THOMAS, ELDRED

Operated by PRUITT OIL & GAS (P-5 682020) in the NEWPORT, S. (BEND CONGL.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 18288District 09Field 65362500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$56 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
92
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 53 leases and 63 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1968-02-16
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

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
OilDisposition1,262 bbl$20,549
Casinghead gasProduction55,240 Mcf$35,004
Total$55,553

40,503 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 (3)

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 33.4382, -97.9456. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

33.43824, -97.94613 · 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%
3 of 3 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
3 of 3 wells
Median depth
6,100 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
22.2 years
median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
3100.0%
A plug date is filed
3100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
3100.0%
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 6,027 and 6,150 ft, median 6,100 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Feb 1977 – Jul 1980
3 of 3 wells
Plug dates filed
May 1986 – Nov 2006
3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 22.2 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.0 years and 26.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-3373140336,100 ftJul 1980May 1986Yes
42-3373102826,150 ftJan 1978Mar 2000Yes
42-3373054816,027 ftFeb 1977Nov 2006Yes

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 (92)

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

92 months

Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 200063029.304.40$1,846
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 199907015.792.32$162
Apr 1999034415.102.21$760
Mar 1999024312.471.84$447
Feb 199903269.981.82$593
Jan 1999021810.381.90$414
Dec 19981432809.201.77$1,812
Nov 1998021110.892.19$461
Oct 1998024312.421.97$479
Sep 1998029112.592.08$606
Aug 1998023211.301.91$443
Jul 1998042711.742.24$955
Jun 1998051211.242.24$1,145
May 1998047612.622.21$1,050
Apr 1998053413.042.51$1,338
Mar 1998076512.802.31$1,767
Feb 1998073513.952.30$1,690
Jan 1998083714.702.15$1,804
Dec 1997077816.322.41$1,876
Nov 1997082218.193.09$2,539
Oct 199716766619.253.15$5,313
Sep 1997055217.742.95$1,631
Aug 1997067617.862.55$1,727
Jul 1997072217.582.25$1,622
Jun 1997065217.242.26$1,472
May 1997067318.972.31$1,554
Apr 1997067617.882.08$1,408
Mar 1997066318.951.94$1,286
Feb 1997056720.492.21$1,251
Jan 1997054623.483.54$1,933
Dec 1996067023.32$0
Nov 1996060921.97$0
Oct 1996066823.31$0
Sep 1996070322.22$0
Aug 1996072520.26$0
Jul 1996071619.55$0
Jun 1996062618.73$0
May 199615671919.43$3,031
Apr 1996083021.51$0
Mar 1996087119.38$0
Feb 1996071316.98$0
Jan 1996079017.07$0
Dec 1995071617.19$0
Nov 1995071016.00$0
Oct 199513985615.43$2,145
Sep 1995072616.18$0
Aug 1995093015.92$0
Jul 1995096515.24$0
Jun 1995099716.41$0
May 199501,00117.56$0
Apr 1995057317.73$0
Mar 1995089516.44$0
Feb 199517686016.58$2,918
Jan 1995093515.92$0
Dec 1994097115.03$0
Nov 1994082315.90$0
Oct 1994078715.58$0
Sep 1994077215.29$0
Aug 1994093116.13$0
Jul 199401,07617.56$0
Jun 199401,30317.09$0
May 1994077315.88$0
Apr 1994076314.14$0
Mar 1994077312.46$0
Feb 1994075312.50$0
Jan 199401,01012.66$0
Dec 199325284412.33$3,107
Nov 1993020514.49$0
Oct 1993092315.85$0
Sep 1993077115.03$0
Aug 199301,02615.66$0
Jul 1993098215.46$0
Jun 199301,00716.79$0
May 199301,07317.68$0
Apr 199301,06118.05$0
Mar 199301,03418.14$0
Feb 199316697217.90$2,971
Jan 199301,06616.93$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.

Jun 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   63 bbl  × $ 29.30 =     $1,846
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.40 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,846

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/18288 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.