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Operated by ANADARKO PETROLEUM CORPORATION (P-5 20572) in the MIDDLETON (CANYON REEF) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 31945District 08Field 61046250OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$248 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 1996
Value, last 12 filed months
$7 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
37
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 19 leases and 26 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1986-05-23
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
933 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 1988-05-01.

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
OilDisposition15,731 bbl$247,860
Casinghead gasProduction10,720 Mcf$0
Total$247,860

10,720 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 27 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 32.4871, -101.5977. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.48708, -101.59770 · 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
8,625 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
7.3 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 8,625 ft.

Completions filed
Aug 1988
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 1995
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 7.3 years and 7.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2273430718,625 ftAug 1988Dec 1995Yes

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 (37)

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

37 months

Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 1995267016.18$4,320
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 199517125417.73$3,032
Mar 199509316.44$0
Feb 19950116.58$0
Jan 19950115.92$0
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 19940215.90$0
Oct 199418012815.58$2,804
Sep 199455349615.29$8,455
Aug 199453659116.13$8,646
Jul 199454244417.56$9,518
Jun 199435756817.09$6,101
May 199466044715.88$10,481
Apr 199452147414.14$7,367
Mar 199436930712.46$4,598
Feb 199487429312.50$10,925
Jan 199454629012.66$6,912
Dec 199373519312.33$9,063
Nov 199391445314.49$13,244
Oct 199372957615.85$11,555
Sep 199373055915.03$10,972
Aug 199392265815.66$14,439
Jul 199390062315.46$13,914
Jun 199391170816.79$15,296
May 199390465417.68$15,983
Apr 199372658218.05$13,104
Mar 199367637018.14$12,263
Feb 199390245017.90$16,146
Jan 19931,10650516.93$18,725

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 1995 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  267 bbl  × $ 16.18 =     $4,320
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $4,320

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/31945 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.