STRAUS, WILLIE

Operated by TAMARACK PETROLEUM COMPANY, INC. (P-5 835630) in the BISSETT, E. (STRAWN SAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 9347District 7BField 08418500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$102 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 24 leases and 57 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1961-05-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 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
OilDisposition5,931 bbl$102,376
Casinghead gasProduction228 Mcf$97
Total$102,473

190 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 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 (1)

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 33.3432, -100.1891. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.34321, -100.18907 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
5,464 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 5,464 ft.

Plug dates filed
Sep 2000
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-4331008715,464 ftSep 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 (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 200169023.933.20$1,651
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 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 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 1998137014.702.15$2,014
Dec 19970116.322.41$2
Nov 19970118.193.09$3
Oct 19970419.253.15$13
Sep 1997190417.742.95$3,382
Aug 19970317.862.55$8
Jul 1997180417.582.25$3,173
Jun 19970317.242.26$7
May 1997188318.972.31$3,573
Apr 19970417.882.08$8
Mar 1997193418.951.94$3,665
Feb 19970320.492.21$7
Jan 1997190423.483.54$4,475
Dec 19960423.32$0
Nov 1996194421.97$4,262
Oct 19960423.31$0
Sep 1996193422.22$4,288
Aug 19960320.26$0
Jul 1996178419.55$3,480
Jun 19960418.73$0
May 1996173419.43$3,361
Apr 19960421.51$0
Mar 1996174419.38$3,372
Feb 1996194416.98$3,294
Jan 19960517.07$0
Dec 1995196517.19$3,369
Nov 19950516.00$0
Oct 1995184515.43$2,839
Sep 1995181416.18$2,929
Aug 19950515.92$0
Jul 1995184515.24$2,804
Jun 19950216.41$0
May 1995173217.56$3,038
Apr 19950417.73$0
Mar 1995186416.44$3,058
Feb 19950416.58$0
Jan 1995197415.92$3,136
Dec 1994173515.03$2,600
Nov 19940615.90$0
Oct 1994165115.58$2,571
Sep 19940515.29$0
Aug 1994177416.13$2,855
Jul 19940417.56$0
Jun 1994183317.09$3,127
May 19940415.88$0
Apr 1994192414.14$2,715
Mar 19940412.46$0
Feb 1994172412.50$2,150
Jan 1994186512.66$2,355
Dec 19930412.33$0
Nov 19930214.49$0
Oct 19930015.85$0
Sep 1993185115.03$2,781
Aug 19930415.66$0
Jul 1993189515.46$2,922
Jun 1993190416.79$3,190
May 19930517.68$0
Apr 1993383718.05$6,913
Mar 19930418.14$0
Feb 19930317.90$0
Jan 1993182516.93$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.

Jul 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   69 bbl  × $ 23.93 =     $1,651
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.20 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,651

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/9347 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.