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 98193District 7BField 59542500GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$145 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
GasProduction50,272 Mcf$145,000
Total$145,000

17,953 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 32.3526, -97.8577. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.35260, -97.85767 · 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
4,850 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
27.2 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 4,850 ft.

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

Last completion to plug: a median of 27.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 27.2 years and 27.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2213067624,850 ftDec 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 200517658.3413.80$2,428
Sep 2005061.4512.08$0
Aug 2005061.519.80$0
Jul 200552255.697.84$4,094
Jun 200560252.337.38$4,443
May 200530245.226.65$2,009
Apr 200523849.207.36$1,752
Mar 200520050.377.15$1,431
Feb 200520045.226.31$1,262
Jan 200530043.166.32$1,897
Dec 200420839.866.75$1,404
Nov 200440245.286.33$2,545
Oct 200458449.706.52$3,805
Sep 200458443.245.28$3,086
Aug 200451742.375.55$2,870
Jul 200452038.286.08$3,164
Jun 200450136.106.43$3,223
May 200448137.486.49$3,124
Apr 200449534.475.86$2,900
Mar 200449334.365.53$2,726
Feb 200447832.455.51$2,634
Jan 200462132.036.30$3,912
Dec 200350230.266.30$3,163
Nov 200352728.804.60$2,422
Oct 200340128.174.76$1,909
Sep 200360226.314.75$2,859
Aug 200360029.765.13$3,078
Jul 200363429.415.17$3,278
Jun 200366928.565.98$4,003
May 20031,05926.595.97$6,325
Apr 20031,05226.675.41$5,688
Mar 200374231.146.10$4,523
Feb 200314933.487.93$1,181
Jan 200310830.315.58$603
Dec 200217026.914.85$825
Nov 200213224.664.14$546
Oct 200213426.464.23$567
Sep 200220027.443.64$727
Aug 200214025.963.16$443
Jul 200216224.583.06$496
Jun 200216023.733.34$534
May 200210924.663.58$391
Apr 200220123.653.51$706
Mar 200218022.003.10$558
Feb 200210718.222.38$254
Jan 20025117.172.38$121
Dec 20019016.932.36$213
Nov 200117118.072.41$411
Oct 200120119.782.53$508
Sep 200120024.262.25$450
Aug 200113624.873.05$415
Jul 200110123.933.20$323
Jun 20013224.563.82$122
May 2001025.524.31$0
Apr 2001024.685.34$0
Mar 20017024.545.38$376
Feb 20013927.755.77$225
Jan 200123127.478.40$1,940
Dec 200031126.889.12$2,837
Nov 200016432.215.66$928
Oct 200035631.235.15$1,832
Sep 200032331.875.19$1,675
Aug 200016229.644.54$736
Jul 200019628.534.09$802
Jun 200032929.304.40$1,447
May 200032527.263.68$1,196
Apr 200034424.513.12$1,072
Mar 200037528.422.86$1,072
Feb 200056027.622.73$1,527
Jan 200070225.272.48$1,741
Dec 199959124.282.42$1,432
Nov 19991,38623.192.43$3,374
Oct 199984620.982.80$2,372
Sep 199916321.752.62$427
Aug 199922019.262.88$633
Jul 199923917.892.37$567
Jun 199925315.942.36$598
May 199923615.792.32$548
Apr 199920615.102.21$455
Mar 199917212.471.84$316
Feb 19991749.981.82$316
Jan 199911510.381.90$218
Dec 19981569.201.77$277
Nov 199817810.892.19$389
Oct 199822612.421.97$445
Sep 199820912.592.08$435
Aug 199821711.301.91$414
Jul 199820311.742.24$454
Jun 199815911.242.24$356
May 199820612.622.21$455
Apr 199817813.042.51$446
Mar 199810912.802.31$252
Feb 199816213.952.30$372
Jan 199820014.702.15$431
Dec 199720016.322.41$482
Nov 199718218.193.09$562
Oct 199720519.253.15$646
Sep 199717217.742.95$508
Aug 199731217.862.55$797
Jul 199726517.582.25$595
Jun 199725817.242.26$582
May 199718618.972.31$429
Apr 199729017.882.08$604
Mar 199729618.951.94$574
Feb 199725920.492.21$571
Jan 199725723.483.54$910
Dec 199626523.32$0
Nov 199625021.97$0
Oct 199626523.31$0
Sep 199624922.22$0
Aug 199630620.26$0
Jul 199629719.55$0
Jun 199631018.73$0
May 199630819.43$0
Apr 199628021.51$0
Mar 199629319.38$0
Feb 199629216.98$0
Jan 199630517.07$0
Dec 199528017.19$0
Nov 199522216.00$0
Oct 199528615.43$0
Sep 199530416.18$0
Aug 199535615.92$0
Jul 199525515.24$0
Jun 199529516.41$0
May 199528917.56$0
Apr 199527117.73$0
Mar 199528016.44$0
Feb 199527716.58$0
Jan 199537015.92$0
Dec 199443115.03$0
Nov 199448515.90$0
Oct 199425115.58$0
Sep 199435415.29$0
Aug 199430016.13$0
Jul 199454617.56$0
Jun 199469217.09$0
May 199467715.88$0
Apr 199450814.14$0
Mar 199435912.46$0
Feb 199427512.50$0
Jan 199437412.66$0
Dec 199326912.33$0
Nov 199328614.49$0
Oct 199361015.85$0
Sep 199377615.03$0
Aug 199352415.66$0
Jul 199343315.46$0
Jun 199348016.79$0
May 199373017.68$0
Apr 199367418.05$0
Mar 199350018.14$0
Feb 199324917.90$0
Jan 199326516.93$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                  176 Mcf  × $ 13.80 =     $2,428

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Month total                                   $2,428

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/98193 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.