DONALD AND DONALD

Operated by BENNETT PRODUCTION CORPORATION (P-5 65315) in the M P S (ELLENBURGER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 11406District 09Field 56322666NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$425 k
Jan 1993 – Sep 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$34 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
69
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 17 leases and 29 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1955-02-21
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres.

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
NGPA1none

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
OilDisposition22,455 bbl$384,370
Casinghead gasProduction88,883 Mcf$40,544
Total$424,914

72,747 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 (3)

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 33.4649, -97.9416. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

33.46491, -97.94194 · 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%
3 of 3 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
3 of 3 wells
Median depth
6,845 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
27.4 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
3100.0%
A plug date is filed
3100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
3100.0%
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 6,787 and 6,910 ft, median 6,845 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Feb 1960 – Jun 1980
2 of 3 wells; 1 filed none
Plug dates filed
Oct 1996 – Aug 1998
3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 27.4 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 22.8 years and 32.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-337026422 L6,845 ftAug 1998Yes
42-3373137636,910 ftJun 1980Jul 1998Yes
42-3370174516,787 ftFeb 1960Oct 1996Yes

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 (69)

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

69 months

Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 199898011.742.24$1,151
Jun 1998123211.242.24$530
May 1998024112.622.21$532
Apr 1998024113.042.51$604
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 1998060713.952.30$1,396
Jan 19983411,11514.702.15$7,415
Dec 19971651,36316.322.41$5,979
Nov 19973441,03418.193.09$9,451
Oct 19971821,14519.253.15$7,110
Sep 19973431,09917.742.95$9,332
Aug 19971701,18517.862.55$6,064
Jul 19972111,21417.582.25$6,437
Jun 19971541,18617.242.26$5,332
May 19973471,21118.972.31$9,378
Apr 199733595817.882.08$7,985
Mar 199701,10118.951.94$2,135
Feb 19971841,05120.492.21$6,089
Jan 19973381,15323.483.54$12,018
Dec 19963431,20223.32$7,999
Nov 19963521,20521.97$7,733
Oct 19963571,24123.31$8,322
Sep 19961661,16722.22$3,689
Aug 19963401,32520.26$6,888
Jul 19963481,29819.55$6,803
Jun 19963481,32118.73$6,518
May 19961801,41019.43$3,497
Apr 19963301,27721.51$7,098
Mar 19965141,39719.38$9,961
Feb 19963471,51316.98$5,892
Jan 19963411,24917.07$5,821
Dec 19955131,24517.19$8,818
Nov 19953551,17816.00$5,680
Oct 19951741,33515.43$2,685
Sep 19953561,57716.18$5,760
Aug 19955411,92815.92$8,613
Jul 19953612,01315.24$5,502
Jun 19955381,75916.41$8,829
May 19953491,83217.56$6,128
Apr 19955401,92017.73$9,574
Mar 19953601,68616.44$5,918
Feb 19955511,49416.58$9,136
Jan 19953601,66015.92$5,731
Dec 19945461,62015.03$8,206
Nov 19943491,44915.90$5,549
Oct 19945331,76915.58$8,304
Sep 19945371,75215.29$8,211
Aug 19943611,87416.13$5,823
Jul 19945301,86817.56$9,307
Jun 19945261,90217.09$8,989
May 19947111,95415.88$11,291
Apr 19943551,50114.14$5,020
Mar 1994185112.46$2,305
Feb 199418278212.50$2,275
Jan 199435791012.66$4,520
Dec 19931831,03312.33$2,256
Nov 19935292,06514.49$7,665
Oct 19933632,27715.85$5,754
Sep 19935302,21215.03$7,966
Aug 19933362,00115.66$5,262
Jul 19935341,82315.46$8,256
Jun 19933441,49216.79$5,776
May 19935401,16917.68$9,547
Apr 19933631,07118.05$6,552
Mar 19935201,68118.14$9,433
Feb 19935031,45717.90$9,004
Jan 19933611,85216.93$6,112

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.

Jul 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   98 bbl  × $ 11.74 =     $1,151
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.24 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,151

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/O/11406 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.