DOROTHY

Operated by WES-MOR DRILLING, INC. (P-5 908800) in the YOUNG COUNTY REGULAR field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 20584District 09Field 99480001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$83 k
Jan 1993 – Nov 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$13 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
119
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 2,525 leases and 8,014 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1917-12-31
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
OilDisposition535 bbl$9,629
Casinghead gasProduction53,072 Mcf$73,856
Total$83,484

28,428 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 (4)

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 32.9853, -98.5718. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

32.98514, -98.57246 · 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%
4 of 4 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
4 of 4 wells
Median depth
3,046 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
20.0 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
4100.0%
A plug date is filed
4100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
4100.0%
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 1,918 and 4,548 ft, median 3,046 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Apr 1980 – Feb 1983
4 of 4 wells
Plug dates filed
Oct 1995 – Aug 2002
4 of 4 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 20.0 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 17.9 years and 21.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-5033382321,924 ftFeb 1983Oct 2001Yes
42-5033442344,548 ftMay 1981Aug 2002Yes
42-5033436734,168 ftMay 1981Aug 2002Yes
42-5033373411,918 ftApr 1980Oct 1995Yes

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 (119)

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

119 months

Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 2002183027.443.64$5,022
Aug 2002014425.963.16$456
Jul 2002032124.583.06$983
Jun 2002335423.733.34$1,253
May 2002039924.663.58$1,430
Apr 2002036723.653.51$1,289
Mar 2002010622.003.10$329
Feb 2002020418.222.38$485
Jan 2002032517.172.38$772
Dec 2001033916.932.36$802
Nov 2001035518.072.41$854
Oct 2001037619.782.53$951
Sep 2001041724.262.25$939
Aug 2001151024.873.05$1,582
Jul 2001042823.933.20$1,368
Jun 2001036924.563.82$1,411
May 2001037025.524.31$1,594
Apr 2001038224.685.34$2,038
Mar 2001014324.545.38$769
Feb 2001012227.755.77$704
Jan 2001026327.478.40$2,209
Dec 2000030926.889.12$2,819
Nov 2000032332.215.66$1,828
Oct 2000039831.235.15$2,048
Sep 2000041231.875.19$2,137
Aug 2000044429.644.54$2,016
Jul 2000041428.534.09$1,693
Jun 2000039029.304.40$1,715
May 2000040627.263.68$1,494
Apr 2000053524.513.12$1,667
Mar 2000033828.422.86$967
Feb 200008527.622.73$232
Jan 2000033025.272.48$819
Dec 1999057324.282.42$1,389
Nov 1999065323.192.43$1,589
Oct 1999029120.982.80$816
Sep 1999077021.752.62$2,017
Aug 199901619.262.88$46
Jul 1999010117.892.37$240
Jun 1999014015.942.36$331
May 1999016215.792.32$376
Apr 1999023315.102.21$514
Mar 1999030712.471.84$564
Feb 19991722959.981.82$2,253
Jan 1999040810.381.90$775
Dec 199804459.201.77$789
Nov 1998044710.892.19$977
Oct 1998047912.421.97$943
Sep 1998052712.592.08$1,098
Aug 1998066411.301.91$1,266
Jul 1998081711.742.24$1,828
Jun 1998184011.242.24$1,891
May 1998279112.622.21$1,770
Apr 1998040013.042.51$1,002
Mar 1998041012.802.31$947
Feb 1998025213.952.30$579
Jan 1998022114.702.15$476
Dec 1997027316.322.41$658
Nov 1997027918.193.09$862
Oct 1997026919.253.15$847
Sep 1997028417.742.95$839
Aug 1997033117.862.55$846
Jul 1997034217.582.25$768
Jun 1997026917.242.26$607
May 1997027518.972.31$635
Apr 1997235617.882.08$777
Mar 1997030118.951.94$584
Feb 1997033420.492.21$737
Jan 1997041123.483.54$1,455
Dec 1996043623.32$0
Nov 1996038721.97$0
Oct 1996049923.31$0
Sep 1996039022.22$0
Aug 1996050720.26$0
Jul 1996044419.55$0
Jun 1996046018.73$0
May 1996059019.43$0
Apr 1996042621.51$0
Mar 1996045319.38$0
Feb 1996036216.98$0
Jan 1996036717.07$0
Dec 1995044717.19$0
Nov 1995059216.00$0
Oct 1995054815.43$0
Sep 1995031516.18$0
Aug 1995159715.92$16
Jul 1995022015.24$0
Jun 1995028716.41$0
May 1995044217.56$0
Apr 1995056917.73$0
Mar 1995064016.44$0
Feb 1995065916.58$0
Jan 199517069815.92$2,706
Dec 1994068415.03$0
Nov 1994066615.90$0
Oct 1994062215.58$0
Sep 1994062515.29$0
Aug 1994064116.13$0
Jul 1994063617.56$0
Jun 1994069817.09$0
May 1994059315.88$0
Apr 1994064814.14$0
Mar 1994071512.46$0
Feb 1994062912.50$0
Jan 1994062912.66$0
Dec 1993081012.33$0
Nov 1993066814.49$0
Oct 1993073215.85$0
Sep 1993079215.03$0
Aug 1993073415.66$0
Jul 1993074815.46$0
Jun 1993086416.79$0
May 1993071417.68$0
Apr 1993090918.05$0
Mar 1993075918.14$0
Feb 1993078017.90$0
Jan 1993079716.93$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.

Sep 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  183 bbl  × $ 27.44 =     $5,022
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.64 =         $0

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Month total                                   $5,022

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/20584 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.