THOMPSON

Operated by BRECK OPERATING CORP. (P-5 89974) in the MITTIE (MARBLE FALLS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 18953District 7BField 62229666Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$64 k
Jan 1993 – Nov 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$733
at the published price for each month
Months reported
95
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 134 leases and 152 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1978-03-05
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 register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: OPT ACREAGE 160 PLUT 10 TOL W/4500' DIAG/LAST WELL 20 AC

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
NGPA2none

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
OilDisposition1,175 bbl$19,928
Casinghead gasProduction60,474 Mcf$44,081
Total$64,009

41,349 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 (2)

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 32.1374, -98.6781. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

32.13741, -98.67812 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 2 wells
Median depth
3,043 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
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

Between 2,955 and 3,130 ft, median 3,043 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Oct 1999
2 of 2 wells

2 wells

42-0933139423,130 ftOct 1999Yes
42-0933103812,955 ftOct 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 (95)

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

95 months

Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 200023031.875.19$733
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 1999127023.192.43$2,945
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 1999042321.752.62$1,108
Aug 1999052819.262.88$1,518
Jul 1999047017.892.37$1,115
Jun 1999038715.942.36$914
May 1999060815.792.32$1,411
Apr 1999064215.102.21$1,418
Mar 1999070912.471.84$1,303
Feb 199906199.981.82$1,125
Jan 199913465810.381.90$2,641
Dec 199806419.201.77$1,137
Nov 1998049910.892.19$1,091
Oct 1998047012.421.97$926
Sep 1998052912.592.08$1,102
Aug 1998055611.301.91$1,060
Jul 1998057511.742.24$1,286
Jun 1998167011.242.24$1,510
May 1998081112.622.21$1,789
Apr 199813496413.042.51$4,163
Mar 1998068412.802.31$1,580
Feb 1998065513.952.30$1,506
Jan 1998081114.702.15$1,748
Dec 19971491,14216.322.41$5,185
Nov 1997026718.193.09$825
Oct 1997047319.253.15$1,490
Sep 1997035517.742.95$1,049
Aug 1997047417.862.55$1,211
Jul 1997053517.582.25$1,202
Jun 1997066117.242.26$1,492
May 1997040718.972.31$940
Apr 1997037317.882.08$777
Mar 1997044118.951.94$855
Feb 1997049820.492.21$1,099
Jan 1997059023.483.54$2,088
Dec 1996055423.32$0
Nov 1996054921.97$0
Oct 199613659623.31$3,170
Sep 1996060922.22$0
Aug 1996068120.26$0
Jul 1996066419.55$0
Jun 1996069518.73$0
May 1996066419.43$0
Apr 1996069721.51$0
Mar 1996073419.38$0
Feb 1996075916.98$0
Jan 1996079217.07$0
Dec 1995080217.19$0
Nov 1995073016.00$0
Oct 1995074915.43$0
Sep 1995078716.18$0
Aug 1995085015.92$0
Jul 199513281215.24$2,012
Jun 199501,02416.41$0
May 1995047517.56$0
Apr 1995041117.73$0
Mar 1995043816.44$0
Feb 1995049516.58$0
Jan 1995058515.92$0
Dec 1994072115.03$0
Nov 1994060215.90$0
Oct 1994072915.58$0
Sep 1994078215.29$0
Aug 1994078916.13$0
Jul 1994082517.56$0
Jun 19941477717.09$239
May 1994083215.88$0
Apr 199416285514.14$2,291
Mar 1994097312.46$0
Feb 1994090312.50$0
Jan 1994095712.66$0
Dec 199301,07912.33$0
Nov 199301,15014.49$0
Oct 199301,18515.85$0
Sep 199301,05515.03$0
Aug 199301,11115.66$0
Jul 199301,16615.46$0
Jun 199301,33416.79$0
May 199301,38517.68$0
Apr 199301,37918.05$0
Mar 19931631,46118.14$2,957
Feb 199301,46817.90$0
Jan 199301,67916.93$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.

Sep 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   23 bbl  × $ 31.87 =       $733
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.19 =         $0

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Month total                                     $733

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/18953 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.