LECK J. B.

Operated by KEYSTONE ENERGY OIL & GAS, INC. (P-5 458777) in the HENDRICK field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 30799District 08Field 40406001Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$151 k
Jan 1993 – Apr 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$10 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
88
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 195 leases and 577 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1926-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
660 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 acres. The field rule took effect on 1992-08-01.

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: FIELD EXEMPT FROM FACTOR.

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
OilDisposition9,027 bbl$150,840
Casinghead gasProduction7,583 Mcf$77
Total$150,917

7,550 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 (3)

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 31.9414, -103.1950. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

31.94163, -103.19516 · 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%
3 of 3 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
3 of 3 wells
Median depth
3,190 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
11.8 years
median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
3100.0%
A plug date is filed
3100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
3100.0%
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 3,135 and 3,303 ft, median 3,190 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Oct 1986 – May 1988
3 of 3 wells
Plug dates filed
May 1994 – Mar 2000
3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 11.8 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.8 years and 11.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-4953216743,135 ftMay 1988Mar 2000Yes
42-4953216823,190 ftApr 1988Mar 2000Yes
42-4953205213,303 ftOct 1986May 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 (88)

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

88 months

Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 199928024.282.42$680
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 1999148121.752.62$3,222
Aug 1999165119.262.88$3,181
Jul 199926117.892.37$468
Jun 1999126115.942.36$2,011
May 19990115.792.32$2
Apr 1999149115.102.21$2,252
Mar 19990112.471.84$2
Feb 199910619.981.82$1,060
Jan 199919110.381.90$199
Dec 1998019.201.77$2
Nov 1998126110.892.19$1,374
Oct 19980112.421.97$2
Sep 1998140112.592.08$1,765
Aug 199843111.301.91$488
Jul 1998138111.742.24$1,622
Jun 1998141111.242.24$1,587
May 199828112.622.21$356
Apr 1998139113.042.51$1,815
Mar 19980112.802.31$2
Feb 199898113.952.30$1,369
Jan 1998125114.702.15$1,840
Dec 19970116.322.41$2
Nov 1997116118.193.09$2,113
Oct 199798119.253.15$1,890
Sep 1997120117.742.95$2,132
Aug 19970117.862.55$3
Jul 199768117.582.25$1,198
Jun 1997105117.242.26$1,812
May 1997132118.972.31$2,506
Apr 1997125117.882.08$2,237
Mar 19970118.951.94$2
Feb 1997102120.492.21$2,092
Jan 1997124123.483.54$2,915
Dec 1996184123.32$4,291
Nov 19960121.97$0
Oct 1996158123.31$3,683
Sep 1996185522.22$4,111
Aug 199602020.26$0
Jul 19961784019.55$3,480
Jun 199604018.73$0
May 19961663319.43$3,225
Apr 19961763721.51$3,786
Mar 1996012619.38$0
Feb 199601716.98$0
Jan 19961253117.07$2,134
Dec 199502217.19$0
Nov 1995894616.00$1,424
Oct 1995847415.43$1,296
Sep 199512211416.18$1,974
Aug 199512719515.92$2,022
Jul 199513022215.24$1,981
Jun 199512818216.41$2,100
May 199513217217.56$2,318
Apr 199512319017.73$2,181
Mar 199513218716.44$2,170
Feb 199512815516.58$2,122
Jan 199512814615.92$2,038
Dec 199410915815.03$1,638
Nov 199412817615.90$2,035
Oct 199424919315.58$3,879
Sep 199412619115.29$1,927
Aug 199410521816.13$1,694
Jul 199420931917.56$3,670
Jun 199411022617.09$1,880
May 199425625215.88$4,065
Apr 199422019814.14$3,111
Mar 199411423012.46$1,420
Feb 199422618012.50$2,825
Jan 199411021412.66$1,393
Dec 1993021012.33$0
Nov 199311219014.49$1,623
Oct 199322221415.85$3,519
Sep 199311321415.03$1,698
Aug 19937828415.66$1,221
Jul 199322229215.46$3,432
Jun 199311019016.79$1,847
May 199312029417.68$2,122
Apr 199311429018.05$2,058
Mar 199349831218.14$9,034
Feb 199313023617.90$2,327
Jan 199311621216.93$1,964

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.

Dec 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   28 bbl  × $ 24.28 =       $680
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.42 =         $0

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Month total                                     $680

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/30799 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.