JUDD, ROY

Operated by JOHNSON & ERNST OPERATING CO. (P-5 436155) in the WILBARGER COUNTY REGULAR field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 20596District 09Field 97331001NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$14 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
61
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 583 leases and 3,789 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1915-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: THAN 5000FT BR ASSIGNED TO THIS FIELD

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA4none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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
OilDisposition864 bbl$14,101
Casinghead gasProduction2,780 Mcf$0
Total$14,101

2,780 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 32 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 34.0967, -99.1948. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

34.09678, -99.19414 · 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
6,785 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
15.2 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 6,702 and 6,850 ft, median 6,785 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Nov 1980 – Jul 1983
4 of 4 wells
Plug dates filed
May 1996 – Dec 1997
4 of 4 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.2 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.4 years and 15.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-4873160646,819 ftJul 1983Jul 1996Yes
42-4873144436,702 ftMay 1982Oct 1997Yes
42-4873142126,750 ftJun 1981May 1996Yes
42-4873131316,850 ftNov 1980Dec 1997Yes

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 (61)

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

61 months

Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 199664018.73$1,199
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19951431715.92$2,277
Jul 1995022515.24$0
Jun 1995025816.41$0
May 199517729017.56$3,108
Apr 1995041817.73$0
Mar 199504816.44$0
Feb 19950816.58$0
Jan 199501015.92$0
Dec 199403815.03$0
Nov 199404515.90$0
Oct 199402215.58$0
Sep 199402715.29$0
Aug 199403316.13$0
Jul 199401917.56$0
Jun 199406317.09$0
May 199403715.88$0
Apr 199405514.14$0
Mar 199405812.46$0
Feb 199405312.50$0
Jan 19941329212.66$1,671
Dec 1993213412.33$25
Nov 199303514.49$0
Oct 1993029115.85$0
Sep 1993021015.03$0
Aug 199317328715.66$2,709
Jul 19930115.46$0
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 19930117.68$0
Apr 19930118.05$0
Mar 199366118.14$1,197
Feb 1993107117.90$1,915
Jan 19930116.93$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 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   64 bbl  × $ 18.73 =     $1,199
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $1,199

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/20596 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.