SCOTT '12'

Operated by ANADARKO PETROLEUM CORPORATION (P-5 20572) in the KETCHUM MT. (CLEAR FORK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 13853District 7CField 49099500Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$5.9 M
Jun 1995 – Feb 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$355 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
57
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 45 leases and 507 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1955-07-21
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 1989-07-24.

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.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: MULTIPLE 49B MAXIMUM 320 ACRES

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
OilDisposition271,430 bbl$4,879,171
Casinghead gasProduction761,886 Mcf$1,011,704
Total$5,890,875

339,908 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 16 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 (14)

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 31.2627, -101.0539. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

31.26243, -101.05311 · 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
21.4%
3 of 14 wells
With a plug date
21.4%
3 of 14 wells
Median depth
4,100 ft
14 wells filed one
Completion to plug
21.7 years
median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
321.4%
A plug date is filed
321.4%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
321.4%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
1178.6%

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

Total depth in feet, 14 of 14 wells. Median 4,100 ft, with the middle half between 4,050 and 4,115 ft; the shallowest is 4,000 ft and the deepest 7,721 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 14 of 14 wells, Nov 1995 – Nov 2024. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Nov 1995 – Nov 2024
14 of 14 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 2021 – May 2022
3 of 14 wells; 11 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 21.7 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 17.4 years and 22.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

14 wells

42-2353338512104,000 ftNov 2024
42-2353338912144,150 ftSep 2023
42-2353338312054,100 ftJan 2022
42-2353343812024,050 ftMar 2019
42-2353341012034,050 ftApr 2018
42-235337371204A7,721 ftOct 2009
42-2353338812154,120 ftApr 2009May 2022Yes
42-2353339012134,100 ftAug 2008
42-2353338612064,075 ftMar 2000
42-2353349012164,100 ftNov 1999Jul 2021Yes
42-2353341112044,100 ftJul 1998Jun 2021Yes
42-2353338712074,027 ftOct 1996
42-2353345012014,745 ftDec 1995
42-2353338412114,050 ftNov 1995

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 (57)

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

57 months

Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19991,4806,42720.982.80$49,070
Sep 19991,4406,70121.752.62$48,869
Aug 19991,3987,41819.262.88$48,257
Jul 19991,7667,66017.892.37$49,766
Jun 19991,4186,97315.942.36$39,074
May 19991,4267,55615.792.32$40,054
Apr 19991,4477,85715.102.21$39,198
Mar 19992,1487,64812.471.84$40,845
Feb 19991,7737,2749.981.82$30,917
Jan 19991,8157,72910.381.90$33,524
Dec 19982,1668,6239.201.77$35,219
Nov 19981,9648,61810.892.19$40,224
Oct 19982,4778,67712.421.97$47,851
Sep 19982,1249,32912.592.08$46,170
Aug 19982,47010,50611.301.91$47,950
Jul 19982,46910,28211.742.24$51,990
Jun 19981,9059,87011.242.24$43,494
May 19982,6349,94112.622.21$55,174
Apr 19982,34711,14113.042.51$58,517
Mar 19982,49111,46212.802.31$58,356
Feb 19982,50210,59913.952.30$59,271
Jan 19982,88011,68914.702.15$67,523
Dec 19973,25912,67816.322.41$83,755
Nov 19973,24414,13618.193.09$102,664
Oct 19973,92719,35819.253.15$136,569
Sep 19973,56715,60017.742.95$109,375
Aug 19974,45019,13617.862.55$128,365
Jul 19974,39919,25217.582.25$120,593
Jun 19974,20319,14917.242.26$115,683
May 19975,28421,91418.972.31$150,826
Apr 19975,91321,01817.882.08$149,500
Mar 19976,06322,15818.951.94$157,861
Feb 19976,93319,98320.492.21$186,138
Jan 19978,80023,61623.483.54$290,218
Dec 19965,99219,25823.32$139,733
Nov 19965,82719,51321.97$128,019
Oct 19966,09419,16223.31$142,051
Sep 19966,46021,16922.22$143,541
Aug 19967,35924,29820.26$149,093
Jul 19968,06727,14319.55$157,710
Jun 19969,23929,32818.73$173,046
May 199611,16631,81119.43$216,955
Apr 199612,98432,33321.51$279,286
Mar 199615,70117,48719.38$304,285
Feb 199614,90722,90516.98$253,121
Jan 199616,20221,53817.07$276,568
Dec 199516,72120,99017.19$287,434
Nov 199517,35720,50716.00$277,712
Oct 19959,2939,81315.43$143,391
Sep 19952,6292,65316.18$42,537
Aug 1995850015.92$13,532
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0

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.

Oct 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                1,480 bbl  × $ 20.98 =    $31,050
Casinghead gas     6,427 Mcf  × $  2.80 =    $18,019

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Month total                                  $49,070

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/13853 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.