DICKEY, SYBIL

Operated by ECLIPSE OIL & GAS, INC. (P-5 241349) in the NICKELODEON (ELLENBURGER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 18770District 7BField 65482400NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$882 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
128
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 4 leases and 16 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1982-04-18
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
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 80 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: FIELD RULES PER DKT #7B-79,211 EFF. 4/1/83

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
NGPA8none

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
OilDisposition52,945 bbl$882,412
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$882,412

21 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 (9)

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 32.2760, -99.4447. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.5 miles.

32.28013, -99.44366 · 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%
9 of 9 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
9 of 9 wells
Median depth
4,315 ft
9 wells filed one
Completion to plug
19.6 years
median over 9 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
9100.0%
A plug date is filed
9100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
9100.0%
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

Total depth in feet, 9 of 9 wells. Median 4,315 ft, with the middle half between 4,305 and 4,421 ft; the shallowest is 4,300 ft and the deepest 5,635 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 9 of 9 wells, Feb 1982 – Feb 1992. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Feb 1982 – Feb 1992
9 of 9 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2001 – Feb 2002
9 of 9 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 19.6 years across the 9 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 17.9 years and 19.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

9 wells

42-059338562DF4,305 ftFeb 1992Feb 2002Yes
42-059353183 C4,466 ftMay 1985May 2001Yes
42-059347892 F4,300 ftMar 1984Feb 2002Yes
42-059338571 F5,635 ftMay 1983Feb 2002Yes
42-059338301DF4,305 ftJul 1982Feb 2002Yes
42-059337893 D4,315 ftJun 1982Feb 2002Yes
42-059337392 D4,305 ftMay 1982Feb 2002Yes
42-059330241 D4,333 ftApr 1982Feb 2002Yes
42-059330251 C4,421 ftFeb 1982Feb 2002Yes

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 (128)

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

128 months

Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 2002152017.172.38$2,610
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
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 1999159010.381.90$1,650
Dec 199869809.201.77$6,422
Nov 1998882010.892.19$9,605
Oct 1998698012.421.97$8,669
Sep 19981,295012.592.08$16,304
Aug 1998780011.301.91$8,814
Jul 1998664011.742.24$7,795
Jun 1998510011.242.24$5,732
May 1998168012.622.21$2,120
Apr 1998337013.042.51$4,394
Mar 1998513012.802.31$6,566
Feb 1998700013.952.30$9,765
Jan 1998544014.702.15$7,997
Dec 1997395016.322.41$6,446
Nov 1997794018.193.09$14,443
Oct 1997913019.253.15$17,575
Sep 1997905017.742.95$16,055
Aug 19971,047017.862.55$18,699
Jul 1997947017.582.25$16,648
Jun 1997931017.242.26$16,050
May 1997575018.972.31$10,908
Apr 1997530017.882.08$9,476
Mar 1997517018.951.94$9,797
Feb 1997689020.492.21$14,118
Jan 1997695023.483.54$16,319
Dec 1996545023.32$12,709
Nov 1996780021.97$17,137
Oct 1996558023.31$13,007
Sep 1996955022.22$21,220
Aug 1996397020.26$8,043
Jul 1996966019.55$18,885
Jun 1996788018.73$14,759
May 19961,071019.43$20,810
Apr 19961,291021.51$27,769
Mar 1996771019.38$14,942
Feb 1996987016.98$16,759
Jan 1996769017.07$13,127
Dec 1995538017.19$9,248
Nov 1995783016.00$12,528
Oct 1995573015.43$8,841
Sep 1995573016.18$9,271
Aug 19951,011015.92$16,095
Jul 1995759015.24$11,567
Jun 1995936016.41$15,360
May 1995935017.56$16,419
Apr 1995910017.73$16,134
Mar 19951,314016.44$21,602
Feb 19951,339016.58$22,201
Jan 1995726015.92$11,558
Dec 1994364015.03$5,471
Nov 1994381015.90$6,058
Oct 1994374015.58$5,827
Sep 1994379115.29$5,795
Aug 1994368116.13$5,936
Jul 1994483117.56$8,481
Jun 1994372117.09$6,357
May 1994360115.88$5,717
Apr 1994557114.14$7,876
Mar 1994914112.46$11,388
Feb 1994376112.50$4,700
Jan 1994366112.66$4,634
Dec 1993749112.33$9,235
Nov 1993562114.49$8,143
Oct 1993757115.85$11,998
Sep 1993748115.03$11,242
Aug 1993931115.66$14,579
Jul 1993927115.46$14,331
Jun 1993935116.79$15,699
May 1993756117.68$13,366
Apr 1993944118.05$17,039
Mar 19931,131118.14$20,516
Feb 1993945117.90$16,916
Jan 1993953116.93$16,134

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.

Jan 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  152 bbl  × $ 17.17 =     $2,610
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.38 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $2,610

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/18770 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.