EVANS "74"

Operated by ENSERCH EXPLORATION, INC (P-5 253210) in the TURKEY (MISSISSIPPIAN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 27866District 09Field 91829500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.5 M
Jan 1993 – Feb 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$5 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
62
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 4 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1981-03-18
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres.

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
OilDisposition94,186 bbl$1,536,604
Casinghead gasProduction59,523 Mcf$0
Total$1,536,604

59,523 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 34.3561, -99.6400. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

34.35612, -99.63996 · 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
8,640 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
7.2 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 8,640 ft.

Completions filed
Nov 1990
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 1998
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 7.2 years and 7.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-1973115028,640 ftNov 1990Jan 1998Yes

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 (62)

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

62 months

Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 1997267019.253.15$5,140
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 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 199601523.32$0
Nov 1996016521.97$0
Oct 199664626823.31$15,058
Sep 1996022022.22$0
Aug 199663762120.26$12,906
Jul 1996024119.55$0
Jun 199633233318.73$6,218
May 199632840119.43$6,373
Apr 199634142921.51$7,335
Mar 199661176119.38$11,841
Feb 199698585516.98$16,725
Jan 199666676617.07$11,369
Dec 19951,03022717.19$17,706
Nov 199595893416.00$15,328
Oct 19959981,02415.43$15,399
Sep 19951,0501,02016.18$16,989
Aug 199568473515.92$10,889
Jul 19951,04096915.24$15,850
Jun 19951,00666116.41$16,508
May 19951,3731,09017.56$24,110
Apr 19951,68889517.73$29,928
Mar 199597385716.44$15,996
Feb 199599575316.58$16,497
Jan 19951,03658015.92$16,493
Dec 19941,7591,11215.03$26,438
Nov 19941,4171,11715.90$22,530
Oct 19941,7761,25615.58$27,670
Sep 19941,7971,26815.29$27,476
Aug 19941,4221,14316.13$22,937
Jul 19941,7421,10817.56$30,590
Jun 19942,0111,18517.09$34,368
May 19941,7751,25015.88$28,187
Apr 19942,0191,27314.14$28,549
Mar 19942,6071,49012.46$32,483
Feb 19941,90994312.50$23,863
Jan 19942,3771,51112.66$30,093
Dec 19933,0111,45012.33$37,126
Nov 19932,7261,91114.49$39,500
Oct 19933,2562,06515.85$51,608
Sep 19933,2782,06115.03$49,268
Aug 19933,2352,41715.66$50,660
Jul 19933,8262,03615.46$59,150
Jun 19934,2432,82216.79$71,240
May 19935,6203,30917.68$99,362
Apr 19936,3703,32618.05$114,979
Mar 19936,1962,72018.14$112,395
Feb 19935,6062,72717.90$100,347
Jan 19936,5643,20316.93$111,129

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.

Oct 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  267 bbl  × $ 19.25 =     $5,140
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.15 =         $0

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Month total                                   $5,140

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/27866 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.