LINKER, W. A.

Operated by BURK ROYALTY COMPANY (P-5 108800) in the COOKE COUNTY REGULAR field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 13824District 09Field 20350001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$5 k
Jan 1993 – Jul 1995
Value, last 12 filed months
$3 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
31
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 805 leases and 4,250 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1926-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and 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: 6001 - 8000 DAILY 99

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
OilDisposition324 bbl$4,804
Casinghead gasProduction20 Mcf$0
Total$4,804

20 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 20 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 (34)

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 33.6590, -97.0947. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.8 miles.

33.65922, -97.09101 · 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%
34 of 34 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
34 of 34 wells
Median depth
2,504 ft
34 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
34100.0%
A plug date is filed
34100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
34100.0%
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

Total depth in feet, 34 of 34 wells. Median 2,504 ft, with the middle half between 2,485 and 2,571 ft; the shallowest is 2,459 ft and the deepest 2,622 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

Plug dates filed
Jul 1983 – Apr 1995
34 of 34 wells

34 wells

42-0972017110032,503 ftMay 1988Yes
42-097837544012,494 ftJun 1988Yes
42-097837554022,475 ftJun 1988Yes
42-097837564032,498 ftJun 1988Yes
42-097837574042,504 ftJun 1988Yes
42-097837584052,486 ftDec 1987Yes
42-097837594072,492 ftJun 1987Yes
42-097837604092,526 ftNov 1983Yes
42-097837614102,469 ftApr 1986Yes
42-097837624112,475 ftJun 1988Yes
42-097837634122,478 ftJul 1983Yes
42-097837644142,572 ftJun 1988Yes
42-097837654172,460 ftDec 1987Yes
42-097837664182,459 ftJun 1988Yes
42-097837674192,580 ftNov 1983Yes
42-097837685022,538 ftMay 1986Yes
42-097837695042,589 ftMay 1987Yes
42-097837706012,496 ftJun 1988Yes
42-097837716032,476 ftJun 1988Yes
42-097837726042,493 ftMay 1988Yes
42-097837736062,474 ftMay 1988Yes
42-097837746072,485 ftApr 1995Yes
42-097837756092,502 ftJun 1988Yes
42-097837766102,566 ftApr 1986Yes
42-097837776132,532 ftApr 1986Yes
42-097837787022,603 ftJun 1988Yes
42-097837797032,622 ftJun 1988Yes
42-097837807042,612 ftJun 1988Yes
42-097837818032,541 ftJun 1988Yes
42-097837829032,554 ftApr 1986Yes
42-097837839052,578 ftApr 1986Yes
42-097837849062,572 ftMay 1986Yes
42-0978378611022,605 ftJun 1985Yes
42-097848604152,512 ftJun 1988Yes

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 (31)

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

31 months

Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 1995117017.56$2,055
Apr 199531017.73$550
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 19940117.56$0
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 1994176112.50$2,200
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 19930115.46$0
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 19930117.68$0
Apr 19930018.05$0
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 19930117.90$0
Jan 19930116.93$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.

May 1995 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  117 bbl  × $ 17.56 =     $2,055
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $2,055

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/13824 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.