MCDONALD

Operated by SMITH PIPE OF ABILENE (P-5 794745) in the PEASTER, NORTH (STRAWN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 116388District 7BField 70004500NGPA filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$12 k
Jan 1993 – Nov 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
107
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 1 leases and 1 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1985-04-08
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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
CondensateDisposition89 bbl$1,967
GasProduction11,304 Mcf$9,868
Total$11,835

7,245 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 32.8894, -97.8696. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.88942, -97.86961 · 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
5,417 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
16.6 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 5,417 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 1985
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2001
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16.6 years and 16.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3673283015,417 ftApr 1985Nov 2001Yes

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 (107)

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

107 months

Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 200012032.215.66$387
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
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 19990210.381.90$4
Dec 19980119.201.77$20
Nov 199801910.892.19$42
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 1998013512.592.08$281
Aug 1998015911.301.91$303
Jul 1998017611.742.24$394
Jun 1998016911.242.24$378
May 1998017712.622.21$391
Apr 1998016313.042.51$408
Mar 1998017812.802.31$411
Feb 1998016213.952.30$372
Jan 1998020614.702.15$444
Dec 1997021216.322.41$511
Nov 1997020718.193.09$639
Oct 1997020619.253.15$649
Sep 1997022317.742.95$659
Aug 1997023217.862.55$593
Jul 1997022217.582.25$499
Jun 1997020517.242.26$463
May 1997019718.972.31$455
Apr 1997019917.882.08$414
Mar 1997020918.951.94$405
Feb 1997018520.492.21$408
Jan 1997020523.483.54$726
Dec 1996022523.32$0
Nov 1996021321.97$0
Oct 1996023223.31$0
Sep 1996019622.22$0
Aug 1996014920.26$0
Jul 1996013519.55$0
Jun 199609918.73$0
May 1996010819.43$0
Apr 19966113421.51$1,312
Mar 1996013819.38$0
Feb 1996010616.98$0
Jan 1996017917.07$0
Dec 1995017717.19$0
Nov 1995017616.00$0
Oct 1995015315.43$0
Sep 1995016716.18$0
Aug 1995018715.92$0
Jul 1995012515.24$0
Jun 1995014216.41$0
May 1995013717.56$0
Apr 1995010817.73$0
Mar 1995013316.44$0
Feb 1995012916.58$0
Jan 1995015415.92$0
Dec 199409615.03$0
Nov 199407715.90$0
Oct 199408315.58$0
Sep 199408715.29$0
Aug 199409016.13$0
Jul 1994018217.56$0
Jun 1994015917.09$0
May 1994017615.88$0
Apr 1994016814.14$0
Mar 1994017612.46$0
Feb 1994014812.50$0
Jan 1994017412.66$0
Dec 1993014312.33$0
Nov 1993015914.49$0
Oct 1993017315.85$0
Sep 1993011315.03$0
Aug 1993014815.66$0
Jul 1993012715.46$0
Jun 19931617916.79$269
May 1993019117.68$0
Apr 1993016318.05$0
Mar 1993016218.14$0
Feb 1993017617.90$0
Jan 1993019316.93$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 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            12 bbl  × $ 32.21 =       $387
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  5.66 =         $0

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Month total                                     $387

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. 7B/G/116388 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.