SHUMAKE, C. J.

Operated by SABRE OPERATING, INC. (P-5 742261) in the CLAY COUNTY REGULAR field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 1537District 09Field 18707001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$85 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
128
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 615 leases and 2,793 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1902-12-31
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: ENTITY FOR DENSITY APPROVED 3/17/98

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
OilDisposition4,937 bbl$85,053
Casinghead gasProduction29 Mcf$0
Total$85,053

29 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 29 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 (15)

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 34.0424, -98.3578. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

34.04299, -98.35822 · 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
60.0%
9 of 15 wells
With a plug date
53.3%
8 of 15 wells
Median depth
1,372 ft
8 wells filed one
Completion to plug
32.7 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
960.0%
A plug date is filed
853.3%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
853.3%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
640.0%

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 15 wells. Median 1,372 ft, with the middle half between 1,167 and 1,403 ft; the shallowest is 1,122 ft and the deepest 2,723 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, 4 of 15 wells, Mar 1980 – Jun 1984. 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 1980 – Jun 1984
4 of 15 wells; 11 filed none
Plug dates filed
Jun 1985 – Feb 2017
8 of 15 wells; 7 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 32.7 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 29.8 years and 32.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

15 wells

42-07720063241,380 ftNov 2012Yes
42-0778032041,134 ftFeb 2017Yes
42-0778032151,470 ftMay 2013Yes
42-0778032725Yes
42-07782595111,122 ftJun 1985Yes
42-077803228
42-0778032319
42-0778032420
42-0778032521
42-0778032826
42-0778032927
42-07720059282,723 ftJun 1984Oct 2005Yes
42-07731584311,370 ftSep 1980May 2013Yes
42-07731826321,178 ftSep 1980Jun 2013Yes
42-07731583301,374 ftMar 1980Nov 2012Yes

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 (128)

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

128 months

Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 2000133027.622.73$3,673
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 1999127023.192.43$2,945
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 199988019.262.88$1,695
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 199988015.942.36$1,403
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 1999126015.102.21$1,903
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 19997309.981.82$729
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 199810209.201.77$938
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 1998151012.421.97$1,875
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 1998125011.301.91$1,413
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 1998115011.242.24$1,293
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 199899013.042.51$1,291
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 1998105013.952.30$1,465
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 199754016.322.41$881
Nov 199768018.193.09$1,237
Oct 199750019.253.15$963
Sep 199758017.742.95$1,029
Aug 199750017.862.55$893
Jul 199775017.582.25$1,319
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 199739018.972.31$740
Apr 199773017.882.08$1,305
Mar 199773018.951.94$1,383
Feb 199769020.492.21$1,414
Jan 199779023.483.54$1,855
Dec 199679023.32$1,842
Nov 199665021.97$1,428
Oct 199683023.31$1,935
Sep 199667022.22$1,489
Aug 199656020.26$1,135
Jul 199663019.55$1,232
Jun 199681018.73$1,517
May 199691019.43$1,768
Apr 199686021.51$1,850
Mar 199676019.38$1,473
Feb 1996105016.98$1,783
Jan 199694017.07$1,605
Dec 1995116017.19$1,994
Nov 199599016.00$1,584
Oct 1995115015.43$1,774
Sep 199591016.18$1,472
Aug 1995120115.92$1,910
Jul 1995127115.24$1,935
Jun 1995125116.41$2,051
May 1995124117.56$2,177
Apr 1995118117.73$2,092
Mar 1995102116.44$1,677
Feb 199569116.58$1,144
Jan 199541115.92$653
Dec 199456115.03$842
Nov 199456115.90$890
Oct 199452115.58$810
Sep 199465115.29$994
Aug 199460116.13$968
Jul 199487117.56$1,528
Jun 1994107117.09$1,829
May 1994127115.88$2,017
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 19930015.66$0
Jul 19930015.46$0
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 1993114117.68$2,016
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.

Feb 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  133 bbl  × $ 27.62 =     $3,673
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.73 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,673

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/1537 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.