RED DRAW

Operated by GUTHRIE, A. K. OPERATING CO. (P-5 339647) in the HOWARD-GLASSCOCK (WOLFCAMP 7400) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 30736District 08Field 42971664Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$182 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 1995
Value, last 12 filed months
$11 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
30
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 38 leases and 78 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1970-09-01
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 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1986-06-01.

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: OIL RULES ADDED TO GAS FIELD

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
OilDisposition11,617 bbl$182,335
Casinghead gasProduction49,311 Mcf$0
Total$182,335

49,311 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 24 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 (4)

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 32.1383, -101.2596. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

32.13842, -101.25965 · 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%
4 of 4 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
4 of 4 wells
Median depth
8,000 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
8.0 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
4100.0%
A plug date is filed
4100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
4100.0%
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 7,600 and 8,000 ft, median 8,000 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Dec 1985 – Jun 1987
4 of 4 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 1994 – Apr 1995
4 of 4 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 8.0 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 7.7 years and 8.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-2273411448,000 ftJun 1987Apr 1995Yes
42-2273411037,600 ftJan 1987Feb 1994Yes
42-2273396628,000 ftMay 1986Jan 1995Yes
42-2273385818,000 ftDec 1985Feb 1994Yes

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 (30)

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

30 months

Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 1995546317.73$9,681
Mar 199576116.44$1,249
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 199411815.58$16
Sep 199406115.29$0
Aug 1994023416.13$0
Jul 1994024517.56$0
Jun 1994213817.09$34
May 199421915.88$32
Apr 199498214.14$1,386
Mar 19948973,25512.46$11,177
Feb 19949022,89212.50$11,275
Jan 19948793,02312.66$11,128
Dec 199311,27112.33$12
Nov 19937792,48714.49$11,288
Oct 19938453,84015.85$13,393
Sep 199332,88915.03$45
Aug 19938504,41315.66$13,311
Jul 19938224,53015.46$12,708
Jun 19938384,36516.79$14,070
May 19938654,33817.68$15,293
Apr 19931,6723,27118.05$30,180
Mar 199312,32318.14$18
Feb 199312,84517.90$18
Jan 19931,5372,84816.93$26,021

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 1995 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  546 bbl  × $ 17.73 =     $9,681
Casinghead gas         3 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $9,681

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/30736 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.