WILLIAMS, R. W.

Operated by L.C.S. PRODUCTION COMPANY (P-5 479574) in the LIVENGOOD, S. (KING UPPER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 5197District 7BField 54164500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$150 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
128
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 8 leases and 31 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1956-04-06
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.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
OilDisposition8,944 bbl$150,286
Casinghead gasProduction20 Mcf$0
Total$150,286

20 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 20 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 (18)

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 33.0195, -99.7558. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.3 miles.

33.01904, -99.75086 · 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%
18 of 18 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
18 of 18 wells
Median depth
2,342 ft
18 wells filed one
Completion to plug
12.4 years
median over 17 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
18100.0%
A plug date is filed
18100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
18100.0%
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, 18 of 18 wells. Median 2,342 ft, with the middle half between 2,330 and 2,355 ft; the shallowest is 2,320 ft and the deepest 2,900 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, 17 of 18 wells, Mar 1973 – Feb 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
Mar 1973 – Feb 1993
17 of 18 wells; 1 filed none
Plug dates filed
Jan 1987 – Mar 2000
18 of 18 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 12.4 years across the 17 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.6 years and 19.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

18 wells

42-2070206822,350 ftMar 2000Yes
42-207322151A2,370 ftFeb 1993Mar 2000Yes
42-20730739122,357 ftJan 1990Mar 2000Yes
42-20731015172,320 ftJun 1981Oct 1987Yes
42-20730924142,325 ftJun 1981Oct 1987Yes
42-20730931152,381 ftJan 1981Mar 2000Yes
42-20730932162,344 ftJan 1981Mar 2000Yes
42-2073013032,340 ftNov 1979Mar 2000Yes
42-2073020382,330 ftMay 1979Apr 1989Yes
42-20730738132,330 ftOct 1978Jan 1987Yes
42-20730724112,333 ftOct 1978Apr 1989Yes
42-20730723102,330 ftJun 1978Jan 1987Yes
42-2073034592,350 ftSep 1977Feb 1990Yes
42-2073015052,900 ftJun 1976Mar 1989Yes
42-2073019972,335 ftMar 1974Mar 2000Yes
42-2073019362,330 ftFeb 1974Apr 1989Yes
42-2070045412,573 ftJun 1973Mar 1989Yes
42-2073014942,350 ftMar 1973Mar 2000Yes

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 (128)

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

128 months

Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 1999104010.381.90$1,080
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 1998128012.421.97$1,590
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 1998155011.301.91$1,752
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 1998112011.242.24$1,259
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 1998145013.042.51$1,891
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 1998142013.952.30$1,981
Jan 1998157014.702.15$2,308
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 1997136018.193.09$2,474
Oct 1997155019.253.15$2,984
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 1997152017.862.55$2,715
Jul 1997140017.582.25$2,461
Jun 1997146017.242.26$2,517
May 1997139018.972.31$2,637
Apr 1997127017.882.08$2,271
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 1997148020.492.21$3,033
Jan 1997112023.483.54$2,630
Dec 1996145023.32$3,381
Nov 1996262021.97$5,756
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 1996300022.22$6,666
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 1996161019.55$3,148
Jun 1996153018.73$2,866
May 1996157019.43$3,051
Apr 1996162021.51$3,485
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 1996143016.98$2,428
Jan 1996155017.07$2,646
Dec 1995144017.19$2,475
Nov 1995151016.00$2,416
Oct 1995158015.43$2,438
Sep 1995158016.18$2,556
Aug 1995170015.92$2,706
Jul 1995163015.24$2,484
Jun 1995171016.41$2,806
May 1995166017.56$2,915
Apr 1995148017.73$2,624
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 1995161016.58$2,669
Jan 1995332015.92$5,285
Dec 1994169015.03$2,540
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 1994168015.58$2,617
Sep 1994161115.29$2,462
Aug 1994331116.13$5,339
Jul 19940117.56$0
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 19940012.46$0
Feb 1994173112.50$2,163
Jan 1994167112.66$2,114
Dec 1993173112.33$2,133
Nov 1993157114.49$2,275
Oct 1993171115.85$2,710
Sep 1993174115.03$2,615
Aug 1993162115.66$2,537
Jul 1993168115.46$2,597
Jun 1993169116.79$2,838
May 1993170117.68$3,006
Apr 1993174118.05$3,141
Mar 1993171118.14$3,102
Feb 1993168117.90$3,007
Jan 1993160116.93$2,709

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 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  104 bbl  × $ 10.38 =     $1,080
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  1.90 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,080

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/5197 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.