FIELDS, H. D.

Operated by OSBORN,W.B. OIL & GAS OPERATIONS (P-5 627829) in the ELM FORK (CONGL.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 25497District 09Field 28595400OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$700 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2006
Value, last 12 filed months
$16 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
164
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 1 leases and 1 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1985-07-21
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1989-07-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: TEMPORARY FLD RULES MADE PERMANENT PER DKT#9-97093 EFF. 2/11/92.

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
OilDisposition26,850 bbl$700,029
Casinghead gasProduction446 Mcf$0
Total$700,029

446 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 36 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 33.6510, -97.5101. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.65105, -97.51015 · 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
9,450 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
20.7 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 9,450 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 1985
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2006
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 20.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 20.7 years and 20.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3373252219,450 ftJul 1985Mar 2006Yes

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 (164)

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

164 months

Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 200688066.016.42$5,809
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 2005169058.3413.80$9,859
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 2005167061.519.80$10,272
Jul 2005173055.697.84$9,634
Jun 2005169052.337.38$8,844
May 2005176045.226.65$7,959
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 2005171050.377.15$8,613
Feb 2005349045.226.31$15,782
Jan 2005171043.166.32$7,380
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 2004172045.286.33$7,788
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 2004171043.245.28$7,394
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 2004167038.286.08$6,393
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 2004172037.486.49$6,447
Apr 2004163034.475.86$5,619
Mar 2004507034.365.53$17,421
Feb 2004173032.455.51$5,614
Jan 2004171032.036.30$5,477
Dec 2003340030.266.30$10,288
Nov 2003470028.804.60$13,536
Oct 2003510028.174.76$14,367
Sep 2003173026.314.75$4,552
Aug 2003513029.765.13$15,267
Jul 2003338029.415.17$9,941
Jun 2003344028.565.98$9,825
May 2003353026.595.97$9,386
Apr 2003336026.675.41$8,961
Mar 2003178031.146.10$5,543
Feb 2003532033.487.93$17,811
Jan 2003340030.315.58$10,305
Dec 2002348026.914.85$9,365
Nov 2002516024.664.14$12,725
Oct 2002168026.464.23$4,445
Sep 2002360027.443.64$9,878
Aug 2002355025.963.16$9,216
Jul 2002522024.583.06$12,831
Jun 2002171023.733.34$4,058
May 2002337024.663.58$8,310
Apr 2002343023.653.51$8,112
Mar 2002513022.003.10$11,286
Feb 2002336018.222.38$6,122
Jan 2002174017.172.38$2,988
Dec 2001345016.932.36$5,841
Nov 2001175018.072.41$3,162
Oct 2001346019.782.53$6,844
Sep 2001174024.262.25$4,221
Aug 2001343024.873.05$8,530
Jul 2001171023.933.20$4,092
Jun 2001173024.563.82$4,249
May 2001359025.524.31$9,162
Apr 2001176024.685.34$4,344
Mar 2001179024.545.38$4,393
Feb 2001356027.755.77$9,879
Jan 2001180027.478.40$4,945
Dec 2000178026.889.12$4,785
Nov 2000356032.215.66$11,467
Oct 2000519031.235.15$16,208
Sep 2000350031.875.19$11,155
Aug 2000528029.644.54$15,650
Jul 2000350028.534.09$9,986
Jun 2000519029.304.40$15,207
May 2000517027.263.68$14,093
Apr 2000354024.513.12$8,677
Mar 2000344028.422.86$9,776
Feb 2000353027.622.73$9,750
Jan 2000180025.272.48$4,549
Dec 1999176024.282.42$4,273
Nov 1999152023.192.43$3,525
Oct 1999348020.982.80$7,301
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 1999177019.262.88$3,409
Jul 1999177017.892.37$3,167
Jun 1999176015.942.36$2,805
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 1999178015.102.21$2,688
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 1999174010.381.90$1,806
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 1998159012.421.97$1,975
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 1998175011.742.24$2,055
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 1998186013.952.30$2,595
Jan 1998185014.702.15$2,720
Dec 1997210016.322.41$3,427
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 199769017.882.08$1,234
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 1996182021.97$3,999
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 1996149019.55$2,913
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 1996134019.43$2,604
Apr 1996179021.51$3,850
Mar 199628019.38$543
Feb 1996109016.98$1,851
Jan 199696117.07$1,639
Dec 19950117.19$0
Nov 1995173116.00$2,768
Oct 1995176115.43$2,716
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 199593115.92$1,481
Jul 199554115.24$823
Jun 1995132116.41$2,166
May 1995182117.56$3,196
Apr 1995170117.73$3,014
Mar 19950116.44$0
Feb 1995178116.58$2,951
Jan 1995170115.92$2,706
Dec 19940115.03$0
Nov 1994180115.90$2,862
Oct 19940115.58$0
Sep 1994144115.29$2,202
Aug 1994123116.13$1,984
Jul 1994134117.56$2,353
Jun 1994164117.09$2,803
May 1994173115.88$2,747
Apr 1994172114.14$2,432
Mar 1994179112.46$2,230
Feb 1994182112.50$2,275
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 1993179112.33$2,207
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 1993180115.85$2,853
Sep 1993181115.03$2,720
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 1993177115.46$2,736
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 19930117.68$0
Apr 1993156118.05$2,816
Mar 199317921418.14$3,247
Feb 1993013817.90$0
Jan 19931766116.93$2,980

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.

May 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   88 bbl  × $ 66.01 =     $5,809
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.42 =         $0

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Month total                                   $5,809

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/25497 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.