MURPHY "A"

Operated by SAUDER MANAGEMENT COMPANY (P-5 748782) in the SMUGGLER (TANNEHILL) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 20924District 7BField 84344600OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$486 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2006
Value, last 12 filed months
$8 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
159
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 2 leases and 4 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1984-03-08
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
OilDisposition26,068 bbl$485,774
Casinghead gasProduction20 Mcf$0
Total$485,774

20 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 20 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 (3)

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 33.3671, -100.3866. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

33.36707, -100.38665 · 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%
3 of 3 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
3 of 3 wells
Median depth
3,560 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
19.3 years
median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
3100.0%
A plug date is filed
3100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
3100.0%
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 3,550 and 3,610 ft, median 3,560 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Feb 1984 – Aug 1984
3 of 3 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2003 – Feb 2004
3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 19.3 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 19.0 years and 19.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-4333187443,610 ftAug 1984May 2003Yes
42-4333181733,560 ftJun 1984Feb 2004Yes
42-4333176313,550 ftFeb 1984May 2003Yes

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 (159)

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

159 months

Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 2006124060.598.93$7,513
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
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 2003174033.487.93$5,826
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 2002167027.443.64$4,582
Aug 2002167025.963.16$4,335
Jul 2002180024.583.06$4,424
Jun 2002173023.733.34$4,105
May 2002165024.663.58$4,069
Apr 2002172023.653.51$4,068
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 2002178018.222.38$3,243
Jan 2002179017.172.38$3,073
Dec 2001172016.932.36$2,912
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 2001177019.782.53$3,501
Sep 2001174024.262.25$4,221
Aug 2001171024.873.05$4,253
Jul 2001170023.933.20$4,068
Jun 2001351024.563.82$8,621
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 2001339024.685.34$8,367
Mar 2001328024.545.38$8,049
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 2000173026.889.12$4,650
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 2000179031.235.15$5,590
Sep 2000174031.875.19$5,545
Aug 2000174029.644.54$5,157
Jul 2000177028.534.09$5,050
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 2000350024.513.12$8,579
Mar 2000179028.422.86$5,087
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 2000291025.272.48$7,354
Dec 1999214024.282.42$5,196
Nov 1999103023.192.43$2,389
Oct 1999212020.982.80$4,448
Sep 1999175021.752.62$3,806
Aug 1999336019.262.88$6,471
Jul 1999165017.892.37$2,952
Jun 1999165015.942.36$2,630
May 1999188015.792.32$2,969
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 199917509.981.82$1,747
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 1998339012.421.97$4,210
Sep 1998319012.592.08$4,016
Aug 1998173011.301.91$1,955
Jul 1998149011.742.24$1,749
Jun 1998501011.242.24$5,631
May 1998170012.622.21$2,145
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 1998162012.802.31$2,074
Feb 1998175013.952.30$2,441
Jan 1998302014.702.15$4,439
Dec 1997105016.322.41$1,714
Nov 1997190018.193.09$3,456
Oct 1997101019.253.15$1,944
Sep 1997210017.742.95$3,725
Aug 1997179017.862.55$3,197
Jul 1997101017.582.25$1,776
Jun 199793017.242.26$1,603
May 1997104018.972.31$1,973
Apr 1997104017.882.08$1,860
Mar 1997313018.951.94$5,931
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 1997302023.483.54$7,091
Dec 1996349023.32$8,139
Nov 1996237021.97$5,207
Oct 1996354023.31$8,252
Sep 1996243022.22$5,399
Aug 1996235020.26$4,761
Jul 1996315019.55$6,158
Jun 1996366018.73$6,855
May 1996428019.43$8,316
Apr 1996208021.51$4,474
Mar 1996550019.38$10,659
Feb 1996343016.98$5,824
Jan 1996351017.07$5,992
Dec 1995387017.19$6,653
Nov 1995485016.00$7,760
Oct 1995352015.43$5,431
Sep 199586016.18$1,391
Aug 1995431015.92$6,862
Jul 1995316015.24$4,816
Jun 1995514016.41$8,435
May 199567017.56$1,177
Apr 1995336017.73$5,957
Mar 1995372016.44$6,116
Feb 1995606016.58$10,047
Jan 1995396015.92$6,304
Dec 1994516015.03$7,755
Nov 1994208015.90$3,307
Oct 1994347015.58$5,406
Sep 1994343015.29$5,244
Aug 1994324116.13$5,226
Jul 1994348117.56$6,111
Jun 1994168117.09$2,871
May 1994171115.88$2,715
Apr 1994333114.14$4,709
Mar 1994334112.46$4,162
Feb 1994332112.50$4,150
Jan 1994175112.66$2,216
Dec 1993344112.33$4,242
Nov 1993336114.49$4,869
Oct 1993170115.85$2,695
Sep 1993166115.03$2,495
Aug 1993341115.66$5,340
Jul 1993165115.46$2,551
Jun 1993345116.79$5,793
May 1993336117.68$5,940
Apr 1993342118.05$6,173
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 1993347117.90$6,211
Jan 1993167116.93$2,827

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 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  124 bbl  × $ 60.59 =     $7,513
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  8.93 =         $0

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Month total                                   $7,513

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/20924 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.