WHITE "E"

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 12516District 7CField 98182260Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$89 k
Jan 1993 – Apr 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$1 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
124
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.

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
OilDisposition4,021 bbl$68,237
Casinghead gasProduction10,568 Mcf$20,611
Total$88,848

3,546 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 31.9616, -99.9138. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.96157, -99.91379 · 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
3,890 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
14.3 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 3,890 ft.

Completions filed
Aug 1988
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2002
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.3 years and 14.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3993395113,890 ftAug 1988Nov 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 (124)

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

124 months

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 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 200245024.583.06$1,106
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 200205324.663.58$190
Apr 200206423.653.51$225
Mar 200204822.003.10$149
Feb 200203618.222.38$86
Jan 200204217.172.38$100
Dec 200104316.932.36$102
Nov 200109018.072.41$217
Oct 200105619.782.53$142
Sep 20011088324.262.25$2,807
Aug 2001011824.873.05$360
Jul 200108323.933.20$265
Jun 2001013124.563.82$501
May 2001010525.524.31$452
Apr 2001010124.685.34$539
Mar 200108624.545.38$462
Feb 2001010227.755.77$588
Jan 200107527.478.40$630
Dec 200006726.889.12$611
Nov 200008932.215.66$504
Oct 200009031.235.15$463
Sep 200005231.875.19$270
Aug 20001029029.644.54$3,432
Jul 2000010328.534.09$421
Jun 200007429.304.40$325
May 200007527.263.68$276
Apr 200005024.513.12$156
Mar 200005428.422.86$154
Feb 200005927.622.73$161
Jan 2000011325.272.48$280
Dec 199907724.282.42$187
Nov 199909523.192.43$231
Oct 1999015820.982.80$443
Sep 1999013521.752.62$354
Aug 1999014319.262.88$411
Jul 199913514017.892.37$2,747
Jun 1999015715.942.36$371
May 1999015115.792.32$350
Apr 1999014815.102.21$327
Mar 199917013212.471.84$2,363
Feb 199901289.981.82$233
Jan 1999014510.381.90$275
Dec 199801229.201.77$216
Nov 1998013510.892.19$295
Oct 199816612012.421.97$2,298
Sep 1998017412.592.08$362
Aug 1998019311.301.91$368
Jul 1998018311.742.24$409
Jun 1998017911.242.24$400
May 199816019112.622.21$2,441
Apr 1998016813.042.51$421
Mar 1998014612.802.31$337
Feb 1998013713.952.30$315
Jan 1998013714.702.15$295
Dec 199715614216.322.41$2,888
Nov 1997014118.193.09$435
Oct 1997017019.253.15$535
Sep 1997016017.742.95$473
Aug 1997020817.862.55$531
Jul 199716010317.582.25$3,044
Jun 1997011117.242.26$251
May 199705418.972.31$125
Apr 199702417.882.08$50
Mar 199702518.951.94$48
Feb 19971682220.492.21$3,491
Jan 1997013623.483.54$481
Dec 1996013323.32$0
Nov 1996014921.97$0
Oct 199616415423.31$3,823
Sep 1996014622.22$0
Aug 1996016020.26$0
Jul 1996015919.55$0
Jun 199616615018.73$3,109
May 1996010319.43$0
Apr 199604021.51$0
Mar 19960819.38$0
Feb 19960816.98$0
Jan 1996176817.07$3,004
Dec 19950817.19$0
Nov 19950816.00$0
Oct 199518815.43$278
Sep 1995174816.18$2,815
Aug 19950815.92$0
Jul 19950815.24$0
Jun 19950816.41$0
May 1995172917.56$3,020
Apr 19950917.73$0
Mar 199502216.44$0
Feb 1995175816.58$2,902
Jan 19950815.92$0
Dec 199401015.03$0
Nov 1994175615.90$2,783
Oct 19940915.58$0
Sep 19940915.29$0
Aug 19941703816.13$2,742
Jul 1994012517.56$0
Jun 1994013017.09$0
May 1994011815.88$0
Apr 199414011314.14$1,980
Mar 199409412.46$0
Feb 19941305812.50$1,625
Jan 1994011312.66$0
Dec 199315512212.33$1,911
Nov 1993013214.49$0
Oct 19931753215.85$2,774
Sep 199304715.03$0
Aug 19931617515.66$2,521
Jul 199307715.46$0
Jun 1993010716.79$0
May 199316117917.68$2,846
Apr 1993017118.05$0
Mar 199316415918.14$2,975
Feb 1993013317.90$0
Jan 199317515916.93$2,963

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.

Jul 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   45 bbl  × $ 24.58 =     $1,106
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.06 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,106

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/12516 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.