COOPER, G. M., NCT-1

Operated by ORINGDERFF, ALMA OIL PROPERTIES (P-5 625671) in the SPICER (MARMATON) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 2918District 10Field 85118500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$239 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$10 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
99
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 36 leases and 63 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1962-09-15
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.

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
NGPA1none

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
OilDisposition7,309 bbl$124,383
Casinghead gasProduction67,475 Mcf$114,856
Total$239,239

18,998 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 41 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 (1)

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 36.2736, -100.9797. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

36.27359, -100.97974 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
6,845 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
33.5 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 6,845 ft.

Completions filed
May 1985
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2018
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 33.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 33.5 years and 33.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3570040516,845 ftMay 1985Nov 2018Yes

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 (99)

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

99 months

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 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 2000416024.513.12$10,196
Mar 200002,06328.422.86$5,900
Feb 2000059327.622.73$1,617
Jan 2000081625.272.48$2,024
Dec 1999081924.282.42$1,985
Nov 1999081923.192.43$1,993
Oct 1999085720.982.80$2,403
Sep 1999058921.752.62$1,543
Aug 1999048119.262.88$1,383
Jul 1999081817.892.37$1,941
Jun 1999083015.942.36$1,961
May 1999088515.792.32$2,054
Apr 1999086615.102.21$1,912
Mar 1999052712.471.84$969
Feb 199905769.981.82$1,047
Jan 1999074610.381.90$1,417
Dec 199801,0809.201.77$1,915
Nov 199801,16010.892.19$2,535
Oct 199801,26312.421.97$2,487
Sep 19981021,29412.592.08$3,979
Aug 199801,42211.301.91$2,712
Jul 19981041,50211.742.24$4,581
Jun 199801,62411.242.24$3,633
May 19981321,55112.622.21$5,088
Apr 199801,48713.042.51$3,725
Mar 199801,61712.802.31$3,734
Feb 199801,87813.952.30$4,318
Jan 1998057114.702.15$1,230
Dec 1997084116.322.41$2,028
Nov 19971861,15418.193.09$6,947
Oct 199701,73419.253.15$5,462
Sep 199701,56617.742.95$4,627
Aug 19971012,25017.862.55$7,552
Jul 199702,17717.582.25$4,892
Jun 19971692,47517.242.26$8,500
May 1997762,41018.972.31$7,005
Apr 199702,30017.882.08$4,790
Mar 1997981,59118.951.94$4,942
Feb 1997061020.492.21$1,346
Jan 1997063523.483.54$2,248
Dec 19968959523.32$2,075
Nov 1996063621.97$0
Oct 1996073623.31$0
Sep 19961651,26922.22$3,666
Aug 19961041,79320.26$2,107
Jul 19961861,34819.55$3,636
Jun 199601,71918.73$0
May 19961731,96219.43$3,361
Apr 19961691,63721.51$3,635
Mar 19961961,68619.38$3,798
Feb 199601,54016.98$0
Jan 19961791,52417.07$3,056
Dec 199510189717.19$1,736
Nov 199501,62916.00$0
Oct 199592015.43$1,420
Sep 199596016.18$1,553
Aug 1995183015.92$2,913
Jul 1995201015.24$3,063
Jun 1995196016.41$3,216
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 1995112017.73$1,986
Mar 1995280116.44$4,603
Feb 19950116.58$0
Jan 1995218115.92$3,471
Dec 1994220115.03$3,307
Nov 19940115.90$0
Oct 1994226115.58$3,521
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 1994220116.13$3,549
Jul 19940117.56$0
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 1994225115.88$3,573
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 1994228112.46$2,841
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 1994221112.66$2,798
Dec 1993206112.33$2,540
Nov 1993210114.49$3,043
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 1993217115.03$3,262
Aug 1993212115.66$3,320
Jul 19930115.46$0
Jun 1993412116.79$6,917
May 19930117.68$0
Apr 1993193118.05$3,484
Mar 1993395118.14$7,165
Feb 19930117.90$0
Jan 19930116.93$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.

Apr 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  416 bbl  × $ 24.51 =    $10,196
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.12 =         $0

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Month total                                  $10,196

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/2918 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.