SLATOR, J. D. -B-

Operated by TEXACO E & P INC. (P-5 844118) 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 6994District 08Field 88071290Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$84 k
Jan 1993 – Apr 1994
Value, last 12 filed months
$60 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
16
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
OilDisposition5,316 bbl$84,123
Casinghead gasProduction10,964 Mcf$0
Total$84,123

10,964 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 14 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 31.9428, -102.7359. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.94279, -102.73591 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
9,793 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
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 9,793 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 1994
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-135045462 L9,793 ftFeb 1994Yes

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 (16)

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

16 months

Apr 19940014.14$0
Mar 19940012.46$0
Feb 19942158812.50$2,688
Jan 1994464112.66$5,874
Dec 1993075112.33$0
Nov 19934351,12414.49$6,303
Oct 19934701,31715.85$7,450
Sep 19934661,01515.03$7,004
Aug 19934671,23915.66$7,313
Jul 199346796315.46$7,220
Jun 19934741,06216.79$7,958
May 199344238617.68$7,815
Apr 199346982018.05$8,465
Mar 1993074918.14$0
Feb 1993042217.90$0
Jan 19939471,02716.93$16,033

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.

Feb 1994 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  215 bbl  × $ 12.50 =     $2,688
Casinghead gas        88 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $2,688

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/6994 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.