LAUKHUF, ALFRED -B-

Operated by CRAWFORD OIL COMPANY (P-5 186810) in the AIRPORT field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 5823District 09Field 00919001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$61 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$3 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
75
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 14 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1942-08-07
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 10 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
OilDisposition3,783 bbl$61,024
Casinghead gasProduction70 Mcf$59
Total$61,082

45 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 45 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 (2)

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 33.8660, -98.4832. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.1 miles.

33.86600, -98.48316 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
3,885 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
30.8 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
2100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2100.0%
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 3,854 and 3,915 ft, median 3,885 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jun 1966
1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none
Plug dates filed
Apr 1997 – Dec 1998
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 30.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 30.8 years and 30.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-4850327723,854 ftDec 1998Yes
42-485207061 W3,915 ftJun 1966Apr 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 (75)

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

75 months

Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 199941110.381.90$427
Dec 1998019.201.77$2
Nov 19980110.892.19$2
Oct 199833112.421.97$412
Sep 199853112.592.08$669
Aug 19980111.301.91$2
Jul 199839111.742.24$460
Jun 19980111.242.24$2
May 199820112.622.21$255
Apr 199832113.042.51$420
Mar 199866112.802.31$847
Feb 19980113.952.30$2
Jan 199863114.702.15$928
Dec 199744116.322.41$720
Nov 199759118.193.09$1,076
Oct 199745119.253.15$869
Sep 19979117.742.95$163
Aug 199735117.862.55$628
Jul 199752117.582.25$916
Jun 199750117.242.26$864
May 19970118.972.31$2
Apr 199745117.882.08$807
Mar 199745118.951.94$855
Feb 199732120.492.21$658
Jan 199734123.483.54$802
Dec 199633123.32$770
Nov 199663121.97$1,384
Oct 19960123.31$0
Sep 199629022.22$644
Aug 199632120.26$648
Jul 199641119.55$802
Jun 19960118.73$0
May 199635119.43$680
Apr 199624121.51$516
Mar 199632119.38$620
Feb 199628116.98$475
Jan 199631117.07$529
Dec 199527117.19$464
Nov 199560116.00$960
Oct 19950115.43$0
Sep 199535116.18$566
Aug 199529115.92$462
Jul 199529115.24$442
Jun 199533116.41$542
May 199531117.56$544
Apr 199530117.73$532
Mar 199550116.44$822
Feb 199569116.58$1,144
Jan 199561115.92$971
Dec 199424115.03$361
Nov 199488115.90$1,399
Oct 199482115.58$1,278
Sep 199491115.29$1,391
Aug 199481116.13$1,307
Jul 199473117.56$1,282
Jun 199494117.09$1,606
May 199459115.88$937
Apr 1994143114.14$2,022
Mar 199476112.46$947
Feb 1994145012.50$1,813
Jan 199490112.66$1,139
Dec 1993180012.33$2,219
Nov 199391114.49$1,319
Oct 199391115.85$1,442
Sep 199387115.03$1,308
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 199370115.46$1,082
Jun 199391116.79$1,528
May 199390117.68$1,591
Apr 199378118.05$1,408
Mar 1993177118.14$3,211
Feb 199390117.90$1,611
Jan 199393116.93$1,574

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.

Jan 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   41 bbl  × $ 10.38 =       $426
Casinghead gas         1 Mcf  × $  1.90 =         $2

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Month total                                     $427

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/5823 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.