FRASER, G. C. -D- NCT-1

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

Oil lease lease 6990District 08Field 88071290Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$583 k
Jan 1993 – Feb 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
86
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 30 leases and 76 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1949-05-02
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,300 ft
minimum
From a lease line
650 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2009-11-28.

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: GAS FIELD CREATED/OIL FIELD RULES APPLIED.

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
OilDisposition38,293 bbl$544,163
Casinghead gasProduction23,297 Mcf$38,442
Total$582,605

6,655 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 (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 31.8929, -102.7065. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.89288, -102.70653 · 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
10,975 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

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 10,975 ft.

Plug dates filed
Aug 1999
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-13505375110,975 ftAug 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 (86)

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

86 months

Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 199975024.282.42$1,821
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990317.892.37$7
Jun 199901715.942.36$40
May 199904315.792.32$100
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999019.981.82$2
Jan 19991,65063710.381.90$18,337
Dec 19981,7256799.201.77$17,074
Nov 19982,04383410.892.19$24,071
Oct 19981,71194912.421.97$23,119
Sep 19981,76195312.592.08$24,156
Aug 19981,69298911.301.91$21,006
Jul 19981,78499611.742.24$23,172
Jun 19981,69079211.242.24$20,768
May 19981,68999812.622.21$23,517
Apr 19981,75890513.042.51$25,192
Mar 19981,85889512.802.31$25,849
Feb 19981,32077813.952.30$20,203
Jan 19981,63575214.702.15$25,655
Dec 19971,2611,02116.322.41$23,041
Nov 19971,00389018.193.09$20,993
Oct 19972,0341,18419.253.15$42,884
Sep 1997839517.742.95$1,309
Aug 199742214017.862.55$7,895
Jul 199742525517.582.25$8,044
Jun 199738924217.242.26$7,253
May 199774644018.972.31$15,167
Apr 199739135817.882.08$7,737
Mar 199776130318.951.94$15,009
Feb 1997718420.492.21$549
Jan 19970923.483.54$32
Dec 199601223.32$0
Nov 199603521.97$0
Oct 199603723.31$0
Sep 199603322.22$0
Aug 199602520.26$0
Jul 19961262419.55$2,463
Jun 19960818.73$0
May 199639515819.43$7,675
Apr 199634015521.51$7,313
Mar 1996016519.38$0
Feb 1996015816.98$0
Jan 1996015317.07$0
Dec 199530915317.19$5,312
Nov 199545520416.00$7,280
Oct 1995119315.43$15
Sep 1995018616.18$0
Aug 199544823715.92$7,132
Jul 1995121115.24$15
Jun 199545714016.41$7,499
May 1995015617.56$0
Apr 1995013017.73$0
Mar 199545819116.44$7,530
Feb 1995011216.58$0
Jan 199546311615.92$7,371
Dec 1994013015.03$0
Nov 199446713415.90$7,425
Oct 1994014815.58$0
Sep 199445313015.29$6,926
Aug 199403416.13$0
Jul 1994462517.56$8,113
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 199442118815.88$6,685
Apr 199404714.14$0
Mar 1994020312.46$0
Feb 199446017212.50$5,750
Jan 1994020012.66$0
Dec 199346216112.33$5,696
Nov 1993017414.49$0
Oct 199345020215.85$7,133
Sep 1993027915.03$0
Aug 199344221615.66$6,922
Jul 1993020115.46$0
Jun 19934628716.79$7,757
May 1993013917.68$0
Apr 199345014318.05$8,123
Mar 1993024018.14$0
Feb 199347321317.90$8,467
Jan 1993021616.93$0

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.

Dec 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   75 bbl  × $ 24.28 =     $1,821
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.42 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,821

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/6990 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.