SOLOMON RANCH

Operated by MOUNTAIN CREEK OIL COMPANY, INC. (P-5 592053) in the GEURIN (STRAWN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 25965District 09Field 34608100OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$189 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$7 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
118
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 4 leases and 15 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1986-01-26
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
OilDisposition9,992 bbl$189,489
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$189,489

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 33.7516, -97.4214. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.75165, -97.42142 · 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
2,000 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
15.5 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 1,999 and 2,000 ft, median 2,000 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jan 1986 – Jan 1988
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 2002
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.5 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.0 years and 16.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-0973292031,999 ftJan 1988Jul 2002Yes
42-0973281812,000 ftJan 1986Jul 2002Yes

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 (118)

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

118 months

Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 200256024.583.06$1,376
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 2002167018.222.38$3,043
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 2001164018.072.41$2,963
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 2001166024.873.05$4,128
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 2001165024.563.82$4,052
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 2001169024.545.38$4,147
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 2001160027.478.40$4,395
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 2000170032.215.66$5,476
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 2000166029.644.54$4,920
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 2000164029.304.40$4,805
May 2000168027.263.68$4,580
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 2000169028.422.86$4,803
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 2000164025.272.48$4,144
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 1999163023.192.43$3,780
Oct 1999168020.982.80$3,525
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 1999113019.262.88$2,176
Jul 1999126017.892.37$2,254
Jun 1999131015.942.36$2,088
May 1999165015.792.32$2,605
Apr 1999170015.102.21$2,567
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 199916509.981.82$1,647
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 19988809.201.77$810
Nov 1998119010.892.19$1,296
Oct 1998125012.421.97$1,553
Sep 199864012.592.08$806
Aug 199893011.301.91$1,051
Jul 1998110011.742.24$1,291
Jun 1998162011.242.24$1,821
May 1998102012.622.21$1,287
Apr 1998167013.042.51$2,178
Mar 1998167012.802.31$2,138
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 199879014.702.15$1,161
Dec 1997139016.322.41$2,268
Nov 1997141018.193.09$2,565
Oct 1997153019.253.15$2,945
Sep 1997160017.742.95$2,838
Aug 1997159017.862.55$2,840
Jul 1997157017.582.25$2,760
Jun 1997146017.242.26$2,517
May 1997130018.972.31$2,466
Apr 1997158017.882.08$2,825
Mar 1997125018.951.94$2,369
Feb 1997147020.492.21$3,012
Jan 1997133023.483.54$3,123
Dec 1996143023.32$3,335
Nov 1996136021.97$2,988
Oct 1996227023.31$5,291
Sep 1996159022.22$3,533
Aug 1996236020.26$4,781
Jul 1996208019.55$4,066
Jun 1996246018.73$4,608
May 1996302019.43$5,868
Apr 1996155021.51$3,334
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 199531016.18$502
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 199536016.41$591
May 199533017.56$579
Apr 199544017.73$780
Mar 199562016.44$1,019
Feb 199556016.58$928
Jan 199569015.92$1,098
Dec 199449015.03$736
Nov 199467015.90$1,065
Oct 199469015.58$1,075
Sep 199465115.29$994
Aug 199474116.13$1,194
Jul 199453117.56$931
Jun 199465117.09$1,111
May 199466115.88$1,048
Apr 199470114.14$990
Mar 1994123112.46$1,533
Feb 1994132112.50$1,650
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 199359114.49$855
Oct 1993136115.85$2,156
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 199326115.66$407
Jul 199368115.46$1,051
Jun 199363116.79$1,058
May 199367117.68$1,185
Apr 199373118.05$1,318
Mar 199368118.14$1,234
Feb 1993107117.90$1,915
Jan 199376116.93$1,287

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 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   56 bbl  × $ 24.58 =     $1,376
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.06 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,376

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/25965 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.