BELL

Name: BELL lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by MEWBOURNE OIL COMPANY (P-5 562560) in the BECHTHOLD (TONKAWA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 6342District 10Field 06589500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$234 k

Jan 1993 – Jul 2003

Value, last 12 filed months

$14 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

127

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The BECHTHOLD (TONKAWA) field

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 36 leases and 58 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1959-04-11

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 Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “FOR GAS WELLS.”

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.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	1	none	—	—

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	4,951 bbl	$90,890
Casinghead gas	Production	122,973 Mcf	$143,591
Total			$234,481

76,188 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 36.4447, -100.5216. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

36.44470, -100.52156 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

8,394 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

16.4 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 8,394 ft.

Completions filed

Oct 1986

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Mar 2003

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.4 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16.4 years and 16.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-29531620	4	8,394 ft	Oct 1986	Mar 2003	Yes

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 (127)

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

127 months


Jul 2003	0	0	29.41	5.17	$0
Jun 2003	0	0	28.56	5.98	$0
May 2003	0	0	26.59	5.97	$0
Apr 2003	0	0	26.67	5.41	$0
Mar 2003	0	0	31.14	6.10	$0
Feb 2003	0	131	33.48	7.93	$1,038
Jan 2003	0	144	30.31	5.58	$804
Dec 2002	0	145	26.91	4.85	$704
Nov 2002	64	588	24.66	4.14	$4,011
Oct 2002	0	646	26.46	4.23	$2,732
Sep 2002	0	637	27.44	3.64	$2,316
Aug 2002	0	642	25.96	3.16	$2,031
Jul 2002	60	660	24.58	3.06	$3,496
Jun 2002	0	578	23.73	3.34	$1,930
May 2002	0	632	24.66	3.58	$2,265
Apr 2002	0	610	23.65	3.51	$2,143
Mar 2002	0	502	22.00	3.10	$1,558
Feb 2002	67	503	18.22	2.38	$2,416
Jan 2002	0	715	17.17	2.38	$1,699
Dec 2001	0	682	16.93	2.36	$1,613
Nov 2001	0	521	18.07	2.41	$1,253
Oct 2001	84	546	19.78	2.53	$3,042
Sep 2001	0	644	24.26	2.25	$1,450
Aug 2001	0	673	24.87	3.05	$2,055
Jul 2001	0	367	23.93	3.20	$1,173
Jun 2001	116	320	24.56	3.82	$4,073
May 2001	0	595	25.52	4.31	$2,563
Apr 2001	0	535	24.68	5.34	$2,854
Mar 2001	0	545	24.54	5.38	$2,930
Feb 2001	126	410	27.75	5.77	$5,861
Jan 2001	0	579	27.47	8.40	$4,863
Dec 2000	0	574	26.88	9.12	$5,236
Nov 2000	123	680	32.21	5.66	$7,809
Oct 2000	0	665	31.23	5.15	$3,422
Sep 2000	0	346	31.87	5.19	$1,795
Aug 2000	0	498	29.64	4.54	$2,261
Jul 2000	0	711	28.53	4.09	$2,908
Jun 2000	92	648	29.30	4.40	$5,545
May 2000	0	633	27.26	3.68	$2,329
Apr 2000	80	591	24.51	3.12	$3,802
Mar 2000	0	601	28.42	2.86	$1,719
Feb 2000	0	499	27.62	2.73	$1,361
Jan 2000	85	639	25.27	2.48	$3,733
Dec 1999	0	573	24.28	2.42	$1,389
Nov 1999	74	608	23.19	2.43	$3,196
Oct 1999	0	425	20.98	2.80	$1,192
Sep 1999	0	715	21.75	2.62	$1,872
Aug 1999	0	755	19.26	2.88	$2,171
Jul 1999	87	737	17.89	2.37	$3,305
Jun 1999	90	710	15.94	2.36	$3,112
May 1999	88	803	15.79	2.32	$3,253
Apr 1999	0	363	15.10	2.21	$802
Mar 1999	90	611	12.47	1.84	$2,246
Feb 1999	88	649	9.98	1.82	$2,058
Jan 1999	0	774	10.38	1.90	$1,471
Dec 1998	91	860	9.20	1.77	$2,362
Nov 1998	0	708	10.89	2.19	$1,547
Oct 1998	95	881	12.42	1.97	$2,915
Sep 1998	0	787	12.59	2.08	$1,639
Aug 1998	0	876	11.30	1.91	$1,671
Jul 1998	0	653	11.74	2.24	$1,461
Jun 1998	0	735	11.24	2.24	$1,644
May 1998	0	735	12.62	2.21	$1,622
Apr 1998	121	422	13.04	2.51	$2,635
Mar 1998	0	420	12.80	2.31	$970
Feb 1998	110	460	13.95	2.30	$2,592
Jan 1998	98	672	14.70	2.15	$2,889
Dec 1997	0	705	16.32	2.41	$1,700
Nov 1997	0	743	18.19	3.09	$2,295
Oct 1997	134	798	19.25	3.15	$5,093
Sep 1997	0	885	17.74	2.95	$2,615
Aug 1997	0	744	17.86	2.55	$1,901
Jul 1997	69	831	17.58	2.25	$3,080
Jun 1997	0	654	17.24	2.26	$1,476
May 1997	69	873	18.97	2.31	$3,324
Apr 1997	0	896	17.88	2.08	$1,866
Mar 1997	0	848	18.95	1.94	$1,644
Feb 1997	73	992	20.49	2.21	$3,684
Jan 1997	62	1,249	23.48	3.54	$5,877
Dec 1996	198	1,242	23.32	—	$4,617
Nov 1996	0	1,582	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	1,051	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	77	1,470	22.22	—	$1,711
Aug 1996	84	1,125	20.26	—	$1,702
Jul 1996	88	1,259	19.55	—	$1,720
Jun 1996	0	923	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	70	1,097	19.43	—	$1,360
Apr 1996	0	940	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	53	1,048	19.38	—	$1,027
Feb 1996	48	809	16.98	—	$815
Jan 1996	49	808	17.07	—	$836
Dec 1995	56	900	17.19	—	$963
Nov 1995	50	879	16.00	—	$800
Oct 1995	97	842	15.43	—	$1,497
Sep 1995	39	980	16.18	—	$631
Aug 1995	33	1,448	15.92	—	$525
Jul 1995	76	1,756	15.24	—	$1,158
Jun 1995	30	1,283	16.41	—	$492
May 1995	208	1,797	17.56	—	$3,652
Apr 1995	90	1,771	17.73	—	$1,596
Mar 1995	0	1,732	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	0	1,388	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	90	1,609	15.92	—	$1,433
Dec 1994	87	1,794	15.03	—	$1,308
Nov 1994	0	3,558	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	92	1,748	15.58	—	$1,433
Sep 1994	0	1,643	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	0	1,677	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	107	1,814	17.56	—	$1,879
Jun 1994	0	1,624	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	0	1,884	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	140	713	14.14	—	$1,980
Mar 1994	0	1,449	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	0	1,677	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	78	1,539	12.66	—	$987
Dec 1993	78	1,879	12.33	—	$962
Nov 1993	0	2,184	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	158	2,037	15.85	—	$2,504
Sep 1993	0	2,013	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	0	1,846	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	76	1,746	15.46	—	$1,175
Jun 1993	80	2,230	16.79	—	$1,343
May 1993	2	2,378	17.68	—	$35
Apr 1993	53	2,305	18.05	—	$957
Mar 1993	78	2,338	18.14	—	$1,415
Feb 1993	71	1,937	17.90	—	$1,271
Jan 1993	79	2,436	16.93	—	$1,337

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.

Feb 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                    0 bbl  × $ 33.48 =         $0
Casinghead gas       131 Mcf  × $  7.93 =     $1,038

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Month total                                   $1,038

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/6342 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.