BLODGETT, DETA A

Operated by LINN OPERATING, INC. (P-5 501545) in the HORIZON (CLEVELAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 3851District 10Field 42597332NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$385 k
Jan 1993 – Sep 2013
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
249
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 172 leases and 292 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1957-09-19
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 field rule took effect on 1958-06-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: PETRO (CLEVELAND) FLD 68735120 EFC 5/1/11

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
OilDisposition9,814 bbl$182,285
Casinghead gasProduction129,032 Mcf$203,169
Total$385,453

69,224 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 (4)

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 36.1213, -101.0857. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

36.12135, -101.08567 · 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%
4 of 4 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
4 of 4 wells
Median depth
6,602 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
25.0 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
4100.0%
A plug date is filed
4100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
4100.0%
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 6,550 and 6,628 ft, median 6,602 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jun 1973 – Aug 2006
4 of 4 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 1987 – Jul 2011
4 of 4 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 25.0 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 11.8 years and 36.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-1953078046,604 ftAug 2006Jul 2011Yes
42-3573032136,628 ftSep 1975Jul 2011Yes
42-3573017826,600 ftNov 1973Dec 1987Yes
42-1953008216,550 ftJun 1973Jul 2011Yes

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 (249)

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

249 months

Sep 201300104.113.72$0
Aug 201300104.253.52$0
Jul 201300102.523.72$0
Jun 20130094.403.93$0
May 20130094.834.15$0
Apr 20130093.964.28$0
Mar 20130093.623.91$0
Feb 20130091.233.42$0
Jan 20130091.603.42$0
Dec 20120086.773.42$0
Nov 20120086.953.62$0
Oct 20120089.383.40$0
Sep 20120094.672.92$0
Aug 20120092.662.91$0
Jul 20120085.133.02$0
Jun 20120079.822.52$0
May 20120091.612.49$0
Apr 201200101.652.00$0
Mar 201200105.052.22$0
Feb 201200101.102.57$0
Jan 20120098.092.73$0
Dec 20110096.873.24$0
Nov 20110095.723.31$0
Oct 20110084.983.65$0
Sep 20110083.623.99$0
Aug 20110083.404.15$0
Jul 20110094.144.52$0
Jun 20110092.904.64$0
May 20110098.134.40$0
Apr 201100105.964.33$0
Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
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 200861055.496.86$3,385
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 2008410101.767.88$4,172
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 2006017369.376.34$1,097
Jun 2006014866.286.38$945
May 2006028866.016.42$1,850
Apr 2006044664.397.36$3,283
Mar 2006031756.707.08$2,245
Feb 200606857.597.75$527
Jan 2006019260.598.93$1,715
Dec 2005015054.9413.42$2,012
Nov 2005020054.6910.59$2,118
Oct 2005027858.3413.80$3,835
Sep 2005021761.4512.08$2,621
Aug 2005019861.519.80$1,940
Jul 2005023855.697.84$1,867
Jun 2005022452.337.38$1,653
May 2005021145.226.65$1,403
Apr 2005023349.207.36$1,715
Mar 2005023850.377.15$1,703
Feb 2005019945.226.31$1,256
Jan 2005021743.166.32$1,372
Dec 200405139.866.75$344
Nov 200402745.286.33$171
Oct 200401649.706.52$104
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 200401838.286.08$110
Jun 2004010536.106.43$675
May 200408137.486.49$526
Apr 2004014034.475.86$820
Mar 2004023934.365.53$1,322
Feb 2004035632.455.51$1,961
Jan 200416032532.036.30$7,172
Dec 2003040130.266.30$2,527
Nov 2003036028.804.60$1,654
Oct 2003038828.174.76$1,847
Sep 2003029526.314.75$1,401
Aug 2003040129.765.13$2,057
Jul 2003031629.415.17$1,634
Jun 2003030028.565.98$1,795
May 2003031326.595.97$1,869
Apr 2003030926.675.41$1,671
Mar 2003038131.146.10$2,323
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 2003174030.315.58$5,274
Dec 2002038826.914.85$1,883
Nov 2002038224.664.14$1,580
Oct 2002046326.464.23$1,958
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 2002033025.963.16$1,044
Jul 2002014224.583.06$435
Jun 200216231123.733.34$4,882
May 2002033324.663.58$1,193
Apr 2002027923.653.51$980
Mar 2002039322.003.10$1,219
Feb 2002042218.222.38$1,003
Jan 2002051317.172.38$1,219
Dec 200116651316.932.36$4,023
Nov 2001047518.072.41$1,143
Oct 2001039219.782.53$991
Sep 2001019224.262.25$432
Aug 2001034424.873.05$1,050
Jul 2001035923.933.20$1,148
Jun 200117848624.563.82$6,230
May 2001050925.524.31$2,192
Apr 2001063924.685.34$3,409
Mar 200116182124.545.38$8,365
Feb 2001024427.755.77$1,407
Jan 2001037127.478.40$3,116
Dec 200015940526.889.12$7,969
Nov 2000038732.215.66$2,190
Oct 200017128731.235.15$6,817
Sep 2000020831.875.19$1,079
Aug 2000024329.644.54$1,103
Jul 2000023728.534.09$969
Jun 200017323829.304.40$6,115
May 2000020727.263.68$762
Apr 2000018524.513.12$576
Mar 200015619628.422.86$4,994
Feb 2000024727.622.73$673
Jan 200015726825.272.48$4,632
Dec 1999025224.282.42$611
Nov 199914824823.192.43$4,036
Oct 1999034620.982.80$970
Sep 1999042621.752.62$1,116
Aug 199913650119.262.88$4,060
Jul 199901,06317.892.37$2,522
Jun 199916690815.942.36$4,791
May 1999097615.792.32$2,265
Apr 199917477115.102.21$4,330
Mar 199901,02412.471.84$1,882
Feb 19991647409.981.82$2,982
Jan 1999046510.381.90$883
Dec 19981481,3669.201.77$3,784
Nov 199816692910.892.19$3,838
Oct 199801,06212.421.97$2,091
Sep 19981611,13512.592.08$4,391
Aug 199801,12611.301.91$2,148
Jul 19981691,14711.742.24$4,550
Jun 19981791,14211.242.24$4,567
May 19981501,28112.622.21$4,719
Apr 19981541,01913.042.51$4,561
Mar 19981591,74912.802.31$6,074
Feb 19983441,16113.952.30$7,468
Jan 199815472614.702.15$3,828
Dec 199701,06916.322.41$2,577
Nov 19971821,16918.193.09$6,921
Oct 199701,75019.253.15$5,512
Sep 199701,24217.742.95$3,670
Aug 19971671,13017.862.55$5,869
Jul 199701,41417.582.25$3,177
Jun 199701,73917.242.26$3,925
May 19971541,57318.972.31$6,553
Apr 199701,45917.882.08$3,039
Mar 199701,32818.951.94$2,575
Feb 19971821,33320.492.21$6,670
Jan 19971791,57323.483.54$9,771
Dec 199601,34923.32$0
Nov 199601,44921.97$0
Oct 199601,31623.31$0
Sep 19961801,36622.22$4,000
Aug 199601,35920.26$0
Jul 19961801,22619.55$3,519
Jun 199601,26718.73$0
May 19961631,24319.43$3,167
Apr 199601,38521.51$0
Mar 19961801,28219.38$3,488
Feb 199601,37316.98$0
Jan 199601,17717.07$0
Dec 19951581,41717.19$2,716
Nov 199501,40316.00$0
Oct 199501,59815.43$0
Sep 19951701,95216.18$2,751
Aug 199502,07715.92$0
Jul 19951811,78615.24$2,758
Jun 19951901,61716.41$3,118
May 199501,22917.56$0
Apr 199501,16517.73$0
Mar 199501,34916.44$0
Feb 19951631,86316.58$2,703
Jan 199502,27015.92$0
Dec 19941851,03715.03$2,781
Nov 199401,08115.90$0
Oct 19941871,08615.58$2,913
Sep 199401,21315.29$0
Aug 199401,40516.13$0
Jul 19941781,29017.56$3,126
Jun 19941791,46317.09$3,059
May 199401,45015.88$0
Apr 19941861,59214.14$2,630
Mar 199401,51812.46$0
Feb 19941801,38912.50$2,250
Jan 199401,61912.66$0
Dec 19931801,57912.33$2,219
Nov 19931791,51914.49$2,594
Oct 19931781,70915.85$2,821
Sep 19931821,74915.03$2,735
Aug 199301,04315.66$0
Jul 19931771,25015.46$2,736
Jun 19931811,38816.79$3,039
May 199301,56417.68$0
Apr 19933611,58218.05$6,516
Mar 19931791,48218.14$3,247
Feb 199301,08117.90$0
Jan 19931821,61716.93$3,081

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.

Nov 2008 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   61 bbl  × $ 55.49 =     $3,385
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.86 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $3,385

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/3851 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.