GADDIE

Operated by SAGA PETROLEUM CORP. (P-5 743212) in the W W W (RAMSEY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 29924District 08Field 94464500Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$392 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$38 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
68
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 9 leases and 30 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1984-11-19
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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.

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
OilDisposition22,936 bbl$389,663
Casinghead gasProduction12,106 Mcf$1,910
Total$391,573

11,331 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 (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 31.6331, -103.4477. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.7 miles.

31.63283, -103.44714 · 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
4,978 ft
6 wells filed one
Completion to plug
24.0 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 4,960 and 4,990 ft, median 4,978 ft, over the 6 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jun 1985 – Apr 2002
6 of 6 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 1986 – Jan 2018
6 of 6 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 24.0 years across the 6 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 5.1 years and 32.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

6 wells

42-4753365144,970 ftApr 2002Jan 2018Yes
42-4753365464,990 ftSep 1985Dec 2017Yes
42-4753365554,976 ftAug 1985Jan 2018Yes
42-4753363714,960 ftJul 1985Dec 1986Yes
42-4753364434,980 ftJun 1985Dec 2017Yes
42-4753363824,990 ftJun 1985Dec 1986Yes

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 (68)

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

68 months

Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 1998575012.802.31$7,360
Feb 1998183013.952.30$2,553
Jan 1998368014.702.15$5,410
Dec 1997377016.322.41$6,153
Nov 1997356018.193.09$6,476
Oct 1997180019.253.15$3,465
Sep 1997363017.742.95$6,440
Aug 1997361017.862.55$6,447
Jul 1997358017.582.25$6,294
Jun 1997365017.242.26$6,293
May 1997359018.972.31$6,810
Apr 199735919017.882.08$6,815
Mar 199718019018.951.94$3,779
Feb 199736718920.492.21$7,937
Jan 199717820623.483.54$4,909
Dec 199635820923.32$8,349
Nov 199636821121.97$8,085
Oct 199636321923.31$8,462
Sep 199636220922.22$8,044
Aug 199635920920.26$7,273
Jul 199636122119.55$7,058
Jun 199617620918.73$3,296
May 199653322119.43$10,356
Apr 199617921921.51$3,850
Mar 199651422719.38$9,961
Feb 199618121616.98$3,073
Jan 199635423717.07$6,043
Dec 199536424517.19$6,257
Nov 199536522616.00$5,840
Oct 199556424615.43$8,703
Sep 199536426516.18$5,890
Aug 199554323215.92$8,645
Jul 199518124515.24$2,758
Jun 199553222516.41$8,730
May 199553826417.56$9,447
Apr 1995022817.73$0
Mar 199535323416.44$5,803
Feb 199536123116.58$5,985
Jan 199553923415.92$8,581
Dec 199435325915.03$5,306
Nov 199435621315.90$5,660
Oct 199435326915.58$5,500
Sep 199453329515.29$8,150
Aug 199417619416.13$2,839
Jul 199435521417.56$6,234
Jun 199435126917.09$5,999
May 199453520015.88$8,496
Apr 199470428114.14$9,955
Mar 199417529012.46$2,181
Feb 199435623912.50$4,450
Jan 199435829412.66$4,532
Dec 199352131812.33$6,424
Nov 1993030814.49$0
Oct 199353223015.85$8,432
Sep 199335625415.03$5,351
Aug 199371023015.66$11,119
Jul 199317424815.46$2,690
Jun 199335319416.79$5,927
May 199353618617.68$9,476
Apr 199317621818.05$3,177
Mar 199370720818.14$12,825
Feb 199334724017.90$6,211
Jan 199317819816.93$3,014

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.

Mar 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  575 bbl  × $ 12.80 =     $7,360
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.31 =         $0

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Month total                                   $7,360

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/29924 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.