WARE, R. C. -A-

Operated by FORT WORTH NATURAL GAS, INC. (P-5 278196) in the PANHANDLE HUTCHINSON COUNTY FLD. field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 1234District 10Field 68887001NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$209 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$15 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
68
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 918 leases and 8,177 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1921-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
467 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 1989-05-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: SPECIAL TESTING REQUIREMENTS FOR WELLS WITH GOR GREATER THAN 5000.

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA11none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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
OilDisposition11,506 bbl$196,654
Casinghead gasProduction21,175 Mcf$12,137
Total$208,791

16,371 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 (18)

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 35.6305, -101.2070. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

35.63054, -101.20718 · 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%
18 of 18 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
18 of 18 wells
Median depth
3,175 ft
18 wells filed one
Completion to plug
56.0 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
18100.0%
A plug date is filed
18100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
18100.0%
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, 18 of 18 wells. Median 3,175 ft, with the middle half between 3,152 and 3,176 ft; the shallowest is 3,110 ft and the deepest 3,250 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, 2 of 18 wells, Jun 1938 – Dec 1994. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Jun 1938 – Dec 1994
2 of 18 wells; 16 filed none
Plug dates filed
Nov 1993 – Oct 2022
18 of 18 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 56.0 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 41.9 years and 70.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

18 wells

42-23301390173,250 ftSep 2022Yes
42-2330784933,170 ftNov 1993Yes
42-23307868113,173 ftOct 2022Yes
42-2330787414W3,176 ftNov 1993Yes
42-233117039W3,152 ftJun 1996Yes
42-2338348713,199 ftOct 2022Yes
42-2338348823,176 ftSep 2022Yes
42-2338349043,149 ftOct 2022Yes
42-2338349153,110 ftOct 2022Yes
42-2338349263,175 ftSep 2022Yes
42-233834937W3,115 ftSep 2022Yes
42-2338349483,174 ftOct 2022Yes
42-23383496103,150 ftOct 2022Yes
42-23383498123,201 ftOct 2022Yes
42-2338350115W3,175 ftOct 2022Yes
42-2338350216W3,153 ftSep 2022Yes
42-23307878183,230 ftDec 1994Sep 2022Yes
42-2330787213W3,175 ftJun 1938Sep 2022Yes

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 (68)

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

68 months

Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 199894013.042.51$1,226
Mar 199876012.802.31$973
Feb 19987821213.952.30$1,576
Jan 199811431614.702.15$2,357
Dec 199713535616.322.41$3,062
Nov 19975223618.193.09$1,675
Oct 19975734719.253.15$2,190
Sep 19978111317.742.95$1,771
Aug 199711222117.862.55$2,565
Jul 199714045817.582.25$3,490
Jun 19978646517.242.26$2,532
May 199714231718.972.31$3,426
Apr 199714043417.882.08$3,407
Mar 199713224218.951.94$2,971
Feb 199710348120.492.21$3,172
Jan 199714060623.483.54$5,432
Dec 199613928623.32$3,241
Nov 19961691721.97$3,713
Oct 199628644523.31$6,667
Sep 199619762022.22$4,377
Aug 199625060120.26$5,065
Jul 199622237619.55$4,340
Jun 199619638318.73$3,671
May 199619547519.43$3,789
Apr 199622754821.51$4,883
Mar 199620941619.38$4,050
Feb 199620923016.98$3,549
Jan 199624122517.07$4,114
Dec 199518324717.19$3,146
Nov 199529037216.00$4,640
Oct 199531437915.43$4,845
Sep 199518044916.18$2,912
Aug 199514122715.92$2,245
Jul 199516135015.24$2,454
Jun 199513738916.41$2,248
May 199519740117.56$3,459
Apr 199521746217.73$3,847
Mar 199517642716.44$2,893
Feb 199516036016.58$2,653
Jan 199517238815.92$2,738
Dec 199420941715.03$3,141
Nov 199418123015.90$2,878
Oct 199424132515.58$3,755
Sep 199415832515.29$2,416
Aug 199421413716.13$3,452
Jul 199421245617.56$3,723
Jun 199423144917.09$3,948
May 199421642315.88$3,430
Apr 199416941514.14$2,390
Mar 199420644812.46$2,567
Feb 199420735812.50$2,588
Jan 199418446912.66$2,329
Dec 199324620612.33$3,033
Nov 199317322814.49$2,507
Oct 199315522415.85$2,457
Sep 199320725815.03$3,111
Aug 199325514915.66$3,993
Jul 199325225815.46$3,896
Jun 199323029616.79$3,862
May 199320217917.68$3,571
Apr 199327229818.05$4,910
Mar 199319624918.14$3,555
Feb 199316621017.90$2,971
Jan 199317429116.93$2,946

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.

Apr 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   94 bbl  × $ 13.04 =     $1,226
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.51 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,226

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. 10/O/1234 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.