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Operated by CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY (P-5 172232) 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 4251District 10Field 26801333NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$241 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2005
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
147
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

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
OilDisposition12,908 bbl$231,270
Casinghead gasProduction7,736 Mcf$10,175
Total$241,446

4,361 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 36.1829, -100.7766. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

36.18294, -100.77656 · 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
8,326 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
25.4 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 7,202 and 9,450 ft, median 8,326 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Sep 1977 – Apr 1981
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2004 – Dec 2004
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 25.4 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 24.6 years and 26.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-3573107527,202 ftApr 1981Dec 2004Yes
42-3570015719,450 ftSep 1977Nov 2004Yes

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 (147)

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

147 months

Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
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 200232024.583.06$787
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 2002195018.222.38$3,553
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 2001188018.072.41$3,397
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 2001188023.933.20$4,499
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 200103125.524.31$134
Apr 200119830124.685.34$6,493
Mar 200103124.545.38$167
Feb 200102827.755.77$161
Jan 20011963127.478.40$5,644
Dec 200003126.889.12$283
Nov 20001913032.215.66$6,322
Oct 200003131.235.15$160
Sep 200003031.875.19$156
Aug 20001973129.644.54$5,980
Jul 200003128.534.09$127
Jun 200003029.304.40$132
May 20001923127.263.68$5,348
Apr 200003024.513.12$93
Mar 200003128.422.86$89
Feb 20001962927.622.73$5,493
Jan 200003125.272.48$77
Dec 199903124.282.42$75
Nov 19991973023.192.43$4,641
Oct 199903120.982.80$87
Sep 199903021.752.62$79
Aug 19991913119.262.88$3,768
Jul 199903117.892.37$74
Jun 199903015.942.36$71
May 1999192115.792.32$3,034
Apr 19990115.102.21$2
Mar 1999190012.471.84$2,369
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 199901610.381.90$30
Dec 19980209.201.77$35
Nov 19981901610.892.19$2,104
Oct 199809712.421.97$191
Sep 199802012.592.08$42
Aug 19981741611.301.91$1,997
Jul 199809211.742.24$206
Jun 1998012111.242.24$271
May 199814912512.622.21$2,156
Apr 199816912113.042.51$2,507
Mar 199816912512.802.31$2,452
Feb 1998011313.952.30$260
Jan 199818512514.702.15$2,989
Dec 199715712516.322.41$2,864
Nov 199718012118.193.09$3,648
Oct 199717012519.253.15$3,666
Sep 19971899017.742.95$3,619
Aug 19971936917.862.55$3,623
Jul 199707517.582.25$169
Jun 19971549017.242.26$2,858
May 199719213118.972.31$3,945
Apr 1997014817.882.08$308
Mar 199736915518.951.94$7,293
Feb 199716414020.492.21$3,669
Jan 199709523.483.54$336
Dec 19961719523.32$3,988
Nov 199609321.97$0
Oct 19961599723.31$3,706
Sep 19961879322.22$4,155
Aug 19961749620.26$3,525
Jul 19961839719.55$3,578
Jun 19961539418.73$2,866
May 19961959719.43$3,789
Apr 19961599421.51$3,420
Mar 199609719.38$0
Feb 19961979016.98$3,345
Jan 19961529717.07$2,595
Dec 19951949717.19$3,335
Nov 19951966616.00$3,136
Oct 19951399715.43$2,145
Sep 19951909416.18$3,074
Aug 19951919715.92$3,041
Jul 19951509715.24$2,286
Jun 19951919416.41$3,134
May 19951579717.56$2,757
Apr 199508817.73$0
Mar 19951938816.44$3,173
Feb 19951936916.58$3,200
Jan 1995161215.92$2,563
Dec 19941518815.03$2,270
Nov 19941919415.90$3,037
Oct 19941529715.58$2,368
Sep 199409415.29$0
Aug 19943589716.13$5,775
Jul 199409717.56$0
Jun 19941916917.09$3,264
May 19941929715.88$3,049
Apr 19941589414.14$2,234
Mar 19941859712.46$2,305
Feb 19941948812.50$2,425
Jan 19941649712.66$2,076
Dec 19931819712.33$2,232
Nov 19931839414.49$2,652
Oct 19931539715.85$2,425
Sep 19931879415.03$2,811
Aug 19931869715.66$2,913
Jul 19931398015.46$2,149
Jun 19931929416.79$3,224
May 19931819717.68$3,200
Apr 19931629418.05$2,924
Mar 19931869718.14$3,374
Feb 19931908817.90$3,401
Jan 199309716.93$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.

Jul 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   32 bbl  × $ 24.58 =       $787
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.06 =         $0

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Month total                                     $787

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/4251 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.