CARMODY, E. M. -C-

Operated by DISCOVERY OPERATING, INC. (P-5 220865) in the TWIN (DES MOINES) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 2239District 10Field 92038444NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$105 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$1 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
140
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 55 leases and 143 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1956-06-25
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 Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: 700' OR TOP OF RED BEDS

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
NGPA2none

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
OilDisposition3,390 bbl$65,726
Casinghead gasProduction29,184 Mcf$39,255
Total$104,981

17,705 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 40 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 36.3389, -101.1055. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

36.33889, -101.10554 · 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
7,100 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
19.5 years
median over 2 wells

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 7,100 and 7,100 ft, median 7,100 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Apr 1982 – Jan 1983
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2000 – Jan 2004
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 19.5 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 18.7 years and 20.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-1958015127,100 ftJan 1983Jan 2004Yes
42-1950129117,100 ftApr 1982Mar 2000Yes

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 (140)

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

140 months

Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 200437036.106.43$1,336
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 2002946424.583.06$2,506
Jun 2002031123.733.34$1,038
May 2002029024.663.58$1,039
Apr 2002026123.653.51$917
Mar 2002014622.003.10$453
Feb 200202218.222.38$52
Jan 2002021617.172.38$513
Dec 20014527416.932.36$1,410
Nov 2001024618.072.41$592
Oct 2001027719.782.53$701
Sep 2001024724.262.25$556
Aug 20018223324.873.05$2,751
Jul 2001027423.933.20$876
Jun 2001024324.563.82$929
May 2001028125.524.31$1,210
Apr 2001024424.685.34$1,302
Mar 200113230024.545.38$4,852
Feb 2001025427.755.77$1,465
Jan 2001028327.478.40$2,377
Dec 2000024726.889.12$2,253
Nov 200004832.215.66$272
Oct 2000025531.235.15$1,312
Sep 20009125631.875.19$4,228
Aug 2000027029.644.54$1,226
Jul 2000029528.534.09$1,206
Jun 200017525129.304.40$6,231
May 2000021627.263.68$795
Apr 2000026724.513.12$832
Mar 2000017728.422.86$506
Feb 20001449727.622.73$4,242
Jan 2000014525.272.48$360
Dec 199996424.282.42$374
Nov 199907123.192.43$173
Oct 199908520.982.80$238
Sep 199909021.752.62$236
Aug 1999011219.262.88$322
Jul 1999015517.892.37$368
Jun 1999015515.942.36$366
May 199909715.792.32$225
Apr 1999011815.102.21$261
Mar 199908512.471.84$156
Feb 199901179.981.82$213
Jan 1999108210.381.90$1,125
Dec 19980809.201.77$142
Nov 199808110.892.19$177
Oct 199803512.421.97$69
Sep 1998018312.592.08$381
Aug 1998019211.301.91$366
Jul 1998019211.742.24$430
Jun 1998017611.242.24$394
May 1998020412.622.21$450
Apr 199815012913.042.51$2,279
Mar 1998013712.802.31$316
Feb 1998011613.952.30$267
Jan 1998010314.702.15$222
Dec 1997012816.322.41$309
Nov 1997013118.193.09$405
Oct 1997012019.253.15$378
Sep 1997012917.742.95$381
Aug 1997017217.862.55$439
Jul 1997015517.582.25$348
Jun 199717816517.242.26$3,441
May 1997014618.972.31$337
Apr 1997013317.882.08$277
Mar 1997014018.951.94$271
Feb 199717414420.492.21$3,883
Jan 199717214723.483.54$4,559
Dec 1996013523.32$0
Nov 1996014221.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 1996149020.26$3,019
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 1996039116.98$0
Jan 1996041117.07$0
Dec 1995052817.19$0
Nov 1995057016.00$0
Oct 1995054015.43$0
Sep 1995011816.18$0
Aug 1995026015.92$0
Jul 1995037415.24$0
Jun 1995037516.41$0
May 1995041117.56$0
Apr 199517442817.73$3,085
Mar 1995040016.44$0
Feb 1995023116.58$0
Jan 1995041015.92$0
Dec 1994032115.03$0
Nov 199417645815.90$2,798
Oct 1994035215.58$0
Sep 1994049715.29$0
Aug 1994036916.13$0
Jul 199417154717.56$3,003
Jun 199417141417.09$2,922
May 1994052715.88$0
Apr 1994055614.14$0
Mar 1994049512.46$0
Feb 1994031612.50$0
Jan 1994067912.66$0
Dec 199317743612.33$2,182
Nov 1993058814.49$0
Oct 1993061015.85$0
Sep 199315159515.03$2,270
Aug 1993061815.66$0
Jul 199314157715.46$2,180
Jun 1993055816.79$0
May 1993060917.68$0
Apr 199317065618.05$3,069
Mar 1993055618.14$0
Feb 199314230617.90$2,542
Jan 199317734116.93$2,997

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.

Jun 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   37 bbl  × $ 36.10 =     $1,336
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.43 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,336

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/2239 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.