 199418116914.14$2,559
Mar 1994019912.46$0
Feb 1994021612.50$0
Jan 199436019812.66$4,558
Dec 1993019012.33$0
Nov 1993022614.49$0
Oct 199317522715.85$2,774
Sep 1993020015.03$0
Aug 199317718815.66$2,772
Jul 1993014915.46$0
Jun 199317918016.79$3,005
May 199317917917.68$3,165
Apr 1993023118.05$0
Mar 199316920318.14$3,066
Feb 1993021217.90$0
Jan 199334125316.93$5,773

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.

Nov 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   27 bbl  × $ 23.19 =       $626
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.43 =         $0

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Month total                                     $626

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/29783 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.