BALKUM, L. T.

Operated by TRIANGLE P DEVELOPMENT CORP. (P-5 868730) in the CECIL T. (PALO PINTO) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 11999District 7CField 16518500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$175 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
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 1 leases and 1 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1986-08-19
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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
OilDisposition9,358 bbl$175,128
Casinghead gasProduction120 Mcf$229
Total$175,357

48 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 (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 31.8380, -100.1605. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.83797, -100.16050 · 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
5,289 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
16.9 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 5,289 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 1986
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 2003
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16.9 years and 16.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3993320815,289 ftJul 1986Jun 2003Yes

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 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 200396028.565.98$2,742
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030130.315.58$6
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020124.664.14$4
Oct 20020126.464.23$4
Sep 20020127.443.64$4
Aug 20020125.963.16$3
Jul 20020124.583.06$3
Jun 2002175123.733.34$4,156
May 20020124.663.58$4
Apr 20020123.653.51$4
Mar 20020122.003.10$3
Feb 2002176118.222.38$3,209
Jan 20020117.172.38$2
Dec 20010116.932.36$2
Nov 2001168118.072.41$3,038
Oct 20010119.782.53$3
Sep 20010124.262.25$2
Aug 2001185124.873.05$4,604
Jul 20012123.933.20$51
Jun 2001177124.563.82$4,351
May 20011125.524.31$30
Apr 2001181124.685.34$4,472
Mar 20012124.545.38$54
Feb 2001180127.755.77$5,001
Jan 20011127.478.40$36
Dec 2000178126.889.12$4,794
Nov 2000188132.215.66$6,061
Oct 20000131.235.15$5
Sep 20001131.875.19$37
Aug 2000187129.644.54$5,547
Jul 2000178128.534.09$5,082
Jun 20000129.304.40$4
May 20000127.263.68$4
Apr 20000124.513.12$3
Mar 20000128.422.86$3
Feb 20000127.622.73$3
Jan 2000191125.272.48$4,829
Dec 19990124.282.42$2
Nov 19991123.192.43$26
Oct 1999182120.982.80$3,821
Sep 19990121.752.62$3
Aug 1999186119.262.88$3,585
Jul 19991117.892.37$20
Jun 1999187115.942.36$2,983
May 19990115.792.32$2
Apr 1999184115.102.21$2,781
Mar 1999176112.471.84$2,197
Feb 1999119.981.82$12
Jan 1999187110.381.90$1,943
Dec 1998119.201.77$11
Nov 1998186110.892.19$2,028
Oct 1998179112.421.97$2,225
Sep 19980112.592.08$2
Aug 19980111.301.91$2
Jul 19980111.742.24$2
Jun 19980111.242.24$2
May 19980112.622.21$2
Apr 19980113.042.51$3
Mar 1998187112.802.31$2,396
Feb 19980113.952.30$2
Jan 19980114.702.15$2
Dec 1997183116.322.41$2,989
Nov 19973118.193.09$58
Oct 1997190119.253.15$3,661
Sep 19973117.742.95$56
Aug 1997186117.862.55$3,325
Jul 19973117.582.25$55
Jun 1997183117.242.26$3,157
May 19973118.972.31$59
Apr 1997180117.882.08$3,220
Mar 19973118.951.94$59
Feb 1997185120.492.21$3,793
Jan 19970123.483.54$4
Dec 19961123.32$23
Nov 1996190121.97$4,174
Oct 19961123.31$23
Sep 1996175122.22$3,889
Aug 19963120.26$61
Jul 1996178119.55$3,480
Jun 19961118.73$19
May 1996177119.43$3,439
Apr 19962121.51$43
Mar 1996187119.38$3,624
Feb 19965116.98$85
Jan 1996182117.07$3,107
Dec 19952117.19$34
Nov 1995190116.00$3,040
Oct 19951115.43$15
Sep 1995180116.18$2,912
Aug 19952115.92$32
Jul 1995182115.24$2,774
Jun 19950116.41$0
May 1995178117.56$3,126
Apr 19950117.73$0
Mar 1995181116.44$2,976
Feb 19950116.58$0
Jan 1995172115.92$2,738
Dec 19940115.03$0
Nov 1994174115.90$2,767
Oct 19940115.58$0
Sep 1994171115.29$2,615
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 1994185117.56$3,249
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 1994173115.88$2,747
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 1994176112.46$2,193
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 1994186112.66$2,355
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 1993183114.49$2,652
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 1993180115.03$2,705
Aug 1993177115.66$2,772
Jul 19930115.46$0
Jun 1993178116.79$2,989
May 1993171117.68$3,023
Apr 19930118.05$0
Mar 1993167118.14$3,029
Feb 19930117.90$0
Jan 19930116.93$0

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                   96 bbl  × $ 28.56 =     $2,742
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.98 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,742

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/11999 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.