RIBBLE, W. A.

Operated by WELLS OILFIELD SERVICES, INC. (P-5 907973) in the LONG BEND (MARBLE FALLS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 161280District 09Field 54654250GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$469 k
Dec 1996 – Sep 2007
Value, last 12 filed months
$9 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
130
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
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 3 leases and 3 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1996-12-15
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: THIS FIELD IS UNDER COUNTY REGULAR RULES

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
GasProduction166,697 Mcf$469,458
Total$469,458

7,684 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 1 month, 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 32.9827, -98.4790. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.98267, -98.47897 · 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
4,253 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
10.8 years
median over 1 well

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 4,253 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 1996
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2007
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 10.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 10.8 years and 10.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-50340789104,253 ftDec 1996Sep 2007Yes

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 (130)

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

130 months

Sep 2007075.846.24$0
Aug 200711269.066.39$715
Jul 200710670.906.39$677
Jun 200711962.007.55$898
May 200712758.747.85$996
Apr 200711559.617.81$898
Mar 200711956.927.30$869
Feb 200710655.108.22$871
Jan 200712350.306.73$827
Dec 200612656.656.92$872
Nov 200610754.207.62$815
Oct 200612754.906.01$764
Sep 200611060.085.04$554
Aug 200612568.717.34$917
Jul 200615569.376.34$983
Jun 200614466.286.38$919
May 200610866.016.42$694
Apr 200611764.397.36$861
Mar 200613456.707.08$949
Feb 200611957.597.75$922
Jan 200612760.598.93$1,135
Dec 200514454.9413.42$1,932
Nov 200517054.6910.59$1,800
Oct 200511658.3413.80$1,600
Sep 200510761.4512.08$1,292
Aug 200513061.519.80$1,274
Jul 200512655.697.84$988
Jun 200513152.337.38$967
May 200514745.226.65$978
Apr 200514749.207.36$1,082
Mar 200515650.377.15$1,116
Feb 200514745.226.31$928
Jan 200517143.166.32$1,081
Dec 200417839.866.75$1,202
Nov 200413745.286.33$867
Oct 200416049.706.52$1,042
Sep 200416843.245.28$888
Aug 200417542.375.55$971
Jul 200417538.286.08$1,065
Jun 200417936.106.43$1,152
May 200418337.486.49$1,189
Apr 200417834.475.86$1,043
Mar 200418434.365.53$1,018
Feb 200417232.455.51$948
Jan 200418932.036.30$1,191
Dec 200319830.266.30$1,248
Nov 200319728.804.60$905
Oct 200319228.174.76$914
Sep 200318626.314.75$883
Aug 200331029.765.13$1,590
Jul 200336929.415.17$1,908
Jun 200336928.565.98$2,208
May 200338326.595.97$2,288
Apr 200337526.675.41$2,028
Mar 200341731.146.10$2,542
Feb 200338333.487.93$3,036
Jan 200364230.315.58$3,584
Dec 200214126.914.85$684
Nov 200219824.664.14$819
Oct 200215426.464.23$651
Sep 200222927.443.64$832
Aug 200239725.963.16$1,256
Jul 200240924.583.06$1,252
Jun 200242123.733.34$1,405
May 200242024.663.58$1,505
Apr 200240523.653.51$1,422
Mar 200243522.003.10$1,350
Feb 200236818.222.38$874
Jan 200243017.172.38$1,022
Dec 200144316.932.36$1,047
Nov 200133518.072.41$806
Oct 200121219.782.53$536
Sep 200153624.262.25$1,207
Aug 200154124.873.05$1,652
Jul 200151723.933.20$1,653
Jun 200150624.563.82$1,935
May 200171725.524.31$3,088
Apr 200175724.685.34$4,039
Mar 200175424.545.38$4,054
Feb 200164627.755.77$3,726
Jan 200159927.478.40$5,031
Dec 200062126.889.12$5,665
Nov 200063132.215.66$3,570
Oct 200069431.235.15$3,571
Sep 200072831.875.19$3,776
Aug 200077329.644.54$3,510
Jul 200079028.534.09$3,231
Jun 200087729.304.40$3,856
May 200073727.263.68$2,712
Apr 200086524.513.12$2,695
Mar 200093928.422.86$2,685
Feb 200092627.622.73$2,525
Jan 20001,36225.272.48$3,378
Dec 19991,46124.282.42$3,541
Nov 19991,61923.192.43$3,941
Oct 19991,64920.982.80$4,623
Sep 19991,70021.752.62$4,452
Aug 19991,53819.262.88$4,423
Jul 19991,78417.892.37$4,232
Jun 19992,03215.942.36$4,800
May 19992,03215.792.32$4,716
Apr 19992,09915.102.21$4,635
Mar 19992,07112.471.84$3,807
Feb 19991,8229.981.82$3,312
Jan 19991,69310.381.90$3,217
Dec 19981,5469.201.77$2,742
Nov 19981,95410.892.19$4,271
Oct 19982,06012.421.97$4,057
Sep 19982,09012.592.08$4,353
Aug 19982,17311.301.91$4,145
Jul 19981,86011.742.24$4,161
Jun 19982,40611.242.24$5,383
May 19982,29612.622.21$5,066
Apr 19982,18913.042.51$5,484
Mar 19981,69812.802.31$3,921
Feb 19982,32413.952.30$5,343
Jan 19983,60014.702.15$7,757
Dec 19973,95316.322.41$9,531
Nov 19976,90418.193.09$21,321
Oct 19975,06319.253.15$15,948
Sep 19976,66817.742.95$19,703
Aug 19973,54117.862.55$9,046
Jul 19972,15617.582.25$4,844
Jun 19973,64417.242.26$8,225
May 19975,64818.972.31$13,038
Apr 19976,74017.882.08$14,038
Mar 19978,67518.951.94$16,822
Feb 199713,51320.492.21$29,808
Jan 199714,08223.483.54$49,846
Dec 19967,68423.32$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.

Aug 2007 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  112 Mcf  × $  6.39 =       $715

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Month total                                     $715

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. 09/G/161280 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.