ROBERTS "A"

Name: ROBERTS "A" lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by FRONTIER ALLIANCE, LLC (P-5 287100) in the DARROUZETT (TONKAWA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 2550District 10Field 23173500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$228 k

Jan 1993 – Aug 2003

Value, last 12 filed months

$17 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

128

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The DARROUZETT (TONKAWA) field

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 18 leases and 27 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1962-01-26

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 640 acres. The field rule took effect on 1964-07-21.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “GAS MULT 6-/B/”

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.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	4	none	—	—

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	9,493 bbl	$173,013
Casinghead gas	Production	47,670 Mcf	$54,739
Total			$227,752

29,744 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 36.4296, -100.2866. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

36.42906, -100.28509 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

6,464 ft

6 wells filed one

Completion to plug

19.8 years

median over 6 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 6,450 and 9,150 ft, median 6,464 ft, over the 6 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Dec 1961 – Jan 1985

6 of 6 wells

Plug dates filed

Jul 2003

6 of 6 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 19.8 years across the 6 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 19.5 years and 20.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

6 wells


42-29531319	3	6,450 ft	Jan 1985	Jul 2003	Yes
42-29531436	6	6,452 ft	Feb 1984	Jul 2003	Yes
42-29531413	5	6,475 ft	Dec 1983	Jul 2003	Yes
42-29531356	4	6,480 ft	Aug 1983	Jul 2003	Yes
42-29531313	2	6,450 ft	Jun 1983	Jul 2003	Yes
42-29500013	1	9,150 ft	Dec 1961	Jul 2003	Yes

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 (128)

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

128 months


Aug 2003	0	0	29.76	5.13	$0
Jul 2003	0	0	29.41	5.17	$0
Jun 2003	204	50	28.56	5.98	$6,125
May 2003	0	182	26.59	5.97	$1,087
Apr 2003	0	226	26.67	5.41	$1,222
Mar 2003	0	205	31.14	6.10	$1,250
Feb 2003	0	215	33.48	7.93	$1,704
Jan 2003	0	199	30.31	5.58	$1,111
Dec 2002	0	17	26.91	4.85	$83
Nov 2002	172	28	24.66	4.14	$4,357
Oct 2002	0	61	26.46	4.23	$258
Sep 2002	0	56	27.44	3.64	$204
Aug 2002	0	22	25.96	3.16	$70
Jul 2002	0	0	24.58	3.06	$0
Jun 2002	0	132	23.73	3.34	$441
May 2002	0	19	24.66	3.58	$68
Apr 2002	0	13	23.65	3.51	$46
Mar 2002	207	10	22.00	3.10	$4,585
Feb 2002	0	8	18.22	2.38	$19
Jan 2002	0	28	17.17	2.38	$67
Dec 2001	0	162	16.93	2.36	$383
Nov 2001	0	0	18.07	2.41	$0
Oct 2001	0	0	19.78	2.53	$0
Sep 2001	0	12	24.26	2.25	$27
Aug 2001	0	90	24.87	3.05	$275
Jul 2001	179	132	23.93	3.20	$4,705
Jun 2001	0	183	24.56	3.82	$700
May 2001	0	172	25.52	4.31	$741
Apr 2001	0	181	24.68	5.34	$966
Mar 2001	0	207	24.54	5.38	$1,113
Feb 2001	0	187	27.75	5.77	$1,078
Jan 2001	0	198	27.47	8.40	$1,663
Dec 2000	0	209	26.88	9.12	$1,907
Nov 2000	0	16	32.21	5.66	$91
Oct 2000	0	71	31.23	5.15	$365
Sep 2000	183	161	31.87	5.19	$6,667
Aug 2000	0	143	29.64	4.54	$649
Jul 2000	0	131	28.53	4.09	$536
Jun 2000	181	201	29.30	4.40	$6,187
May 2000	0	262	27.26	3.68	$964
Apr 2000	185	264	24.51	3.12	$5,357
Mar 2000	186	219	28.42	2.86	$5,912
Feb 2000	0	277	27.62	2.73	$755
Jan 2000	185	304	25.27	2.48	$5,429
Dec 1999	0	318	24.28	2.42	$771
Nov 1999	187	301	23.19	2.43	$5,069
Oct 1999	186	288	20.98	2.80	$4,710
Sep 1999	187	336	21.75	2.62	$4,947
Aug 1999	183	325	19.26	2.88	$4,459
Jul 1999	184	330	17.89	2.37	$4,075
Jun 1999	181	340	15.94	2.36	$3,688
May 1999	0	202	15.79	2.32	$469
Apr 1999	0	94	15.10	2.21	$208
Mar 1999	183	323	12.47	1.84	$2,876
Feb 1999	183	307	9.98	1.82	$2,384
Jan 1999	190	331	10.38	1.90	$2,601
Dec 1998	190	398	9.20	1.77	$2,454
Nov 1998	188	395	10.89	2.19	$2,911
Oct 1998	0	220	12.42	1.97	$433
Sep 1998	0	244	12.59	2.08	$508
Aug 1998	179	316	11.30	1.91	$2,625
Jul 1998	182	263	11.74	2.24	$2,725
Jun 1998	190	418	11.24	2.24	$3,071
May 1998	187	425	12.62	2.21	$3,298
Apr 1998	186	401	13.04	2.51	$3,430
Mar 1998	186	413	12.80	2.31	$3,335
Feb 1998	0	287	13.95	2.30	$660
Jan 1998	193	399	14.70	2.15	$3,697
Dec 1997	186	427	16.32	2.41	$4,065
Nov 1997	187	389	18.19	3.09	$4,603
Oct 1997	184	359	19.25	3.15	$4,673
Sep 1997	0	386	17.74	2.95	$1,141
Aug 1997	184	416	17.86	2.55	$4,349
Jul 1997	184	348	17.58	2.25	$4,017
Jun 1997	181	274	17.24	2.26	$3,739
May 1997	0	359	18.97	2.31	$829
Apr 1997	0	433	17.88	2.08	$902
Mar 1997	191	530	18.95	1.94	$4,647
Feb 1997	180	488	20.49	2.21	$4,765
Jan 1997	0	590	23.48	3.54	$2,088
Dec 1996	193	671	23.32	—	$4,501
Nov 1996	188	677	21.97	—	$4,130
Oct 1996	0	783	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	189	733	22.22	—	$4,200
Aug 1996	0	690	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	188	1,050	19.55	—	$3,675
Jun 1996	0	1,783	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	2,652	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	189	2,901	21.51	—	$4,065
Mar 1996	0	2,930	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	175	1,694	16.98	—	$2,972
Jan 1996	0	1,025	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	0	456	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	60	95	16.00	—	$960
Oct 1995	0	150	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	285	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	286	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	259	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	288	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	179	287	17.56	—	$3,143
Apr 1995	0	244	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	0	266	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	0	163	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	0	38	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	0	173	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	0	177	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	184	106	15.58	—	$2,867
Sep 1994	0	174	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	0	243	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	0	46	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	180	255	17.09	—	$3,076
May 1994	0	292	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	183	188	14.14	—	$2,588
Mar 1994	182	257	12.46	—	$2,268
Feb 1994	0	220	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	0	342	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	0	278	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	186	312	14.49	—	$2,695
Oct 1993	0	448	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	184	558	15.03	—	$2,766
Aug 1993	0	1,034	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	0	1,641	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	0	517	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	161	208	17.68	—	$2,846
Apr 1993	185	342	18.05	—	$3,339
Mar 1993	0	312	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	183	393	17.90	—	$3,276
Jan 1993	0	822	16.93	—	$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.

Jun 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  204 bbl  × $ 28.56 =     $5,826
Casinghead gas        50 Mcf  × $  5.98 =       $299

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Month total                                   $6,125

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/2550 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.