MAHLER

Operated by WHITING OIL AND GAS CORPORATION (P-5 920478) in the MENDOTA, NW. (GRANITE WASH, SW.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 4692District 10Field 60462550NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$631 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 2012
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
229
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 93 leases and 143 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1976-04-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1984-02-27.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: WASH) FIELD EFFECTIVE 12/05/17.

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
NGPA2none

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
OilDisposition5,860 bbl$259,759
Casinghead gasProduction65,006 Mcf$370,749
Total$630,508

12 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 12 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 35.8875, -100.5921. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

35.88750, -100.59215 · 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
10,199 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
38.0 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 10,098 and 10,300 ft, median 10,199 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jul 1980 – Aug 1980
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2011 – Dec 2025
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 38.0 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 34.3 years and 41.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-39330796210610,300 ftAug 1980Dec 2025Yes
42-39330750110610,098 ftJul 1980Mar 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 (229)

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

229 months

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 20100780.843.80$27
Oct 201012926078.103.51$10,987
Sep 2010019572.633.98$776
Aug 2010017173.684.42$756
Jul 201018916872.554.74$14,508
Jun 2010021270.364.91$1,041
May 2010018371.124.24$775
Apr 2010013581.694.12$557
Mar 2010012878.394.39$562
Feb 2010019773.585.44$1,072
Jan 2010015674.365.96$930
Dec 2009019671.445.48$1,075
Nov 2009010674.593.75$398
Oct 200909172.544.11$374
Sep 200918623365.543.06$12,905
Aug 2009023467.423.22$753
Jul 2009031461.133.46$1,088
Jun 2009027166.163.90$1,056
May 2009025654.743.93$1,005
Apr 2009015546.773.59$556
Mar 2009013242.144.06$536
Feb 200918518732.814.63$6,936
Jan 2009018635.865.37$999
Dec 2008024837.105.98$1,482
Nov 2008026755.496.86$1,832
Oct 200820131775.246.92$17,318
Sep 20080235101.767.88$1,851
Aug 20080220114.228.48$1,866
Jul 20080622131.0811.39$7,084
Jun 20080113131.3313.03$1,473
May 2008184593123.1711.57$29,527
Apr 20080546110.3110.45$5,708
Mar 20080361101.909.66$3,489
Feb 200819344492.538.77$21,752
Jan 2008035690.388.21$2,921
Dec 2007063688.337.30$4,644
Nov 2007099291.677.29$7,233
Oct 2007040582.856.92$2,803
Sep 2007023275.846.24$1,449
Aug 2007017869.066.39$1,137
Jul 200720034870.906.39$16,403
Jun 20070862.007.55$60
May 2007011758.747.85$918
Apr 200701359.617.81$101
Mar 2007038956.927.30$2,840
Feb 2007044455.108.22$3,648
Jan 2007061050.306.73$4,103
Dec 2006012456.656.92$858
Nov 2006028254.207.62$2,148
Oct 2006055254.906.01$3,320
Sep 200601,42660.085.04$7,183
Aug 200601,82368.717.34$13,381
Jul 200602,37369.376.34$15,051
Jun 200615998166.286.38$16,801
May 200601,52766.016.42$9,811
Apr 200601,25964.397.36$9,267
Mar 2006095656.707.08$6,771
Feb 20063781,08557.597.75$30,179
Jan 200601,15060.598.93$10,273
Dec 2005090854.9413.42$12,181
Nov 2005061254.6910.59$6,480
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 2005012161.4512.08$1,462
Aug 2005012361.519.80$1,205
Jul 200519419855.697.84$12,357
Jun 200509252.337.38$679
May 2005011845.226.65$785
Apr 2005015149.207.36$1,111
Mar 2005019550.377.15$1,395
Feb 2005011645.226.31$732
Jan 200508343.166.32$525
Dec 2004025039.866.75$1,688
Nov 2004021045.286.33$1,329
Oct 2004018449.706.52$1,199
Sep 2004036643.245.28$1,934
Aug 200439226142.375.55$18,058
Jul 2004020238.286.08$1,229
Jun 2004017636.106.43$1,132
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 2004014834.475.86$867
Mar 2004030034.365.53$1,659
Feb 2004015832.455.51$871
Jan 2004020232.036.30$1,273
Dec 2003021730.266.30$1,367
Nov 200337019028.804.60$11,529
Oct 2003075228.174.76$3,579
Sep 2003082026.314.75$3,894
Aug 2003077529.765.13$3,976
Jul 2003064929.415.17$3,356
Jun 2003068428.565.98$4,092
May 200318759726.595.97$8,538
Apr 2003058826.675.41$3,179
Mar 2003064331.146.10$3,920
Feb 2003052033.487.93$4,121
Jan 200318677330.315.58$9,953
Dec 2002060826.914.85$2,951
Nov 2002068224.664.14$2,821
Oct 2002078326.464.23$3,311
Sep 2002062627.443.64$2,276
Aug 2002063325.963.16$2,003
Jul 2002058024.583.06$1,776
Jun 2002061423.733.34$2,050
May 2002054424.663.58$1,950
Apr 200239255523.653.51$11,220
Mar 2002052622.003.10$1,632
Feb 2002053018.222.38$1,259
Jan 2002051517.172.38$1,223
Dec 2001064016.932.36$1,513
Nov 2001047018.072.41$1,131
Oct 200118649019.782.53$4,918
Sep 2001050624.262.25$1,139
Aug 2001052624.873.05$1,606
Jul 2001055923.933.20$1,787
Jun 200119216124.563.82$5,331
May 2001056425.524.31$2,429
Apr 2001073724.685.34$3,932
Mar 2001080224.545.38$4,312
Feb 2001058127.755.77$3,351
Jan 200119559327.478.40$10,337
Dec 200001,02126.889.12$9,314
Nov 2000039032.215.66$2,207
Oct 20001961,00331.235.15$11,282
Sep 200001,11931.875.19$5,804
Aug 20001921,45629.644.54$12,302
Jul 200019439028.534.09$7,130
Jun 2000066429.304.40$2,920
May 200019773427.263.68$8,071
Apr 20001991,18524.513.12$8,570
Mar 20001922,26328.422.86$11,928
Feb 20003922,15727.622.73$16,708
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 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 19950116.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 19940115.03$0
Nov 19940115.90$0
Oct 19940115.58$0
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 19940117.56$0
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 19940015.88$0
Apr 19940014.14$0
Mar 19940012.46$0
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 19930014.49$0
Oct 19930015.85$0
Sep 19930015.03$0
Aug 19930015.66$0
Jul 19930115.46$0
Jun 19930016.79$0
May 19930017.68$0
Apr 19930018.05$0
Mar 19930018.14$0
Feb 19930017.90$0
Jan 19930016.93$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.

Nov 2010 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    0 bbl  × $ 80.84 =         $0
Casinghead gas         7 Mcf  × $  3.80 =        $27

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Month total                                      $27

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/4692 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.