WHEELER, W. W.

Operated by CHEVRON U. S. A. INC. (P-5 148113) in the MILLS RANCH (GRANITE WASH CONS.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 8438District 10Field 61691235OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$742 k
May 2010 – May 2017
Value, last 12 filed months
$203
at the published price for each month
Months reported
85
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 274 leases and 400 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
2010-02-23
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 2013-07-09.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: DESIGNATED AS UFT FIELD PER DOCKET #01-0299858.

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
OilDisposition7,162 bbl$635,566
Casinghead gasProduction28,330 Mcf$106,901
Total$742,467

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 35.4051, -100.0993. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

35.40508, -100.09930 · 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
13,202 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
38.3 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 13,202 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 1978
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 2017
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 38.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 38.3 years and 38.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-48330532113,202 ftSep 1978Jan 2017Yes

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 (85)

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

85 months

May 20170045.373.26$0
Apr 20170047.933.21$0
Mar 20170046.772.98$0
Feb 20170050.452.95$0
Jan 20170049.413.42$0
Dec 20164048.763.72$195
Nov 20160042.492.64$0
Oct 20160046.193.09$0
Sep 20160041.553.10$0
Aug 20160041.442.92$0
Jul 20160041.622.92$0
Jun 20160345.352.69$8
May 201601642.521.99$32
Apr 20160036.561.99$0
Mar 20160933.011.79$16
Feb 201603026.472.06$62
Jan 201601827.352.36$43
Dec 201581332.362.00$285
Nov 20150938.792.17$20
Oct 20150743.552.43$17
Sep 201501042.992.76$28
Aug 2015321340.162.87$1,322
Jul 201501448.152.95$41
Jun 20150556.152.88$14
May 201501955.212.96$56
Apr 201502949.822.71$78
Mar 2015014742.892.93$431
Feb 2015031544.662.98$938
Jan 2015075443.433.10$2,338
Dec 20142111,09154.693.59$15,458
Nov 2014096570.464.25$4,103
Oct 20142771,10178.303.90$25,984
Sep 20141411,10386.164.05$16,611
Aug 201414388489.394.04$16,350
Jul 201401,03496.564.18$4,322
Jun 201414365698.164.74$17,144
May 201415211794.734.73$14,952
Apr 20141438295.944.81$14,114
Mar 20141397195.895.06$13,688
Feb 201413811697.406.19$14,159
Jan 201428318190.404.86$26,463
Dec 2013025491.824.35$1,106
Nov 201313924388.853.74$13,259
Oct 201313529297.423.78$14,255
Sep 2013278313104.113.72$30,106
Aug 2013144317104.253.52$16,129
Jul 2013142396102.523.72$16,030
Jun 20137934794.403.93$8,822
May 20136839794.834.15$8,096
Apr 201312747993.964.28$13,984
Mar 201312652093.623.91$13,831
Feb 201312955791.233.42$13,674
Jan 201326012191.603.42$24,230
Dec 2012034286.773.42$1,170
Nov 201213047886.953.62$13,036
Oct 201213152889.383.40$13,504
Sep 201213653694.672.92$14,439
Aug 2012014892.662.91$430
Jul 20122625385.133.02$22,464
Jun 2012010079.822.52$252
May 201213927791.612.49$13,423
Apr 2012269602101.652.00$28,546
Mar 20120549105.052.22$1,220
Feb 2012142797101.102.57$16,405
Jan 201213594098.092.73$15,812
Dec 201142074396.873.24$43,093
Nov 2011056595.723.31$1,871
Oct 201114028684.983.65$12,941
Sep 20110583.623.99$20
Aug 201103783.404.15$154
Jul 2011837394.144.52$8,143
Jun 2011016592.904.64$766
May 2011019298.134.40$846
Apr 20111100105.964.33$11,656
Mar 2011048196.364.06$1,952
Feb 201112340985.644.18$12,243
Jan 201125076186.504.59$25,117
Dec 20101251,12785.734.35$15,616
Nov 201012382680.843.80$13,078
Oct 201011568378.103.51$11,378
Sep 201013080072.633.98$12,625
Aug 201012682073.684.42$12,908
Jul 201037273572.554.74$30,470
Jun 2010062670.364.91$3,074
May 201026059871.124.24$21,024

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.

Dec 2016 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    4 bbl  × $ 48.76 =       $195
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.72 =         $0

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Month total                                     $195

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/8438 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.