NOELKE "A"

Name: NOELKE "A" lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by ZACHRY OIL AND GAS PROPERTIES (P-5 950479) in the MERTZON (CANYON) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 11471District 7CField 60698166Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$190 k

Jan 1993 – Aug 2003

Value, last 12 filed months

$3 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

128

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The MERTZON (CANYON) field

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 19 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1965-12-11

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 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1991-05-01.

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.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “MULTIPLE 49B FIELD WITH 80 ACRE UNIT BASE”

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	7,728 bbl	$131,683
Casinghead gas	Production	69,314 Mcf	$58,644
Total			$190,326

44,193 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 31.1538, -100.9321. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

31.15381, -100.93206 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

7,135 ft

2 wells filed one

Completion to plug

17.3 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 7,079 and 7,190 ft, median 7,135 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Jul 1985 – Mar 1986

2 of 2 wells

Plug dates filed

Feb 2003

2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 17.3 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 17.1 years and 17.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells


42-23532723	2	7,079 ft	Mar 1986	Feb 2003	Yes
42-23532582	1	7,190 ft	Jul 1985	Feb 2003	Yes

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 (128)

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

128 months


Aug 2003	0	0	29.76	5.13	$0
Jul 2003	0	0	29.41	5.17	$0
Jun 2003	98	0	28.56	5.98	$2,799
May 2003	0	0	26.59	5.97	$0
Apr 2003	0	0	26.67	5.41	$0
Mar 2003	0	0	31.14	6.10	$0
Feb 2003	0	0	33.48	7.93	$0
Jan 2003	0	0	30.31	5.58	$0
Dec 2002	0	0	26.91	4.85	$0
Nov 2002	0	0	24.66	4.14	$0
Oct 2002	0	0	26.46	4.23	$0
Sep 2002	0	0	27.44	3.64	$0
Aug 2002	0	0	25.96	3.16	$0
Jul 2002	0	0	24.58	3.06	$0
Jun 2002	0	0	23.73	3.34	$0
May 2002	0	0	24.66	3.58	$0
Apr 2002	0	0	23.65	3.51	$0
Mar 2002	0	0	22.00	3.10	$0
Feb 2002	0	0	18.22	2.38	$0
Jan 2002	0	0	17.17	2.38	$0
Dec 2001	0	0	16.93	2.36	$0
Nov 2001	0	0	18.07	2.41	$0
Oct 2001	0	0	19.78	2.53	$0
Sep 2001	0	0	24.26	2.25	$0
Aug 2001	0	0	24.87	3.05	$0
Jul 2001	0	0	23.93	3.20	$0
Jun 2001	0	0	24.56	3.82	$0
May 2001	0	0	25.52	4.31	$0
Apr 2001	0	0	24.68	5.34	$0
Mar 2001	0	0	24.54	5.38	$0
Feb 2001	0	0	27.75	5.77	$0
Jan 2001	0	0	27.47	8.40	$0
Dec 2000	0	0	26.88	9.12	$0
Nov 2000	0	0	32.21	5.66	$0
Oct 2000	0	0	31.23	5.15	$0
Sep 2000	0	0	31.87	5.19	$0
Aug 2000	0	0	29.64	4.54	$0
Jul 2000	0	0	28.53	4.09	$0
Jun 2000	0	0	29.30	4.40	$0
May 2000	0	1	27.26	3.68	$4
Apr 2000	0	1	24.51	3.12	$3
Mar 2000	105	1	28.42	2.86	$2,987
Feb 2000	0	39	27.62	2.73	$106
Jan 2000	0	291	25.27	2.48	$722
Dec 1999	0	334	24.28	2.42	$810
Nov 1999	0	327	23.19	2.43	$796
Oct 1999	0	278	20.98	2.80	$779
Sep 1999	0	339	21.75	2.62	$888
Aug 1999	0	372	19.26	2.88	$1,070
Jul 1999	57	649	17.89	2.37	$2,559
Jun 1999	0	530	15.94	2.36	$1,252
May 1999	85	525	15.79	2.32	$2,561
Apr 1999	0	634	15.10	2.21	$1,400
Mar 1999	60	452	12.47	1.84	$1,579
Feb 1999	0	512	9.98	1.82	$931
Jan 1999	23	489	10.38	1.90	$1,168
Dec 1998	40	648	9.20	1.77	$1,517
Nov 1998	48	626	10.89	2.19	$1,891
Oct 1998	47	711	12.42	1.97	$1,984
Sep 1998	52	621	12.59	2.08	$1,948
Aug 1998	69	816	11.30	1.91	$2,336
Jul 1998	52	895	11.74	2.24	$2,613
Jun 1998	117	832	11.24	2.24	$3,176
May 1998	167	878	12.62	2.21	$4,045
Apr 1998	0	887	13.04	2.51	$2,222
Mar 1998	0	928	12.80	2.31	$2,143
Feb 1998	167	824	13.95	2.30	$4,224
Jan 1998	0	888	14.70	2.15	$1,913
Dec 1997	168	905	16.32	2.41	$4,924
Nov 1997	0	914	18.19	3.09	$2,823
Oct 1997	162	977	19.25	3.15	$6,196
Sep 1997	166	959	17.74	2.95	$5,779
Aug 1997	0	942	17.86	2.55	$2,407
Jul 1997	174	963	17.58	2.25	$5,223
Jun 1997	0	648	17.24	2.26	$1,463
May 1997	163	850	18.97	2.31	$5,054
Apr 1997	163	1,048	17.88	2.08	$5,097
Mar 1997	0	650	18.95	1.94	$1,260
Feb 1997	0	787	20.49	2.21	$1,736
Jan 1997	169	150	23.48	3.54	$4,499
Dec 1996	153	157	23.32	—	$3,568
Nov 1996	0	852	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	152	964	23.31	—	$3,543
Sep 1996	159	904	22.22	—	$3,533
Aug 1996	0	959	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	151	981	19.55	—	$2,952
Jun 1996	161	1,068	18.73	—	$3,016
May 1996	169	1,068	19.43	—	$3,284
Apr 1996	0	1,119	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	164	1,029	19.38	—	$3,178
Feb 1996	163	999	16.98	—	$2,768
Jan 1996	0	1,138	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	327	1,164	17.19	—	$5,621
Nov 1995	175	767	16.00	—	$2,800
Oct 1995	0	800	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	900	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	886	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	862	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	858	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	177	863	17.56	—	$3,108
Apr 1995	0	742	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	122	753	16.44	—	$2,006
Feb 1995	139	671	16.58	—	$2,305
Jan 1995	181	941	15.92	—	$2,882
Dec 1994	0	924	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	175	911	15.90	—	$2,783
Oct 1994	178	815	15.58	—	$2,773
Sep 1994	0	935	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	175	950	16.13	—	$2,823
Jul 1994	0	977	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	173	806	17.09	—	$2,957
May 1994	177	1,038	15.88	—	$2,811
Apr 1994	0	795	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	170	1,009	12.46	—	$2,118
Feb 1994	174	786	12.50	—	$2,175
Jan 1994	0	763	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	180	883	12.33	—	$2,219
Nov 1993	176	963	14.49	—	$2,550
Oct 1993	175	993	15.85	—	$2,774
Sep 1993	0	981	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	175	1,054	15.66	—	$2,741
Jul 1993	176	1,057	15.46	—	$2,721
Jun 1993	173	1,009	16.79	—	$2,905
May 1993	0	1,041	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	173	992	18.05	—	$3,123
Mar 1993	178	1,018	18.14	—	$3,229
Feb 1993	173	973	17.90	—	$3,097
Jan 1993	182	1,075	16.93	—	$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.

Jun 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   98 bbl  × $ 28.56 =     $2,799
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.98 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,799

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/11471 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.