SOUTHLAND-NOBLE

Operated by APACHE CORPORATION (P-5 27200) in the WYATT field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 11970District 7CField 99023001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$162 k
Jan 1993 – May 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$3 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
53
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 23 leases and 52 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1940-01-04
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
400 ft
minimum
From a lease line
200 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 acres. The field rule took effect on 2019-10-22.

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: DATED 10/22/2019.

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
OilDisposition10,113 bbl$161,551
Casinghead gasProduction22,909 Mcf$0
Total$161,551

22,909 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 33 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 30.8154, -101.4604. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.81542, -101.46037 · 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
1,270 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
7.5 years
median over 1 well

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 1,270 ft.

Completions filed
Nov 2000
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2008
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 7.5 years and 7.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-1053527511,270 ftNov 2000May 2008Yes

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 (53)

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

53 months

May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 199736018.951.94$682
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 1996119023.31$2,774
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 1996038120.26$0
Jul 1996141719.55$20
Jun 1996060518.73$0
May 1996054319.43$0
Apr 199601,72921.51$0
Mar 199602,06219.38$0
Feb 199601,69116.98$0
Jan 19960117.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950115.43$0
Sep 1995850416.18$13,753
Aug 1995655415.92$10,428
Jul 1995164115.24$2,499
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 1995149017.73$2,642
Mar 1995483016.44$7,941
Feb 1995160016.58$2,653
Jan 1995637015.92$10,141
Dec 199403315.03$0
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 1994150015.58$2,337
Sep 19940015.29$0
Aug 1994017316.13$0
Jul 199493816917.56$16,471
Jun 199463620117.09$10,869
May 199481731815.88$12,974
Apr 199430519414.14$4,313
Mar 199430334112.46$3,775
Feb 199433258912.50$4,150
Jan 199445943912.66$5,811
Dec 199347651912.33$5,869
Nov 1993066214.49$0
Oct 19933261,02615.85$5,167
Sep 199315970215.03$2,390
Aug 199301,15615.66$0
Jul 19931561,34115.46$2,412
Jun 19933201,20016.79$5,373
May 19932981,43917.68$5,269
Apr 19931591,47018.05$2,870
Mar 19932811,34118.14$5,097
Feb 19932851,04417.90$5,102
Jan 19934591,11316.93$7,771

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.

Mar 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   36 bbl  × $ 18.95 =       $682
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  1.94 =         $0

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Month total                                     $682

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/11970 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.