MENDEL ESTATE 22

Operated by MINERAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (P-5 593635) in the GOMEZ (WOLFCAMP UPPER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 29840District 08Field 35708670OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$10 k
Jan 1993 – Jul 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$3 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
79
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 leases and 26 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1977-10-07
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 160 acres. The field rule took effect on 1984-07-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ALLOCATION FORMULA EFFECTIVE 07/01/2018.

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
OilDisposition444 bbl$6,531
Casinghead gasProduction1,250 Mcf$3,210
Total$9,741

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 31.0250, -103.1026. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.02498, -103.10258 · 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
12,120 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
14.1 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 12,120 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 1985
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 1999
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.1 years and 14.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-37132916112,120 ftApr 1985May 1999Yes

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 (79)

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

79 months

Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 1999139015.102.21$2,099
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 199905310.381.90$101
Dec 19980219.201.77$37
Nov 19980710.892.19$15
Oct 199804112.421.97$81
Sep 19980312.592.08$6
Aug 1998789211.301.91$1,057
Jul 199803711.742.24$83
Jun 1998373711.242.24$499
May 199894112.622.21$204
Apr 19984013.042.51$52
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 1998014113.952.30$324
Jan 1998619014.702.15$1,091
Dec 19973710516.322.41$857
Nov 19974814118.193.09$1,309
Oct 19973014519.253.15$1,034
Sep 1997029617.742.95$875
Aug 19971017.862.55$18
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19940015.29$0
Aug 19940016.13$0
Jul 19940017.56$0
Jun 19940017.09$0
May 19940015.88$0
Apr 19940014.14$0
Mar 19940012.46$0
Feb 19940012.50$0
Jan 19940012.66$0
Dec 19930012.33$0
Nov 19930014.49$0
Oct 19930015.85$0
Sep 19930015.03$0
Aug 19930015.66$0
Jul 19930015.46$0
Jun 19930016.79$0
May 19930017.68$0
Apr 19930018.05$0
Mar 19930018.14$0
Feb 19930017.90$0
Jan 19930016.93$0

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 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  139 bbl  × $ 15.10 =     $2,099
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.21 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,099

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/29840 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.