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Operated by MR OIL COMPANY (P-5 518675) in the WARD, SOUTH field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 7229District 08Field 95138001Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$3 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 1993
Value, last 12 filed months
$3 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
7
1 month not filed
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 206 leases and 1,363 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1938-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
330 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 1982-11-01.

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: OP. 5 ACRE DIAG. 750

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
NGPA8none

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
OilDisposition150 bbl$2,540
Casinghead gasProduction6 Mcf$0
Total$2,540

6 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 6 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 (15)

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 31.3700, -102.9073. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

31.36933, -102.90743 · 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
60.0%
9 of 15 wells
With a plug date
60.0%
9 of 15 wells
Median depth
2,540 ft
15 wells filed one
Completion to plug
28.6 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
960.0%
A plug date is filed
960.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
960.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
640.0%

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

Total depth in feet, 15 of 15 wells. Median 2,540 ft, with the middle half between 2,465 and 3,000 ft; the shallowest is 2,392 ft and the deepest 3,038 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

Last completion by decade, 10 of 15 wells, May 1980 – Jul 1984. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
May 1980 – Jul 1984
10 of 15 wells; 5 filed none
Plug dates filed
Dec 1984 – Feb 2019
9 of 15 wells; 6 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 28.6 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 26.2 years and 31.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

15 wells

42-4750033612,432 ftDec 1984Yes
42-475003372W2,392 ftDec 1995Yes
42-4750033832,418 ftJul 2006Yes
42-4750033942,431 ftDec 1995Yes
42-4758037952,498 ftNov 2013Yes
42-47533430252,515 ftJul 1984
42-47533042242,515 ftJul 1984Nov 2013Yes
42-47533041232,540 ftMar 1984
42-47532867193,030 ftJun 1983Dec 2004Yes
42-47532723172,550 ftJan 1983
42-47532591152,543 ftNov 1982Aug 2010Yes
42-47532407133,006 ftJan 1982
42-4753254883,000 ftJan 1982
42-47532069103,000 ftJan 1981Feb 2019Yes
42-4753206673,038 ftMay 1980

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 (7)

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

7 months

Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 19930115.46$0
May 19930117.68$0
Apr 19930118.05$0
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 19930017.90$0
Jan 1993150116.93$2,540

Not filed, and not zero: Jun 1993. The Railroad Commission holds no report for those months, so this page shows none — a zero would state that the lease produced nothing.

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 1993 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  150 bbl  × $ 16.93 =     $2,540
Casinghead gas         1 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $2,540

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/7229 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.