WHITTENBURG -T-

Operated by SNW OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 799856) 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 2281District 10Field 68887001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$77 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$12 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
217
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.

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
OilDisposition1,430 bbl$34,347
Casinghead gasProduction34,787 Mcf$43,152
Total$77,498

21,317 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 (5)

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 35.7184, -101.4540. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

35.71814, -101.45362 · 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%
5 of 5 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
5 of 5 wells
Median depth
3,014 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
25.6 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
5100.0%
A plug date is filed
5100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
5100.0%
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 2,892 and 3,050 ft, median 3,014 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Feb 1985
1 of 5 wells; 4 filed none
Plug dates filed
Mar 1975 – Sep 2010
5 of 5 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 25.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 25.6 years and 25.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

5 wells

42-2330746832,892 ftSep 2010Yes
42-2338492543,014 ftSep 2010Yes
42-233864531Mar 1975Yes
42-233864542Mar 1975Yes
42-23332107A 13,050 ftFeb 1985Sep 2010Yes

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 (217)

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

217 months

Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 2010169072.633.98$12,274
Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 20100072.554.74$0
Jun 20100070.364.91$0
May 20100071.124.24$0
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 20100078.394.39$0
Feb 20100073.585.44$0
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20090042.144.06$0
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
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 200504349.207.36$317
Mar 200502750.377.15$193
Feb 200504145.226.31$259
Jan 200503543.166.32$221
Dec 200403539.866.75$236
Nov 200403945.286.33$247
Oct 200404749.706.52$306
Sep 200405243.245.28$275
Aug 200404742.375.55$261
Jul 200405238.286.08$316
Jun 200404136.106.43$264
May 200404137.486.49$266
Apr 200404734.475.86$275
Mar 200404734.365.53$260
Feb 200404432.455.51$242
Jan 20041577732.036.30$5,514
Dec 200308430.266.30$529
Nov 2003010828.804.60$496
Oct 2003016828.174.76$800
Sep 200303426.314.75$161
Aug 200308029.765.13$410
Jul 200308129.415.17$419
Jun 200307228.565.98$431
May 200308226.595.97$490
Apr 200305426.675.41$292
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 200201424.663.58$50
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020117.172.38$2
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 2001014319.782.53$362
Sep 2001014324.262.25$322
Aug 2001010324.873.05$314
Jul 200104423.933.20$141
Jun 2001022424.563.82$857
May 2001014925.524.31$642
Apr 200106924.685.34$368
Mar 200108724.545.38$468
Feb 200108627.755.77$496
Jan 200108727.478.40$731
Dec 200009126.889.12$830
Nov 2000014632.215.66$826
Oct 2000021631.235.15$1,111
Sep 2000029531.875.19$1,530
Aug 2000029229.644.54$1,326
Jul 2000033328.534.09$1,362
Jun 2000011029.304.40$484
May 2000011627.263.68$427
Apr 2000014724.513.12$458
Mar 2000020628.422.86$589
Feb 200003227.622.73$87
Jan 200009125.272.48$226
Dec 1999010524.282.42$254
Nov 199908223.192.43$200
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 199901921.752.62$50
Aug 1999024419.262.88$702
Jul 1999023617.892.37$560
Jun 1999022415.942.36$529
May 199902815.792.32$65
Apr 1999011515.102.21$254
Mar 1999021712.471.84$399
Feb 199901349.981.82$244
Jan 1999029110.381.90$553
Dec 19980929.201.77$163
Nov 1998023610.892.19$516
Oct 1998033412.421.97$658
Sep 1998023612.592.08$492
Aug 1998034811.301.91$664
Jul 1998033711.742.24$754
Jun 1998027811.242.24$622
May 199816934912.622.21$2,903
Apr 1998041913.042.51$1,050
Mar 1998037012.802.31$854
Feb 19980113.952.30$2
Jan 19980114.702.15$2
Dec 1997011416.322.41$275
Nov 1997023118.193.09$713
Oct 1997012619.253.15$397
Sep 1997045517.742.95$1,344
Aug 1997050717.862.55$1,295
Jul 1997042117.582.25$946
Jun 1997044317.242.26$1,000
May 1997045618.972.31$1,053
Apr 1997035517.882.08$739
Mar 199717329918.951.94$3,858
Feb 1997026820.492.21$591
Jan 1997039623.483.54$1,402
Dec 1996012523.32$0
Nov 1996027521.97$0
Oct 1996044623.31$0
Sep 1996044322.22$0
Aug 1996049720.26$0
Jul 1996049719.55$0
Jun 1996038918.73$0
May 199602019.43$0
Apr 1996039021.51$0
Mar 1996039019.38$0
Feb 1996028216.98$0
Jan 1996033917.07$0
Dec 1995041417.19$0
Nov 1995055816.00$0
Oct 1995066015.43$0
Sep 1995066916.18$0
Aug 1995068915.92$0
Jul 1995068915.24$0
Jun 199517462516.41$2,855
May 1995263817.56$35
Apr 1995367917.73$53
Mar 1995061416.44$0
Feb 1995050816.58$0
Jan 1995048015.92$0
Dec 1994037415.03$0
Nov 19941448415.90$223
Oct 199417671915.58$2,742
Sep 1994069715.29$0
Aug 1994071316.13$0
Jul 1994042817.56$0
Jun 1994038517.09$0
May 1994021815.88$0
Apr 1994043914.14$0
Mar 199417565712.46$2,181
Feb 1994038112.50$0
Jan 1994024312.66$0
Dec 1993037112.33$0
Nov 1993041814.49$0
Oct 199317528815.85$2,774
Sep 1993012215.03$0
Aug 1993050415.66$0
Jul 199301,05115.46$0
Jun 199301,12316.79$0
May 199303217.68$0
Apr 199301018.05$0
Mar 1993030918.14$0
Feb 1993431017.90$770
Jan 199302516.93$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.

Sep 2010 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  169 bbl  × $ 72.63 =    $12,274
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.98 =         $0

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Month total                                  $12,274

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/2281 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.