SNUGGS, FRED

Operated by VASTAR RESOURCES, INC. (P-5 883810) in the WALNUT BEND (2150) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 16045District 09Field 94911832OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$102 k
Jan 1993 – Sep 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
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 2 leases and 7 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1959-02-07
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
OilDisposition6,386 bbl$102,399
Casinghead gasProduction102 Mcf$0
Total$102,399

102 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 (2)

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 33.7633, -97.0409. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles. 1 well has no surveyed location and is left out of it.

33.76329, -97.04092 · centre of 1 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
50.0%
1 of 2 wells
Median depth
2,551 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
3 months
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
150.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
150.0%
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 2,245 and 2,856 ft, median 2,551 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
May 1998
1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none
Plug dates filed
Aug 1998
1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 3 months across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3 months and 3 months. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-09784135352,245 ftYes
42-09702968342,856 ftMay 1998Aug 1998Yes

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 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 199610016.98$170
Jan 199668017.07$1,161
Dec 199583017.19$1,427
Nov 199579016.00$1,264
Oct 199570015.43$1,080
Sep 199582016.18$1,327
Aug 199583015.92$1,321
Jul 199570015.24$1,067
Jun 199568016.41$1,116
May 1995105017.56$1,844
Apr 1995129017.73$2,287
Mar 1995174016.44$2,861
Feb 1995150016.58$2,487
Jan 1995210015.92$3,343
Dec 1994231015.03$3,472
Nov 1994192015.90$3,053
Oct 1994161015.58$2,508
Sep 1994167115.29$2,553
Aug 1994238116.13$3,839
Jul 1994174117.56$3,055
Jun 1994164117.09$2,803
May 1994171115.88$2,715
Apr 1994135114.14$1,909
Mar 1994134112.46$1,670
Feb 1994121112.50$1,513
Jan 1994153112.66$1,937
Dec 1993179112.33$2,207
Nov 1993201114.49$2,912
Oct 1993237115.85$3,756
Sep 1993219115.03$3,292
Aug 1993209115.66$3,273
Jul 1993289115.46$4,468
Jun 1993299116.79$5,020
May 1993298117.68$5,269
Apr 1993248118.05$4,476
Mar 1993393318.14$7,129
Feb 19931842917.90$3,294
Jan 19932085216.93$3,521

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 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   10 bbl  × $ 16.98 =       $170
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                     $170

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/16045 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.