ECHOLS METCALF '2'

Operated by WHITING OIL AND GAS CORPORATION (P-5 920478) in the SIGNAL PEAK (WOLFCAMP) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 36251District 08Field 83518500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$830 k
Dec 1999 – Nov 2009
Value, last 12 filed months
$5 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
120
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 132 leases and 253 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1983-04-23
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
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 2009-06-18.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: 08-0223268 DATED 6/18/2009

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
OilDisposition10,304 bbl$303,553
Casinghead gasProduction109,223 Mcf$526,146
Total$829,699

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 32.2701, -101.3015. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.27011, -101.30147 · 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
7,915 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
9.8 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 7,915 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 1999
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2009
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 9.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.8 years and 9.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2273541817,915 ftDec 1999Sep 2009Yes

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 (120)

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

120 months

Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20091067.423.22$67
Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20092066.163.90$132
May 200979054.743.93$4,324
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20090042.144.06$0
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 2007029656.927.30$2,161
Feb 2007024755.108.22$2,029
Jan 2007028950.306.73$1,944
Dec 2006031856.656.92$2,200
Nov 2006033454.207.62$2,544
Oct 2006028754.906.01$1,726
Sep 2006028760.085.04$1,446
Aug 2006031168.717.34$2,283
Jul 2006033469.376.34$2,118
Jun 2006143166.286.38$2,818
May 2006029566.016.42$1,895
Apr 2006025764.397.36$1,892
Mar 2006026556.707.08$1,877
Feb 2006024057.597.75$1,860
Jan 2006026960.598.93$2,403
Dec 2005027154.9413.42$3,636
Nov 2005026854.6910.59$2,838
Oct 2005028758.3413.80$3,959
Sep 2005030361.4512.08$3,660
Aug 2005035061.519.80$3,429
Jul 200511046055.697.84$9,734
Jun 2005050152.337.38$3,698
May 20059768045.226.65$8,909
Apr 20058962449.207.36$8,972
Mar 20057529350.377.15$5,874
Feb 20057537945.226.31$5,784
Jan 2005037043.166.32$2,339
Dec 200408139.866.75$547
Nov 2004617345.286.33$3,224
Oct 20046625049.706.52$4,909
Sep 20041418543.245.28$1,583
Aug 200414626242.375.55$7,640
Jul 200414840638.286.08$8,136
Jun 2004022536.106.43$1,447
May 2004026737.486.49$1,734
Apr 200407034.475.86$410
Mar 200432342434.365.53$13,443
Feb 200408532.455.51$468
Jan 200405732.036.30$359
Dec 2003010130.266.30$636
Nov 200315817828.804.60$5,368
Oct 2003022228.174.76$1,057
Sep 2003019326.314.75$917
Aug 200329499429.765.13$13,848
Jul 20034381,40429.415.17$20,141
Jun 20035861,14728.565.98$23,599
May 200313724726.595.97$5,118
Apr 2003031726.675.41$1,714
Mar 200306931.146.10$421
Feb 200302433.487.93$190
Jan 200308930.315.58$497
Dec 20021579126.914.85$4,667
Nov 200207724.664.14$319
Oct 200208826.464.23$372
Sep 200207727.443.64$280
Aug 200208925.963.16$282
Jul 200209124.583.06$279
Jun 200207823.733.34$260
May 200209724.663.58$348
Apr 200216110823.653.51$4,187
Mar 200209022.003.10$279
Feb 2002011918.222.38$283
Jan 200204917.172.38$116
Dec 2001012916.932.36$305
Nov 200103318.072.41$79
Oct 200101719.782.53$43
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20011601,81824.873.05$9,530
Jul 20011502,76723.933.20$12,436
Jun 20013182,91024.563.82$18,938
May 20011423,24225.524.31$17,588
Apr 20012623,28224.685.34$23,977
Mar 20012643,54324.545.38$25,527
Feb 20012633,42527.755.77$27,051
Jan 20012714,14027.478.40$42,215
Dec 20002974,37826.889.12$47,922
Nov 20002884,62832.215.66$35,462
Oct 20003035,07531.235.15$35,576
Sep 20002874,74931.875.19$33,777
Aug 20001614,57829.644.54$25,560
Jul 20003114,73028.534.09$28,217
Jun 20004125,76629.304.40$37,426
May 20004216,27527.263.68$34,567
Apr 20004296,22124.513.12$29,899
Mar 20004706,92728.422.86$33,167
Feb 20007726,78927.622.73$39,833
Jan 20009456,13125.272.48$39,088
Dec 1999160024.282.42$3,885

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.

Aug 2009 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    1 bbl  × $ 67.42 =        $67
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.22 =         $0

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Month total                                      $67

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/36251 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.