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Operated by ANDERSON, JAMES K. INC. (P-5 22275) in the LITTLE BOOT (KING) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 12199District 7CField 53936500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$299 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$3 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
126
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 4 leases and 7 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1987-04-26
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
660 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 1989-03-01.

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
OilDisposition16,421 bbl$292,825
Casinghead gasProduction8,270 Mcf$6,140
Total$298,965

6,290 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 31.9703, -99.9967. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.97029, -99.99668 · 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
2,757 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
16.1 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 2,757 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 1987
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2003
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16.1 years and 16.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3993369912,757 ftApr 1987May 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 (126)

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

126 months

Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 2003111026.675.41$2,960
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 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 200203023.733.34$100
May 2002443024.663.58$1,193
Apr 2002363023.653.51$957
Mar 200203022.003.10$93
Feb 200203018.222.38$71
Jan 200203017.172.38$71
Dec 200103016.932.36$71
Nov 2001723018.072.41$1,373
Oct 200103019.782.53$76
Sep 200103024.262.25$68
Aug 2001483024.873.05$1,285
Jul 2001843023.933.20$2,106
Jun 2001723024.563.82$1,883
May 20011163025.524.31$3,090
Apr 200103024.685.34$160
Mar 2001893024.545.38$2,345
Feb 20011063027.755.77$3,115
Jan 2001893027.478.40$2,697
Dec 2000663026.889.12$2,048
Nov 2000763032.215.66$2,618
Oct 2000743031.235.15$2,465
Sep 2000993031.875.19$3,311
Aug 2000893029.644.54$2,774
Jul 20001623028.534.09$4,745
Jun 2000743029.304.40$2,300
May 2000923027.263.68$2,618
Apr 2000343024.513.12$927
Mar 20001673028.422.86$4,832
Feb 2000533027.622.73$1,546
Jan 20001323025.272.48$3,410
Dec 1999483024.282.42$1,238
Nov 1999813023.192.43$1,951
Oct 1999993020.982.80$2,161
Sep 1999823021.752.62$1,862
Aug 19991113019.262.88$2,224
Jul 1999723017.892.37$1,359
Jun 19991073015.942.36$1,776
May 1999543015.792.32$922
Apr 1999583015.102.21$942
Mar 19991353012.471.84$1,739
Feb 1999176309.981.82$1,811
Jan 199903010.381.90$57
Dec 1998175309.201.77$1,663
Nov 199803010.892.19$66
Oct 19981523012.421.97$1,947
Sep 19981313012.592.08$1,712
Aug 19981423011.301.91$1,662
Jul 19981663011.742.24$2,016
Jun 19981763011.242.24$2,045
May 199803012.622.21$66
Apr 19981353013.042.51$1,836
Mar 19981323012.802.31$1,759
Feb 19982843013.952.30$4,031
Jan 199803014.702.15$65
Dec 19971683016.322.41$2,814
Nov 19971273018.193.09$2,403
Oct 19971593019.253.15$3,155
Sep 1997963017.742.95$1,792
Aug 19971563017.862.55$2,863
Jul 19971783017.582.25$3,197
Jun 19971183017.242.26$2,102
May 19971743018.972.31$3,370
Apr 19971453017.882.08$2,655
Mar 19971803018.951.94$3,469
Feb 19973633020.492.21$7,504
Jan 199723023.483.54$153
Dec 19961823023.32$4,244
Nov 19961843021.97$4,042
Oct 19961823023.31$4,242
Sep 19961803022.22$4,000
Aug 19961713020.26$3,464
Jul 19961843019.55$3,597
Jun 19961593018.73$2,978
May 19961763019.43$3,420
Apr 19961593021.51$3,420
Mar 19961323019.38$2,558
Feb 19961543016.98$2,615
Jan 19961643017.07$2,799
Dec 19951833017.19$3,146
Nov 19953203016.00$5,120
Oct 19951763015.43$2,716
Sep 19951793016.18$2,896
Aug 19951773015.92$2,818
Jul 19951773015.24$2,697
Jun 19951813016.41$2,970
May 19951853017.56$3,249
Apr 19951693017.73$2,996
Mar 19953503016.44$5,754
Feb 19951793016.58$2,968
Jan 199518211215.92$2,897
Dec 199417811215.03$2,675
Nov 199430211215.90$4,802
Oct 199417611215.58$2,742
Sep 199415411215.29$2,355
Aug 199431911216.13$5,145
Jul 199417025317.56$2,985
Jun 199434525817.09$5,896
May 199417623415.88$2,795
Apr 199417524814.14$2,475
Mar 199417924812.46$2,230
Feb 199417923612.50$2,238
Jan 199418224412.66$2,304
Dec 199331825812.33$3,921
Nov 199318425914.49$2,666
Oct 199316723215.85$2,647
Sep 199332126115.03$4,825
Aug 199318027015.66$2,819
Jul 199330726115.46$4,746
Jun 199317827016.79$2,989
May 199333427517.68$5,905
Apr 199318026618.05$3,249
Mar 199336028218.14$6,530
Feb 199318027517.90$3,222
Jan 199332529816.93$5,502

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.

Apr 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  111 bbl  × $ 26.67 =     $2,960
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.41 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,960

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/12199 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.