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Operated by SWARTZ OIL COMPANY (P-5 833090) in the PALO PINTO COUNTY REGULAR field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 87740District 7BField 68707001NGPA filingGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$19 k
Jan 1993 – Jul 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$935
at the published price for each month
Months reported
139
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
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 344 leases and 721 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1915-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and 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
GasProduction14,878 Mcf$19,103
Total$19,103

7,149 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 40 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 32.8036, -98.4201. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.80359, -98.42013 · 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
4,293 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
24.5 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 4,293 ft.

Completions filed
Jan 1980
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 2004
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 24.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 24.5 years and 24.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3633226014,293 ftJan 1980Jul 2004Yes

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 (139)

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

139 months

Jul 2004038.286.08$0
Jun 2004036.106.43$0
May 2004037.486.49$0
Apr 2004034.475.86$0
Mar 2004034.365.53$0
Feb 2004032.455.51$0
Jan 2004032.036.30$0
Dec 2003030.266.30$0
Nov 2003528.804.60$23
Oct 20034328.174.76$205
Sep 20037026.314.75$332
Aug 20037329.765.13$374
Jul 2003029.415.17$0
Jun 2003028.565.98$0
May 2003026.595.97$0
Apr 2003026.675.41$0
Mar 2003031.146.10$0
Feb 2003033.487.93$0
Jan 2003030.315.58$0
Dec 2002026.914.85$0
Nov 2002024.664.14$0
Oct 2002026.464.23$0
Sep 2002027.443.64$0
Aug 2002025.963.16$0
Jul 2002024.583.06$0
Jun 2002023.733.34$0
May 2002024.663.58$0
Apr 2002023.653.51$0
Mar 2002022.003.10$0
Feb 2002018.222.38$0
Jan 2002017.172.38$0
Dec 2001016.932.36$0
Nov 2001018.072.41$0
Oct 2001019.782.53$0
Sep 2001024.262.25$0
Aug 2001024.873.05$0
Jul 20019623.933.20$307
Jun 20016124.563.82$233
May 200110425.524.31$448
Apr 2001424.685.34$21
Mar 20012224.545.38$118
Feb 2001027.755.77$0
Jan 2001027.478.40$0
Dec 2000026.889.12$0
Nov 2000032.215.66$0
Oct 2000031.235.15$0
Sep 2000031.875.19$0
Aug 2000029.644.54$0
Jul 2000028.534.09$0
Jun 2000029.304.40$0
May 2000027.263.68$0
Apr 2000024.513.12$0
Mar 20001228.422.86$34
Feb 20003427.622.73$93
Jan 20004125.272.48$102
Dec 19991224.282.42$29
Nov 19993723.192.43$90
Oct 19996220.982.80$174
Sep 19996821.752.62$178
Aug 19994519.262.88$129
Jul 1999017.892.37$0
Jun 19995015.942.36$118
May 19992415.792.32$56
Apr 19995915.102.21$130
Mar 19995612.471.84$103
Feb 19991549.981.82$280
Jan 19999410.381.90$179
Dec 19981339.201.77$236
Nov 199815810.892.19$345
Oct 199826312.421.97$518
Sep 199825012.592.08$521
Aug 199825411.301.91$484
Jul 199812211.742.24$273
Jun 199830511.242.24$682
May 199819312.622.21$426
Apr 199822513.042.51$564
Mar 199830712.802.31$709
Feb 199824813.952.30$570
Jan 199827614.702.15$595
Dec 199730816.322.41$743
Nov 199723018.193.09$710
Oct 199730919.253.15$973
Sep 199729217.742.95$863
Aug 199729717.862.55$759
Jul 199737117.582.25$834
Jun 199741417.242.26$934
May 199735818.972.31$826
Apr 199735217.882.08$733
Mar 199731518.951.94$611
Feb 199731120.492.21$686
Jan 199721223.483.54$750
Dec 199623823.32$0
Nov 199622321.97$0
Oct 199628423.31$0
Sep 199627122.22$0
Aug 199617120.26$0
Jul 199631619.55$0
Jun 199630718.73$0
May 199635419.43$0
Apr 199651421.51$0
Mar 199645319.38$0
Feb 199619516.98$0
Jan 199618117.07$0
Dec 199522717.19$0
Nov 199523016.00$0
Oct 199521015.43$0
Sep 199521716.18$0
Aug 199525615.92$0
Jul 199531415.24$0
Jun 199531816.41$0
May 199539317.56$0
Apr 199527517.73$0
Mar 19957316.44$0
Feb 1995116.58$0
Jan 19951215.92$0
Dec 199413315.03$0
Nov 19945215.90$0
Oct 199412015.58$0
Sep 199418015.29$0
Aug 199430016.13$0
Jul 19942317.56$0
Jun 19941617.09$0
May 1994015.88$0
Apr 19941514.14$0
Mar 19943312.46$0
Feb 19945912.50$0
Jan 19943912.66$0
Dec 19936812.33$0
Nov 1993614.49$0
Oct 1993215.85$0
Sep 19933415.03$0
Aug 19933615.66$0
Jul 1993015.46$0
Jun 1993016.79$0
May 1993017.68$0
Apr 1993018.05$0
Mar 1993018.14$0
Feb 1993017.90$0
Jan 1993016.93$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 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                    5 Mcf  × $  4.60 =        $23

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Month total                                      $23

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/87740 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.