DODSON, J. L.

Operated by BP AMERICA PRODUCTION COMPANY (P-5 40798) in the HORIZON (CLEVELAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 2048District 10Field 42597332OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$317 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
183
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 172 leases and 292 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1957-09-19
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
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 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1958-06-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: PETRO (CLEVELAND) FLD 68735120 EFC 5/1/11

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
OilDisposition10,928 bbl$185,565
Casinghead gasProduction220,084 Mcf$131,488
Total$317,053

166,122 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 (6)

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 36.1499, -101.0640. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

36.14867, -101.06496 · 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%
6 of 6 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
6 of 6 wells
Median depth
6,550 ft
6 wells filed one
Completion to plug
44.8 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
6100.0%
A plug date is filed
6100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
6100.0%
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 6,486 and 8,232 ft, median 6,550 ft, over the 6 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Apr 1959 – Nov 1966
4 of 6 wells; 2 filed none
Plug dates filed
Apr 2000 – Aug 2005
6 of 6 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 44.8 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 42.6 years and 45.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

6 wells

42-3570048526,550 ftApr 2000Yes
42-3578071056,500 ftJul 2005Yes
42-357001973 U8,232 ftNov 1966Aug 2005Yes
42-3578071166,486 ftSep 1961Jul 2005Yes
42-3578070946,550 ftOct 1959Jul 2005Yes
42-3570217918,232 ftApr 1959Aug 2005Yes

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 (183)

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

183 months

Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 200050027.263.68$1,363
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 199982019.262.88$1,579
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 1999077612.471.84$1,427
Feb 199906469.981.82$1,174
Jan 199901,00510.381.90$1,909
Dec 199801,4069.201.77$2,493
Nov 199801,05210.892.19$2,299
Oct 1998093712.421.97$1,845
Sep 1998042412.592.08$883
Aug 199818099911.301.91$3,939
Jul 1998054311.742.24$1,215
Jun 1998088511.242.24$1,980
May 199816286512.622.21$3,953
Apr 1998084613.042.51$2,120
Mar 199819781612.802.31$4,406
Feb 199801,32713.952.30$3,051
Jan 199803,41214.702.15$7,352
Dec 199703,37416.322.41$8,135
Nov 19971912,69918.193.09$11,810
Oct 199703,57819.253.15$11,270
Sep 199703,17017.742.95$9,367
Aug 19971883,46217.862.55$12,202
Jul 19974003,54417.582.25$14,995
Jun 19971872,54417.242.26$8,966
May 199702,24018.972.31$5,171
Apr 199703,77317.882.08$7,858
Mar 19973633,49618.951.94$13,658
Feb 199702,37620.492.21$5,241
Jan 19973583,76723.483.54$21,740
Dec 199603,28323.32$0
Nov 19962043,44821.97$4,482
Oct 19963593,30123.31$8,368
Sep 199603,32522.22$0
Aug 19962033,67620.26$4,113
Jul 19961693,84419.55$3,304
Jun 199603,53818.73$0
May 19963553,77419.43$6,898
Apr 199604,12521.51$0
Mar 19963612,75119.38$6,996
Feb 199601,96116.98$0
Jan 19961982,74017.07$3,380
Dec 19953634,48417.19$6,240
Nov 199502,64916.00$0
Oct 199502,67115.43$0
Sep 19956503,57016.18$10,517
Aug 199503,91715.92$0
Jul 19953533,75915.24$5,380
Jun 199503,74316.41$0
May 19953404,00617.56$5,970
Apr 199503,92617.73$0
Mar 19953623,88516.44$5,951
Feb 199503,34216.58$0
Jan 19953643,53015.92$5,795
Dec 19943633,96315.03$5,456
Nov 199403,94815.90$0
Oct 19943494,18015.58$5,437
Sep 199404,02815.29$0
Aug 19943522,15816.13$5,678
Jul 199402,32417.56$0
Jun 199402,56317.09$0
May 19943593,67115.88$5,701
Apr 199403,01914.14$0
Mar 19943613,40912.46$4,498
Feb 199402,95512.50$0
Jan 19943623,43612.66$4,583
Dec 199303,57112.33$0
Nov 19933643,68914.49$5,274
Oct 199302,90915.85$0
Sep 19933643,34315.03$5,471
Aug 199303,36715.66$0
Jul 19933533,96415.46$5,457
Jun 19933533,68616.79$5,927
May 199303,73317.68$0
Apr 199303,03818.05$0
Mar 19933453,85618.14$6,258
Feb 19933643,83117.90$6,516
Jan 199304,23316.93$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.

May 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   50 bbl  × $ 27.26 =     $1,363
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.68 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,363

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/2048 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.