THORN

Operated by ROSS ENGINEERING, INC. (P-5 729457) in the THOMAS (CANYON REEF) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 23410District 7BField 89436500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$248 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$1 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
97
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 5 leases and 5 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1983-10-18
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 1986-07-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: FIELD RULES PER DKT 7B-87,875 EFF 7/1/86

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
NGPA1none

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
OilDisposition14,391 bbl$244,062
Casinghead gasProduction11,436 Mcf$4,405
Total$248,468

9,573 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 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 32.6155, -100.1210. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.61554, -100.12103 · 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
4,666 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
13.8 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 4,666 ft.

Completions filed
Jan 1986
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 1999
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 13.8 years and 13.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2533338714,666 ftJan 1986Nov 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 (97)

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

97 months

Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 200038031.235.15$1,187
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 1998193012.622.21$2,436
Apr 1998161013.042.51$2,099
Mar 1998185012.802.31$2,368
Feb 19981796813.952.30$2,653
Jan 199819714114.702.15$3,200
Dec 19971922916.322.41$3,203
Nov 19971961718.193.09$3,618
Oct 19971965119.253.15$3,934
Sep 19971937217.742.95$3,637
Aug 199703517.862.55$89
Jul 19971919317.582.25$3,567
Jun 199715915817.242.26$3,098
May 199719840218.972.31$4,684
Apr 199719522517.882.08$3,955
Mar 1997022518.951.94$436
Feb 199736920020.492.21$8,002
Jan 199718614723.483.54$4,888
Dec 199609823.32$0
Nov 199620212421.97$4,438
Oct 199618814723.31$4,382
Sep 199619021022.22$4,222
Aug 199637019220.26$7,496
Jul 199619421919.55$3,793
Jun 199618618518.73$3,484
May 19961897819.43$3,672
Apr 19963905021.51$8,389
Mar 19961914319.38$3,702
Feb 19961986316.98$3,362
Jan 199619818717.07$3,380
Dec 199520021717.19$3,438
Nov 199519313316.00$3,088
Oct 199519023415.43$2,932
Sep 199519019016.18$3,074
Aug 199519819515.92$3,152
Jul 199537424515.24$5,700
Jun 199516932016.41$2,773
May 199517019317.56$2,985
Apr 199536216017.73$6,418
Mar 199517915616.44$2,943
Feb 199519825016.58$3,283
Jan 1995195715.92$3,104
Dec 1994196015.03$2,946
Nov 199419910615.90$3,164
Oct 199420015415.58$3,116
Sep 199437519715.29$5,734
Aug 199419734816.13$3,178
Jul 199436124417.56$6,339
Jun 199436422717.09$6,221
May 199418026515.88$2,858
Apr 199418117314.14$2,559
Mar 199418215712.46$2,268
Feb 199435118712.50$4,388
Jan 19942658412.66$3,355
Dec 199336825312.33$4,537
Nov 199318922614.49$2,739
Oct 199316530715.85$2,615
Sep 199318021115.03$2,705
Aug 199336635215.66$5,732
Jul 199317931315.46$2,767
Jun 199318326716.79$3,073
May 199335535017.68$6,276
Apr 199333733518.05$6,083
Mar 199317628918.14$3,193
Feb 199352430717.90$9,380
Jan 199317632516.93$2,980

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.

Oct 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   38 bbl  × $ 31.23 =     $1,187
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.15 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,187

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/23410 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.