STEPHENS "21"

Operated by SOUTHERN EXPLORATION, INC. (P-5 803812) in the SEDWICK (ELLENBURGER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 28626District 7BField 82080200OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.2 M
May 1999 – Aug 2009
Value, last 12 filed months
$7 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
124
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 7 leases and 9 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1950-05-19
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
OilDisposition41,514 bbl$1,098,125
Casinghead gasProduction34,707 Mcf$143,878
Total$1,242,003

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 32.6120, -99.1713. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

32.61196, -99.17115 · 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
4,400 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
14.9 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 4,312 and 4,425 ft, median 4,400 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
May 2004 – Jan 2008
3 of 3 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 2009 – Dec 2022
3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.9 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 10.2 years and 16.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-4173819814,425 ftJan 2008Dec 2022Yes
42-4173825244,400 ftJul 2004Dec 2009Yes
42-4173829764,312 ftMay 2004Dec 2022Yes

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 (124)

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

124 months

Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 2009153046.773.59$7,156
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 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 2005317045.226.65$14,335
Apr 2005313049.207.36$15,400
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 2005169045.226.31$7,642
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 2004274045.286.33$12,407
Oct 2004177049.706.52$8,797
Sep 2004353043.245.28$15,264
Aug 2004172042.375.55$7,288
Jul 2004352038.286.08$13,475
Jun 2004167036.106.43$6,029
May 2004692037.486.49$25,936
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 2004346034.365.53$11,889
Feb 2004173032.455.51$5,614
Jan 2004538032.036.30$17,232
Dec 2003169030.266.30$5,114
Nov 2003165028.804.60$4,752
Oct 2003348028.174.76$9,803
Sep 2003634026.314.75$16,681
Aug 2003387029.765.13$11,517
Jul 2003476029.415.17$13,999
Jun 20033234428.565.98$9,488
May 2003306026.595.97$8,137
Apr 2003658026.675.41$17,549
Mar 2003319031.146.10$9,934
Feb 2003538033.487.93$18,012
Jan 2003540530.315.58$16,395
Dec 20025312226.914.85$14,396
Nov 2002682524.664.14$16,839
Oct 200235817426.464.23$10,209
Sep 200252418127.443.64$15,037
Aug 200270821525.963.16$19,060
Jul 20021761,11824.583.06$7,749
Jun 200270827923.733.34$17,732
May 200268489624.663.58$20,079
Apr 200253221823.653.51$13,347
Mar 200254474122.003.10$14,267
Feb 200272137718.222.38$14,032
Jan 200272037617.172.38$13,256
Dec 20019042,70316.932.36$21,696
Nov 20011,0582,41518.072.41$24,927
Oct 20015402,50119.782.53$17,006
Sep 20011,04877424.262.25$27,167
Aug 200187655524.873.05$23,481
Jul 20011,05349223.933.20$26,771
Jun 20011,23147624.563.82$32,054
May 20011,02930625.524.31$27,578
Apr 200170951124.685.34$20,224
Mar 20018851,32524.545.38$28,842
Feb 20016981,47327.755.77$27,864
Jan 20011,2121,74827.478.40$47,975
Dec 20005171,47226.889.12$27,325
Nov 20005163,00332.215.66$33,611
Oct 200068839831.235.15$23,534
Sep 200083645431.875.19$28,998
Aug 20008391,97829.644.54$33,850
Jul 20006751,39628.534.09$24,967
Jun 20006751,27929.304.40$25,402
May 20008621,22727.263.68$28,013
Apr 200084648224.513.12$22,237
Mar 200085446128.422.86$25,589
Feb 200069739227.622.73$20,320
Jan 200087338325.272.48$23,011
Dec 199971229824.282.42$18,010
Nov 199952919923.192.43$12,752
Oct 199987722120.982.80$19,019
Sep 199969024521.752.62$15,649
Aug 199968939819.262.88$14,415
Jul 199987232117.892.37$16,362
Jun 199968717015.942.36$11,352
May 1999390015.792.32$6,158

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.

Apr 2009 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  153 bbl  × $ 46.77 =     $7,156
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.59 =         $0

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Month total                                   $7,156

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/28626 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.