GRINKE UNIT

Operated by FAGADAU ENERGY CORPORATION (P-5 257680) in the GRINKE (MISS.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 15354District 09Field 37037500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$80 k
Jan 1993 – May 1996
Value, last 12 filed months
$853
at the published price for each month
Months reported
41
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 6 leases and 13 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1967-07-16
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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
OilDisposition5,242 bbl$79,603
Casinghead gasProduction20 Mcf$0
Total$79,603

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 (8)

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 33.7208, -98.3058. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.6 miles.

33.72090, -98.30688 · 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%
8 of 8 wells
With a plug date
87.5%
7 of 8 wells
Median depth
6,019 ft
8 wells filed one
Completion to plug
20.9 years
median over 5 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
8100.0%
A plug date is filed
787.5%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
787.5%
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, 8 of 8 wells. Median 6,019 ft, with the middle half between 6,016 and 6,026 ft; the shallowest is 6,012 ft and the deepest 6,048 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 6 of 8 wells, Mar 1971 – Dec 1979. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Mar 1971 – Dec 1979
6 of 8 wells; 2 filed none
Plug dates filed
Jan 1996
7 of 8 wells; 1 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 20.9 years across the 5 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 20.9 years and 24.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

8 wells

42-0770180216,029 ftJan 1996Yes
42-0770219526,025 ftJan 1996Yes
42-0773046686,012 ftDec 1979Jan 1996Yes
42-0773015356,015 ftFeb 1975Jan 1996Yes
42-0773017176,019 ftFeb 1975Yes
42-0773018066,048 ftFeb 1975Jan 1996Yes
42-0773018146,019 ftMay 1971Jan 1996Yes
42-0773016136,016 ftMar 1971Jan 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 (41)

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

41 months

May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 199644019.38$853
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 1995179016.44$2,943
Feb 1995176016.58$2,918
Jan 1995174015.92$2,770
Dec 1994177015.03$2,660
Nov 1994180015.90$2,862
Oct 1994164015.58$2,555
Sep 1994175115.29$2,676
Aug 1994177116.13$2,855
Jul 1994338117.56$5,935
Jun 1994174117.09$2,974
May 1994171115.88$2,715
Apr 1994350114.14$4,949
Mar 1994345112.46$4,299
Feb 1994183112.50$2,288
Jan 1994178112.66$2,253
Dec 1993348112.33$4,291
Nov 1993175114.49$2,536
Oct 1993516115.85$8,179
Sep 1993348115.03$5,230
Aug 1993335115.66$5,246
Jul 1993166115.46$2,566
Jun 19930016.79$0
May 19930117.68$0
Apr 1993169118.05$3,050
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.

Mar 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   44 bbl  × $ 19.38 =       $853
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                     $853

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/15354 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.