REED, L.R. & W.N.

Operated by MERIT ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 561136) in the HOWARD-GLASSCOCK (GLORIETA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 34841District 08Field 42971332Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$17.4 M
Dec 1995 – Oct 2012
Value, last 12 filed months
$163 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
203
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 131 leases and 850 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1925-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
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 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: 11/22/11.

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
OilDisposition426,157 bbl$17,214,708
Casinghead gasProduction26,798 Mcf$142,797
Total$17,357,505

2 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 2 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 (8)

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 32.0989, -101.2642. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

32.09897, -101.26414 · 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%
8 of 8 wells
With a plug date
25.0%
2 of 8 wells
Median depth
3,083 ft
8 wells filed one
Completion to plug
21.6 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
8100.0%
A plug date is filed
225.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
225.0%
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

Total depth in feet, 8 of 8 wells. Median 3,083 ft, with the middle half between 3,072 and 3,096 ft; the shallowest is 3,056 ft and the deepest 3,117 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 8 of 8 wells, Jan 1996 – Mar 2018. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Jan 1996 – Mar 2018
8 of 8 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2018 – Apr 2023
2 of 8 wells; 6 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 21.6 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 20.3 years and 22.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

8 wells

42-22700137153,081 ftMar 2018Yes
42-2270018363,064 ftApr 1999May 2018Yes
42-2270016483,075 ftApr 1999Apr 2023Yes
42-2270018253,056 ftApr 1999Yes
42-22700136143,117 ftMar 1999Yes
42-22700166103,095 ftFeb 1999Yes
42-22700139133,084 ftSep 1996Yes
42-22700140123,100 ftJan 1996Yes

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 (203)

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

203 months

Oct 20120089.383.40$0
Sep 20120094.672.92$0
Aug 20120092.662.91$0
Jul 20120085.133.02$0
Jun 20120079.822.52$0
May 20120091.612.49$0
Apr 201200101.652.00$0
Mar 201200105.052.22$0
Feb 201200101.102.57$0
Jan 20120098.092.73$0
Dec 20110096.873.24$0
Nov 20111,705095.723.31$163,203
Oct 20111,634084.983.65$138,857
Sep 20111,538083.623.99$128,608
Aug 20111,367083.404.15$114,008
Jul 20111,541094.144.52$145,070
Jun 20111,369092.904.64$127,180
May 20111,473098.134.40$144,545
Apr 20111,3960105.964.33$147,920
Mar 20111,159096.364.06$111,681
Feb 20111,180085.644.18$101,055
Jan 20111,490086.504.59$128,885
Dec 20101,435085.734.35$123,023
Nov 20101,286080.843.80$103,960
Oct 20101,468078.103.51$114,651
Sep 20101,355072.633.98$98,414
Aug 20101,276073.684.42$94,016
Jul 20101,374072.554.74$99,684
Jun 20101,271070.364.91$89,428
May 20101,515071.124.24$107,747
Apr 20101,216081.694.12$99,335
Mar 20101,381078.394.39$108,257
Feb 20101,392073.585.44$102,423
Jan 20101,14719074.365.96$86,424
Dec 20091,44518071.445.48$104,218
Nov 20091,4104574.593.75$105,341
Oct 20091,3091172.544.11$95,000
Sep 20091,415165.543.06$92,742
Aug 20091,455067.423.22$98,096
Jul 20091,409061.133.46$86,132
Jun 20091,478066.163.90$97,784
May 20091,575054.743.93$86,216
Apr 20091,521046.773.59$71,137
Mar 20091,577042.144.06$66,455
Feb 20091,655032.814.63$54,301
Jan 20091,5231635.865.37$54,701
Dec 20081,7342737.105.98$64,493
Nov 20081,6077555.496.86$89,687
Oct 20081,8484675.246.92$139,362
Sep 20081,6277101.767.88$165,619
Aug 20081,78235114.228.48$203,837
Jul 20081,8950131.0811.39$248,397
Jun 20081,764117131.3313.03$233,191
May 20081,813183123.1711.57$225,425
Apr 20081,858109110.3110.45$206,096
Mar 20081,762194101.909.66$181,423
Feb 20081,72116892.538.77$160,718
Jan 20081,96817090.388.21$179,263
Dec 20071,67517688.337.30$149,238
Nov 20071,91919991.677.29$177,366
Oct 20072,12422682.856.92$177,538
Sep 20071,99920875.846.24$152,903
Aug 20071,83421169.066.39$128,004
Jul 20072,08719170.906.39$149,188
Jun 20071,92119762.007.55$120,589
May 20071,97319758.747.85$117,440
Apr 20072,00421259.617.81$121,113
Mar 20072,15520856.927.30$124,181
Feb 20071,73516055.108.22$96,913
Jan 20072,03926950.306.73$104,371
Dec 20062,06117256.656.92$117,946
Nov 20062,14916954.207.62$117,763
Oct 20062,27416454.906.01$125,829
Sep 20061,98614660.085.04$120,054
Aug 20062,18812368.717.34$151,240
Jul 20062,25111369.376.34$156,869
Jun 20061,99210566.286.38$132,700
May 20062,20814466.016.42$146,675
Apr 20061,92514964.397.36$125,047
Mar 20062,19616256.707.08$125,661
Feb 20062,04016057.597.75$118,724
Jan 20062,33814260.598.93$142,928
Dec 20052,33718654.9413.42$130,890
Nov 20052,28218254.6910.59$126,730
Oct 20052,30819258.3413.80$137,298
Sep 20052,30114261.4512.08$143,112
Aug 20052,37014261.519.80$147,170
Jul 20052,25018155.697.84$126,722
Jun 20052,24220052.337.38$118,800
May 20052,27518045.226.65$104,073
Apr 20052,16116649.207.36$107,543
Mar 20052,10813750.377.15$107,160
Feb 20051,58313645.226.31$72,442
Jan 20052,2334343.166.32$96,648
Dec 20041,9895339.866.75$79,639
Nov 20042,39912145.286.33$109,393
Oct 20042,52414849.706.52$126,407
Sep 20042,58914243.245.28$112,699
Aug 20042,67214242.375.55$114,001
Jul 20042,83025838.286.08$109,902
Jun 20042,71523436.106.43$99,517
May 20042,84718637.486.49$107,914
Apr 20042,77918334.475.86$96,864
Mar 20042,86820934.365.53$99,700
Feb 20042,58922332.455.51$85,242
Jan 20043,03426632.036.30$98,855
Dec 20032,98623230.266.30$91,818
Nov 20032,93924828.804.60$85,783
Oct 20033,04525228.174.76$86,977
Sep 20032,99522026.314.75$79,843
Aug 20032,99722729.765.13$90,355
Jul 20033,09720329.415.17$92,132
Jun 20032,90622928.565.98$84,365
May 20032,98925326.595.97$80,989
Apr 20033,05825226.675.41$82,919
Mar 20033,19627531.146.10$101,200
Feb 20032,93827333.487.93$100,528
Jan 20033,20929230.315.58$98,895
Dec 20023,14731426.914.85$86,210
Nov 20023,33629524.664.14$83,486
Oct 20023,29832126.464.23$88,623
Sep 20023,28431327.443.64$91,251
Aug 20023,44133525.963.16$90,388
Jul 20023,34435424.583.06$83,279
Jun 20023,36435523.733.34$81,013
May 20023,55737924.663.58$89,074
Apr 20023,32734623.653.51$79,899
Mar 20023,44037322.003.10$76,837
Feb 20023,18534018.222.38$58,838
Jan 20023,57038217.172.38$62,204
Dec 20013,62037516.932.36$62,173
Nov 20013,32636218.072.41$60,972
Oct 20013,61539919.782.53$72,514
Sep 20013,33838724.262.25$81,851
Aug 20013,70337624.873.05$93,242
Jul 20013,57637823.933.20$86,782
Jun 20013,64240624.563.82$91,000
May 20013,73939125.524.31$97,103
Apr 20013,32328924.685.34$83,554
Mar 20013,69332624.545.38$92,379
Feb 20013,30528427.755.77$93,352
Jan 20012,78920527.478.40$78,336
Dec 20003,16031226.889.12$87,787
Nov 20003,73932832.215.66$122,289
Oct 20003,70422631.235.15$116,839
Sep 20003,64939831.875.19$118,358
Aug 20003,70834729.644.54$111,481
Jul 20003,52845528.534.09$102,515
Jun 20003,42844929.304.40$102,415
May 20003,53654127.263.68$98,382
Apr 20003,07449924.513.12$76,899
Mar 20003,44153028.422.86$99,309
Feb 20003,48940427.622.73$97,468
Jan 20002,57627125.272.48$65,768
Dec 19993,63153424.282.42$89,455
Nov 19993,47939823.192.43$81,647
Oct 19993,761120.982.80$78,909
Sep 19993,907121.752.62$84,980
Aug 19994,174119.262.88$80,394
Jul 19994,572117.892.37$81,795
Jun 19995,000115.942.36$79,702
May 19995,723115.792.32$90,368
Apr 19995,840115.102.21$88,186
Mar 19993,847112.471.84$47,974
Feb 19992,11119.981.82$21,070
Jan 19992,020110.381.90$20,970
Dec 19981,93319.201.77$17,785
Nov 19982,103110.892.19$22,904
Oct 19981,970112.421.97$24,469
Sep 19981,901112.592.08$23,936
Aug 19981,344111.301.91$15,189
Jul 19981,961111.742.24$23,024
Jun 19981,643111.242.24$18,470
May 19981,911112.622.21$24,119
Apr 19981,702113.042.51$22,197
Mar 19981,603112.802.31$20,521
Feb 19981,571113.952.30$21,918
Jan 19981,707114.702.15$25,095
Dec 19971,292116.322.41$21,088
Nov 19971,347118.193.09$24,505
Oct 19971,285119.253.15$24,739
Sep 19971,254117.742.95$22,249
Aug 19971,464117.862.55$26,150
Jul 19971,246117.582.25$21,907
Jun 19971,113117.242.26$19,190
May 1997919118.972.31$17,436
Apr 1997938117.882.08$16,774
Mar 1997926118.951.94$17,550
Feb 1997745120.492.21$15,267
Jan 19971,183123.483.54$27,780
Dec 1996671123.32$15,648
Nov 19961,017121.97$22,343
Oct 1996996023.31$23,217
Sep 1996451022.22$10,021
Aug 1996264020.26$5,349
Jul 1996264019.55$5,161
Jun 1996204018.73$3,821
May 1996277019.43$5,382
Apr 1996308021.51$6,625
Mar 1996313019.38$6,066
Feb 1996315016.98$5,349
Jan 199699017.07$1,690
Dec 199526017.19$447

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.

Nov 2011 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                1,705 bbl  × $ 95.72 =   $163,203
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.31 =         $0

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Month total                                 $163,203

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/34841 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.