MITCHELL, SUE

Operated by SWANSON, TOM (P-5 832800) 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 5642District 09Field 97155001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$80 k
Jan 1993 – May 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$13 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 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
OilDisposition4,737 bbl$80,443
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$80,443

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 (7)

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 33.9218, -98.7929. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

33.92216, -98.79271 · 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%
7 of 7 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
7 of 7 wells
Median depth
1,525 ft
7 wells filed one
Completion to plug
1 well filed both, dated out of order

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
7100.0%
A plug date is filed
7100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
7100.0%
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

Between 300 and 2,000 ft, median 1,525 ft, over the 7 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Oct 2010
1 of 7 wells; 6 filed none
Plug dates filed
Oct 1984 – Mar 1997
7 of 7 wells

Last completion to plug: no median is published. 1 well on this lease filed both dates, and on that one the last completion is dated after the plug date, so there is no interval to take a median of. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

7 wells

42-4850117911,525 ftOct 1984Yes
42-48513449341,990 ftMar 1997Yes
42-4858546151,527 ftMar 1997Yes
42-4858546227311 ftNov 1990Yes
42-4858546328300 ftNov 1990Yes
42-4858546431303 ftNov 1990Yes
42-48534921252,000 ftOct 2010Mar 1997Yes

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 199753018.951.94$1,004
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 199675023.32$1,749
Nov 199680021.97$1,758
Oct 199672023.31$1,678
Sep 199669022.22$1,533
Aug 199676020.26$1,540
Jul 1996147019.55$2,874
Jun 199663018.73$1,180
May 1996149019.43$2,895
Apr 199678021.51$1,678
Mar 1996148019.38$2,868
Feb 199676016.98$1,290
Jan 199679017.07$1,349
Dec 199574017.19$1,272
Nov 1995144016.00$2,304
Oct 199573015.43$1,126
Sep 1995148016.18$2,395
Aug 199575015.92$1,194
Jul 1995150015.24$2,286
Jun 199570016.41$1,149
May 1995157017.56$2,757
Apr 1995136017.73$2,411
Mar 1995202016.44$3,321
Feb 199579016.58$1,310
Jan 1995203015.92$3,232
Dec 199479015.03$1,187
Nov 1994146015.90$2,321
Oct 1994134015.58$2,088
Sep 1994152115.29$2,324
Aug 1994149116.13$2,403
Jul 1994149117.56$2,616
Jun 1994153117.09$2,615
May 199474115.88$1,175
Apr 1994156114.14$2,206
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 199477112.50$963
Jan 199479112.66$1,000
Dec 199378112.33$962
Nov 199366114.49$956
Oct 199377115.85$1,220
Sep 1993143115.03$2,149
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 19930115.46$0
Jun 199360116.79$1,007
May 199376117.68$1,344
Apr 199376118.05$1,372
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 199363117.90$1,128
Jan 199374116.93$1,253

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.

Mar 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   53 bbl  × $ 18.95 =     $1,004
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  1.94 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,004

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/5642 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.