SHEEP MOUNTAIN/VANDEVANTER

Operated by MCDONNOLD OPERATING, INC. (P-5 548163) in the SHEEP MOUNTAIN (WOLFCAMP) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 13488District 7CField 82857450OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$2.2 M
Aug 1993 – May 2007
Value, last 12 filed months
$54 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
166
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 6 leases and 6 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1993-08-12
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 160 acres. The field rule took effect on 1993-11-22.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: CONSOLIDATED TO SHEEP MOUNTAIN (CONSOLIDATED) FIELD.

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
OilDisposition110,878 bbl$2,192,096
Casinghead gasProduction14 Mcf$0
Total$2,192,096

14 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 14 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 31.0381, -101.8647. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.03807, -101.86466 · 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
8,770 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
1 well filed both, dated out of order

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 8,770 ft.

Completions filed
Aug 1993
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 1992
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: no median is published. 1 well on this lease filed both dates, and on that one the last completion is dated after the plug date, so there is no interval to take a median of. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-1053622018,770 ftAug 1993Nov 1992Yes

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 (166)

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

166 months

May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 2006177054.207.62$9,593
Oct 2006172054.906.01$9,443
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 2006166068.717.34$11,406
Jul 2006178069.376.34$12,348
Jun 2006175066.286.38$11,599
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 2006168056.707.08$9,526
Feb 2006175057.597.75$10,078
Jan 2006177060.598.93$10,724
Dec 2005176054.9413.42$9,669
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 2005355058.3413.80$20,711
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 2005174055.697.84$9,690
Jun 2005179052.337.38$9,367
May 2005168045.226.65$7,597
Apr 2005180049.207.36$8,856
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 2005179045.226.31$8,094
Jan 2005362043.166.32$15,624
Dec 2004175039.866.75$6,976
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 2004361049.706.52$17,942
Sep 2004183043.245.28$7,913
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 2004177038.286.08$6,776
Jun 2004183036.106.43$6,606
May 2004182037.486.49$6,821
Apr 2004360034.475.86$12,409
Mar 2004365034.365.53$12,541
Feb 2004181032.455.51$5,873
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 2003365030.266.30$11,045
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 2003361028.174.76$10,169
Sep 2003181026.314.75$4,762
Aug 2003182029.765.13$5,416
Jul 2003361029.415.17$10,617
Jun 2003181028.565.98$5,169
May 2003365026.595.97$9,705
Apr 2003362026.675.41$9,655
Mar 2003185031.146.10$5,761
Feb 2003181033.487.93$6,060
Jan 2003372030.315.58$11,275
Dec 2002367026.914.85$9,876
Nov 2002187024.664.14$4,611
Oct 2002546026.464.23$14,447
Sep 2002179027.443.64$4,912
Aug 2002537025.963.16$13,941
Jul 2002356024.583.06$8,750
Jun 2002361023.733.34$8,567
May 2002179024.663.58$4,414
Apr 2002559023.653.51$13,220
Mar 2002363022.003.10$7,986
Feb 2002364018.222.38$6,632
Jan 2002368017.172.38$6,319
Dec 2001545016.932.36$9,227
Nov 2001543018.072.41$9,812
Oct 2001181019.782.53$3,580
Sep 2001359024.262.25$8,709
Aug 2001348024.873.05$8,655
Jul 2001351023.933.20$8,399
Jun 2001534024.563.82$13,115
May 2001362025.524.31$9,238
Apr 2001540024.685.34$13,327
Mar 2001715024.545.38$17,546
Feb 2001359027.755.77$9,962
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 2000535026.889.12$14,381
Nov 2000543032.215.66$17,490
Oct 2000536031.235.15$16,739
Sep 2000536031.875.19$17,082
Aug 2000704029.644.54$20,867
Jul 2000718028.534.09$20,485
Jun 2000549029.304.40$16,086
May 2000184027.263.68$5,016
Apr 2000727024.513.12$17,819
Mar 2000547028.422.86$15,546
Feb 2000720027.622.73$19,886
Jan 2000736025.272.48$18,599
Dec 1999927024.282.42$22,508
Nov 1999182023.192.43$4,221
Oct 1999544020.982.80$11,413
Sep 1999361021.752.62$7,852
Aug 1999727019.262.88$14,002
Jul 1999731017.892.37$13,078
Jun 1999907015.942.36$14,458
May 1999713015.792.32$11,258
Apr 1999896015.102.21$13,530
Mar 1999944012.471.84$11,772
Feb 199990109.981.82$8,992
Jan 1999727010.381.90$7,546
Dec 19981,07309.201.77$9,872
Nov 1998899010.892.19$9,790
Oct 19981,062012.421.97$13,190
Sep 19981,063012.592.08$13,383
Aug 1998700011.301.91$7,910
Jul 19981,059011.742.24$12,433
Jun 19981,057011.242.24$11,881
May 19981,033012.622.21$13,036
Apr 1998889013.042.51$11,593
Mar 19981,070012.802.31$13,696
Feb 19981,079013.952.30$15,052
Jan 19981,067014.702.15$15,685
Dec 19971,247016.322.41$20,351
Nov 1997725018.193.09$13,188
Oct 1997877019.253.15$16,882
Sep 19971,392017.742.95$24,694
Aug 1997350017.862.55$6,251
Jul 1997885017.582.25$15,558
Jun 19971,525017.242.26$26,291
May 1997895018.972.31$16,978
Apr 19971,424017.882.08$25,461
Mar 19971,063018.951.94$20,144
Feb 1997359020.492.21$7,356
Jan 19971,245023.483.54$29,233
Dec 19961,590023.32$37,079
Nov 19961,230021.97$27,023
Oct 19961,234023.31$28,765
Sep 19961,584022.22$35,196
Aug 19961,219020.26$24,697
Jul 19961,395019.55$27,272
Jun 19961,558018.73$29,181
May 19961,413019.43$27,455
Apr 19961,416021.51$30,458
Mar 19961,635019.38$31,686
Feb 19961,422016.98$24,146
Jan 19961,804017.07$30,794
Dec 19951,442017.19$24,788
Nov 19951,437016.00$22,992
Oct 19951,432015.43$22,096
Sep 19951,757016.18$28,428
Aug 19951,749015.92$27,844
Jul 19951,405015.24$21,412
Jun 19951,596016.41$26,190
May 19951,773017.56$31,134
Apr 1995714017.73$12,659
Mar 19951,590016.44$26,140
Feb 19951,442016.58$23,908
Jan 19951,084015.92$17,257
Dec 1994892015.03$13,407
Nov 1994901015.90$14,326
Oct 1994877015.58$13,664
Sep 1994895115.29$13,685
Aug 1994704116.13$11,356
Jul 19941,037117.56$18,210
Jun 1994701117.09$11,980
May 1994706115.88$11,211
Apr 1994851114.14$12,033
Mar 1994847112.46$10,554
Feb 1994183112.50$2,288
Jan 1994886112.66$11,217
Dec 19931,592112.33$19,629
Nov 19931,392114.49$20,170
Oct 19932,117115.85$33,554
Sep 19932,919115.03$43,873
Aug 19931,197115.66$18,745

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.

Nov 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  177 bbl  × $ 54.20 =     $9,593
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  7.62 =         $0

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Month total                                   $9,593

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/13488 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.