NICHOLS

Operated by APACHE CORPORATION (P-5 27200) in the JAILHOUSE (FUSSELMAN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 40246District 08Field 45484200OilCasinghead gasSave
Value, all time
$87.8 M
Jul 2010 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$254 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
191
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead gas

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
OilDisposition1,088,218 bbl$83,765,973
Casinghead gasProduction1,190,893 Mcf$4,071,180
Total$87,837,154

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 31.9381, -101.5345. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.4 miles.

31.93847, -101.53549 · 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
12.5%
1 of 8 wells
With a plug date
12.5%
1 of 8 wells
Median depth
10,739 ft
8 wells filed one
Completion to plug
9.0 years
median over 1 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
112.5%
A plug date is filed
112.5%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
112.5%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
787.5%

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

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Total depth in feet, 8 of 8 wells. Median 10,739 ft, with the middle half between 10,724 and 10,754 ft; the shallowest is 10,577 ft and the deepest 10,847 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

10s
20s

Last completion by decade, 8 of 8 wells, Jul 2011 – Jan 2023. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Jul 2011 – Jan 2023
8 of 8 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2022
1 of 8 wells; 7 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 9.0 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.0 years and 9.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

8 wells

42-17334839220510,797 ftJan 2023
42-17335215220610,740 ftDec 2022
42-17333642110,847 ftMay 2022
42-17336778221410,730 ftFeb 2015
42-17336114230510,738 ftDec 2013
42-17336113221210,740 ftNov 2013Nov 2022Yes
42-17334022230210,705 ftAug 2013
42-17334239230310,577 ftJul 2011

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 (191)

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

191 months

May 202618555106.413.05$19,853
Apr 202616711098.932.87$16,837
Mar 202616214489.753.15$14,993
Feb 202626838163.503.75$18,447
Jan 202627834259.138.00$19,173
Dec 202540743056.664.41$24,958
Nov 202540343458.593.93$25,316
Oct 202527528159.383.30$17,258
Sep 202530441962.743.08$20,362
Aug 202519031663.933.01$13,099
Jul 202539023066.743.32$26,791
Jun 202552554066.483.13$36,592
May 202520174260.553.23$14,569
Apr 202526170562.363.54$18,774
Mar 20252967467.704.27$20,355
Feb 2025051870.884.34$2,249
Jan 202530877374.324.28$26,198
Dec 20242701,76668.993.12$24,140
Nov 202429881869.052.20$22,375
Oct 202429890971.372.28$23,342
Sep 20243281,03569.612.36$25,279
Aug 20246601,82575.632.06$53,682
Jul 20248302,05379.932.15$70,749
Jun 20246171,88078.082.63$53,127
May 20248861,95878.812.20$74,130
Apr 20245941,31884.451.66$52,350
Mar 20246491,84480.301.55$54,964
Feb 20241,0261,99776.091.78$81,630
Jan 20245701,36373.023.30$46,116
Dec 20239792,27871.262.61$75,711
Nov 20238452,21777.892.81$72,041
Oct 20239002,36685.443.09$84,201
Sep 20239991,97789.042.74$94,358
Aug 20236811,97780.522.67$60,118
Jul 20239512,02274.852.64$76,524
Jun 20231,0342,18368.962.26$76,235
May 20231,3352,29570.622.23$99,390
Apr 20231,0442,56678.122.24$87,299
Mar 20231,0122,60772.852.39$79,963
Feb 20231,1532,74275.112.47$93,363
Jan 20231,6552,86676.533.39$136,366
Dec 20221,1472,63676.415.73$102,744
Nov 20221,5462,82485.005.65$147,355
Oct 20227362,63087.185.86$79,586
Sep 20227981,57884.888.16$80,617
Aug 20229792,29194.529.13$113,445
Jul 20227812,121101.587.54$95,331
Jun 20221,7212,631115.097.98$219,058
May 20221,4202,682109.378.43$177,923
Apr 20221,8613,471104.226.84$217,687
Mar 20222,5345,292108.885.08$302,766
Feb 20222,4685,10691.054.86$249,521
Jan 20222,3935,10581.844.54$219,008
Dec 20212,8985,44171.323.90$227,900
Nov 20212,7455,41577.435.24$240,903
Oct 20212,3355,05479.795.71$215,188
Sep 20212,6906,02369.865.35$220,152
Aug 20213,1876,12766.024.22$236,265
Jul 20212,9375,80370.783.98$230,989
Jun 20213,0094,46469.493.38$224,187
May 20212,3633,56463.483.02$160,758
Apr 20211,9173,85460.362.76$126,341
Mar 20212,1023,79761.302.72$139,169
Feb 20215101,78957.805.55$39,403
Jan 20219872,01050.412.81$55,403
Dec 20201,4161,85544.642.68$68,173
Nov 20201,5353,01838.772.71$67,680
Oct 20202,9655,77236.972.48$123,922
Sep 20203,4885,40137.091.99$140,124
Aug 20203,0225,32439.982.39$133,518
Jul 20202,8404,84638.371.83$117,815
Jun 20203,8745,75734.901.69$144,934
May 20203,4686,05016.921.81$69,658
Apr 20204,7977,27014.751.80$83,874
Mar 20204,9678,57930.341.86$166,623
Feb 20202,7204,36649.881.98$144,321
Jan 20203,4055,80957.252.09$207,105
Dec 20193,5546,00459.012.30$223,557
Nov 20192,6675,31355.302.75$162,100
Oct 20192,8665,26153.472.42$165,969
Sep 20193,0035,34155.052.66$179,508
Aug 20192,4805,05853.112.30$143,368
Jul 20193,1524,95356.272.46$189,548
Jun 20192,8385,00052.782.49$162,246
May 20192,5704,59458.482.74$162,883
Apr 20193,1524,56962.632.75$209,978
Mar 20192,7613,76856.803.06$168,363
Feb 20192,9453,63350.852.79$159,897
Jan 20193,6393,87946.033.23$180,025
Dec 20182,2853,91346.594.19$122,836
Nov 20182,9734,21752.934.24$175,229
Oct 20183,3504,55261.443.40$221,292
Sep 20182,8874,50059.543.11$185,878
Aug 20183,4934,66059.403.07$221,774
Jul 20183,2885,18365.142.93$229,376
Jun 20183,1284,81860.183.08$203,068
May 20183,3525,03165.382.90$233,748
Apr 20183,3574,37263.842.90$226,993
Mar 20183,8864,90361.222.79$251,565
Feb 20183,5844,56461.782.77$234,044
Jan 20184,1225,20062.874.01$279,999
Dec 20174,0225,45157.272.92$246,265
Nov 20174,1355,91555.423.12$247,607
Oct 20174,0465,78749.292.98$216,694
Sep 20173,7085,27047.523.09$192,474
Aug 20174,1505,53245.373.00$204,906
Jul 20173,4516,02643.873.09$169,999
Jun 20173,5856,03742.493.09$170,965
May 20174,4065,81745.373.26$218,883
Apr 20174,4576,31747.933.21$233,912
Mar 20174,6216,37446.772.98$235,142
Feb 20174,6746,20350.452.95$254,118
Jan 20174,9906,31649.413.42$268,149
Dec 20165,1495,91848.763.72$273,097
Nov 20164,8297,91442.492.64$226,112
Oct 20165,0587,63146.193.09$257,211
Sep 20165,5077,68341.553.10$252,638
Aug 20164,7967,03341.442.92$219,313
Jul 20164,9077,00341.622.92$224,708
Jun 20164,5125,13045.352.69$218,398
May 20165,1355,75442.521.99$229,797
Apr 20164,6286,64536.561.99$182,430
Mar 20165,6657,33533.011.79$200,161
Feb 20165,5416,31026.472.06$159,692
Jan 20165,5336,82327.352.36$167,460
Dec 20156,8276,63532.362.00$234,201
Nov 20157,1666,55438.792.17$292,174
Oct 20157,1337,07743.552.43$327,815
Sep 20156,8857,67642.992.76$317,160
Aug 20158,2879,55240.162.87$360,244
Jul 20159,26310,09348.152.95$475,738
Jun 201510,06111,08056.152.88$596,867
May 201510,32510,46155.212.96$600,960
Apr 201511,12611,70849.822.71$585,986
Mar 201511,05312,42042.892.93$510,512
Feb 201510,94511,53044.662.98$523,119
Jan 20159,4307,79643.433.10$433,717
Dec 201413,27011,52254.693.59$767,116
Nov 201413,91312,66070.464.25$1,034,138
Oct 201413,78313,38478.303.90$1,131,419
Sep 201413,73712,72186.164.05$1,235,042
Aug 201413,66712,68189.394.04$1,272,862
Jul 201415,06614,89096.564.18$1,517,007
Jun 201415,81914,78398.164.74$1,622,818
May 201418,25614,50894.734.73$1,797,964
Apr 201418,35813,36295.944.81$1,825,526
Mar 201421,01214,77195.895.06$2,089,535
Feb 201421,76114,97197.406.19$2,212,222
Jan 201424,72718,61190.404.86$2,325,784
Dec 201317,29214,18291.824.35$1,649,507
Nov 201313,30611,95488.853.74$1,226,926
Oct 201310,46611,55197.423.78$1,063,253
Sep 201310,2619,738104.113.72$1,104,476
Aug 201311,53810,219104.253.52$1,238,834
Jul 201312,87311,402102.523.72$1,362,130
Jun 201312,76810,66694.403.93$1,247,253
May 201313,1369,15894.834.15$1,283,684
Apr 201313,54710,04893.964.28$1,315,908
Mar 201321,91217,05993.623.91$2,118,151
Feb 201322,19916,64891.233.42$2,082,149
Jan 201320,55314,37291.603.42$1,931,806
Dec 201221,85314,88686.773.42$1,947,097
Nov 201214,47812,61886.953.62$1,304,602
Oct 20129,25910,39789.383.40$862,916
Sep 201212,43612,06194.672.92$1,212,515
Aug 201212,41012,12992.662.91$1,185,184
Jul 201210,85012,22685.133.02$960,593
Jun 201210,31611,88279.822.52$853,354
May 201212,12215,55191.612.49$1,149,192
Apr 201213,52519,978101.652.00$1,414,708
Mar 201216,10521,625105.052.22$1,739,883
Feb 201218,09318,442101.102.57$1,876,603
Jan 201218,17016,51698.092.73$1,827,451
Dec 201116,85914,04296.873.24$1,678,624
Nov 201114,2018,98595.723.31$1,389,072
Oct 20118,4898,18484.983.65$751,255
Sep 201112,6808,48683.623.99$1,094,125
Aug 201113,75111,10683.404.15$1,192,916
Jul 201111,8559,45894.144.52$1,158,754
Jun 20119,7327,07192.904.64$936,911
May 20119,9109,04298.134.40$1,012,297
Apr 20117,1565,859105.964.33$783,638
Mar 20113,0003,98696.364.06$305,253
Feb 20112,2361,97685.644.18$199,751
Jan 20113,6152,83386.504.59$325,698
Dec 20102,8742,96785.734.35$259,288
Nov 20103,2913,14980.843.80$277,996
Oct 20103,8683,51678.103.51$314,428
Sep 20102,9383,22472.633.98$226,217
Aug 20102,9643,24973.684.42$232,746
Jul 20101,8292,38572.554.74$143,990

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.

May 2026 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  185 bbl  × $106.41 =    $19,686
Casinghead gas        55 Mcf  × $  3.05 =       $168

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Month total                                  $19,853

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/40246 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.