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Operated by PARKER & PARSLEY DEVELOPMENT L.P (P-5 640886) 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 29888District 08Field 85280300NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$200 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 1996
Value, last 12 filed months
$21 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
44
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
NGPA6none

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
OilDisposition12,521 bbl$199,605
Casinghead gasProduction37,022 Mcf$0
Total$199,605

37,022 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 37 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 32.4551, -102.0094. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.0 miles.

32.45521, -102.00932 · 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
100.0%
6 of 6 wells
Median depth
9,600 ft
6 wells filed one
Completion to plug
11.2 years
median over 6 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 9,500 and 9,600 ft, median 9,600 ft, over the 6 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Mar 1985 – Apr 1985
6 of 6 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 1989 – Jun 1996
6 of 6 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 11.2 years across the 6 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 11.1 years and 11.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

6 wells

42-3173306969,600 ftApr 1985Apr 1989Yes
42-3173307059,600 ftApr 1985Jun 1996Yes
42-3173307149,600 ftApr 1985Jun 1996Yes
42-3173307439,600 ftApr 1985May 1996Yes
42-3173307329,600 ftApr 1985May 1996Yes
42-3173307219,500 ftMar 1985May 1996Yes

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 (44)

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

44 months

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 19965540617.07$939
Dec 199518588917.19$3,180
Nov 199535695016.00$5,696
Oct 199535597215.43$5,478
Sep 199534791516.18$5,614
Aug 199517688215.92$2,802
Jul 199535360115.24$5,380
Jun 199517644316.41$2,888
May 199535854117.56$6,286
Apr 199554852717.73$9,716
Mar 199517656116.44$2,893
Feb 199553954716.58$8,937
Jan 199535957015.92$5,715
Dec 199436253715.03$5,441
Nov 199418449915.90$2,926
Oct 199436457315.58$5,671
Sep 199417659215.29$2,691
Aug 199435661116.13$5,742
Jul 199435368817.56$6,199
Jun 19943662,05117.09$6,255
May 19943652,35315.88$5,796
Apr 19945482,37114.14$7,749
Mar 19941741,99412.46$2,168
Feb 19945132,20912.50$6,413
Jan 19941792,03712.66$2,266
Dec 19933581,11112.33$4,414
Nov 19933621,11714.49$5,245
Oct 19933591,16715.85$5,690
Sep 19935151,08615.03$7,740
Aug 199318794515.66$2,928
Jul 199318198015.46$2,798
Jun 199352093416.79$8,731
May 199353193917.68$9,388
Apr 1993089218.05$0
Mar 199353364618.14$9,669
Feb 199336080017.90$6,444
Jan 19936921,08616.93$11,716

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 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   55 bbl  × $ 17.07 =       $939
Casinghead gas       406 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                     $939

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/29888 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.