MORTON 11

Operated by BLUE STAR OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 76772) in the A. C. MORTON (ATOKA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 36790District 08Field 00079003OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$139 k
Apr 2001 – Sep 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$383
at the published price for each month
Months reported
42
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 1 leases and 1 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
2001-04-01
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

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
OilDisposition5,003 bbl$112,377
Casinghead gasProduction8,655 Mcf$26,358
Total$138,735

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 31.7499, -103.1020. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.74993, -103.10198 · 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
10,015 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
20 months
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 10,015 ft.

Completions filed
Oct 2001
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 2003
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 20 months across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 20 months and 20 months. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-49532822110,015 ftOct 2001Jun 2003Yes

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 (42)

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

42 months

Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 200410038.286.08$383
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 2002783026.914.85$21,071
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 2002194026.464.23$5,133
Sep 200220194027.443.64$8,933
Aug 200201,19825.963.16$3,791
Jul 20023921,22424.583.06$13,383
Jun 20023461,10623.733.34$11,903
May 2002076524.663.58$2,742
Apr 200218952323.653.51$6,307
Mar 2002033622.003.10$1,043
Feb 200201,02218.222.38$2,428
Jan 20023951,54117.172.38$10,443
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 2001981018.072.41$17,727
Oct 2001756019.782.53$14,954
Sep 2001384024.262.25$9,316
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 2001372024.685.34$9,181

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.

Jul 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   10 bbl  × $ 38.28 =       $383
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.08 =         $0

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Month total                                     $383

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/36790 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.