SALMON "D"

Operated by BRIDWELL OIL CO. (P-5 92480) in the MONTAGUE COUNTY REGULAR field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 21908District 09Field 62528001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$283 k
Jan 1993 – Apr 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$10 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
112
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 449 leases and 3,040 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1939-12-31
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
OilDisposition15,933 bbl$282,789
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$282,789

21 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 (6)

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 33.9180, -97.6926. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

33.91853, -97.69267 · 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%
6 of 6 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
6 of 6 wells
Median depth
950 ft
6 wells filed one
Completion to plug
19.6 years
median over 6 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
6100.0%
A plug date is filed
6100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
6100.0%
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 938 and 2,483 ft, median 950 ft, over the 6 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Dec 1976 – Nov 1982
6 of 6 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2002
6 of 6 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 19.6 years across the 6 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 19.4 years and 20.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

6 wells

42-337319935965 ftNov 1982Mar 2002Yes
42-337319834950 ftOct 1982Mar 2002Yes
42-337319703940 ftSep 1982Mar 2002Yes
42-337319192950 ftJul 1982Mar 2002Yes
42-3373178312,483 ftJan 1982Mar 2002Yes
42-337305461D938 ftDec 1976Mar 2002Yes

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 (112)

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

112 months

Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 200214018.222.38$255
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 200149019.782.53$969
Sep 2001127024.262.25$3,081
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 2001121023.933.20$2,896
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 2001122025.524.31$3,113
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 2001129024.545.38$3,166
Feb 2001132027.755.77$3,663
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 200070026.889.12$1,882
Nov 2000131032.215.66$4,220
Oct 2000130031.235.15$4,060
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 2000132029.644.54$3,912
Jul 2000130028.534.09$3,709
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 2000130027.263.68$3,544
Apr 2000130024.513.12$3,186
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 2000131027.622.73$3,618
Jan 2000130025.272.48$3,285
Dec 1999134024.282.42$3,254
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 1999132020.982.80$2,769
Sep 1999133021.752.62$2,893
Aug 1999129019.262.88$2,485
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 1999133015.942.36$2,120
May 1999131015.792.32$2,068
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 1999134012.471.84$1,671
Feb 199913109.981.82$1,307
Jan 1999265010.381.90$2,751
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 1998132010.892.19$1,437
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 1998133012.592.08$1,674
Aug 1998133011.301.91$1,503
Jul 1998193011.742.24$2,266
Jun 1998130011.242.24$1,461
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 1998133013.042.51$1,734
Mar 1998132012.802.31$1,690
Feb 1998132013.952.30$1,841
Jan 1998130014.702.15$1,911
Dec 1997261016.322.41$4,260
Nov 1997133018.193.09$2,419
Oct 1997130019.253.15$2,503
Sep 1997131017.742.95$2,324
Aug 1997128017.862.55$2,286
Jul 1997128017.582.25$2,250
Jun 1997130017.242.26$2,241
May 1997131018.972.31$2,485
Apr 1997131017.882.08$2,342
Mar 1997128018.951.94$2,426
Feb 1997130020.492.21$2,664
Jan 1997263023.483.54$6,175
Dec 1996129023.32$3,008
Nov 1996131021.97$2,878
Oct 1996128023.31$2,984
Sep 1996256022.22$5,688
Aug 1996130020.26$2,634
Jul 1996131019.55$2,561
Jun 1996255018.73$4,776
May 1996127019.43$2,468
Apr 1996130021.51$2,796
Mar 1996274019.38$5,310
Feb 1996134016.98$2,275
Jan 1996267017.07$4,558
Dec 1995130017.19$2,235
Nov 1995124016.00$1,984
Oct 1995258015.43$3,981
Sep 1995130016.18$2,103
Aug 1995295015.92$4,696
Jul 1995192015.24$2,926
Jun 1995130016.41$2,133
May 1995266017.56$4,671
Apr 1995133017.73$2,358
Mar 1995300016.44$4,932
Feb 1995134016.58$2,222
Jan 1995260015.92$4,139
Dec 1994130015.03$1,954
Nov 1994260015.90$4,134
Oct 1994127015.58$1,979
Sep 1994307115.29$4,694
Aug 1994129116.13$2,081
Jul 1994295117.56$5,180
Jun 1994260117.09$4,443
May 1994128115.88$2,033
Apr 1994262114.14$3,705
Mar 1994174112.46$2,168
Feb 1994296112.50$3,700
Jan 1994127112.66$1,608
Dec 1993288112.33$3,551
Nov 1993182114.49$2,637
Oct 1993244115.85$3,867
Sep 1993226115.03$3,397
Aug 1993226115.66$3,539
Jul 1993260115.46$4,020
Jun 1993273116.79$4,584
May 1993254117.68$4,491
Apr 1993174118.05$3,141
Mar 1993296118.14$5,369
Feb 1993187117.90$3,347
Jan 1993182116.93$3,081

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.

Feb 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   14 bbl  × $ 18.22 =       $255
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.38 =         $0

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Month total                                     $255

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/21908 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.