GRAY/JONES

Operated by WELLS OILFIELD SERVICES, INC. (P-5 907973) in the A. O. O. (CONGL) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 20606District 09Field 00157100OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$58 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
116
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 11 leases and 15 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1980-07-14
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

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: THIS FIELD IS UNDER COUNTY REGULAR RULES.

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
OilDisposition818 bbl$12,915
Casinghead gasProduction23,834 Mcf$44,829
Total$57,745

10,190 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 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 33.0204, -98.5198. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

33.01955, -98.51954 · 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
4,560 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
14.2 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 4,550 and 4,560 ft, median 4,560 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Feb 1981 – Jan 2002
3 of 3 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 1995 – Apr 2004
3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.2 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.3 years and 15.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-503339061 C4,560 ftJan 2002Apr 2004Yes
42-5038464244,550 ftJul 1981Sep 1995Yes
42-5030055324,560 ftFeb 1981Mar 1998Yes

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 (116)

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

116 months

Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 2002128017.172.38$2,198
Dec 2001024216.932.36$572
Nov 2001020618.072.41$496
Oct 2001024619.782.53$622
Sep 200109024.262.25$203
Aug 2001021224.873.05$647
Jul 2001027523.933.20$879
Jun 2001023024.563.82$880
May 2001029325.524.31$1,262
Apr 2001029224.685.34$1,558
Mar 2001030524.545.38$1,640
Feb 2001028727.755.77$1,655
Jan 2001032627.478.40$2,738
Dec 2000032326.889.12$2,947
Nov 2000031832.215.66$1,799
Oct 2000036431.235.15$1,873
Sep 2000038431.875.19$1,992
Aug 2000051729.644.54$2,348
Jul 2000045328.534.09$1,853
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
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 1999019717.892.37$467
Jun 1999030915.942.36$730
May 1999029615.792.32$687
Apr 199905015.102.21$110
Mar 1999018912.471.84$347
Feb 199902889.981.82$524
Jan 1999031310.381.90$595
Dec 199802719.201.77$481
Nov 1998031910.892.19$697
Oct 1998028212.421.97$555
Sep 1998029612.592.08$616
Aug 1998045411.301.91$866
Jul 1998021611.742.24$483
Jun 1998012211.242.24$273
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 1998015813.042.51$396
Mar 1998042112.802.31$972
Feb 1998033413.952.30$768
Jan 1998041614.702.15$896
Dec 1997033316.322.41$803
Nov 1997045118.193.09$1,393
Oct 199701319.253.15$41
Sep 19970317.742.95$9
Aug 199703417.862.55$87
Jul 1997039317.582.25$883
Jun 1997032017.242.26$722
May 1997034418.972.31$794
Apr 1997041517.882.08$864
Mar 1997031218.951.94$605
Feb 1997029220.492.21$644
Jan 1997044023.483.54$1,557
Dec 1996028923.32$0
Nov 1996036621.97$0
Oct 1996042423.31$0
Sep 1996039622.22$0
Aug 1996051420.26$0
Jul 1996028119.55$0
Jun 1996029518.73$0
May 1996025919.43$0
Apr 1996012921.51$0
Mar 1996034419.38$0
Feb 1996037016.98$0
Jan 1996043017.07$0
Dec 1995025117.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 199503915.43$0
Sep 1995010016.18$0
Aug 1995011015.92$0
Jul 1995011115.24$0
Jun 1995014216.41$0
May 1995015617.56$0
Apr 1995016317.73$0
Mar 19954115116.44$674
Feb 1995014116.58$0
Jan 19954512815.92$716
Dec 19944020215.03$601
Nov 1994018215.90$0
Oct 1994015915.58$0
Sep 19944317115.29$657
Aug 1994017716.13$0
Jul 19945316617.56$931
Jun 1994019917.09$0
May 19943718015.88$588
Apr 19946018614.14$848
Mar 1994021312.46$0
Feb 19943914812.50$488
Jan 19945114212.66$646
Dec 19935930612.33$727
Nov 1993017714.49$0
Oct 1993019315.85$0
Sep 1993019615.03$0
Aug 1993022515.66$0
Jul 1993024515.46$0
Jun 19937226416.79$1,209
May 1993016917.68$0
Apr 19938318418.05$1,498
Mar 1993017618.14$0
Feb 1993012917.90$0
Jan 19936721216.93$1,134

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.

Jan 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  128 bbl  × $ 17.17 =     $2,198
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.38 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,198

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/20606 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.