SCOTT, THELMA

Operated by SAGA PETROLEUM CORP. (P-5 743212) in the BRILEY (GARDNER SAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 12777District 7CField 11968498Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$127 k
Jan 1993 – Feb 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
74
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 5 leases and 10 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1956-02-12
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

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
OilDisposition7,612 bbl$121,910
Casinghead gasProduction28,021 Mcf$5,266
Total$127,176

25,809 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 31.9918, -99.9042. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.99182, -99.90415 · 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
4,427 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
8.8 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 4,427 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 1990
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 1998
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 8.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.8 years and 8.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3993407014,427 ftFeb 1990Dec 1998Yes

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 (74)

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

74 months

Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 19983259.201.77$72
Nov 19982111510.892.19$480
Oct 1998012912.421.97$254
Sep 19982510212.592.08$527
Aug 1998218511.301.91$399
Jul 199808611.742.24$192
Jun 1998148711.242.24$352
May 1998199812.622.21$456
Apr 1998429613.042.51$788
Mar 199808712.802.31$201
Feb 199808113.952.30$186
Jan 1998259014.702.15$561
Dec 1997259916.322.41$647
Nov 199709018.193.09$278
Oct 19972311119.253.15$792
Sep 1997189317.742.95$594
Aug 1997215317.862.55$510
Jul 1997197417.582.25$500
Jun 199703117.242.26$70
May 1997249318.972.31$670
Apr 19971611617.882.08$528
Mar 19972612818.951.94$741
Feb 19971612020.492.21$593
Jan 19971812323.483.54$858
Dec 19962312723.32$536
Nov 19962615021.97$571
Oct 19961835023.31$420
Sep 19968934422.22$1,978
Aug 1996034420.26$0
Jul 199610435319.55$2,033
Jun 1996036818.73$0
May 19964927319.43$952
Apr 19965231121.51$1,119
Mar 19965333719.38$1,027
Feb 19965030416.98$849
Jan 19965333217.07$905
Dec 19955134717.19$877
Nov 19955432616.00$864
Oct 19959639715.43$1,481
Sep 1995041016.18$0
Aug 19959041615.92$1,433
Jul 19955344115.24$808
Jun 19955243016.41$853
May 19955446417.56$948
Apr 199510546017.73$1,862
Mar 19955247516.44$855
Feb 199510642816.58$1,757
Jan 19955448715.92$860
Dec 199410349915.03$1,548
Nov 199410446315.90$1,654
Oct 199420961115.58$3,256
Sep 199425962215.29$3,960
Aug 199415266216.13$2,452
Jul 199425461417.56$4,460
Jun 199423767517.09$4,050
May 199425269115.88$4,002
Apr 199420167514.14$2,842
Mar 199429370312.46$3,651
Feb 199420050812.50$2,500
Jan 199428256312.66$3,570
Dec 199328460612.33$3,502
Nov 199329962314.49$4,333
Oct 199330681615.85$4,850
Sep 199324782415.03$3,712
Aug 199329693515.66$4,635
Jul 199335290615.46$5,442
Jun 199325277816.79$4,231
May 199324889017.68$4,385
Apr 199325282318.05$4,549
Mar 199335390118.14$6,403
Feb 199320578917.90$3,670
Jan 199331295816.93$5,282

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.

Dec 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    3 bbl  × $  9.20 =        $28
Casinghead gas        25 Mcf  × $  1.77 =        $44

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Month total                                      $72

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/12777 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.