WILSON, T. B. ESTATE

Operated by SMITH PIPE OF ABILENE (P-5 794745) in the ARCHER COUNTY REGULAR field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 23871District 09Field 03446001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$58 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 1995
Value, last 12 filed months
$13 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
34
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 2,166 leases and 11,249 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1911-12-31
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
OilDisposition3,672 bbl$58,210
Casinghead gasProduction3,240 Mcf$0
Total$58,210

3,240 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 30 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 (5)

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 33.5849, -98.6573. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.1 miles.

33.58421, -98.65555 · 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%
5 of 5 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
5 of 5 wells
Median depth
5,238 ft
5 wells filed one
Completion to plug
11.7 years
median over 5 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
5100.0%
A plug date is filed
5100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
5100.0%
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 1,343 and 5,400 ft, median 5,238 ft, over the 5 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Nov 1983 – Oct 1984
5 of 5 wells
Plug dates filed
Aug 1995 – Sep 1995
5 of 5 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 11.7 years across the 5 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 11.4 years and 11.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

5 wells

42-0093776055,240 ftOct 1984Aug 1995Yes
42-0093775945,218 ftMar 1984Aug 1995Yes
42-0093804491,343 ftDec 1983Aug 1995Yes
42-0093776675,400 ftDec 1983Sep 1995Yes
42-009377676 U5,238 ftNov 1983Sep 1995Yes

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 (34)

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

34 months

Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 199560015.24$914
Jun 1995753716.41$1,231
May 1995693717.56$1,212
Apr 1995732217.73$1,294
Mar 19951183316.44$1,940
Feb 1995942216.58$1,559
Jan 1995785015.92$1,242
Dec 19941077415.03$1,608
Nov 199410714215.90$1,701
Oct 19941242715.58$1,932
Sep 199411810715.29$1,804
Aug 19949110316.13$1,468
Jul 199412810717.56$2,248
Jun 19947310317.09$1,248
May 199411013015.88$1,747
Apr 199412310314.14$1,739
Mar 19949211912.46$1,146
Feb 199413611012.50$1,700
Jan 199414512312.66$1,836
Dec 199310613512.33$1,307
Nov 199314912814.49$2,159
Oct 199312215015.85$1,934
Sep 199310911115.03$1,638
Aug 199313714015.66$2,145
Jul 199317814415.46$2,752
Jun 199313915916.79$2,334
May 199320016317.68$3,536
Apr 199312115118.05$2,184
Mar 199319616318.14$3,555
Feb 199312416817.90$2,220
Jan 199317017916.93$2,878

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.

Jul 1995 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   60 bbl  × $ 15.24 =       $914
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                     $914

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/23871 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.