KING, E. F.

Operated by CITATION OIL & GAS CORP. (P-5 154235) in the FUHRMAN-MASCHO (DEVONIAN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 9163District 08Field 33176284Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$245 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
94
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 5 leases and 9 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1956-02-13
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 ft
minimum
From a lease line
440 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1987-07-01.

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.

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
OilDisposition13,293 bbl$229,181
Casinghead gasProduction28,308 Mcf$15,537
Total$244,717

22,306 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 (2)

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 32.2702, -102.6629. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

32.27016, -102.66295 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
50.0%
1 of 2 wells
Median depth
11,458 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
19.8 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
150.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
150.0%
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

Between 10,255 and 12,660 ft, median 11,458 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Aug 1992 – Oct 2001
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2012
1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 19.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 19.8 years and 19.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-003052161310,255 ftOct 2001Yes
42-00305210812,660 ftAug 1992May 2012Yes

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 (94)

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

94 months

Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
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 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19976016.322.41$98
Nov 199723545518.193.09$5,680
Oct 199727663919.253.15$7,326
Sep 199730765817.742.95$7,390
Aug 199740759317.862.55$8,784
Jul 19975951817.582.25$2,201
Jun 199719955417.242.26$4,681
May 199722053818.972.31$5,415
Apr 199720053117.882.08$4,682
Mar 199721052718.951.94$5,001
Feb 199722246920.492.21$5,583
Jan 199720952023.483.54$6,748
Dec 199620956123.32$4,874
Nov 199622446121.97$4,921
Oct 199618215323.31$4,242
Sep 199621528722.22$4,777
Aug 199622817820.26$4,619
Jul 199619415219.55$3,793
Jun 199619515718.73$3,652
May 199626967419.43$5,227
Apr 199621052621.51$4,517
Mar 199620558119.38$3,973
Feb 199621853116.98$3,702
Jan 199621457217.07$3,653
Dec 199511752617.19$2,011
Nov 199516850116.00$2,688
Oct 199523255215.43$3,580
Sep 199526755416.18$4,320
Aug 199528360715.92$4,505
Jul 199524659015.24$3,749
Jun 199523855216.41$3,906
May 199526745317.56$4,689
Apr 199528652317.73$5,071
Mar 199527655116.44$4,537
Feb 199524949416.58$4,128
Jan 199521556015.92$3,423
Dec 199420656915.03$3,096
Nov 199420659015.90$3,275
Oct 199420861815.58$3,241
Sep 199426059815.29$3,975
Aug 199421263016.13$3,420
Jul 199421357217.56$3,740
Jun 199423962517.09$4,085
May 199422463915.88$3,557
Apr 199422060214.14$3,111
Mar 199417758612.46$2,205
Feb 199422054912.50$2,750
Jan 199415961612.66$2,013
Dec 199336462612.33$4,488
Nov 199327952514.49$4,043
Oct 199328452515.85$4,501
Sep 199331955815.03$4,795
Aug 199332018315.66$5,011
Jul 199315620115.46$2,412
Jun 199315419316.79$2,586
May 199319314317.68$3,412
Apr 199316123718.05$2,906
Mar 199319125918.14$3,465
Feb 199320820217.90$3,723
Jan 199316316416.93$2,760

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 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    6 bbl  × $ 16.32 =        $98
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.41 =         $0

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Month total                                      $98

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/9163 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.