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Operated by ECHO PRODUCTION, INC. (P-5 240125) in the WILEY (MISS.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 26697District 09Field 97390590Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$158 k
Jan 1993 – May 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$3 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
53
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 15 leases and 16 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1985-10-19
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 register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: FIELD EXEMPT EFFECTIVE 9/1/2000

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
OilDisposition10,063 bbl$158,133
Casinghead gasProduction9,854 Mcf$0
Total$158,133

9,854 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 35 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 32.9942, -98.5890. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.99419, -98.58902 · 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
4,297 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
9.1 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 4,297 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 1987
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 1996
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 9.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.1 years and 9.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-5033950514,297 ftJun 1987Jul 1996Yes

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 (53)

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

53 months

May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 1996135019.55$2,639
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19961019.38$19
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 1996032817.07$0
Dec 1995010317.19$0
Nov 199518414416.00$2,944
Oct 1995048715.43$0
Sep 199518051816.18$2,912
Aug 199515678315.92$2,484
Jul 1995043115.24$0
Jun 199518171716.41$2,970
May 19953381,10217.56$5,935
Apr 199518572517.73$3,280
Mar 199516164816.44$2,647
Feb 199528156616.58$4,659
Jan 199536550515.92$5,811
Dec 199437125115.03$5,576
Nov 1994365015.90$5,804
Oct 1994330015.58$5,141
Sep 1994361115.29$5,520
Aug 1994349116.13$5,629
Jul 1994361117.56$6,339
Jun 1994294117.09$5,024
May 1994467115.88$7,416
Apr 1994329114.14$4,652
Mar 1994541112.46$6,741
Feb 1994359112.50$4,488
Jan 19941792112.66$2,266
Dec 199349229412.33$6,066
Nov 199335623514.49$5,158
Oct 199352022115.85$8,242
Sep 199317426215.03$2,615
Aug 199333414215.66$5,230
Jul 199317721015.46$2,736
Jun 199317016816.79$2,854
May 199329421617.68$5,198
Apr 199336120718.05$6,516
Mar 199318116218.14$3,283
Feb 199335620517.90$6,372
Jan 199317519516.93$2,963

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 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  135 bbl  × $ 19.55 =     $2,639
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $2,639

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/26697 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.