RITCHIE, JOHN

Operated by RANGER OPERATING CO. (P-5 691776) in the MARY NORRIS (CONGL. 4000) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 28320District 7BField 57973500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$579 k
Aug 1997 – Jan 2013
Value, last 12 filed months
$10 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
186
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 2 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1968-05-21
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

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ALLOCATION FORMULA EFF. 8-1-81 PER AMENDMENT TO SWR 28 & 29

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
OilDisposition5,306 bbl$174,113
Casinghead gasProduction83,591 Mcf$405,142
Total$579,255

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 32.9764, -98.3888. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.97644, -98.38879 · 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
4,722 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
43.4 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 4,722 ft.

Completions filed
May 1969
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Oct 2012
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 43.4 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 43.4 years and 43.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3632003724,722 ftMay 1969Oct 2012Yes

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 (186)

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

186 months

Jan 20130091.603.42$0
Dec 20120086.773.42$0
Nov 20120086.953.62$0
Oct 2012112089.383.40$10,011
Sep 20120094.672.92$0
Aug 20120092.662.91$0
Jul 20120085.133.02$0
Jun 20120079.822.52$0
May 20120091.612.49$0
Apr 201200101.652.00$0
Mar 201200105.052.22$0
Feb 201200101.102.57$0
Jan 20120098.092.73$0
Dec 20110096.873.24$0
Nov 20110095.723.31$0
Oct 20110084.983.65$0
Sep 20110083.623.99$0
Aug 20110083.404.15$0
Jul 20110094.144.52$0
Jun 20110092.904.64$0
May 20110098.134.40$0
Apr 201100105.964.33$0
Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 20100072.554.74$0
Jun 20100070.364.91$0
May 20100071.124.24$0
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 20100078.394.39$0
Feb 20100073.585.44$0
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20090042.144.06$0
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 2007073656.927.30$5,374
Feb 20074263355.108.22$7,515
Jan 2007066550.306.73$4,473
Dec 200617461256.656.92$14,091
Nov 2006060254.207.62$4,586
Oct 2006070754.906.01$4,252
Sep 2006065560.085.04$3,299
Aug 200616874568.717.34$17,012
Jul 2006076969.376.34$4,878
Jun 2006083266.286.38$5,311
May 200617769466.016.42$16,143
Apr 2006077764.397.36$5,719
Mar 2006086856.707.08$6,148
Feb 2006019257.597.75$1,488
Jan 2006066060.598.93$5,896
Dec 200517568354.9413.42$18,777
Nov 2005066354.6910.59$7,020
Oct 2005069458.3413.80$9,574
Sep 2005065161.4512.08$7,863
Aug 200516573361.519.80$17,330
Jul 2005073455.697.84$5,757
Jun 2005068852.337.38$5,078
May 2005067345.226.65$4,476
Apr 2005064849.207.36$4,770
Mar 2005063950.377.15$4,572
Feb 200515464945.226.31$11,060
Jan 2005073643.166.32$4,653
Dec 2004073239.866.75$4,942
Nov 2004077645.286.33$4,912
Oct 200416973449.706.52$13,181
Sep 2004068643.245.28$3,625
Aug 2004072742.375.55$4,035
Jul 2004073838.286.08$4,490
Jun 200416981436.106.43$11,337
May 2004085837.486.49$5,572
Apr 2004059534.475.86$3,486
Mar 2004063834.365.53$3,528
Feb 200416750732.455.51$8,213
Jan 2004069432.036.30$4,372
Dec 2003079330.266.30$4,997
Nov 200316277028.804.60$8,204
Oct 2003078228.174.76$3,722
Sep 2003078726.314.75$3,738
Aug 200317182829.765.13$9,336
Jul 2003076929.415.17$3,976
Jun 2003072128.565.98$4,314
May 200317378326.595.97$9,277
Apr 2003066226.675.41$3,580
Mar 200315313031.146.10$5,557
Feb 2003059633.487.93$4,724
Jan 2003058730.315.58$3,277
Dec 2002062526.914.85$3,034
Nov 2002063024.664.14$2,606
Oct 200217365426.464.23$7,343
Sep 2002066527.443.64$2,417
Aug 2002078225.963.16$2,474
Jul 2002080824.583.06$2,474
Jun 200214359023.733.34$5,363
May 2002067324.663.58$2,412
Apr 2002081723.653.51$2,870
Mar 200214586822.003.10$5,883
Feb 2002075318.222.38$1,789
Jan 2002084017.172.38$1,996
Dec 2001087416.932.36$2,066
Nov 200115869618.072.41$4,529
Oct 2001073519.782.53$1,859
Sep 2001070524.262.25$1,587
Aug 2001077824.873.05$2,375
Jul 200117479923.933.20$6,718
Jun 2001075524.563.82$2,887
May 2001081825.524.31$3,523
Apr 200116980824.685.34$8,482
Mar 2001090124.545.38$4,844
Feb 2001086427.755.77$4,983
Jan 20011821,07027.478.40$13,986
Dec 2000089826.889.12$8,192
Nov 2000085032.215.66$4,809
Oct 2000060931.235.15$3,134
Sep 200017380631.875.19$9,694
Aug 2000097929.644.54$4,445
Jul 2000089928.534.09$3,677
Jun 2000089829.304.40$3,949
May 200018193827.263.68$8,386
Apr 2000097224.513.12$3,029
Mar 2000096828.422.86$2,768
Feb 200017978427.622.73$7,082
Jan 2000094425.272.48$2,342
Dec 1999099124.282.42$2,402
Nov 19991811,01623.192.43$6,670
Oct 199901,00020.982.80$2,804
Sep 199901,00921.752.62$2,642
Aug 1999090519.262.88$2,602
Jul 199918095917.892.37$5,495
Jun 1999095315.942.36$2,251
May 1999098615.792.32$2,289
Apr 199916191015.102.21$4,440
Mar 199901,11912.471.84$2,057
Feb 199909689.981.82$1,760
Jan 199918384810.381.90$3,511
Dec 199801,1009.201.77$1,951
Nov 199801,41610.892.19$3,095
Oct 1998168012.421.97$2,087
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 1998030111.742.24$673
Jun 1998053811.242.24$1,204
May 1998048912.622.21$1,079
Apr 1998049913.042.51$1,250
Mar 199818554012.802.31$3,615
Feb 1998039013.952.30$897
Jan 1998042714.702.15$920
Dec 199718636116.322.41$3,906
Nov 1997042818.193.09$1,322
Oct 1997043819.253.15$1,380
Sep 19975440317.742.95$2,149
Aug 1997049917.862.55$1,275

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 2012 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  112 bbl  × $ 89.38 =    $10,011
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.40 =         $0

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Month total                                  $10,011

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/28320 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.