DEAHL "65"

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

Oil lease lease 20603District 7BField 68961800OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$96 k
Jan 1993 – Apr 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$3 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
124
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 7 leases and 34 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1976-10-14
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
OilDisposition5,266 bbl$92,558
Casinghead gasProduction5,524 Mcf$3,465
Total$96,023

4,149 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 32.5626, -99.3128. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

32.56265, -99.31278 · 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
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
4,428 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
15.3 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
2100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2100.0%
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 4,353 and 4,503 ft, median 4,428 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Oct 1983 – Jan 1985
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 1998 – Feb 2001
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.3 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.9 years and 15.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-4173603134,353 ftJan 1985Feb 2001Yes
42-4173556424,503 ftOct 1983Apr 1998Yes

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 (124)

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

124 months

Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 200390033.487.93$3,013
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 20020017.172.38$0
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 200001231.235.15$62
Sep 200001231.875.19$62
Aug 200001229.644.54$54
Jul 20001771228.534.09$5,099
Jun 200001229.304.40$53
May 200001227.263.68$44
Apr 200001224.513.12$37
Mar 200001228.422.86$34
Feb 20001721227.622.73$4,783
Jan 200001225.272.48$30
Dec 199901224.282.42$29
Nov 199901223.192.43$29
Oct 199901220.982.80$34
Sep 19991721221.752.62$3,772
Aug 199901219.262.88$35
Jul 199901217.892.37$28
Jun 199901215.942.36$28
May 19991701215.792.32$2,712
Apr 199901215.102.21$27
Mar 199901212.471.84$22
Feb 19990129.981.82$22
Jan 19991681210.381.90$1,767
Dec 19980129.201.77$21
Nov 199801210.892.19$26
Oct 19981711212.421.97$2,147
Sep 199804312.592.08$90
Aug 199804311.301.91$82
Jul 199804311.742.24$96
Jun 19981674311.242.24$1,973
May 199804312.622.21$95
Apr 199804313.042.51$108
Mar 19981704312.802.31$2,275
Feb 199804313.952.30$99
Jan 199804314.702.15$93
Dec 19971704316.322.41$2,878
Nov 199704318.193.09$133
Oct 199704319.253.15$135
Sep 199704317.742.95$127
Aug 19971834317.862.55$3,378
Jul 199704317.582.25$97
Jun 199704317.242.26$97
May 19971684318.972.31$3,286
Apr 199708617.882.08$179
Mar 199708618.951.94$167
Feb 19971718620.492.21$3,694
Jan 199708623.483.54$304
Dec 199608623.32$0
Nov 19961708621.97$3,735
Oct 1996618623.31$1,422
Sep 199608622.22$0
Aug 199608620.26$0
Jul 19961748619.55$3,402
Jun 199608618.73$0
May 199608619.43$0
Apr 19961748621.51$3,743
Mar 199608619.38$0
Feb 199608616.98$0
Jan 199608617.07$0
Dec 19953738617.19$6,412
Nov 199508616.00$0
Oct 199508615.43$0
Sep 199508616.18$0
Aug 199508615.92$0
Jul 19951768615.24$2,682
Jun 199508616.41$0
May 199508617.56$0
Apr 199508617.73$0
Mar 19951888616.44$3,091
Feb 199508616.58$0
Jan 199508615.92$0
Dec 19941678615.03$2,510
Nov 199408615.90$0
Oct 199408615.58$0
Sep 19941828715.29$2,783
Aug 199408716.13$0
Jul 19941768717.56$3,091
Jun 199408717.09$0
May 199408715.88$0
Apr 19941858714.14$2,616
Mar 199408712.46$0
Feb 19941778712.50$2,213
Jan 199408712.66$0
Dec 199308712.33$0
Nov 19931888714.49$2,724
Oct 199308715.85$0
Sep 199308715.03$0
Aug 19931818715.66$2,834
Jul 199308715.46$0
Jun 19931818716.79$3,039
May 199308717.68$0
Apr 19931858718.05$3,339
Mar 199308718.14$0
Feb 199308717.90$0
Jan 19931798716.93$3,030

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.

Feb 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   90 bbl  × $ 33.48 =     $3,013
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  7.93 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,013

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/20603 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.