SCOTT, THELMA

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

Oil lease lease 12887District 7CField 11968664Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$151 k
Jan 1993 – Feb 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$16 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 5 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1953-09-24
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
OilDisposition7,884 bbl$127,513
Casinghead gasProduction35,865 Mcf$23,098
Total$150,611

26,204 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, -99.9016. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.99181, -99.90160 · 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
4,428 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
8.3 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 4,428 ft.

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

Last completion to plug: a median of 8.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.3 years and 8.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3993407634,428 ftSep 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 1998121099.201.77$304
Nov 19988949910.892.19$2,060
Oct 1998055912.421.97$1,101
Sep 199810844312.592.08$2,282
Aug 19989236911.301.91$1,743
Jul 1998037011.742.24$828
Jun 19986137511.242.24$1,525
May 19988242212.622.21$1,966
Apr 199818141613.042.51$3,402
Mar 1998037712.802.31$871
Feb 1998035013.952.30$805
Jan 199810939214.702.15$2,447
Dec 199710842916.322.41$2,797
Nov 1997039218.193.09$1,211
Oct 199710247919.253.15$3,472
Sep 19977940317.742.95$2,592
Aug 19979022917.862.55$2,192
Jul 19978232117.582.25$2,163
Jun 1997013317.242.26$300
May 199710340318.972.31$2,884
Apr 19977050417.882.08$2,301
Mar 199711255318.951.94$3,195
Feb 19977051820.492.21$2,577
Jan 19979061623.483.54$4,294
Dec 199611863623.32$2,752
Nov 199610874921.97$2,373
Oct 19961629123.31$373
Sep 19967428722.22$1,644
Aug 1996028720.26$0
Jul 19968629419.55$1,681
Jun 1996030618.73$0
May 19964122719.43$797
Apr 19964425921.51$946
Mar 19964428119.38$853
Feb 19964225316.98$713
Jan 19964427617.07$751
Dec 19954228917.19$722
Nov 19954527116.00$720
Oct 19958033115.43$1,234
Sep 1995034216.18$0
Aug 19957534715.92$1,194
Jul 19954436815.24$671
Jun 19954335816.41$706
May 19954538717.56$790
Apr 19958838417.73$1,560
Mar 19954339616.44$707
Feb 19958835716.58$1,459
Jan 19954540615.92$716
Dec 19948641615.03$1,293
Nov 19948638615.90$1,367
Oct 199417451015.58$2,711
Sep 199421651815.29$3,303
Aug 199412755116.13$2,049
Jul 199421151217.56$3,705
Jun 199419856317.09$3,384
May 199421157615.88$3,351
Apr 199416756314.14$2,361
Mar 199424358612.46$3,028
Feb 19941671,18512.50$2,088
Jan 19942351,31412.66$2,975
Dec 19932371,41412.33$2,922
Nov 19932491,45414.49$3,608
Oct 199325868915.85$4,089
Sep 199320869615.03$3,126
Aug 199325078915.66$3,915
Jul 199329776415.46$4,592
Jun 199321365616.79$3,576
May 199320975117.68$3,695
Apr 199321369518.05$3,845
Mar 199329876018.14$5,406
Feb 199317366617.90$3,097
Jan 199326380816.93$4,453

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                   12 bbl  × $  9.20 =       $110
Casinghead gas       109 Mcf  × $  1.77 =       $193

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Month total                                     $304

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/12887 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.