MITCHELL, J. W. ET AL

Operated by O'NEAL OIL COMPANY (P-5 623160) in the SHIRLEY CAROL (STRAWN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 23879District 09Field 83388500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$310 k
Jan 1993 – Sep 2006
Value, last 12 filed months
$347
at the published price for each month
Months reported
165
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 leases and 3 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1983-11-28
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
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
OilDisposition16,074 bbl$309,511
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$309,511

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 (2)

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 33.7921, -97.8304. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

33.79205, -97.83037 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
4,920 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
13.7 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
2100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2100.0%
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 4,410 and 5,430 ft, median 4,920 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
May 1984 – Feb 2015
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Oct 2003 – Dec 2022
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.7 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 10.8 years and 16.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-3373222815,430 ftFeb 2015Dec 2022Yes
42-3373234834,410 ftMay 1984Oct 2003Yes

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 (165)

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

165 months

Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20065069.376.34$347
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
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 20050055.697.84$0
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 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 2003171026.595.97$4,547
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 2003175031.146.10$5,450
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 2003174030.315.58$5,274
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 2002172024.664.14$4,242
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 2002179027.443.64$4,912
Aug 2002172025.963.16$4,465
Jul 2002170024.583.06$4,179
Jun 2002164023.733.34$3,892
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 2002170023.653.51$4,021
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 2002180018.222.38$3,280
Jan 2002174017.172.38$2,988
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 2001164018.072.41$2,963
Oct 2001175019.782.53$3,462
Sep 2001174024.262.25$4,221
Aug 2001164024.873.05$4,079
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 2001163024.563.82$4,003
May 2001174025.524.31$4,440
Apr 2001171024.685.34$4,220
Mar 2001171024.545.38$4,196
Feb 2001182027.755.77$5,051
Jan 2001173027.478.40$4,752
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 2000186032.215.66$5,991
Oct 2000183031.235.15$5,715
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 2000183029.644.54$5,424
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 2000183029.304.40$5,362
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 2000173028.422.86$4,917
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 2000179025.272.48$4,523
Dec 1999176024.282.42$4,273
Nov 1999184023.192.43$4,267
Oct 1999180020.982.80$3,776
Sep 1999178021.752.62$3,872
Aug 1999180019.262.88$3,467
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 199818009.201.77$1,656
Nov 1998187010.892.19$2,036
Oct 1998183012.421.97$2,273
Sep 1998181012.592.08$2,279
Aug 1998183011.301.91$2,068
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 1998176011.242.24$1,978
May 1998172012.622.21$2,171
Apr 1998172013.042.51$2,243
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 1998173013.952.30$2,413
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 1997182016.322.41$2,970
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 1997180019.253.15$3,465
Sep 1997180017.742.95$3,193
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 1997178017.582.25$3,129
Jun 1997180017.242.26$3,103
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 1997181018.951.94$3,430
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 1997179023.483.54$4,203
Dec 1996183023.32$4,268
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 1996184023.31$4,289
Sep 1996180022.22$4,000
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 1996180019.55$3,519
Jun 1996179018.73$3,353
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 1996179021.51$3,850
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 1996187016.98$3,175
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 1995182017.19$3,129
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 1995183015.43$2,824
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 1995180015.92$2,866
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 1995129016.41$2,117
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 1995185017.73$3,280
Mar 1995173016.44$2,844
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 1995183015.92$2,913
Dec 1994181015.03$2,720
Nov 1994378015.90$6,010
Oct 1994194015.58$3,023
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 1994178116.13$2,871
Jul 1994173117.56$3,038
Jun 1994180117.09$3,076
May 1994182115.88$2,890
Apr 1994173114.14$2,446
Mar 1994352112.46$4,386
Feb 1994170112.50$2,125
Jan 1994163112.66$2,064
Dec 1993169112.33$2,084
Nov 1993347114.49$5,028
Oct 1993182115.85$2,885
Sep 1993185115.03$2,781
Aug 1993181115.66$2,834
Jul 1993352115.46$5,442
Jun 1993169116.79$2,838
May 1993171117.68$3,023
Apr 1993166118.05$2,996
Mar 1993350118.14$6,349
Feb 1993164117.90$2,936
Jan 1993358116.93$6,061

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 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    5 bbl  × $ 69.37 =       $347
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.34 =         $0

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Month total                                     $347

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/23879 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.