ELLIOTT, M. "A"

Operated by OLSEN ENERGY INC. (P-5 621750) in the BUCKHORN (ELLENBURGER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 87737District 7CField 12945333NGPA filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$60 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 1996
Value, last 12 filed months
$12 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
46
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 14 leases and 14 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1957-07-29
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 320 acres. The field rule took effect on 2009-03-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 07/01/2009.

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA1none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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
CondensateDisposition3,686 bbl$59,656
GasProduction64,015 Mcf$0
Total$59,656

64,015 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 43 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 30.8840, -101.0814. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.88402, -101.08139 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
7,983 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
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
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 7,983 ft.

Completions filed
May 1980
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-1053275917,983 ftMay 1980Yes

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 (46)

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

46 months

Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 1996147020.26$2,978
Jul 199611,38819.55$20
Jun 1996118718.73$19
May 199617818519.43$3,459
Apr 1996096421.51$0
Mar 19961351,26919.38$2,616
Feb 199617845016.98$3,022
Jan 1996163117.07$17
Dec 1995186217.19$17
Nov 1995092316.00$0
Oct 199517665815.43$2,716
Sep 199501,60816.18$0
Aug 19951863,63715.92$2,961
Jul 19951762,60915.24$2,682
Jun 1995091116.41$0
May 1995068817.56$0
Apr 1995072517.73$0
Mar 19951701,28416.44$2,795
Feb 1995049416.58$0
Jan 19951821,66815.92$2,897
Dec 199401,41115.03$0
Nov 19941752,25715.90$2,783
Oct 199401,24815.58$0
Sep 1994089215.29$0
Aug 19941191,20816.13$1,919
Jul 199401,27917.56$0
Jun 19941741,59617.09$2,974
May 19941761,15015.88$2,795
Apr 199401,87214.14$0
Mar 19941842,77612.46$2,293
Feb 19941842,13612.50$2,300
Jan 199402,45112.66$0
Dec 19931421,32612.33$1,751
Nov 199302,43114.49$0
Oct 19931261,79915.85$1,997
Sep 19931401,52915.03$2,104
Aug 199301,86715.66$0
Jul 19931881,94015.46$2,906
Jun 19931302,14916.79$2,183
May 1993991,98617.68$1,750
Apr 1993721,91918.05$1,300
Mar 1993741,78518.14$1,342
Feb 19931702,01117.90$3,043
Jan 199311,85616.93$17

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 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate           147 bbl  × $ 20.26 =     $2,978
Gas                    0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $2,978

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. 7C/G/87737 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.