CLARE (GRAY) UNIT

Operated by AOP OPERATING CORPORATION (P-5 26810) in the CLARE (GRAY SD) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 27003District 7BField 18542300OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$349 k
Oct 1993 – Mar 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$6 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
42
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 13 leases and 59 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1986-04-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
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 1989-08-21.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: OPTIONAL 20 ACRE UNITS W/1500' DIAGONAL.

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
OilDisposition21,934 bbl$348,803
Casinghead gasProduction15,002 Mcf$0
Total$348,803

15,002 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 26 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 (31)

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 32.1188, -99.5882. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.5 miles.

32.11955, -99.58725 · 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%
31 of 31 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
31 of 31 wells
Median depth
3,950 ft
31 wells filed one
Completion to plug
3.3 years
median over 30 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
31100.0%
A plug date is filed
31100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
31100.0%
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

Total depth in feet, 31 of 31 wells. Median 3,950 ft, with the middle half between 3,901 and 3,970 ft; the shallowest is 2,075 ft and the deepest 4,655 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 30 of 31 wells, Oct 1983 – Dec 1993. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Oct 1983 – Dec 1993
30 of 31 wells; 1 filed none
Plug dates filed
Oct 1996 – Sep 2004
31 of 31 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 3.3 years across the 30 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3.2 years and 9.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

31 wells

42-059363094WW2,075 ftJan 1997Yes
42-059363101063,989 ftDec 1993Nov 1996Yes
42-059363066083,958 ftNov 1993Jan 1997Yes
42-059363084063,990 ftNov 1993Nov 1996Yes
42-059350102223,930 ftOct 1993Dec 1996Yes
42-059354231223,970 ftOct 1993Nov 1996Yes
42-059352114213,930 ftOct 1993Nov 1996Yes
42-0593462614,655 ftSep 1993Sep 2004Yes
42-059357124243,950 ftSep 1993Jan 1997Yes
42-059355534233,945 ftSep 1993Dec 1996Yes
42-059363121WW2,166 ftSep 1993Oct 1996Yes
42-059358454253,933 ftSep 1993Dec 1996Yes
42-059363076273,960 ftSep 1993Nov 1996Yes
42-059355561233,930 ftSep 1993Nov 1996Yes
42-059363113WW2,120 ftSep 1993Nov 1996Yes
42-059355701243,970 ftSep 1993Nov 1996Yes
42-059363056263,902 ftSep 1993Jan 1997Yes
42-059356106233,970 ftSep 1993Jan 1997Yes
42-059358206253,900 ftSep 1993Dec 1996Yes
42-059358216243,870 ftSep 1993Dec 1996Yes
42-059357287213,950 ftSep 1993Dec 1996Yes
42-059357855WW4,465 ftSep 1993Dec 1996Yes
42-059357707223,852 ftSep 1993Dec 1996Yes
42-059356531054,516 ftOct 1987Nov 1996Yes
42-059357876013,870 ftOct 1987Dec 1996Yes
42-059355406024,000 ftMar 1986Jan 1997Yes
42-059355185013,948 ftJan 1986Dec 1996Yes
42-059354223013,951 ftOct 1985Dec 1996Yes
42-059353834023,950 ftAug 1985Nov 1996Yes
42-059353641013,970 ftJul 1985Nov 1996Yes
42-059344142013,895 ftOct 1983Dec 1996Yes

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 (42)

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

42 months

Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 199776023.483.54$1,784
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 199653022.22$1,178
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 1996138021.51$2,968
Mar 1996346019.38$6,705
Feb 1996172016.98$2,921
Jan 1996521017.07$8,893
Dec 19951,043017.19$17,929
Nov 1995854116.00$13,664
Oct 19956345015.43$9,783
Sep 19956838416.18$11,051
Aug 19958729115.92$13,882
Jul 199566212315.24$10,089
Jun 199567311316.41$11,044
May 19951,04310717.56$18,315
Apr 19951,58213217.73$28,049
Mar 19951,39114516.44$22,868
Feb 19957219516.58$11,954
Jan 19958838615.92$14,057
Dec 199489023315.03$13,377
Nov 199488047715.90$13,992
Oct 199435742815.58$5,562
Sep 199452339615.29$7,997
Aug 199464976416.13$10,468
Jul 199453091817.56$9,307
Jun 199451489117.09$8,784
May 19945301,15715.88$8,416
Apr 19945171,15914.14$7,310
Mar 19945211,26212.46$6,492
Feb 19946761,42812.50$8,450
Jan 19948661,76812.66$10,964
Dec 19936901,98512.33$8,508
Nov 199362254814.49$9,013
Oct 199382256115.85$13,029

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 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   76 bbl  × $ 23.48 =     $1,784
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.54 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,784

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/27003 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.