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Operated by SOUTHWEST ROYALTIES, INC. (P-5 806470) in the HORSELOT (STRAWN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 31789District 08Field 42711500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$147 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 1995
Value, last 12 filed months
$32 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
36
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 7 leases and 8 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1987-08-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1987-12-01.

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
OilDisposition9,353 bbl$147,295
Casinghead gasProduction23,835 Mcf$0
Total$147,295

23,835 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 31 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 32.0335, -101.9761. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.03354, -101.97608 · 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
12,206 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
18.6 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 12,206 ft.

Completions filed
Aug 1995
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2014
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 18.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 18.6 years and 18.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-32931611112,206 ftAug 1995Mar 2014Yes

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 (36)

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

36 months

Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 1995108015.43$1,666
Sep 1995165016.18$2,670
Aug 19951015.92$16
Jul 199518358915.24$2,789
Jun 1995085816.41$0
May 199536973917.56$6,480
Apr 199518051817.73$3,191
Mar 199537367816.44$6,132
Feb 199518172316.58$3,001
Jan 199536680015.92$5,827
Dec 19943561,18615.03$5,351
Nov 19941811,14615.90$2,878
Oct 19943561,17615.58$5,546
Sep 19941801,05015.29$2,752
Aug 199435796716.13$5,758
Jul 199435295317.56$6,181
Jun 199417779717.09$3,025
May 19943591,06415.88$5,701
Apr 19943621,02614.14$5,119
Mar 199436990712.46$4,598
Feb 199418444912.50$2,300
Jan 199436649412.66$4,634
Dec 199336554512.33$4,500
Nov 199336876214.49$5,332
Oct 199318064615.85$2,853
Sep 199336768615.03$5,516
Aug 199336174815.66$5,653
Jul 199334673315.46$5,349
Jun 199335866516.79$6,011
May 199318159817.68$3,200
Apr 199336756918.05$6,624
Mar 199337259018.14$6,748
Feb 199337355117.90$6,677
Jan 199319062216.93$3,217

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.

Oct 1995 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  108 bbl  × $ 15.43 =     $1,666
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $1,666

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/31789 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.