DYER "2051"

Operated by VAN OPERATING, LTD. (P-5 881442) in the BOWNE (CADDO) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 15139District 7BField 10944400OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$76 k
Jan 1993 – Jul 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
79
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead 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 13 leases and 15 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1979-06-17
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 1984-03-09.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: RULES PERM.10/15/84 DOCKET 7B-83,159

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
OilDisposition4,658 bbl$75,609
Casinghead gasProduction48,867 Mcf$0
Total$75,609

48,867 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 32.4943, -99.1297. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.49426, -99.12972 · 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
4,092 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
20.2 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 4,092 ft.

Completions filed
May 1979
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 1999
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 20.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 20.2 years and 20.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-0593218814,092 ftMay 1979Jul 1999Yes

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 (79)

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

79 months

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 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 1998132012.622.21$1,666
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 1996065323.32$0
Nov 1996081521.97$0
Oct 199618085723.31$4,196
Sep 199601,08122.22$0
Aug 19961701,07420.26$3,444
Jul 1996051719.55$0
Jun 1996029218.73$0
May 199604819.43$0
Apr 1996071821.51$0
Mar 1996099219.38$0
Feb 199617597516.98$2,972
Jan 199601,01217.07$0
Dec 19951891,00117.19$3,249
Nov 199501,00916.00$0
Oct 199518097015.43$2,777
Sep 199501,14216.18$0
Aug 19951801,15615.92$2,866
Jul 199501,17615.24$0
Jun 19951821,05816.41$2,987
May 199501,11617.56$0
Apr 19951801,09717.73$3,191
Mar 19951881,14216.44$3,091
Feb 199501,21116.58$0
Jan 1995093215.92$0
Dec 19941891,04015.03$2,841
Nov 199401,12615.90$0
Oct 19941821,12315.58$2,836
Sep 19941811,10415.29$2,767
Aug 199401,08516.13$0
Jul 19941781,12217.56$3,126
Jun 19941781,05917.09$3,042
May 199401,11215.88$0
Apr 19941811,11214.14$2,559
Mar 19941811,44012.46$2,255
Feb 1994093512.50$0
Jan 19941741,03612.66$2,203
Dec 19931841,18812.33$2,269
Nov 199301,21414.49$0
Oct 19931891,26815.85$2,996
Sep 199317774215.03$2,660
Aug 199301,10815.66$0
Jul 19931801,31115.46$2,783
Jun 19931801,30816.79$3,022
May 19931831,21117.68$3,235
Apr 199301,00518.05$0
Mar 19931821,06918.14$3,301
Feb 199318397117.90$3,276
Jan 199301,13416.93$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 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  132 bbl  × $ 12.62 =     $1,666
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.21 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,666

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/O/15139 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.