STILES 68B

Operated by TAPSTONE ENERGY, LLC (P-5 836005) 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 8899District 10Field 61691235OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$17.0 M
Dec 2012 – Jun 2016
Value, last 12 filed months
$391 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
43
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
OilDisposition172,979 bbl$15,281,650
Casinghead gasProduction434,663 Mcf$1,680,568
Total$16,962,218

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 35.4390, -100.0543. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

35.43896, -100.05429 · 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
0.0%
0 of 2 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 2 wells
Median depth
10,736 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
00.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
2100.0%

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 10,733 and 10,738 ft, median 10,736 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Dec 2012
2 of 2 wells

2 wells

42-483335062568H10,738 ftDec 2012
42-483335192668H10,733 ftDec 2012

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 (43)

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

43 months

Jun 20160045.352.69$0
May 20160042.521.99$0
Apr 20160036.561.99$0
Mar 20160033.011.79$0
Feb 20160026.472.06$0
Jan 20160027.352.36$0
Dec 20150032.362.00$0
Nov 20151,9014,34338.792.17$83,153
Oct 20158615,80343.552.43$51,578
Sep 20151,4717,37442.992.76$83,579
Aug 20151,6698,21640.162.87$90,627
Jul 20151,3026,72148.152.95$82,485
Jun 20151,3497,10656.152.88$96,232
May 20151,7297,73155.212.96$118,307
Apr 20151,6336,59049.822.71$99,192
Mar 20151,5018,46342.892.93$89,214
Feb 20151,9506,56544.662.98$106,626
Jan 20151,7787,89843.433.10$101,707
Dec 20141,8625,88454.693.59$122,964
Nov 20142,6998,06070.464.25$224,441
Oct 20141,4944,60378.303.90$134,936
Sep 20141,6874,53686.164.05$163,702
Aug 20142,0508,42989.394.04$217,262
Jul 20142,6189,38196.564.18$292,003
Jun 20143,7457,90598.164.74$405,054
May 20142,95911,12494.734.73$332,884
Apr 20143,92714,79395.944.81$447,898
Mar 20142,95210,84695.895.06$337,913
Feb 20143,30013,17097.406.19$402,969
Jan 20143,98014,73190.404.86$431,395
Dec 20133,99012,34291.824.35$420,105
Nov 20134,98614,60388.853.74$497,596
Oct 20135,10314,93297.423.78$553,568
Sep 20135,30115,638104.113.72$610,025
Aug 20135,84417,224104.253.52$669,910
Jul 20138,08019,208102.523.72$899,772
Jun 20136,96919,53994.403.93$734,729
May 20139,54321,80594.834.15$995,433
Apr 201311,26724,77093.964.28$1,164,727
Mar 201313,94125,18693.623.91$1,403,706
Feb 201314,27123,17191.233.42$1,381,186
Jan 201321,89124,18491.603.42$2,087,923
Dec 201211,37611,78986.773.42$1,027,416

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 2015 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                1,901 bbl  × $ 38.79 =    $73,740
Casinghead gas     4,343 Mcf  × $  2.17 =     $9,413

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Month total                                  $83,153

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/8899 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.