HONAKER

Operated by BRIDWELL OIL CO. (P-5 92480) in the WICHITA COUNTY REGULAR field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 4955District 09Field 97155001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$23 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 1994
Value, last 12 filed months
$5 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
22
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 1,994 leases and 19,278 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1910-12-31
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
OilDisposition1,464 bbl$23,203
Casinghead gasProduction17 Mcf$0
Total$23,203

17 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 17 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 (15)

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 34.0460, -98.8600. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

34.04657, -98.85958 · 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%
15 of 15 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
15 of 15 wells
Median depth
1,081 ft
15 wells filed one
Completion to plug
14.5 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
15100.0%
A plug date is filed
15100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
15100.0%
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

Total depth in feet, 15 of 15 wells. Median 1,081 ft, with the middle half between 1,062 and 1,096 ft; the shallowest is 1,019 ft and the deepest 2,299 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 4 of 15 wells, Nov 1977 – Aug 1985. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Nov 1977 – Aug 1985
4 of 15 wells; 11 filed none
Plug dates filed
Jan 1979 – Aug 1994
15 of 15 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.5 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 12.7 years and 15.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

15 wells

42-4850652411,074 ftAug 1994Yes
42-4850652531,056 ftAug 1994Yes
42-4850652651,037 ftAug 1994Yes
42-485065276A1,019 ftAug 1994Yes
42-48506528101,023 ftAug 1994Yes
42-48506529111,067 ftAug 1994Yes
42-48506530121,069 ftAug 1994Yes
42-48506531131,081 ftAug 1994Yes
42-4851588641,083 ftAug 1994Yes
42-48533207151,167 ftAug 1994Yes
42-48535122181,095 ftJan 1979Yes
42-4851588771,082 ftAug 1985Aug 1994Yes
42-48536628211,100 ftSep 1980Aug 1994Yes
42-48535123191,097 ftJul 1979Aug 1994Yes
42-4851588882,299 ftNov 1977Aug 1994Yes

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 (22)

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

22 months

Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19940015.29$0
Aug 199444016.13$710
Jul 19940017.56$0
Jun 19940017.09$0
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 199489114.14$1,258
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 1994133112.50$1,663
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 199385112.33$1,048
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 1993135115.85$2,140
Sep 1993131115.03$1,969
Aug 199339115.66$611
Jul 1993173115.46$2,675
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 1993203117.68$3,589
Apr 19930118.05$0
Mar 199385118.14$1,542
Feb 1993128117.90$2,291
Jan 1993219116.93$3,708

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.

Aug 1994 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   44 bbl  × $ 16.13 =       $710
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                     $710

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/4955 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.