WATSON, A. J.

Operated by ENERGEN RESOURCES CORPORATION (P-5 252002) in the WESTBROOK (CLEAR FORK, UPPER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 38175District 08Field 96563500Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$709 k
Mar 2005 – Apr 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$164 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
38
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 26 leases and 61 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1957-05-15
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 field rule took effect on 2000-11-01.

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: OF ALL NECESSARY FORMS AND FEES STILL REQUIRED,EFFECTIVE 6/27/11

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
OilDisposition11,415 bbl$705,006
Casinghead gasProduction568 Mcf$3,944
Total$708,950

Wells on this lease (2)

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 32.4397, -101.0541. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

32.43975, -101.05412 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 2 wells
Median depth
2,895 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
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 2,850 and 2,940 ft, median 2,895 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Mar 2005 – Jun 2005
2 of 2 wells

2 wells

42-33534505292,940 ftJun 2005Yes
42-33534430282,850 ftMar 2005Yes

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 (38)

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

38 months

Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20082945590.388.21$27,023
Dec 20073531188.337.30$31,261
Nov 20071811491.677.29$16,694
Oct 2007181982.856.92$15,058
Sep 20073491475.846.24$26,556
Aug 20071781669.066.39$12,395
Jul 20071731270.906.39$12,342
Jun 20071811062.007.55$11,297
May 2007187858.747.85$11,047
Apr 20073511259.617.81$21,017
Mar 20071731956.927.30$9,986
Feb 20073481055.108.22$19,257
Jan 20071811250.306.73$9,185
Dec 20061781056.656.92$10,153
Nov 20063531754.207.62$19,262
Oct 20061753854.906.01$9,836
Sep 20061766560.085.04$10,902
Aug 20065378868.717.34$37,543
Jul 20065324969.376.34$37,216
Jun 20063581666.286.38$23,830
May 20063582366.016.42$23,779
Apr 20063591364.397.36$23,212
Mar 2006186856.707.08$10,603
Feb 20061851257.597.75$10,747
Jan 20063332760.598.93$20,418
Dec 2005356054.9413.42$19,559
Nov 2005343054.6910.59$18,759
Oct 2005334058.3413.80$19,486
Sep 2005442061.4512.08$27,161
Aug 2005682061.519.80$41,950
Jul 2005526055.697.84$29,293
Jun 2005518052.337.38$27,107
May 2005500045.226.65$22,610
Apr 2005520049.207.36$25,584
Mar 2005334050.377.15$16,824

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.

Jan 2008 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  294 bbl  × $ 90.38 =    $26,572
Casinghead gas        55 Mcf  × $  8.21 =       $451

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Month total                                  $27,023

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/38175 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.