NIX, OTIS J.

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

Gas lease lease 98191District 7BField 59542500GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$95 k
Jan 1993 – Feb 2009
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
194
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 53 leases and 53 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1976-08-21
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: EFFECTIVE 11/01/82

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
GasProduction33,930 Mcf$94,873
Total$94,873

11,989 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 32.3565, -97.8575. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.35647, -97.85746 · 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
4,852 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
27.3 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 4,852 ft.

Completions filed
Oct 1981
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 2009
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 27.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 27.3 years and 27.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2213067714,852 ftOct 1981Feb 2009Yes

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 (194)

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

194 months

Feb 2009032.814.63$0
Jan 2009035.865.37$0
Dec 2008037.105.98$0
Nov 2008055.496.86$0
Oct 2008075.246.92$0
Sep 20080101.767.88$0
Aug 20080114.228.48$0
Jul 20080131.0811.39$0
Jun 20080131.3313.03$0
May 20080123.1711.57$0
Apr 20080110.3110.45$0
Mar 20080101.909.66$0
Feb 2008092.538.77$0
Jan 2008090.388.21$0
Dec 2007088.337.30$0
Nov 2007091.677.29$0
Oct 2007082.856.92$0
Sep 2007075.846.24$0
Aug 2007069.066.39$0
Jul 2007070.906.39$0
Jun 2007062.007.55$0
May 2007058.747.85$0
Apr 2007059.617.81$0
Mar 2007056.927.30$0
Feb 2007055.108.22$0
Jan 2007050.306.73$0
Dec 2006056.656.92$0
Nov 2006054.207.62$0
Oct 2006054.906.01$0
Sep 2006060.085.04$0
Aug 2006068.717.34$0
Jul 2006069.376.34$0
Jun 2006066.286.38$0
May 2006066.016.42$0
Apr 2006064.397.36$0
Mar 2006056.707.08$0
Feb 2006057.597.75$0
Jan 2006060.598.93$0
Dec 2005054.9413.42$0
Nov 2005054.6910.59$0
Oct 20059158.3413.80$1,255
Sep 2005061.4512.08$0
Aug 2005061.519.80$0
Jul 200524655.697.84$1,930
Jun 200531052.337.38$2,288
May 200514045.226.65$931
Apr 200516549.207.36$1,214
Mar 200514850.377.15$1,059
Feb 200513445.226.31$846
Jan 200511043.166.32$695
Dec 200412039.866.75$810
Nov 200429045.286.33$1,836
Oct 200424249.706.52$1,577
Sep 200424343.245.28$1,284
Aug 200434842.375.55$1,932
Jul 200430138.286.08$1,831
Jun 200428036.106.43$1,801
May 200440137.486.49$2,604
Apr 200433034.475.86$1,933
Mar 200432934.365.53$1,819
Feb 200432032.455.51$1,763
Jan 200441532.036.30$2,614
Dec 200337230.266.30$2,344
Nov 200336628.804.60$1,682
Oct 200330228.174.76$1,437
Sep 200324026.314.75$1,140
Aug 200323029.765.13$1,180
Jul 200343629.415.17$2,254
Jun 200344528.565.98$2,662
May 200345526.595.97$2,718
Apr 200345226.675.41$2,444
Mar 200334031.146.10$2,073
Feb 200310033.487.93$793
Jan 200315030.315.58$837
Dec 200210026.914.85$485
Nov 200220024.664.14$827
Oct 200220026.464.23$846
Sep 200217727.443.64$643
Aug 200220525.963.16$649
Jul 200224224.583.06$741
Jun 200220323.733.34$678
May 200220824.663.58$745
Apr 200216023.653.51$562
Mar 200220322.003.10$630
Feb 200220018.222.38$475
Jan 200219917.172.38$473
Dec 200120016.932.36$473
Nov 20019918.072.41$238
Oct 200110719.782.53$271
Sep 200111024.262.25$248
Aug 200120024.873.05$611
Jul 200110023.933.20$320
Jun 20013524.563.82$134
May 2001025.524.31$0
Apr 2001024.685.34$0
Mar 20014824.545.38$258
Feb 20012627.755.77$150
Jan 200134527.478.40$2,898
Dec 200020826.889.12$1,897
Nov 200025532.215.66$1,443
Oct 200023831.235.15$1,225
Sep 200021631.875.19$1,120
Aug 200010829.644.54$490
Jul 200013128.534.09$536
Jun 200022029.304.40$967
May 200021727.263.68$799
Apr 200023024.513.12$717
Mar 200024928.422.86$712
Feb 200037327.622.73$1,017
Jan 200046825.272.48$1,161
Dec 199939424.282.42$955
Nov 199992423.192.43$2,249
Oct 199956420.982.80$1,581
Sep 199910821.752.62$283
Aug 199914719.262.88$423
Jul 199916017.892.37$380
Jun 199916815.942.36$397
May 199915715.792.32$364
Apr 199913715.102.21$303
Mar 199911512.471.84$211
Feb 19991169.981.82$211
Jan 19997610.381.90$144
Dec 19981049.201.77$184
Nov 199811810.892.19$258
Oct 199815112.421.97$297
Sep 199813812.592.08$287
Aug 199814411.301.91$275
Jul 199813611.742.24$304
Jun 199810611.242.24$237
May 199813812.622.21$304
Apr 199811813.042.51$296
Mar 19987312.802.31$169
Feb 199810813.952.30$248
Jan 199813414.702.15$289
Dec 199713416.322.41$323
Nov 199712118.193.09$374
Oct 199713719.253.15$432
Sep 199711517.742.95$340
Aug 199720817.862.55$531
Jul 199717617.582.25$395
Jun 199717217.242.26$388
May 199727818.972.31$642
Apr 199719417.882.08$404
Mar 199719818.951.94$384
Feb 199717220.492.21$379
Jan 199717123.483.54$605
Dec 199617623.32$0
Nov 199616621.97$0
Oct 199617723.31$0
Sep 199616622.22$0
Aug 199620420.26$0
Jul 199619819.55$0
Jun 199620718.73$0
May 199620619.43$0
Apr 199618621.51$0
Mar 199619519.38$0
Feb 199619416.98$0
Jan 199620317.07$0
Dec 199518717.19$0
Nov 199514816.00$0
Oct 199519115.43$0
Sep 199520216.18$0
Aug 199523815.92$0
Jul 199517015.24$0
Jun 199519716.41$0
May 199519317.56$0
Apr 199518117.73$0
Mar 199518616.44$0
Feb 199518516.58$0
Jan 199524715.92$0
Dec 199428815.03$0
Nov 199432315.90$0
Oct 199416715.58$0
Sep 199423615.29$0
Aug 199420016.13$0
Jul 199436417.56$0
Jun 199446117.09$0
May 199445215.88$0
Apr 199433914.14$0
Mar 199424012.46$0
Feb 199418412.50$0
Jan 199425012.66$0
Dec 199319512.33$0
Nov 199319114.49$0
Oct 199340715.85$0
Sep 199351815.03$0
Aug 199334915.66$0
Jul 199328915.46$0
Jun 199332016.79$0
May 199348617.68$0
Apr 199345018.05$0
Mar 199333418.14$0
Feb 199316617.90$0
Jan 199317716.93$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.

Oct 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                   91 Mcf  × $ 13.80 =     $1,255

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Month total                                   $1,255

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/98191 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.