NIVENS, THOMAS

Operated by MARCON OPERATING COMPANY, INC. (P-5 525765) in the ALVORD (CADDO CONGLOMERATE) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 164898District 09Field 02143355CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$64 k
Aug 1997 – Feb 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$185
at the published price for each month
Months reported
127
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 136 leases and 225 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1954-07-29
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: OF 80 AC./ DIVIDED BY 80 AC.

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
CondensateDisposition89 bbl$2,474
GasProduction17,753 Mcf$61,180
Total$63,654

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 33.3822, -97.7166. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.38222, -97.71656 · 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
6,019 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
10.5 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 6,019 ft.

Completions filed
Aug 1997
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 2008
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 10.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 10.5 years and 10.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4973155816,019 ftAug 1997Feb 2008Yes

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 (127)

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

127 months

Feb 20082092.538.77$185
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060657.597.75$47
Jan 200601960.598.93$170
Dec 200502054.9413.42$268
Nov 200502154.6910.59$222
Oct 200501858.3413.80$248
Sep 200501261.4512.08$145
Aug 200501461.519.80$137
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 200501752.337.38$125
May 200505245.226.65$346
Apr 200505849.207.36$427
Mar 200508650.377.15$615
Feb 200506245.226.31$391
Jan 200506743.166.32$424
Dec 200408739.866.75$587
Nov 200405845.286.33$367
Oct 200404849.706.52$313
Sep 200404643.245.28$243
Aug 200402842.375.55$155
Jul 200402638.286.08$158
Jun 200403636.106.43$232
May 200405037.486.49$325
Apr 200408434.475.86$492
Mar 2004010434.365.53$575
Feb 200409832.455.51$540
Jan 200407832.036.30$491
Dec 2003011030.266.30$693
Nov 200304928.804.60$225
Oct 200304728.174.76$224
Sep 2003873426.314.75$2,450
Aug 2003012929.765.13$662
Jul 2003010329.415.17$533
Jun 2003013928.565.98$832
May 2003013926.595.97$830
Apr 2003012726.675.41$687
Mar 2003014731.146.10$896
Feb 2003013833.487.93$1,094
Jan 2003013630.315.58$759
Dec 2002015826.914.85$767
Nov 2002015524.664.14$641
Oct 2002016026.464.23$677
Sep 2002015327.443.64$556
Aug 2002015825.963.16$500
Jul 2002020324.583.06$622
Jun 2002027423.733.34$915
May 2002017824.663.58$638
Apr 2002011523.653.51$404
Mar 2002017522.003.10$543
Feb 2002020318.222.38$482
Jan 2002021017.172.38$499
Dec 2001024816.932.36$586
Nov 2001019918.072.41$479
Oct 2001019919.782.53$503
Sep 2001024124.262.25$543
Aug 2001020524.873.05$626
Jul 2001024323.933.20$777
Jun 2001023124.563.82$883
May 2001022925.524.31$986
Apr 2001022724.685.34$1,211
Mar 2001015124.545.38$812
Feb 2001012427.755.77$715
Jan 2001020327.478.40$1,705
Dec 200001826.889.12$164
Nov 2000014732.215.66$832
Oct 2000023031.235.15$1,183
Sep 2000025431.875.19$1,317
Aug 2000015329.644.54$695
Jul 2000022628.534.09$924
Jun 2000021129.304.40$928
May 2000020927.263.68$769
Apr 2000024124.513.12$751
Mar 2000024328.422.86$695
Feb 2000024527.622.73$668
Jan 2000024625.272.48$610
Dec 1999024024.282.42$582
Nov 1999028423.192.43$691
Oct 1999020720.982.80$580
Sep 1999025421.752.62$665
Aug 1999028519.262.88$820
Jul 1999034217.892.37$811
Jun 1999031315.942.36$739
May 1999011615.792.32$269
Apr 1999022515.102.21$497
Mar 1999027812.471.84$511
Feb 199904019.981.82$729
Jan 1999034410.381.90$654
Dec 199804519.201.77$800
Nov 1998054810.892.19$1,198
Oct 1998029012.421.97$571
Sep 1998038012.592.08$791
Aug 1998018011.301.91$343
Jul 1998020411.742.24$456
Jun 1998025811.242.24$577
May 1998030312.622.21$669
Apr 1998027113.042.51$679
Mar 1998028612.802.31$661
Feb 1998024013.952.30$552
Jan 1998028414.702.15$612
Dec 1997018416.322.41$444
Nov 1997033518.193.09$1,035
Oct 1997021619.253.15$680
Sep 1997025417.742.95$751
Aug 1997022217.862.55$567

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 2008 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             2 bbl  × $ 92.53 =       $185
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  8.77 =         $0

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Month total                                     $185

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/164898 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.