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Operated by SCYTHIAN, LTD. (P-5 760599) in the SPRABERRY (TREND AREA CL. FK.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 30009District 08Field 85280400Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$94 k
Jan 1993 – May 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
125
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 80 leases and 120 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1955-11-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres.

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.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: 160 OPTIONAL ACRES

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
OilDisposition5,331 bbl$86,624
Casinghead gasProduction23,145 Mcf$7,392
Total$94,016

20,226 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 43 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 (2)

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 31.6670, -101.7386. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

31.66703, -101.73856 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
6,600 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
17.4 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
2100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2100.0%
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 6,500 and 6,700 ft, median 6,600 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Aug 1985 – Nov 1985
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 2003
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 17.4 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 17.3 years and 17.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-1733190226,500 ftNov 1985Feb 2003Yes
42-1733185916,700 ftAug 1985Feb 2003Yes

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 (125)

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

125 months

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 19990023.192.43$0
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 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 199824010.892.19$261
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
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 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19981625813.952.30$2,393
Jan 1998249214.702.15$1,090
Dec 1997216716.322.41$435
Nov 1997326618.193.09$876
Oct 199717943219.253.15$4,806
Sep 199729917.742.95$328
Aug 1997236717.862.55$973
Jul 199716034617.582.25$3,590
Jun 199721317.242.26$64
May 199717812518.972.31$3,665
Apr 1997329917.882.08$676
Mar 19971785918.951.94$3,488
Feb 1997310720.492.21$298
Jan 199728923.483.54$362
Dec 199614510623.32$3,381
Nov 1996210821.97$44
Oct 1996110123.31$23
Sep 199621522.22$44
Aug 19968710920.26$1,763
Jul 199616419.55$20
Jun 1996111618.73$19
May 1996013019.43$0
Apr 199618316921.51$3,936
Mar 1996219719.38$39
Feb 199628116.98$34
Jan 1996013317.07$0
Dec 199518237117.19$3,129
Nov 1995030616.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 199569015.24$1,052
Jun 199518524516.41$3,036
May 1995021717.56$0
Apr 1995017617.73$0
Mar 199518231416.44$2,992
Feb 1995033016.58$0
Jan 1995046915.92$0
Dec 199418629615.03$2,796
Nov 1994051815.90$0
Oct 199418352515.58$2,851
Sep 199417953315.29$2,737
Aug 1994063316.13$0
Jul 199418067817.56$3,161
Jun 1994076517.09$0
May 19941841,36615.88$2,922
Apr 19940014.14$0
Mar 199418261312.46$2,268
Feb 199418886312.50$2,350
Jan 199418594412.66$2,342
Dec 199318787512.33$2,306
Nov 199336486614.49$5,274
Oct 199317893115.85$2,821
Sep 199338395915.03$5,756
Aug 19933451,24215.66$5,403
Jul 1993055615.46$0
Jun 1993054816.79$0
May 199318257517.68$3,218
Apr 1993055218.05$0
Mar 1993057018.14$0
Feb 199327950417.90$4,994
Jan 1993055716.93$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.

Nov 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   24 bbl  × $ 10.89 =       $261
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.19 =         $0

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Month total                                     $261

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/30009 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.