CHANEY

Operated by RIDGE OIL COMPANY (P-5 711100) in the JAMES field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 28598District 09Field 45544001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$220 k
Jun 1993 – Mar 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$35 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
46
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 35 leases and 92 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1917-01-01
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 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 1993-12-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: FIELD CONSOLIDATED INTO I.M.U. (CADDO CONS.) EFFECTIVE 10/8/96.

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
OilDisposition13,622 bbl$220,278
Casinghead gasProduction16 Mcf$0
Total$220,278

16 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 16 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 33.2161, -98.6528. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.21605, -98.65279 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
4,900 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
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 4,900 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 1993
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-5034052714,900 ftJun 1993Yes

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 (46)

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

46 months

Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 1996374023.31$8,718
Sep 1996182022.22$4,044
Aug 1996170020.26$3,444
Jul 1996273019.55$5,337
Jun 1996332018.73$6,218
May 1996181019.43$3,517
Apr 1996179021.51$3,850
Mar 1996351019.38$6,802
Feb 1996166016.98$2,819
Jan 1996170017.07$2,902
Dec 1995321017.19$5,518
Nov 1995181016.00$2,896
Oct 1995310015.43$4,783
Sep 1995349016.18$5,647
Aug 1995472015.92$7,514
Jul 1995297015.24$4,526
Jun 1995312016.41$5,120
May 1995354017.56$6,216
Apr 1995301017.73$5,337
Mar 1995298016.44$4,899
Feb 1995352016.58$5,836
Jan 1995551015.92$8,772
Dec 1994186015.03$2,796
Nov 1994365015.90$5,804
Oct 1994185015.58$2,882
Sep 1994548115.29$8,379
Aug 1994366116.13$5,904
Jul 1994362117.56$6,357
Jun 1994181117.09$3,093
May 1994334115.88$5,304
Apr 1994362114.14$5,119
Mar 1994548112.46$6,828
Feb 1994371112.50$4,638
Jan 1994372112.66$4,710
Dec 1993549112.33$6,769
Nov 1993549114.49$7,955
Oct 1993536115.85$8,496
Sep 1993359115.03$5,396
Aug 1993458115.66$7,172
Jul 1993515115.46$7,962
Jun 19930116.79$0

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 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  374 bbl  × $ 23.31 =     $8,718
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $8,718

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/28598 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.