GOODSON, B.F.

Operated by WESTERN CHIEF OIL & GAS COMPANY (P-5 911802) in the TJN (STRAWN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 23104District 09Field 87998800NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$155 k
Jan 1993 – May 2006
Value, last 12 filed months
$12 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
161
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 33 leases and 42 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1982-07-03
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: ALLOCATION FORMULA EFFECTIVE 03/01/87.

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
NGPA1none

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
OilDisposition978 bbl$24,916
Casinghead gasProduction80,114 Mcf$129,662
Total$154,578

40,557 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 (1)

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 33.1319, -98.2444. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.13189, -98.24441 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
5,072 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
26.5 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 5,072 ft.

Completions filed
Aug 1982
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 2009
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 26.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 26.5 years and 26.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2373453415,072 ftAug 1982Feb 2009Yes

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 (161)

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

161 months

May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 200698056.707.08$5,557
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 2005116055.697.84$6,460
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 200409434.365.53$520
Feb 2004027632.455.51$1,521
Jan 2004030232.036.30$1,902
Dec 2003031630.266.30$1,991
Nov 2003120428.804.60$966
Oct 2003038328.174.76$1,823
Sep 2003025326.314.75$1,202
Aug 2003038429.765.13$1,970
Jul 2003139429.415.17$2,067
Jun 2003031128.565.98$1,861
May 2003037726.595.97$2,252
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 2003022033.487.93$1,744
Jan 2003038130.315.58$2,127
Dec 2002044726.914.85$2,170
Nov 2002045924.664.14$1,899
Oct 2002035326.464.23$1,493
Sep 2002032827.443.64$1,192
Aug 2002030225.963.16$956
Jul 2002041224.583.06$1,261
Jun 2002040523.733.34$1,352
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 2002041523.653.51$1,458
Mar 2002043222.003.10$1,340
Feb 2002037918.222.38$900
Jan 2002043417.172.38$1,031
Dec 2001035116.932.36$830
Nov 2001043718.072.41$1,051
Oct 2001041119.782.53$1,039
Sep 2001029524.262.25$664
Aug 2001029524.873.05$901
Jul 2001034823.933.20$1,113
Jun 2001035824.563.82$1,369
May 2001033325.524.31$1,434
Apr 2001031024.685.34$1,654
Mar 2001023324.545.38$1,253
Feb 2001037927.755.77$2,186
Jan 2001044627.478.40$3,746
Dec 2000051626.889.12$4,707
Nov 2000050732.215.66$2,869
Oct 2000049331.235.15$2,537
Sep 2000035031.875.19$1,815
Aug 2000035229.644.54$1,598
Jul 2000024928.534.09$1,018
Jun 2000049729.304.40$2,185
May 2000049127.263.68$1,807
Apr 2000054524.513.12$1,698
Mar 2000052028.422.86$1,487
Feb 2000061827.622.73$1,685
Jan 2000064825.272.48$1,607
Dec 1999073924.282.42$1,791
Nov 1999073223.192.43$1,782
Oct 1999047220.982.80$1,323
Sep 1999062921.752.62$1,647
Aug 1999022619.262.88$650
Jul 1999048617.892.37$1,153
Jun 1999039015.942.36$921
May 1999031115.792.32$722
Apr 1999052115.102.21$1,150
Mar 1999064012.471.84$1,177
Feb 199904489.981.82$814
Jan 1999062210.381.90$1,182
Dec 199806329.201.77$1,121
Nov 1998056710.892.19$1,239
Oct 1998058612.421.97$1,154
Sep 1998050212.592.08$1,045
Aug 1998045911.301.91$875
Jul 1998041711.742.24$933
Jun 1998036511.242.24$817
May 1998052812.622.21$1,165
Apr 1998039513.042.51$990
Mar 1998046512.802.31$1,074
Feb 1998045013.952.30$1,035
Jan 1998040914.702.15$881
Dec 19979147116.322.41$2,621
Nov 1997066518.193.09$2,054
Oct 1997071719.253.15$2,258
Sep 1997073417.742.95$2,169
Aug 1997082717.862.55$2,113
Jul 1997087317.582.25$1,962
Jun 1997083817.242.26$1,892
May 1997087718.972.31$2,025
Apr 1997081817.882.08$1,704
Mar 1997085918.951.94$1,666
Feb 1997072520.492.21$1,599
Jan 1997091923.483.54$3,253
Dec 1996086223.32$0
Nov 1996063821.97$0
Oct 199601,01023.31$0
Sep 1996034922.22$0
Aug 199611449320.26$2,310
Jul 1996067719.55$0
Jun 1996047318.73$0
May 1996060519.43$0
Apr 1996068321.51$0
Mar 1996062719.38$0
Feb 1996063216.98$0
Jan 199601,06417.07$0
Dec 199501,42717.19$0
Nov 1995075416.00$0
Oct 199501,00715.43$0
Sep 1995082916.18$0
Aug 199511697815.92$1,847
Jul 199501,13415.24$0
Jun 199501,17016.41$0
May 199501,14717.56$0
Apr 199501,03217.73$0
Mar 1995011116.44$0
Feb 1995093416.58$0
Jan 1995056315.92$0
Dec 1994071015.03$0
Nov 1994096515.90$0
Oct 1994089515.58$0
Sep 1994082215.29$0
Aug 1994093016.13$0
Jul 199401,22117.56$0
Jun 19941501,18917.09$2,564
May 199401,11415.88$0
Apr 19942047814.14$283
Mar 1994047112.46$0
Feb 19942848912.50$350
Jan 19942093912.66$253
Dec 1993093912.33$0
Nov 1993085114.49$0
Oct 19931292715.85$190
Sep 19931298515.03$180
Aug 199301,16415.66$0
Jul 19932089115.46$309
Jun 199301,13916.79$0
May 199301,20617.68$0
Apr 1993097218.05$0
Mar 19933399618.14$599
Feb 1993055017.90$0
Jan 199314651516.93$2,472

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.

Mar 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   98 bbl  × $ 56.70 =     $5,557
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  7.08 =         $0

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Month total                                   $5,557

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/23104 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.