T. X. L. -S-

Operated by SWANSON, TOMMY OIL CO. (P-5 832825) in the TXL (DEVONIAN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 6914District 08Field 88071174Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$34 k
Jan 1993 – Nov 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$5 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
83
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 62 leases and 135 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1944-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres.

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.

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA1none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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
OilDisposition1,968 bbl$30,463
Casinghead gasProduction2,805 Mcf$3,490
Total$33,952

1,218 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 months, carries no value here. No free Texas wellhead gas price exists before 1997, so those months are left out of the total rather than valued at zero. The total above is therefore a floor, not an estimate.

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 31.7680, -102.0992. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 58.7 miles, so treat it as the lease's centre and not as its location.

31.81815, -102.26211 · 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
66.7%
2 of 3 wells
Median depth
8,665 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
11.6 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
3100.0%
A plug date is filed
266.7%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
266.7%
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 8,655 and 8,675 ft, median 8,665 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jul 1987
2 of 3 wells; 1 filed none
Plug dates filed
Feb 1999
2 of 3 wells; 1 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 11.6 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 11.6 years and 11.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-135057851Yes
42-1733042038,655 ftJul 1987Feb 1999Yes
42-1730110628,675 ftJul 1987Feb 1999Yes

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 (83)

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

83 months

Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 1999965315.942.36$1,655
May 1999265715.792.32$543
Apr 1999495415.102.21$859
Mar 1999506012.471.84$734
Feb 199925569.981.82$351
Jan 1999506210.381.90$637
Dec 199851619.201.77$577
Nov 1998509110.892.19$743
Oct 1998756712.421.97$1,063
Sep 1998246712.592.08$442
Aug 19981007411.301.91$1,271
Jul 1998538211.742.24$806
Jun 1998528711.242.24$779
May 1998539712.622.21$883
Apr 1998262913.042.51$412
Mar 199803112.802.31$72
Feb 1998262813.952.30$427
Jan 1998233114.702.15$405
Dec 199702816.322.41$68
Nov 1997222818.193.09$487
Oct 19971881319.253.15$3,660
Sep 199703017.742.95$89
Aug 1997273417.862.55$569
Jul 199702917.582.25$65
Jun 19972622417.242.26$954
May 1997262818.972.31$558
Apr 199702517.882.08$52
Mar 1997272818.951.94$566
Feb 199702520.492.21$55
Jan 199735823.483.54$850
Dec 19960123.32$0
Nov 1996252721.97$549
Oct 1996263523.31$606
Sep 199603322.22$0
Aug 1996181920.26$365
Jul 199623419.55$450
Jun 199625118.73$468
May 199601419.43$0
Apr 1996233321.51$495
Mar 1996313119.38$601
Feb 199603516.98$0
Jan 1996173317.07$290
Dec 1995193417.19$327
Nov 1995182716.00$288
Oct 1995222215.43$339
Sep 1995271116.18$437
Aug 199503515.92$0
Jul 1995292015.24$442
Jun 199502516.41$0
May 1995133417.56$228
Apr 1995173517.73$301
Mar 1995183416.44$296
Feb 1995152216.58$249
Jan 1995193615.92$302
Dec 1994223115.03$331
Nov 199402415.90$0
Oct 1994142515.58$218
Sep 199413115.29$199
Aug 199412716.13$194
Jul 199414217.56$246
Jun 1994171617.09$291
May 1994141715.88$222
Apr 1994161814.14$226
Mar 1994111512.46$137
Feb 1994161112.50$200
Jan 1994232012.66$291
Dec 1993152512.33$185
Nov 1993212714.49$304
Oct 1993232815.85$365
Sep 1993222315.03$331
Aug 1993201415.66$313
Jul 1993302615.46$464
Jun 199303316.79$0
May 1993215517.68$371
Apr 1993414518.05$740
Mar 199306518.14$0
Feb 1993185017.90$322
Jan 1993203916.93$339

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 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   96 bbl  × $ 15.94 =     $1,530
Casinghead gas        53 Mcf  × $  2.36 =       $125

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Month total                                   $1,655

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/6914 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.