MATHEWS, R. O.

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

Oil lease lease 8547District 7BField 19511001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$25 k
Jan 1993 – Sep 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
105
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 892 leases and 2,428 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1910-12-31
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
OilDisposition1,469 bbl$25,223
Casinghead gasProduction1,732 Mcf$40
Total$25,263

1,716 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 (5)

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 31.7171, -99.2912. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

31.71710, -99.29100 · 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%
5 of 5 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
5 of 5 wells
Median depth
1,910 ft
5 wells filed one
Completion to plug
15.5 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
5100.0%
A plug date is filed
5100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
5100.0%
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 1,690 and 2,618 ft, median 1,910 ft, over the 5 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Nov 1983 – Jun 1984
4 of 5 wells; 1 filed none
Plug dates filed
May 1999 – Jul 2001
5 of 5 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.5 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.3 years and 15.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

5 wells

42-0830641011,690 ftJul 2001Yes
42-0833405752,604 ftJun 1984May 1999Yes
42-0833150431,910 ftNov 1983May 1999Yes
42-0833150541,890 ftNov 1983May 1999Yes
42-0833383622,618 ftNov 1983May 1999Yes

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 (105)

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

105 months

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 200176027.755.77$2,109
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 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980113.042.51$3
Mar 19980112.802.31$2
Feb 19980113.952.30$2
Jan 19980114.702.15$2
Dec 19970116.322.41$2
Nov 19970118.193.09$3
Oct 19970119.253.15$3
Sep 19970117.742.95$3
Aug 19970117.862.55$3
Jul 19970117.582.25$2
Jun 19970117.242.26$2
May 19970118.972.31$2
Apr 199774117.882.08$1,325
Mar 19970118.951.94$2
Feb 19970120.492.21$2
Jan 19970123.483.54$4
Dec 19960123.32$0
Nov 199638121.97$835
Oct 199602123.31$0
Sep 199649622.22$1,089
Aug 199602220.26$0
Jul 1996314419.55$606
Jun 1996473618.73$880
May 1996642919.43$1,244
Apr 199603121.51$0
Mar 199602219.38$0
Feb 199601816.98$0
Jan 199604417.07$0
Dec 19950117.19$0
Nov 199501316.00$0
Oct 199506515.43$0
Sep 199503516.18$0
Aug 199504015.92$0
Jul 1995372615.24$564
Jun 199502016.41$0
May 199501617.56$0
Apr 19951252717.73$2,216
Mar 199503016.44$0
Feb 1995534616.58$879
Jan 19950115.92$0
Dec 199470115.03$1,052
Nov 199465115.90$1,034
Oct 19940515.58$0
Sep 199402315.29$0
Aug 1994234316.13$371
Jul 1994334717.56$579
Jun 199404917.09$0
May 1994364015.88$572
Apr 1994373114.14$523
Mar 1994435212.46$536
Feb 1994385412.50$475
Jan 1994536312.66$671
Dec 1993336112.33$407
Nov 1993585314.49$840
Oct 199305515.85$0
Sep 1993265915.03$391
Aug 1993616515.66$955
Jul 1993476715.46$727
Jun 19931254716.79$2,099
May 199306917.68$0
Apr 199305718.05$0
Mar 1993636418.14$1,143
Feb 1993214917.90$376
Jan 1993436616.93$728

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.

Feb 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   76 bbl  × $ 27.75 =     $2,109
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.77 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,109

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/8547 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.