DAVIS, DON "A"

Operated by SOJOURNER DRILLING CORPORATION (P-5 800750) in the WINTERS (CAPPS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 10821District 7CField 98182260Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$391 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 2013
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
241
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 74 leases and 109 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1980-01-01
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 register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

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
NGPA2none

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
OilDisposition18,933 bbl$340,605
Casinghead gasProduction43,943 Mcf$50,771
Total$391,376

28,252 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 (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 31.9456, -99.9175. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

31.94564, -99.91747 · 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
4,075 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
22.9 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 3,900 and 4,250 ft, median 4,075 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jun 1984 – Aug 1985
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2002 – Dec 2012
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 22.9 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 20.7 years and 25.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-3993355023,900 ftAug 1985Dec 2012Yes
42-3993191514,250 ftJun 1984Nov 2002Yes

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 (241)

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

241 months

Jan 20130091.603.42$0
Dec 20120086.773.42$0
Nov 20120086.953.62$0
Oct 20120089.383.40$0
Sep 20120094.672.92$0
Aug 20120092.662.91$0
Jul 20120085.133.02$0
Jun 20120079.822.52$0
May 20120091.612.49$0
Apr 201200101.652.00$0
Mar 201200105.052.22$0
Feb 201200101.102.57$0
Jan 20120098.092.73$0
Dec 20110096.873.24$0
Nov 20110095.723.31$0
Oct 20110084.983.65$0
Sep 20110083.623.99$0
Aug 20110083.404.15$0
Jul 20110094.144.52$0
Jun 20110092.904.64$0
May 20110098.134.40$0
Apr 201100105.964.33$0
Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 20100072.554.74$0
Jun 20100070.364.91$0
May 20100071.124.24$0
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 20100078.394.39$0
Feb 20100073.585.44$0
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20090042.144.06$0
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20021055727.443.64$3,088
Aug 200204725.963.16$149
Jul 200204224.583.06$129
Jun 2002017023.733.34$568
May 2002015024.663.58$538
Apr 2002011823.653.51$414
Mar 2002021822.003.10$676
Feb 200207818.222.38$185
Jan 20021669117.172.38$3,066
Dec 2001017116.932.36$404
Nov 2001024818.072.41$597
Oct 2001029319.782.53$741
Sep 2001030824.262.25$693
Aug 2001020624.873.05$629
Jul 200114513823.933.20$3,911
Jun 2001021724.563.82$830
May 2001033825.524.31$1,456
Apr 200118024524.685.34$5,750
Mar 2001026824.545.38$1,441
Feb 2001038427.755.77$2,215
Jan 200118839327.478.40$8,465
Dec 2000038126.889.12$3,476
Nov 200016236032.215.66$7,255
Oct 2000026931.235.15$1,384
Sep 200016615531.875.19$6,094
Aug 2000020529.644.54$931
Jul 200017422128.534.09$5,868
Jun 2000010829.304.40$475
May 200016216327.263.68$5,016
Apr 200017910324.513.12$4,708
Mar 200018112528.422.86$5,501
Feb 200017632127.622.73$5,736
Jan 200018013825.272.48$4,891
Dec 199935828124.282.42$9,373
Nov 199918019123.192.43$4,639
Oct 199918123320.982.80$4,451
Sep 199917538621.752.62$4,817
Aug 199917739319.262.88$4,539
Jul 199917426817.892.37$3,749
Jun 199935749915.942.36$6,869
May 1999041115.792.32$954
Apr 1999040215.102.21$888
Mar 199917943712.471.84$3,035
Feb 199903009.981.82$545
Jan 199918019810.381.90$2,245
Dec 199801239.201.77$218
Nov 1998012910.892.19$282
Oct 199815922912.421.97$2,426
Sep 199818118512.592.08$2,664
Aug 199817732011.301.91$2,610
Jul 199817221511.742.24$2,500
Jun 199817420811.242.24$2,421
May 1998016312.622.21$360
Apr 199818118213.042.51$2,816
Mar 199818217712.802.31$2,738
Feb 199818116713.952.30$2,909
Jan 199817915514.702.15$2,965
Dec 199717916916.322.41$3,329
Nov 199718312718.193.09$3,721
Oct 199717717819.253.15$3,968
Sep 199717924617.742.95$3,902
Aug 199717724117.862.55$3,777
Jul 1997018817.582.25$422
Jun 199717719517.242.26$3,492
May 199717724318.972.31$3,919
Apr 199717715117.882.08$3,479
Mar 199717936818.951.94$4,106
Feb 199717924020.492.21$4,197
Jan 199718036423.483.54$5,515
Dec 199618134323.32$4,221
Nov 19961789121.97$3,911
Oct 199617430923.31$4,056
Sep 199617542422.22$3,889
Aug 199617530620.26$3,546
Jul 199616829219.55$3,284
Jun 199617543318.73$3,278
May 199617724419.43$3,439
Apr 199635329321.51$7,593
Mar 199617840919.38$3,450
Feb 1996043616.98$0
Jan 199636150517.07$6,162
Dec 199517655417.19$3,025
Nov 199517951916.00$2,864
Oct 199517853615.43$2,747
Sep 199517754616.18$2,864
Aug 199517658015.92$2,802
Jul 199517557815.24$2,667
Jun 199533452916.41$5,481
May 199517558217.56$3,073
Apr 199518155217.73$3,209
Mar 199535144316.44$5,770
Feb 199517451016.58$2,885
Jan 199517957515.92$2,850
Dec 199418259715.03$2,735
Nov 199435258315.90$5,597
Oct 199417363215.58$2,695
Sep 199434461515.29$5,260
Aug 199417869716.13$2,871
Jul 199417774117.56$3,108
Jun 199434571017.09$5,896
May 199417269815.88$2,731
Apr 199435467114.14$5,006
Mar 199417166012.46$2,131
Feb 199435759612.50$4,463
Jan 199417668512.66$2,228
Dec 199334669712.33$4,266
Nov 199317770614.49$2,565
Oct 199335677215.85$5,643
Sep 199317379415.03$2,600
Aug 199334687615.66$5,418
Jul 199317491015.46$2,690
Jun 199335890216.79$6,011
May 199334990417.68$6,170
Apr 199317680518.05$3,177
Mar 199336080518.14$6,530
Feb 199335673317.90$6,372
Jan 199335687416.93$6,027

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.

Sep 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  105 bbl  × $ 27.44 =     $2,881
Casinghead gas        57 Mcf  × $  3.64 =       $207

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Month total                                   $3,088

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/10821 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.