STARNES, N.H.

Operated by LINDEMANN, W.L., OPER. CO., INC. (P-5 501080) in the TALLY (CONGL.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 22166District 09Field 88221300NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$14 k
Jan 1993 – Feb 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$12 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
50
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 32 leases and 53 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1982-01-09
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: DAILY GAS LIMIT OF 1000 MCF/WELL

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
OilDisposition648 bbl$14,085
Casinghead gasProduction20,690 Mcf$0
Total$14,085

20,690 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 33.5594, -98.2825. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.6 miles.

33.56041, -98.28349 · 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
6,085 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
8.9 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 5,841 and 6,350 ft, median 6,085 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Apr 1982 – Oct 1986
4 of 4 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 1989 – Dec 1996
4 of 4 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 8.9 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.7 years and 11.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-0773274746,350 ftOct 1986Feb 1991Yes
42-0773268836,320 ftAug 1986Dec 1996Yes
42-0773251025,841 ftJun 1982Nov 1989Yes
42-0773250915,850 ftApr 1982Dec 1996Yes

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 (50)

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

50 months

Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 199627014523.32$6,296
Nov 19969224921.97$2,021
Oct 199615628323.31$3,636
Sep 1996024522.22$0
Aug 1996025320.26$0
Jul 1996013319.55$0
Jun 1996017618.73$0
May 1996043619.43$0
Apr 1996041221.51$0
Mar 1996043519.38$0
Feb 1996043416.98$0
Jan 1996047517.07$0
Dec 1995044517.19$0
Nov 1995038616.00$0
Oct 1995041215.43$0
Sep 1995041816.18$0
Aug 1995041315.92$0
Jul 1995038915.24$0
Jun 1995038016.41$0
May 1995042217.56$0
Apr 1995038717.73$0
Mar 1995034216.44$0
Feb 19955337416.58$879
Jan 1995050015.92$0
Dec 1994050115.03$0
Nov 1994042815.90$0
Oct 1994041315.58$0
Sep 1994058615.29$0
Aug 1994055816.13$0
Jul 1994768417.56$123
Jun 1994062217.09$0
May 1994054715.88$0
Apr 1994055614.14$0
Mar 1994056112.46$0
Feb 1994033612.50$0
Jan 1994042212.66$0
Dec 1993045012.33$0
Nov 19933444914.49$493
Oct 1993050315.85$0
Sep 1993051315.03$0
Aug 1993049815.66$0
Jul 1993050215.46$0
Jun 1993049816.79$0
May 19933650017.68$636
Apr 1993050418.05$0
Mar 1993046018.14$0
Feb 1993053217.90$0
Jan 1993052316.93$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.

Dec 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  270 bbl  × $ 23.32 =     $6,296
Casinghead gas       145 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $6,296

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/22166 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.