WALDRIP, ANCEL

Operated by WILCO PROPERTIES, INC. (P-5 923117) in the OBRIEN, NORTH (STRAWN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 8020District 7BField 66635500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$101 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 1994
Value, last 12 filed months
$36 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
24
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 20 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1959-11-25
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.

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
OilDisposition6,459 bbl$100,513
Casinghead gasProduction20 Mcf$0
Total$100,513

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 (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 33.3847, -99.8300. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

33.38501, -99.82951 · 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
4,935 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
13.1 years
median over 2 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 4,920 and 5,000 ft, median 4,935 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Aug 1983 – Mar 1994
2 of 3 wells; 1 filed none
Plug dates filed
Feb 2000 – Oct 2003
3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.1 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.5 years and 16.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-2078032124,935 ftOct 2003Yes
42-2070270714,920 ftMar 1994Feb 2000Yes
42-2073142035,000 ftAug 1983Oct 2003Yes

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 (24)

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

24 months

Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19940015.29$0
Aug 1994508116.13$8,194
Jul 1994467117.56$8,201
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 1994481115.88$7,638
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 1994491112.46$6,118
Feb 1994489112.50$6,113
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 1993474112.33$5,844
Nov 1993491114.49$7,115
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 1993324115.03$4,870
Aug 1993480115.66$7,517
Jul 1993447115.46$6,911
Jun 1993473116.79$7,942
May 19930117.68$0
Apr 1993470118.05$8,484
Mar 1993430118.14$7,800
Feb 1993434117.90$7,769
Jan 19930116.93$0

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.

Aug 1994 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  508 bbl  × $ 16.13 =     $8,194
Casinghead gas         1 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $8,194

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/8020 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.