STEEL, GEORGE

Operated by WHITESIDE ENTERPRISES, INC. (P-5 920323) in the BLIND HOG (CADDO) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 96364District 7BField 08880100NGPA filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$247
Jan 1993 – Jul 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$247
at the published price for each month
Months reported
55
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 9 leases and 9 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1980-08-18
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

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: RETURNED TO ALLOCATION FORMULA, EFF. 10-01-84

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
CondensateDisposition13 bbl$247
GasProduction1,837 Mcf$0
Total$247

1,837 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 23 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 32.1007, -99.0501. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.10075, -99.05007 · 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
3,376 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
15.8 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 3,376 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 1981
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 1997
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.8 years and 15.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-1333309513,376 ftSep 1981Jul 1997Yes

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 (55)

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

55 months

Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 199713018.972.31$247
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 19950116.44$0
Feb 199506316.58$0
Jan 1995010115.92$0
Dec 199409915.03$0
Nov 1994011715.90$0
Oct 1994011015.58$0
Sep 1994012315.29$0
Aug 199409016.13$0
Jul 199409617.56$0
Jun 199409917.09$0
May 199408915.88$0
Apr 199409014.14$0
Mar 199407612.46$0
Feb 19940012.50$0
Jan 19940012.66$0
Dec 19930012.33$0
Nov 19930014.49$0
Oct 199305015.85$0
Sep 199305415.03$0
Aug 199304415.66$0
Jul 199304315.46$0
Jun 199305716.79$0
May 199306517.68$0
Apr 199307018.05$0
Mar 1993015218.14$0
Feb 199306717.90$0
Jan 199308116.93$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.

May 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            13 bbl  × $ 18.97 =       $247
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  2.31 =         $0

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Month total                                     $247

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/96364 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.