HALSELL, FURD -G-

Operated by BRIDWELL OIL CO. (P-5 92480) in the HALSELL POOL field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 17242District 09Field 38357001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$740 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 2007
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
174
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 61 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1939-04-29
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 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
OilDisposition38,782 bbl$740,116
Casinghead gasProduction3,391 Mcf$0
Total$740,116

3,391 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 (11)

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 33.7598, -98.3191. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.7 miles.

33.75919, -98.31889 · 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%
11 of 11 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
11 of 11 wells
Median depth
4,889 ft
11 wells filed one
Completion to plug
29.2 years
median over 10 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
11100.0%
A plug date is filed
11100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
11100.0%
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, 11 of 11 wells. Median 4,889 ft, with the middle half between 4,877 and 4,909 ft; the shallowest is 4,155 ft and the deepest 4,920 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, 10 of 11 wells, Jun 1974 – Sep 1985. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Jun 1974 – Sep 1985
10 of 11 wells; 1 filed none
Plug dates filed
Nov 1996 – Sep 2005
11 of 11 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 29.2 years across the 10 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 22.6 years and 30.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

11 wells

42-0773037014,860 ftAug 2005Yes
42-07733595114,920 ftSep 1985Nov 1996Yes
42-0773047784,155 ftMar 1984Aug 1997Yes
42-07730605104,889 ftOct 1976Aug 2005Yes
42-0773056394,885 ftApr 1976Sep 2005Yes
42-0773040944,911 ftMar 1976Aug 2005Yes
42-0773044064,906 ftApr 1975Sep 2005Yes
42-0773044174,884 ftApr 1975Sep 2005Yes
42-0773042854,870 ftOct 1974Sep 2005Yes
42-0773039624,912 ftJun 1974Aug 1997Yes
42-0773039534,900 ftJun 1974Nov 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 (174)

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

174 months

Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 200585050.377.15$4,281
Feb 2005111045.226.31$5,019
Jan 200588043.166.32$3,798
Dec 2004105039.866.75$4,185
Nov 200463045.286.33$2,853
Oct 2004129049.706.52$6,411
Sep 2004124043.245.28$5,362
Aug 200497042.375.55$4,110
Jul 200497038.286.08$3,713
Jun 200483036.106.43$2,996
May 200453037.486.49$1,986
Apr 200469034.475.86$2,378
Mar 200462034.365.53$2,130
Feb 200480032.455.51$2,596
Jan 200454032.036.30$1,730
Dec 200335030.266.30$1,059
Nov 200381028.804.60$2,333
Oct 200372028.174.76$2,028
Sep 200399026.314.75$2,605
Aug 200379029.765.13$2,351
Jul 200389029.415.17$2,617
Jun 200371028.565.98$2,028
May 200371026.595.97$1,888
Apr 200362026.675.41$1,654
Mar 200377031.146.10$2,398
Feb 200318033.487.93$603
Jan 200345030.315.58$1,364
Dec 2002115026.914.85$3,095
Nov 200277024.664.14$1,899
Oct 2002145026.464.23$3,837
Sep 2002132027.443.64$3,622
Aug 200280025.963.16$2,077
Jul 200292024.583.06$2,261
Jun 200275023.733.34$1,780
May 200294024.663.58$2,318
Apr 2002104023.653.51$2,460
Mar 2002116022.003.10$2,552
Feb 200287018.222.38$1,585
Jan 2002184017.172.38$3,159
Dec 200149016.932.36$830
Nov 200195018.072.41$1,717
Oct 200196019.782.53$1,899
Sep 200149024.262.25$1,189
Aug 200195024.873.05$2,363
Jul 2001177023.933.20$4,236
Jun 2001140024.563.82$3,438
May 2001121025.524.31$3,088
Apr 2001147024.685.34$3,628
Mar 2001158024.545.38$3,877
Feb 2001132027.755.77$3,663
Jan 2001187027.478.40$5,137
Dec 2000231026.889.12$6,209
Nov 2000205032.215.66$6,603
Oct 2000275031.235.15$8,588
Sep 2000166031.875.19$5,290
Aug 2000242029.644.54$7,173
Jul 2000202028.534.09$5,763
Jun 2000270029.304.40$7,911
May 2000285027.263.68$7,769
Apr 2000219024.513.12$5,368
Mar 2000292028.422.86$8,299
Feb 2000286027.622.73$7,899
Jan 2000259025.272.48$6,545
Dec 1999292024.282.42$7,090
Nov 1999292023.192.43$6,771
Oct 1999247020.982.80$5,182
Sep 1999256021.752.62$5,568
Aug 1999255019.262.88$4,911
Jul 1999255017.892.37$4,562
Jun 1999291015.942.36$4,639
May 1999255015.792.32$4,026
Apr 1999286015.102.21$4,319
Mar 1999322012.471.84$4,015
Feb 199924309.981.82$2,425
Jan 1999288010.381.90$2,989
Dec 199828809.201.77$2,650
Nov 1998291010.892.19$3,169
Oct 1998325012.421.97$4,037
Sep 1998326012.592.08$4,104
Aug 1998289011.301.91$3,266
Jul 1998328011.742.24$3,851
Jun 1998367011.242.24$4,125
May 1998293012.622.21$3,698
Apr 1998294013.042.51$3,834
Mar 1998360012.802.31$4,608
Feb 1998294013.952.30$4,101
Jan 1998335014.702.15$4,925
Dec 1997334016.322.41$5,451
Nov 1997290018.193.09$5,275
Oct 1997327019.253.15$6,295
Sep 1997361017.742.95$6,404
Aug 1997356017.862.55$6,358
Jul 1997397017.582.25$6,979
Jun 1997326017.242.26$5,620
May 1997366018.972.31$6,943
Apr 1997402017.882.08$7,188
Mar 1997375018.951.94$7,106
Feb 1997345020.492.21$7,069
Jan 1997341023.483.54$8,007
Dec 1996417023.32$9,724
Nov 1996399021.97$8,766
Oct 1996406023.31$9,464
Sep 1996328022.22$7,288
Aug 1996318020.26$6,443
Jul 1996474019.55$9,267
Jun 1996249018.73$4,664
May 1996388019.43$7,539
Apr 1996364021.51$7,830
Mar 1996387019.38$7,500
Feb 1996328016.98$5,569
Jan 1996446017.07$7,613
Dec 1995350017.19$6,017
Nov 1995359016.00$5,744
Oct 1995388015.43$5,987
Sep 1995355016.18$5,744
Aug 1995313015.92$4,983
Jul 1995382015.24$5,822
Jun 1995460016.41$7,549
May 1995491017.56$8,622
Apr 1995495017.73$8,776
Mar 1995327016.44$5,376
Feb 1995363016.58$6,019
Jan 1995448015.92$7,132
Dec 1994391015.03$5,877
Nov 1994516015.90$8,204
Oct 1994458015.58$7,136
Sep 199446415815.29$7,095
Aug 199458515816.13$9,436
Jul 199450515817.56$8,868
Jun 199449115817.09$8,391
May 199444015815.88$6,987
Apr 199453615814.14$7,579
Mar 199444515812.46$5,545
Feb 199436315812.50$4,538
Jan 199439815812.66$5,039
Dec 1993442112.33$5,450
Nov 199343615814.49$6,318
Oct 199341115815.85$6,514
Sep 199343115815.03$6,478
Aug 199345415815.66$7,110
Jul 199331515815.46$4,870
Jun 199340915816.79$6,867
May 199339915817.68$7,054
Apr 199343515818.05$7,852
Mar 199347115818.14$8,544
Feb 199322927317.90$4,099
Jan 199345327316.93$7,669

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 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   85 bbl  × $ 50.37 =     $4,281
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  7.15 =         $0

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Month total                                   $4,281

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/17242 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.