CHAPMAN, A.

Operated by BETA-TEX, AN OKLAHOMA CORP. (P-5 68309) in the PANHANDLE GRAY COUNTY FIELD field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 4216District 10Field 68873001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$20 k
Jan 1993 – May 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$25
at the published price for each month
Months reported
101
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 837 leases and 6,360 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1921-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
467 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 1989-05-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: UNTIL THE FLUID MIGRATION FROM SUCH STRATA IS ELIMINATED.

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
OilDisposition864 bbl$16,006
Casinghead gasProduction5,493 Mcf$4,388
Total$20,394

3,654 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 (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 35.3740, -100.6978. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

35.37399, -100.69779 · 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
3,000 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
23.8 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 3,000 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 1977
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2001
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 23.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 23.8 years and 23.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-1793035713,000 ftJun 1977Mar 2001Yes

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 (101)

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

101 months

May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20011024.545.38$25
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 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 199902824.282.42$68
Nov 199904423.192.43$107
Oct 19991844020.982.80$3,972
Sep 199905021.752.62$131
Aug 199906219.262.88$178
Jul 199906017.892.37$142
Jun 199908315.942.36$196
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999079.981.82$13
Jan 199904710.381.90$89
Dec 19980519.201.77$90
Nov 199805310.892.19$116
Oct 199805212.421.97$102
Sep 199805912.592.08$123
Aug 199805411.301.91$103
Jul 199806511.742.24$145
Jun 199806211.242.24$139
May 199806012.622.21$132
Apr 199805913.042.51$148
Mar 199807012.802.31$162
Feb 199805813.952.30$133
Jan 199806714.702.15$144
Dec 199705616.322.41$135
Nov 199705618.193.09$173
Oct 199706219.253.15$195
Sep 199706217.742.95$183
Aug 199705717.862.55$146
Jul 199706317.582.25$142
Jun 19971695717.242.26$3,042
May 199706018.972.31$139
Apr 199705717.882.08$119
Mar 199706318.951.94$122
Feb 199705720.492.21$126
Jan 199705823.483.54$205
Dec 199605923.32$0
Nov 199606621.97$0
Oct 199606323.31$0
Sep 199606222.22$0
Aug 199606720.26$0
Jul 199606719.55$0
Jun 199606418.73$0
May 199606319.43$0
Apr 19961387221.51$2,968
Mar 199608119.38$0
Feb 199608016.98$0
Jan 199607117.07$0
Dec 199507117.19$0
Nov 199507016.00$0
Oct 199507115.43$0
Sep 199507016.18$0
Aug 199507815.92$0
Jul 199507415.24$0
Jun 199508516.41$0
May 19951059117.56$1,844
Apr 199509017.73$0
Mar 199506316.44$0
Feb 199507316.58$0
Jan 1995178515.92$271
Dec 199408215.03$0
Nov 199407615.90$0
Oct 199406415.58$0
Sep 199406715.29$0
Aug 199407216.13$0
Jul 199406417.56$0
Jun 19941256817.09$2,136
May 199407615.88$0
Apr 199407414.14$0
Mar 199408812.46$0
Feb 1994458112.50$563
Jan 199408612.66$0
Dec 199308712.33$0
Nov 199308914.49$0
Oct 199308615.85$0
Sep 199308915.03$0
Aug 199309215.66$0
Jul 199307515.46$0
Jun 1993149416.79$235
May 199307117.68$0
Apr 1993667118.05$1,191
Mar 199309518.14$0
Feb 199308517.90$0
Jan 199308616.93$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.

Mar 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    1 bbl  × $ 24.54 =        $25
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.38 =         $0

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Month total                                      $25

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/4216 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.