MOSS, J.H.

Operated by HALLWOOD PETROLEUM, INC. (P-5 347221) in the KEYSTONE (HOLT) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 34218District 08Field 49129396Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$487 k
May 1994 – Feb 1996
Value, last 12 filed months
$372 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
22
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 63 leases and 354 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1943-09-08
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 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 1975-07-07.

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: INTO THE KEYSTONE (CONSOLIDATED) 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
OilDisposition30,108 bbl$487,459
Casinghead gasProduction36,930 Mcf$0
Total$487,459

36,930 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 17 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 31.9402, -103.0095. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

31.93881, -103.00897 · 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
25.0%
1 of 4 wells
Median depth
6,725 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
24.2 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
4100.0%
A plug date is filed
125.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
125.0%
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 5,225 and 8,173 ft, median 6,725 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
May 1995 – Oct 2024
4 of 4 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 2019
1 of 4 wells; 3 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 24.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 24.2 years and 24.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-4953247065,225 ftOct 2024Yes
42-4953244455,350 ftJul 2024Yes
42-4950525338,100 ftJul 2007Yes
42-4950525418,173 ftMay 1995Jul 2019Yes

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 (22)

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

22 months

Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 199532015.43$494
Sep 19951,39790216.18$22,603
Aug 19952,8562,01115.92$45,468
Jul 19956,4045,52815.24$97,597
Jun 19955,3716,97716.41$88,138
May 19954,0665,39817.56$71,399
Apr 19951,0031,78817.73$17,783
Mar 19951,7142,61516.44$28,178
Feb 19954591,37916.58$7,610
Jan 19956721,22015.92$10,698
Dec 19946761,36015.03$10,160
Nov 19947981,72815.90$12,688
Oct 19949762,26115.58$15,206
Sep 19941,3002,35315.29$19,877
Aug 19941,4941,26216.13$24,098
Jul 1994534117.56$9,377
Jun 19943567717.09$6,084
May 199407015.88$0

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                   32 bbl  × $ 15.43 =       $494
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                     $494

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/34218 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.