GLASS "3-A"

Operated by DISCOVERY OPERATING, INC. (P-5 220865) 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 30561District 08Field 85280300NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$61 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
63
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
OilDisposition3,865 bbl$61,482
Casinghead gasProduction2,709 Mcf$0
Total$61,482

2,709 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 38 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 32.1783, -102.1475. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.17828, -102.14748 · 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
9,490 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
12.2 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 9,490 ft.

Completions filed
Jan 1986
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 1998
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 12.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 12.2 years and 12.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3173329419,490 ftJan 1986Mar 1998Yes

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 (63)

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

63 months

Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 199787017.742.95$1,543
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
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 19960816.98$0
Jan 19961743117.07$2,970
Dec 199502717.19$0
Nov 19951811616.00$2,896
Oct 199502715.43$0
Sep 19951692516.18$2,734
Aug 199502315.92$0
Jul 19951782115.24$2,713
Jun 199506116.41$0
May 19951822217.56$3,196
Apr 19951753917.73$3,103
Mar 199503416.44$0
Feb 19951811716.58$3,001
Jan 19950615.92$0
Dec 19941831315.03$2,750
Nov 199404915.90$0
Oct 19941813915.58$2,820
Sep 199402115.29$0
Aug 19941802416.13$2,903
Jul 19940217.56$0
Jun 199417912917.09$3,059
May 199405415.88$0
Apr 19941789114.14$2,517
Mar 199418215312.46$2,268
Feb 19941619112.50$2,013
Jan 199407312.66$0
Dec 19931828012.33$2,244
Nov 199308814.49$0
Oct 199309315.85$0
Sep 19931618415.03$2,420
Aug 19931618915.66$2,521
Jul 1993010915.46$0
Jun 199316516516.79$2,770
May 199315718317.68$2,776
Apr 1993016518.05$0
Mar 199316015918.14$2,902
Feb 199315218017.90$2,721
Jan 199315621816.93$2,641

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.

Sep 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   87 bbl  × $ 17.74 =     $1,543
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.95 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,543

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/30561 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.