BLAIR, MARY "A"

Operated by MITCHELL ENERGY CORPORATION (P-5 570655) in the WOLFE (STRAWN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 28201District 09Field 98415750OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$121 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$9 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
63
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 5 leases and 15 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1950-07-12
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
660 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 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
OilDisposition7,334 bbl$121,187
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$121,187

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 (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 33.2410, -98.3728. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.24102, -98.37276 · 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
5,779 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
6.3 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 5,779 ft.

Completions filed
Oct 1991
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 1998
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 6.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.3 years and 6.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2373782815,779 ftOct 1991Jan 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 (63)

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

63 months

Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 1997166016.322.41$2,709
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 1997169017.862.55$3,018
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19976017.242.26$103
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 1997171017.882.08$3,057
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 1997174023.483.54$4,086
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 1996188023.31$4,382
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 1996175018.73$3,278
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 1996172019.38$3,333
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 1996165017.07$2,817
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 1995179016.00$2,864
Oct 19957015.43$108
Sep 1995175016.18$2,832
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 1995175015.24$2,667
Jun 19957016.41$115
May 1995180017.56$3,161
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 1995176016.44$2,893
Feb 1995179016.58$2,968
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 1994185015.03$2,781
Nov 1994176015.90$2,798
Oct 1994179015.58$2,789
Sep 1994176115.29$2,691
Aug 1994176116.13$2,839
Jul 19948117.56$140
Jun 1994177117.09$3,025
May 1994165115.88$2,620
Apr 1994178114.14$2,517
Mar 1994163112.46$2,031
Feb 1994180112.50$2,250
Jan 1994189112.66$2,393
Dec 1993183112.33$2,256
Nov 1993176114.49$2,550
Oct 1993183115.85$2,901
Sep 1993166115.03$2,495
Aug 1993174115.66$2,725
Jul 1993325115.46$5,025
Jun 1993161116.79$2,703
May 1993342117.68$6,047
Apr 1993168118.05$3,032
Mar 1993345118.14$6,258
Feb 1993169117.90$3,025
Jan 1993526116.93$8,905

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.

Dec 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  166 bbl  × $ 16.32 =     $2,709
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.41 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,709

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/28201 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.