REAMES, V. A., -A-

Operated by VAN OPERATING, LTD. (P-5 881442) in the SHACKELFORD COUNTY REGULAR field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 8823District 7BField 82522001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$120 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$3 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
82
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 1,335 leases and 6,064 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1913-12-31
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

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: CLASS 4 W/DAILY 82 = 6000 TO 8000'

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
OilDisposition6,732 bbl$120,145
Casinghead gasProduction295 Mcf$0
Total$120,145

295 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 25 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 (2)

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 32.7085, -99.1735. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.1 miles.

32.70853, -99.17350 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
2,735 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
33.5 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
2100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2100.0%
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 2,735 and 2,735 ft, median 2,735 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Dec 1965
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 1999
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 33.5 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 33.5 years and 33.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-4170014212,735 ftDec 1965Jun 1999Yes
42-417020071W2,735 ftDec 1965Jun 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 (82)

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

82 months

Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 1999181019.262.88$3,486
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 1998172011.742.24$2,019
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 1998168013.042.51$2,191
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 1998167014.702.15$2,455
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 1997172019.253.15$3,311
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 1997177017.862.55$3,161
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 1997174017.242.26$3,000
May 1997174018.972.31$3,301
Apr 1997173017.882.08$3,093
Mar 1997172018.951.94$3,259
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 1996177023.32$4,128
Nov 1996180021.97$3,955
Oct 1996174023.31$4,056
Sep 1996178022.22$3,955
Aug 1996176020.26$3,566
Jul 1996355019.55$6,940
Jun 1996166018.73$3,109
May 1996347019.43$6,742
Apr 1996174021.51$3,743
Mar 1996401019.38$7,771
Feb 1996347016.98$5,892
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 1995180016.41$2,954
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 1995184016.44$3,025
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950915.92$0
Dec 19940915.03$0
Nov 1994183715.90$2,910
Oct 199401315.58$0
Sep 19941781215.29$2,722
Aug 199401216.13$0
Jul 19941761417.56$3,091
Jun 199401417.09$0
May 19941681415.88$2,668
Apr 199401514.14$0
Mar 19941731712.46$2,156
Feb 199401812.50$0
Jan 19941811912.66$2,291
Dec 19930612.33$0
Nov 19930414.49$0
Oct 1993184615.85$2,916
Sep 199301015.03$0
Aug 199301315.66$0
Jul 19931781515.46$2,752
Jun 199301116.79$0
May 19931811817.68$3,200
Apr 199301018.05$0
Mar 19931791518.14$3,247
Feb 19930617.90$0
Jan 1993182816.93$3,081

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 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  181 bbl  × $ 19.26 =     $3,486
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.88 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,486

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/8823 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.