ROBINSON, J. M.

Operated by MERIT ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 561136) in the BOONSVILLE (CONSOLIDATED CONGL.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 17371District 09Field 10574780OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$282 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2005
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
147
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 81 leases and 91 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1974-07-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1974-07-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: IN EXCESS 80 AC. 320 ACRE GAS UNITS - NET GOR 7000/1

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
OilDisposition4,063 bbl$76,909
Casinghead gasProduction92,356 Mcf$205,514
Total$282,423

34,161 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 33.1558, -97.9039. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

33.15582, -97.90391 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
5,739 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
38.5 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
2100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2100.0%
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 5,627 and 5,850 ft, median 5,739 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jul 1974
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 2013
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 38.5 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 38.5 years and 38.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-4970169225,627 ftJul 1974Jan 2013Yes
42-4970169315,850 ftJul 1974Jan 2013Yes

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 (147)

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

147 months

Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 200452039.866.75$2,073
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 2003089228.804.60$4,099
Oct 2003076628.174.76$3,646
Sep 2003088926.314.75$4,222
Aug 2003095429.765.13$4,894
Jul 2003059429.415.17$3,071
Jun 2003088528.565.98$5,295
May 200311395626.595.97$8,715
Apr 2003092226.675.41$4,986
Mar 2003091531.146.10$5,578
Feb 2003084833.487.93$6,721
Jan 2003089530.315.58$4,996
Dec 2002079426.914.85$3,854
Nov 2002053224.664.14$2,201
Oct 2002094026.464.23$3,975
Sep 2002097627.443.64$3,548
Aug 200201,16825.963.16$3,696
Jul 200201,12424.583.06$3,441
Jun 2002071023.733.34$2,370
May 2002054724.663.58$1,960
Apr 2002026523.653.51$931
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 2002076618.222.38$1,820
Jan 2002077917.172.38$1,851
Dec 2001076516.932.36$1,809
Nov 2001013318.072.41$320
Oct 2001063019.782.53$1,593
Sep 2001082824.262.25$1,864
Aug 2001083724.873.05$2,555
Jul 2001081223.933.20$2,596
Jun 2001069024.563.82$2,639
May 2001067325.524.31$2,899
Apr 200117962324.685.34$7,742
Mar 2001046424.545.38$2,495
Feb 2001013927.755.77$802
Jan 2001043827.478.40$3,679
Dec 2000062326.889.12$5,683
Nov 2000077632.215.66$4,391
Oct 2000073431.235.15$3,777
Sep 2000075731.875.19$3,926
Aug 2000077229.644.54$3,505
Jul 200017661628.534.09$7,541
Jun 2000077029.304.40$3,386
May 2000075627.263.68$2,782
Apr 2000075024.513.12$2,337
Mar 2000076328.422.86$2,182
Feb 2000077227.622.73$2,105
Jan 200018383925.272.48$6,706
Dec 199917757324.282.42$5,686
Nov 1999046323.192.43$1,127
Oct 1999088320.982.80$2,476
Sep 1999090721.752.62$2,375
Aug 199918291319.262.88$6,131
Jul 1999090817.892.37$2,154
Jun 1999088315.942.36$2,086
May 1999088615.792.32$2,056
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 199904789.981.82$869
Jan 199917852810.381.90$2,851
Dec 199806779.201.77$1,201
Nov 1998082410.892.19$1,801
Oct 1998088512.421.97$1,743
Sep 1998086812.592.08$1,808
Aug 1998090911.301.91$1,734
Jul 199818243711.742.24$3,114
Jun 1998076211.242.24$1,705
May 1998072312.622.21$1,595
Apr 1998067713.042.51$1,696
Mar 1998075112.802.31$1,734
Feb 1998068513.952.30$1,575
Jan 199819475714.702.15$4,483
Dec 1997051516.322.41$1,242
Nov 1997091918.193.09$2,838
Oct 199718096619.253.15$6,508
Sep 1997093317.742.95$2,757
Aug 1997096517.862.55$2,465
Jul 199718287917.582.25$5,175
Jun 1997087117.242.26$1,966
May 199717488018.972.31$5,332
Apr 1997079217.882.08$1,650
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 1997158020.492.21$3,237
Jan 199702123.483.54$74
Dec 1996019823.32$0
Nov 1996026821.97$0
Oct 1996073623.31$0
Sep 199618678522.22$4,133
Aug 1996066820.26$0
Jul 1996086019.55$0
Jun 1996075918.73$0
May 1996053619.43$0
Apr 1996052221.51$0
Mar 1996068419.38$0
Feb 199618465916.98$3,124
Jan 1996064717.07$0
Dec 1995193117.19$3,318
Nov 1995074116.00$0
Oct 1995073015.43$0
Sep 1995025216.18$0
Aug 1995012415.92$0
Jul 1995025315.24$0
Jun 1995060316.41$0
May 1995063717.56$0
Apr 199518360417.73$3,245
Mar 1995070416.44$0
Feb 1995024216.58$0
Jan 1995048115.92$0
Dec 199401,03315.03$0
Nov 1994098115.90$0
Oct 199401,01615.58$0
Sep 199417690415.29$2,691
Aug 1994061316.13$0
Jul 199417679417.56$3,091
Jun 1994063917.09$0
May 199401,01415.88$0
Apr 199401,13014.14$0
Mar 199416885112.46$2,093
Feb 199401,00812.50$0
Jan 1994065912.66$0
Dec 199301,11512.33$0
Nov 1993080414.49$0
Oct 19931751,01015.85$2,774
Sep 1993086515.03$0
Aug 199301,07915.66$0
Jul 1993075315.46$0
Jun 19931141,02916.79$1,914
May 199301,11617.68$0
Apr 199301,00418.05$0
Mar 1993052218.14$0
Feb 199319870117.90$3,544
Jan 1993082716.93$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.

Dec 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   52 bbl  × $ 39.86 =     $2,073
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.75 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,073

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/17371 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.