BATMAN, RAY L.

Operated by WESTSTAR OIL AND GAS, INC. (P-5 912924) in the FARNSWORTH, N. (MARMATON) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 3433District 10Field 30275625OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$100 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
128
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 47 leases and 95 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1965-11-25
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,867 ft
minimum
From a lease line
933 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 160 acres.

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
OilDisposition5,323 bbl$86,640
Casinghead gasProduction33,948 Mcf$12,883
Total$99,523

28,381 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 (8)

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 36.4116, -100.9463. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.6 miles.

36.41255, -100.94669 · 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%
8 of 8 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
8 of 8 wells
Median depth
6,733 ft
8 wells filed one
Completion to plug
31.3 years
median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
8100.0%
A plug date is filed
8100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
8100.0%
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

Total depth in feet, 8 of 8 wells. Median 6,733 ft, with the middle half between 6,703 and 6,981 ft; the shallowest is 6,673 ft and the deepest 8,210 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 3 of 8 wells, Jun 1967 – Jan 1968. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Jun 1967 – Jan 1968
3 of 8 wells; 5 filed none
Plug dates filed
Sep 1974 – Dec 1998
8 of 8 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 31.3 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 30.2 years and 31.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

8 wells

42-3570022918,210 ftJul 1979Yes
42-357201252 B7,687 ftSep 1974Yes
42-357201261 B6,746 ftSep 1974Yes
42-357201273 A6,705 ftMar 1978Yes
42-3572013226,673 ftJul 1979Yes
42-357023672 A6,695 ftJan 1968Jan 1997Yes
42-357813661 A6,728 ftSep 1967Dec 1998Yes
42-3572015710276,738 ftJun 1967Dec 1998Yes

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 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 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 200030024.513.12$735
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 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 199814009.201.77$1,288
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 1998013712.592.08$285
Aug 1998014911.301.91$284
Jul 199834217511.742.24$4,407
Jun 1998012211.242.24$273
May 1998014212.622.21$313
Apr 1998014913.042.51$373
Mar 1998018112.802.31$418
Feb 1998015713.952.30$361
Jan 1998017514.702.15$377
Dec 1997031516.322.41$760
Nov 199727935818.193.09$6,181
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 199708517.742.95$251
Aug 199701517.862.55$38
Jul 1997038017.582.25$854
Jun 199732753817.242.26$6,852
May 1997058018.972.31$1,339
Apr 1997066717.882.08$1,389
Mar 199731879318.951.94$7,564
Feb 1997020420.492.21$450
Jan 1997024523.483.54$867
Dec 1996031323.32$0
Nov 1996036521.97$0
Oct 1996042723.31$0
Sep 1996046922.22$0
Aug 1996057520.26$0
Jul 199631359919.55$6,119
Jun 1996053918.73$0
May 1996055819.43$0
Apr 1996061321.51$0
Mar 1996065219.38$0
Feb 199634862516.98$5,909
Jan 1996077317.07$0
Dec 1995047117.19$0
Nov 199529458116.00$4,704
Oct 1995057415.43$0
Sep 1995039816.18$0
Aug 1995047215.92$0
Jul 199534150215.24$5,197
Jun 1995034316.41$0
May 1995060217.56$0
Apr 1995064417.73$0
Mar 1995059516.44$0
Feb 199529564516.58$4,891
Jan 1995064015.92$0
Dec 1994072315.03$0
Nov 1994038415.90$0
Oct 1994055815.58$0
Sep 1994057015.29$0
Aug 199433869716.13$5,452
Jul 1994048917.56$0
Jun 1994050017.09$0
May 1994077115.88$0
Apr 1994068414.14$0
Mar 1994081412.46$0
Feb 1994085112.50$0
Jan 199433177312.66$4,190
Dec 1993044112.33$0
Nov 1993053714.49$0
Oct 199331064815.85$4,914
Sep 1993036115.03$0
Aug 199333241615.66$5,199
Jul 1993053815.46$0
Jun 1993070816.79$0
May 199331679917.68$5,587
Apr 199333584018.05$6,047
Mar 1993070618.14$0
Feb 1993079717.90$0
Jan 199333480116.93$5,655

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                   30 bbl  × $ 24.51 =       $735
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.12 =         $0

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Month total                                     $735

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/3433 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.