WILSON, JAMES ELRICK -A-

Operated by BP AMERICA PRODUCTION COMPANY (P-5 40798) in the DUTCHER (CLEVELAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 4068District 10Field 26801333OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$336 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$230
at the published price for each month
Months reported
133
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 98 leases and 125 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1959-11-24
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
2,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
1,100 ft
minimum

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

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

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
OilDisposition13,324 bbl$224,890
Casinghead gasProduction89,295 Mcf$111,213
Total$336,103

47,868 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 (2)

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 36.0671, -100.7926. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

36.06713, -100.79259 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
8,343 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
26.8 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
2100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2100.0%
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 7,565 and 9,120 ft, median 8,343 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Feb 1976 – Jan 1977
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 2003
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 26.8 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 26.5 years and 26.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-3573040227,565 ftJan 1977Apr 2003Yes
42-3570074819,120 ftFeb 1976Apr 2003Yes

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 (133)

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

133 months

Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20038028.804.60$230
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
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 200102724.262.25$61
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 200162025.524.31$1,582
Apr 200109724.685.34$518
Mar 200109824.545.38$527
Feb 200102527.755.77$144
Jan 2001024627.478.40$2,066
Dec 2000047326.889.12$4,315
Nov 2000053132.215.66$3,004
Oct 200013854531.235.15$7,114
Sep 2000056231.875.19$2,915
Aug 2000054629.644.54$2,479
Jul 200012346128.534.09$5,395
Jun 2000041129.304.40$1,807
May 2000062227.263.68$2,289
Apr 2000056824.513.12$1,770
Mar 2000106028.422.86$3,013
Feb 2000080227.622.73$2,187
Jan 200016891225.272.48$6,508
Dec 1999098224.282.42$2,380
Nov 1999098123.192.43$2,388
Oct 19991611,17020.982.80$6,658
Sep 19992881,24221.752.62$9,517
Aug 199916194919.262.88$5,830
Jul 199913779617.892.37$4,339
Jun 199917288815.942.36$4,839
May 1999087115.792.32$2,022
Apr 19991611,26615.102.21$5,226
Mar 19993231,40312.471.84$6,607
Feb 19991781,2079.981.82$3,971
Jan 19991481,17710.381.90$3,772
Dec 199809379.201.77$1,662
Nov 199816493410.892.19$3,827
Oct 19981761,10012.421.97$4,352
Sep 19983511,05212.592.08$6,610
Aug 19981831,12611.301.91$4,216
Jul 19981691,14611.742.24$4,548
Jun 19983241,17311.242.24$6,266
May 199834993612.622.21$6,470
Apr 1998058213.042.51$1,458
Mar 1998065512.802.31$1,513
Feb 19985755313.952.30$2,067
Jan 199818159214.702.15$3,936
Dec 1997066716.322.41$1,608
Nov 1997078518.193.09$2,424
Oct 199717688819.253.15$6,185
Sep 199718189417.742.95$5,853
Aug 199717696517.862.55$5,609
Jul 1997096417.582.25$2,166
Jun 199716384717.242.26$4,722
May 199718498518.972.31$5,764
Apr 199718494017.882.08$5,248
Mar 19973101,14818.951.94$8,101
Feb 1997084820.492.21$1,871
Jan 199717585223.483.54$7,125
Dec 199615791323.32$3,661
Nov 199618585721.97$4,064
Oct 199617498123.31$4,056
Sep 199618192522.22$4,022
Aug 199615989520.26$3,221
Jul 199617595019.55$3,421
Jun 1996075918.73$0
May 19961761,09119.43$3,420
Apr 19961811,02521.51$3,893
Mar 19961781,03819.38$3,450
Feb 199617994916.98$3,039
Jan 199632698517.07$5,565
Dec 199517994217.19$3,077
Nov 199517495716.00$2,784
Oct 19951771,04815.43$2,731
Sep 19951791,07416.18$2,896
Aug 1995071615.92$0
Jul 199517673715.24$2,682
Jun 1995072016.41$0
May 1995078917.56$0
Apr 199518090517.73$3,191
Mar 19951861,14416.44$3,058
Feb 19951871,09816.58$3,100
Jan 19951751,18715.92$2,786
Dec 19943081,08415.03$4,629
Nov 19941671,09815.90$2,655
Oct 19941851,20115.58$2,882
Sep 19941741,21015.29$2,660
Aug 199417793516.13$2,855
Jul 19941691,20617.56$2,968
Jun 19941641,10417.09$2,803
May 19941761,17415.88$2,795
Apr 19941851,05414.14$2,616
Mar 19941771,10712.46$2,205
Feb 19941811,01612.50$2,263
Jan 199417998812.66$2,266
Dec 199318197512.33$2,232
Nov 199317195014.49$2,478
Oct 19931611,00415.85$2,552
Sep 1993080215.03$0
Aug 1993088815.66$0
Jul 199316594815.46$2,551
Jun 199317592916.79$2,938
May 199301,11117.68$0
Apr 19931741,00818.05$3,141
Mar 19931751,26618.14$3,175
Feb 19931771,02717.90$3,168
Jan 19931821,09816.93$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 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    8 bbl  × $ 28.80 =       $230
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.60 =         $0

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Month total                                     $230

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/4068 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.