COMPTON

Name: COMPTON lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by BENSON & SCHOEN OIL CO., INC. (P-5 65970) in the LEW (UPPER GRAY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 24841District 7BField 53417650OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$499 k

Jan 1993 – Dec 2001

Value, last 12 filed months

$20 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

108

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The LEW (UPPER GRAY) field

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 3 leases and 9 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1986-06-01

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	26,462 bbl	$446,353
Casinghead gas	Production	159,632 Mcf	$52,399
Total			$498,751

139,616 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 (7)

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 32.1378, -99.6828. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.2 miles.

32.13753, -99.68546 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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%

7 of 7 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

7 of 7 wells

Median depth

4,031 ft

7 wells filed one

Completion to plug

12.1 years

median over 7 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

7100.0%

A plug date is filed

7100.0%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

7100.0%

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 4,010 and 4,084 ft, median 4,031 ft, over the 7 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Apr 1987 – Apr 1996

7 of 7 wells

Plug dates filed

Apr 2001 – Nov 2001

7 of 7 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 12.1 years across the 7 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 11.3 years and 12.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

7 wells


42-44133310	6	4,063 ft	Apr 1996	Nov 2001	Yes
42-44133443	10	4,055 ft	Aug 1990	Apr 2001	Yes
42-44133400	9W	4,031 ft	Nov 1989	Nov 2001	Yes
42-44133378	8	4,016 ft	Jun 1989	Nov 2001	Yes
42-44133236	4	4,016 ft	Mar 1989	Apr 2001	Yes
42-44133325	7	4,010 ft	Aug 1988	Nov 2001	Yes
42-44133196	3	4,084 ft	Apr 1987	Nov 2001	Yes

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 (108)

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

108 months


Dec 2001	0	0	16.93	2.36	$0
Nov 2001	0	0	18.07	2.41	$0
Oct 2001	158	75	19.78	2.53	$3,315
Sep 2001	0	83	24.26	2.25	$187
Aug 2001	166	107	24.87	3.05	$4,455
Jul 2001	0	166	23.93	3.20	$531
Jun 2001	0	131	24.56	3.82	$501
May 2001	171	136	25.52	4.31	$4,950
Apr 2001	0	56	24.68	5.34	$299
Mar 2001	0	36	24.54	5.38	$194
Feb 2001	178	89	27.75	5.77	$5,453
Jan 2001	0	58	27.47	8.40	$487
Dec 2000	0	15	26.88	9.12	$137
Nov 2000	184	29	32.21	5.66	$6,091
Oct 2000	0	58	31.23	5.15	$298
Sep 2000	170	88	31.87	5.19	$5,874
Aug 2000	0	101	29.64	4.54	$459
Jul 2000	171	191	28.53	4.09	$5,660
Jun 2000	0	155	29.30	4.40	$682
May 2000	174	124	27.26	3.68	$5,200
Apr 2000	0	154	24.51	3.12	$480
Mar 2000	176	119	28.42	2.86	$5,342
Feb 2000	0	227	27.62	2.73	$619
Jan 2000	178	247	25.27	2.48	$5,111
Dec 1999	0	254	24.28	2.42	$616
Nov 1999	178	234	23.19	2.43	$4,697
Oct 1999	0	261	20.98	2.80	$732
Sep 1999	173	229	21.75	2.62	$4,362
Aug 1999	0	175	19.26	2.88	$503
Jul 1999	166	295	17.89	2.37	$3,670
Jun 1999	168	260	15.94	2.36	$3,292
May 1999	0	352	15.79	2.32	$817
Apr 1999	170	312	15.10	2.21	$3,256
Mar 1999	165	356	12.47	1.84	$2,712
Feb 1999	168	386	9.98	1.82	$2,378
Jan 1999	171	377	10.38	1.90	$2,491
Dec 1998	0	143	9.20	1.77	$254
Nov 1998	172	106	10.89	2.19	$2,105
Oct 1998	174	145	12.42	1.97	$2,447
Sep 1998	167	181	12.59	2.08	$2,479
Aug 1998	335	351	11.30	1.91	$4,455
Jul 1998	169	650	11.74	2.24	$3,438
Jun 1998	0	1,259	11.24	2.24	$2,817
May 1998	169	601	12.62	2.21	$3,459
Apr 1998	170	180	13.04	2.51	$2,668
Mar 1998	172	481	12.80	2.31	$3,312
Feb 1998	341	462	13.95	2.30	$5,819
Jan 1998	166	446	14.70	2.15	$3,401
Dec 1997	173	647	16.32	2.41	$4,383
Nov 1997	0	1,827	18.19	3.09	$5,642
Oct 1997	59	603	19.25	3.15	$3,035
Sep 1997	0	549	17.74	2.95	$1,622
Aug 1997	161	518	17.86	2.55	$4,199
Jul 1997	168	229	17.58	2.25	$3,468
Jun 1997	0	501	17.24	2.26	$1,131
May 1997	171	766	18.97	2.31	$5,012
Apr 1997	0	518	17.88	2.08	$1,079
Mar 1997	170	878	18.95	1.94	$4,924
Feb 1997	177	953	20.49	2.21	$5,729
Jan 1997	173	1,086	23.48	3.54	$7,906
Dec 1996	0	1,259	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	175	1,249	21.97	—	$3,845
Oct 1996	171	1,954	23.31	—	$3,986
Sep 1996	168	2,164	22.22	—	$3,733
Aug 1996	168	2,828	20.26	—	$3,404
Jul 1996	172	5,346	19.55	—	$3,363
Jun 1996	170	6,384	18.73	—	$3,184
May 1996	338	8,443	19.43	—	$6,567
Apr 1996	171	1,243	21.51	—	$3,678
Mar 1996	341	79	19.38	—	$6,609
Feb 1996	342	138	16.98	—	$5,807
Jan 1996	336	162	17.07	—	$5,736
Dec 1995	325	78	17.19	—	$5,587
Nov 1995	338	162	16.00	—	$5,408
Oct 1995	336	351	15.43	—	$5,184
Sep 1995	173	357	16.18	—	$2,799
Aug 1995	172	611	15.92	—	$2,738
Jul 1995	336	748	15.24	—	$5,121
Jun 1995	166	1,008	16.41	—	$2,724
May 1995	334	1,163	17.56	—	$5,865
Apr 1995	500	1,133	17.73	—	$8,865
Mar 1995	353	1,413	16.44	—	$5,803
Feb 1995	339	1,187	16.58	—	$5,621
Jan 1995	350	1,671	15.92	—	$5,572
Dec 1994	519	2,219	15.03	—	$7,801
Nov 1994	338	2,321	15.90	—	$5,374
Oct 1994	525	2,150	15.58	—	$8,180
Sep 1994	505	2,164	15.29	—	$7,721
Aug 1994	337	2,829	16.13	—	$5,436
Jul 1994	497	3,197	17.56	—	$8,727
Jun 1994	507	2,795	17.09	—	$8,665
May 1994	515	3,441	15.88	—	$8,178
Apr 1994	491	3,664	14.14	—	$6,943
Mar 1994	519	2,852	12.46	—	$6,467
Feb 1994	548	3,362	12.50	—	$6,850
Jan 1994	524	3,983	12.66	—	$6,634
Dec 1993	669	4,019	12.33	—	$8,249
Nov 1993	644	4,793	14.49	—	$9,332
Oct 1993	608	5,646	15.85	—	$9,637
Sep 1993	460	5,138	15.03	—	$6,914
Aug 1993	612	5,177	15.66	—	$9,584
Jul 1993	783	5,481	15.46	—	$12,105
Jun 1993	623	5,650	16.79	—	$10,460
May 1993	623	5,732	17.68	—	$11,015
Apr 1993	774	5,466	18.05	—	$13,971
Mar 1993	622	5,857	18.14	—	$11,283
Feb 1993	789	5,185	17.90	—	$14,123
Jan 1993	784	5,364	16.93	—	$13,273

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 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  158 bbl  × $ 19.78 =     $3,125
Casinghead gas        75 Mcf  × $  2.53 =       $190

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Month total                                   $3,315

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/24841 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.