PYLES, C. R. -A-

Operated by HARPER, WAYNE (P-5 358820) in the SADLER, WEST (PENNSYLVANIAN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 16780District 09Field 79487125OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$81 k
Jan 1993 – Feb 2005
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
146
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 8 leases and 23 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1954-02-18
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 20 acres.

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
OilDisposition4,361 bbl$81,091
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$81,091

21 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 (6)

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 33.7040, -96.8877. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

33.70418, -96.88735 · 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%
6 of 6 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
6 of 6 wells
Median depth
6,490 ft
6 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
6100.0%
A plug date is filed
6100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
6100.0%
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 6,440 and 6,517 ft, median 6,490 ft, over the 6 wells that filed a depth.

Plug dates filed
Jul 2003 – Jun 2004
6 of 6 wells

6 wells

42-1810109646,517 ftJul 2003Yes
42-1810109856,485 ftJul 2003Yes
42-1810110036,440 ftJun 2004Yes
42-1810110176,495 ftJul 2003Yes
42-1810110286,473 ftJul 2003Yes
42-1810110366,495 ftJul 2003Yes

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 (146)

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

146 months

Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
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 200267022.003.10$1,474
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 200168023.933.20$1,627
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 200167024.685.34$1,654
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 200163027.755.77$1,748
Jan 200165027.478.40$1,786
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 200064032.215.66$2,061
Oct 200067031.235.15$2,092
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 200066029.644.54$1,956
Jul 200067028.534.09$1,912
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 200066027.263.68$1,799
Apr 200051024.513.12$1,250
Mar 200068028.422.86$1,933
Feb 200043027.622.73$1,188
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 199945024.282.42$1,093
Nov 199959023.192.43$1,368
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 199961021.752.62$1,327
Aug 199985019.262.88$1,637
Jul 199950017.892.37$895
Jun 199941015.942.36$654
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 199945015.102.21$680
Mar 199950012.471.84$624
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 199980010.381.90$830
Dec 19984109.201.77$377
Nov 199841010.892.19$446
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 199843012.592.08$541
Aug 199841011.301.91$463
Jul 199843011.742.24$505
Jun 199850011.242.24$562
May 199851012.622.21$644
Apr 199857013.042.51$743
Mar 199861012.802.31$781
Feb 199850013.952.30$698
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 199741016.322.41$669
Nov 199735018.193.09$637
Oct 199749019.253.15$943
Sep 199750017.742.95$887
Aug 199747017.862.55$839
Jul 199745017.582.25$791
Jun 199750017.242.26$862
May 199750018.972.31$949
Apr 199752017.882.08$930
Mar 199740018.951.94$758
Feb 199745020.492.21$922
Jan 199745023.483.54$1,057
Dec 199639023.32$909
Nov 199650021.97$1,099
Oct 199640023.31$932
Sep 199641022.22$911
Aug 199635020.26$709
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 199640018.73$749
May 199631019.43$602
Apr 199630021.51$645
Mar 199635019.38$678
Feb 199635016.98$594
Jan 199644017.07$751
Dec 199530017.19$516
Nov 199535016.00$560
Oct 199530015.43$463
Sep 199537016.18$599
Aug 199537015.92$589
Jul 199531015.24$472
Jun 199539016.41$640
May 199531017.56$544
Apr 199538017.73$674
Mar 199539016.44$641
Feb 199538016.58$630
Jan 199538015.92$605
Dec 199441015.03$616
Nov 199441015.90$652
Oct 199440015.58$623
Sep 199440115.29$612
Aug 199439116.13$629
Jul 199445117.56$790
Jun 199451117.09$872
May 199451115.88$810
Apr 199449114.14$693
Mar 199453112.46$660
Feb 199450112.50$625
Jan 1994104112.66$1,317
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 199350114.49$725
Oct 199350115.85$793
Sep 199350115.03$752
Aug 199347115.66$736
Jul 199349115.46$758
Jun 199350116.79$840
May 199350117.68$884
Apr 199350118.05$903
Mar 199350118.14$907
Feb 199352117.90$931
Jan 199351116.93$863

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 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   67 bbl  × $ 22.00 =     $1,474
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.10 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,474

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/16780 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.