SMITH

Operated by ABERNATHY EXPLORATION COMPANY (P-5 2615) in the WENDKIRK (CISCO) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 13178District 7CField 96324500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$118 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
111
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 21 leases and 54 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1953-05-08
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
467 ft
minimum
From a lease line
233 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 acres. The field rule took effect on 1985-03-25.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: OPT 10 ACREES W/DIAG 1100 FLD RULES AMENDED PER DOC 7C-84572

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
OilDisposition7,061 bbl$117,211
Casinghead gasProduction1,260 Mcf$573
Total$117,784

1,039 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 31.8565, -100.3881. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.85651, -100.38809 · 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
3,645 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
10.3 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 3,645 ft.

Completions filed
Nov 1991
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2002
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 10.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 10.3 years and 10.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-0813157013,645 ftNov 1991Mar 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 (111)

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

111 months

Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 200238017.172.38$652
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 2001152019.782.53$3,007
Sep 20010124.262.25$2
Aug 20010124.873.05$3
Jul 20010123.933.20$3
Jun 20010124.563.82$4
May 20010125.524.31$4
Apr 20010124.685.34$5
Mar 20010124.545.38$5
Feb 20010127.755.77$6
Jan 20010127.478.40$8
Dec 20000126.889.12$9
Nov 20000132.215.66$6
Oct 20000131.235.15$5
Sep 20000131.875.19$5
Aug 20000129.644.54$5
Jul 20000128.534.09$4
Jun 20000129.304.40$4
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000124.513.12$3
Mar 20000128.422.86$3
Feb 20000127.622.73$3
Jan 20000125.272.48$2
Dec 19990124.282.42$2
Nov 19990123.192.43$2
Oct 19990120.982.80$3
Sep 19990121.752.62$3
Aug 19990119.262.88$3
Jul 19990117.892.37$2
Jun 19990115.942.36$2
May 1999159315.792.32$2,518
Apr 19990315.102.21$7
Mar 19990312.471.84$6
Feb 1999039.981.82$5
Jan 19990410.381.90$8
Dec 1998049.201.77$7
Nov 19980510.892.19$11
Oct 19980412.421.97$8
Sep 1998183312.592.08$2,310
Aug 19980411.301.91$8
Jul 19980511.742.24$11
Jun 19980411.242.24$9
May 19980612.622.21$13
Apr 19980613.042.51$15
Mar 1998180512.802.31$2,316
Feb 19980613.952.30$14
Jan 19980814.702.15$17
Dec 19970816.322.41$19
Nov 19970818.193.09$25
Oct 1997180919.253.15$3,493
Sep 19970917.742.95$27
Aug 199701017.862.55$26
Jul 1997180917.582.25$3,185
Jun 199701017.242.26$23
May 199701018.972.31$23
Apr 19971851117.882.08$3,331
Mar 199701118.951.94$21
Feb 199701120.492.21$24
Jan 19971831223.483.54$4,339
Dec 199601423.32$0
Nov 199601221.97$0
Oct 19961831523.31$4,266
Sep 199601122.22$0
Aug 19961791120.26$3,627
Jul 199601319.55$0
Jun 199601318.73$0
May 19961801319.43$3,497
Apr 199601421.51$0
Mar 19961831519.38$3,547
Feb 199601316.98$0
Jan 199601417.07$0
Dec 19951851617.19$3,180
Nov 199501516.00$0
Oct 19951831715.43$2,824
Sep 199501816.18$0
Aug 19951801315.92$2,866
Jul 199501915.24$0
Jun 19951821816.41$2,987
May 19951812017.56$3,178
Apr 199502117.73$0
Mar 19951822216.44$2,992
Feb 19951822116.58$3,018
Jan 199501915.92$0
Dec 19941821815.03$2,735
Nov 199401915.90$0
Oct 19941832015.58$2,851
Sep 199402115.29$0
Aug 19941812116.13$2,920
Jul 19941812117.56$3,178
Jun 199402417.09$0
May 19941822515.88$2,890
Apr 19941742514.14$2,460
Mar 19941822912.46$2,268
Feb 19943602712.50$4,500
Jan 199403212.66$0
Dec 19931843412.33$2,269
Nov 19931803514.49$2,608
Oct 19931843215.85$2,916
Sep 19931823415.03$2,735
Aug 199322915.66$31
Jul 19931742915.46$2,690
Jun 19931762916.79$2,955
May 19931823117.68$3,218
Apr 19931813018.05$3,267
Mar 19931843218.14$3,338
Feb 19931813017.90$3,240
Jan 19931863516.93$3,149

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.

Jan 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   38 bbl  × $ 17.17 =       $652
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.38 =         $0

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Month total                                     $652

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/13178 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.