SMITH

Operated by B-W OIL (P-5 42192) in the SCRANTON field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 25777District 7BField 81804001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$111 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$7 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
51
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 63 leases and 189 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1939-03-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
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
OilDisposition6,978 bbl$111,340
Casinghead gasProduction45 Mcf$0
Total$111,340

45 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 45 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 32.2638, -99.1137. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.1 miles.

32.26399, -99.11350 · 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
1,794 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
6.5 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 1,790 and 1,794 ft, median 1,794 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Mar 1990 – Mar 1993
3 of 3 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 1997
3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 6.5 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 5.2 years and 6.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-1333744731,794 ftMar 1993Jan 1997Yes
42-1333744521,794 ftJul 1990Jan 1997Yes
42-1333742911,790 ftMar 1990Jan 1997Yes

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 (51)

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

51 months

Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 199652123.31$1,212
Sep 19960122.22$0
Aug 199620120.26$405
Jul 199636119.55$704
Jun 1996137118.73$2,566
May 19960119.43$0
Apr 199680121.51$1,721
Mar 1996159119.38$3,081
Feb 19960116.98$0
Jan 199671117.07$1,212
Dec 1995123117.19$2,114
Nov 1995127116.00$2,032
Oct 1995110115.43$1,697
Sep 199550116.18$809
Aug 1995130115.92$2,070
Jul 1995224115.24$3,414
Jun 19950116.41$0
May 199515117.56$263
Apr 199586117.73$1,525
Mar 1995166116.44$2,729
Feb 19950116.58$0
Jan 1995171115.92$2,722
Dec 1994136115.03$2,044
Nov 1994162115.90$2,576
Oct 1994126015.58$1,963
Sep 1994107115.29$1,636
Aug 1994239116.13$3,855
Jul 1994144117.56$2,529
Jun 1994167117.09$2,854
May 1994235115.88$3,732
Apr 1994219114.14$3,097
Mar 1994260112.46$3,240
Feb 1994256112.50$3,200
Jan 1994182112.66$2,304
Dec 1993253112.33$3,119
Nov 1993304114.49$4,405
Oct 1993292115.85$4,628
Sep 1993248115.03$3,727
Aug 1993258115.66$4,040
Jul 1993219115.46$3,386
Jun 1993246116.79$4,130
May 1993302117.68$5,339
Apr 1993180118.05$3,249
Mar 1993181118.14$3,283
Feb 1993182117.90$3,258
Jan 1993323116.93$5,468

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 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   52 bbl  × $ 23.31 =     $1,212
Casinghead gas         1 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $1,212

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/25777 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.