CAPRITO 99

Operated by ABRAXAS PETROLEUM CORPORATION (P-5 3125) in the ABRAXAS (BELL CANYON) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 35791District 08Field 00392025Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$887 k
Jul 1997 – Oct 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$97 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
76
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 5 leases and 15 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1996-10-19
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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: TRANSFERRED TO ABRAXAS (CHERRY CANYON)

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
OilDisposition30,462 bbl$598,221
Casinghead gasProduction98,963 Mcf$289,001
Total$887,222

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 31.5584, -103.1279. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

31.55893, -103.12961 · 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
33.3%
1 of 3 wells
Median depth
7,050 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
16.7 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
3100.0%
A plug date is filed
133.3%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
133.3%
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 7,030 and 7,200 ft, median 7,050 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Dec 1996 – Apr 2000
3 of 3 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 2016
1 of 3 wells; 2 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16.7 years and 16.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-4753449877,050 ftApr 2000Dec 2016Yes
42-4753448267,030 ftApr 2000Yes
42-4753434157,200 ftDec 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 (76)

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

76 months

Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20033521,12628.565.98$16,790
May 200321955126.595.97$9,114
Apr 200316420926.675.41$5,504
Mar 200317353831.146.10$8,667
Feb 200330388633.487.93$17,167
Jan 200338521630.315.58$12,875
Dec 200238453326.914.85$12,920
Nov 200243391324.664.14$14,455
Oct 20023371,32726.464.23$14,529
Sep 200238482527.443.64$13,536
Aug 200241590625.963.16$13,640
Jul 20021297024.583.06$3,385
Jun 200232647123.733.34$9,308
May 200241176724.663.58$12,884
Apr 20023001,06123.653.51$10,822
Mar 200217287622.003.10$6,502
Feb 20022251,48918.222.38$7,637
Jan 20024002,16017.172.38$11,999
Dec 20014381,36216.932.36$10,636
Nov 20012761,20718.072.41$7,891
Oct 200132657519.782.53$7,902
Sep 200133710824.262.25$8,419
Aug 200135347724.873.05$10,235
Jul 200142642123.933.20$11,540
Jun 200125749024.563.82$8,186
May 20012738725.524.31$7,342
Apr 200134542024.685.34$10,755
Mar 200139849124.545.38$12,407
Feb 200125843727.755.77$9,680
Jan 200125326027.478.40$9,134
Dec 200040921226.889.12$12,928
Nov 200044950232.215.66$17,303
Oct 20005001,37031.235.15$22,664
Sep 20004501,76931.875.19$23,516
Aug 20005181,43729.644.54$21,879
Jul 20003261,20328.534.09$14,221
Jun 20003911,17629.304.40$16,627
May 20005532,86127.263.68$25,603
Apr 2000132,28424.513.12$7,436
Mar 200010069828.422.86$4,838
Feb 200019040727.622.73$6,357
Jan 20001372025.272.48$3,512
Dec 1999268024.282.42$6,507
Nov 1999195023.192.43$4,522
Oct 1999283020.982.80$5,937
Sep 1999175721.752.62$3,825
Aug 199917012719.262.88$3,639
Jul 199918140217.892.37$4,192
Jun 199920451915.942.36$4,478
May 19992442115.792.32$3,902
Apr 199917740315.102.21$3,563
Mar 19992511,39112.471.84$5,687
Feb 19994101,9669.981.82$7,666
Jan 19995521,63710.381.90$8,840
Dec 19985222,1469.201.77$8,608
Nov 19987042,62510.892.19$13,404
Oct 19986503,81912.421.97$15,593
Sep 19986233,45512.592.08$15,039
Aug 19987132,85811.301.91$13,508
Jul 19988253,25511.742.24$16,968
Jun 19988454,07711.242.24$18,619
May 19989394,14212.622.21$20,989
Apr 19988794,67413.042.51$23,172
Mar 19989122,34512.802.31$17,089
Feb 19988832,15313.952.30$17,268
Jan 19987812,28014.702.15$16,394
Dec 19971,1413,20416.322.41$26,346
Nov 19978652,72418.193.09$24,147
Oct 19971,2602,51619.253.15$32,180
Sep 19978433,34617.742.95$24,842
Aug 19973365,84617.862.55$20,936
Jul 19971431,82717.582.25$6,619

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.

Jun 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  352 bbl  × $ 28.56 =    $10,053
Casinghead gas     1,126 Mcf  × $  5.98 =     $6,737

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Month total                                  $16,790

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/35791 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.