HANKS, WANDA

Operated by COX, JOHN L. (P-5 185980) in the SPRABERRY (TREND AREA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 10601District 7CField 85279200OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$108 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 1996
Value, last 12 filed months
$10 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
48
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 7,461 leases and 22,481 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1904-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2016-03-08.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AREA) 85279200.

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
OilDisposition6,676 bbl$107,924
Casinghead gasProduction57,414 Mcf$0
Total$107,924

57,414 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 39 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 (4)

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 31.4425, -102.0360. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.6 miles.

31.44242, -102.03650 · 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%
4 of 4 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
4 of 4 wells
Median depth
7,720 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
15.3 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
4100.0%
A plug date is filed
4100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
4100.0%
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 7,710 and 7,800 ft, median 7,720 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jun 1980 – Nov 1980
4 of 4 wells
Plug dates filed
May 1994 – Sep 1996
4 of 4 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.3 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.8 years and 15.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-4613163547,710 ftNov 1980Dec 1995Yes
42-4613160537,730 ftOct 1980Sep 1996Yes
42-4613159027,710 ftOct 1980May 1994Yes
42-4613157417,800 ftJun 1980Dec 1995Yes

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 (48)

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

48 months

Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 199659023.31$1,375
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 199684020.26$1,702
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960118.73$0
May 1996182019.43$3,536
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 1996022116.98$0
Jan 199619522617.07$3,329
Dec 1995022617.19$0
Nov 1995022616.00$0
Oct 1995022915.43$0
Sep 1995076816.18$0
Aug 19951781,42615.92$2,834
Jul 19951761,48815.24$2,682
Jun 199501,49516.41$0
May 19951881,54717.56$3,301
Apr 199501,35017.73$0
Mar 19951841,73816.44$3,025
Feb 19952031,18516.58$3,366
Jan 199501,45115.92$0
Dec 19941841,42715.03$2,766
Nov 199401,37715.90$0
Oct 19941821,44815.58$2,836
Sep 19941831,36915.29$2,798
Aug 19941811,19416.13$2,920
Jul 199401,04617.56$0
Jun 199417661717.09$3,008
May 19941791,18815.88$2,843
Apr 19941802,34514.14$2,545
Mar 19941802,21012.46$2,243
Feb 19941842,04312.50$2,300
Jan 19941812,24112.66$2,291
Dec 19931822,07312.33$2,244
Nov 19931812,23314.49$2,623
Oct 19933682,30115.85$5,833
Sep 19933582,25915.03$5,381
Aug 19931802,14615.66$2,819
Jul 19933391,90215.46$5,241
Jun 19931762,03416.79$2,955
May 19933642,26917.68$6,436
Apr 19931791,78218.05$3,231
Mar 19935442,26718.14$9,868
Feb 19933632,02517.90$6,498
Jan 19931832,04116.93$3,098

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.

Oct 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   59 bbl  × $ 23.31 =     $1,375
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $1,375

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/O/10601 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.