WHITE, L. F.

Operated by SOJOURNER DRILLING CORPORATION (P-5 800750) in the JONES COUNTY REGULAR field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 18577District 7BField 47113001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$62 k
Jan 1993 – Sep 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$407
at the published price for each month
Months reported
105
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 738 leases and 1,432 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1926-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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
OilDisposition3,625 bbl$61,709
Casinghead gasProduction30 Mcf$0
Total$61,709

30 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 30 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 32.9524, -99.9285. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.95235, -99.92850 · 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
2,984 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
19.1 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 2,984 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 1982
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2001
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 19.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 19.1 years and 19.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2530062022,984 ftApr 1982May 2001Yes

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 (105)

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

105 months

Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 200117023.933.20$407
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
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 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 199863013.042.51$822
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 1998151013.952.30$2,106
Jan 199885014.702.15$1,250
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 1997154019.253.15$2,965
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 199772017.242.26$1,241
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 199772018.951.94$1,364
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 199783023.483.54$1,949
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 1996102021.97$2,241
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 1996109022.22$2,422
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 199673019.55$1,427
Jun 199661018.73$1,143
May 1996100019.43$1,943
Apr 1996110021.51$2,366
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 199665016.98$1,104
Jan 1996151017.07$2,578
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 199558016.00$928
Oct 1995101015.43$1,558
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 199589015.92$1,417
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 199556116.41$919
May 199562117.56$1,089
Apr 199559117.73$1,046
Mar 199561116.44$1,003
Feb 199577116.58$1,277
Jan 1995138115.92$2,197
Dec 19940115.03$0
Nov 19940115.90$0
Oct 199477115.58$1,200
Sep 199447115.29$719
Aug 199468116.13$1,097
Jul 199466117.56$1,159
Jun 1994106117.09$1,812
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 199462114.14$877
Mar 1994139112.46$1,732
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 1994116112.66$1,469
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 1993104114.49$1,507
Oct 1993115115.85$1,823
Sep 199331115.03$466
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 199365115.46$1,005
Jun 199363116.79$1,058
May 1993108117.68$1,909
Apr 199342118.05$758
Mar 1993148118.14$2,685
Feb 19930117.90$0
Jan 199399116.93$1,676

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.

Jul 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   17 bbl  × $ 23.93 =       $407
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.20 =         $0

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Month total                                     $407

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/18577 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.