DOUGLAS, N. L.

Operated by MARINER ENERGY, INC. (P-5 526155) in the SPRABERRY (TREND AREA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 13909District 7CField 85279200OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$311 k
Nov 1995 – Jun 2010
Value, last 12 filed months
$3 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
176
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 7,461 leases and 22,481 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1904-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2016-03-08.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AREA) 85279200.

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
OilDisposition8,030 bbl$193,821
Casinghead gasProduction58,310 Mcf$117,611
Total$311,433

22,268 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 (2)

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 31.5147, -101.6375. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

31.51470, -101.63753 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
8,134 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
35.6 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
2100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2100.0%
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

Between 8,127 and 8,140 ft, median 8,134 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Apr 1970
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 2002 – Apr 2009
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 35.6 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 33.9 years and 37.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-3830145418,140 ftApr 1970Jun 2002Yes
42-3830145528,127 ftApr 1970Apr 2009Yes

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 (176)

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

176 months

Jun 20100070.364.91$0
May 20100071.124.24$0
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 20100078.394.39$0
Feb 201046073.585.44$3,385
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20090042.144.06$0
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
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 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050354.9413.42$40
Nov 20050154.6910.59$11
Oct 20050358.3413.80$41
Sep 2005134361.4512.08$8,271
Aug 200501061.519.80$98
Jul 2005183055.697.84$10,191
Jun 200501952.337.38$140
May 200507345.226.65$486
Apr 200509649.207.36$707
Mar 2005011750.377.15$837
Feb 200507745.226.31$486
Jan 2005338043.166.32$14,588
Dec 200409639.866.75$648
Nov 200406845.286.33$430
Oct 200401849.706.52$117
Sep 200405643.245.28$296
Aug 200403342.375.55$183
Jul 20040638.286.08$37
Jun 200401236.106.43$77
May 200403837.486.49$247
Apr 200405734.475.86$334
Mar 200406334.365.53$348
Feb 20041787232.455.51$6,173
Jan 2004010232.036.30$643
Dec 200308830.266.30$555
Nov 200307328.804.60$335
Oct 2003012728.174.76$604
Sep 200307926.314.75$375
Aug 200318117829.765.13$6,300
Jul 2003019229.415.17$993
Jun 2003013328.565.98$796
May 200307726.595.97$460
Apr 2003015926.675.41$860
Mar 200318711331.146.10$6,512
Feb 200309733.487.93$769
Jan 2003022830.315.58$1,273
Dec 200208326.914.85$403
Nov 200202224.664.14$91
Oct 200202326.464.23$97
Sep 20021794627.443.64$5,079
Aug 2002012925.963.16$408
Jul 200209924.583.06$303
Jun 20021795523.733.34$4,431
May 2002010324.663.58$369
Apr 2002011623.653.51$407
Mar 2002010222.003.10$316
Feb 20021664818.222.38$3,139
Jan 2002012617.172.38$299
Dec 2001014416.932.36$340
Nov 200102418.072.41$58
Oct 200117113419.782.53$3,721
Sep 200117916424.262.25$4,712
Aug 200105124.873.05$156
Jul 2001047523.933.20$1,519
Jun 2001072724.563.82$2,780
May 200118328925.524.31$5,915
Apr 200118335124.685.34$6,389
Mar 2001023824.545.38$1,280
Feb 2001050927.755.77$2,935
Jan 200118440627.478.40$8,464
Dec 2000246726.889.12$4,314
Nov 200018748332.215.66$8,756
Oct 2000030931.235.15$1,590
Sep 2000053331.875.19$2,764
Aug 20001858329.644.54$5,860
Jul 2000085528.534.09$3,497
Jun 20003391,00729.304.40$14,361
May 20003691,05827.263.68$13,952
Apr 2000088124.513.12$2,745
Mar 200037045328.422.86$11,811
Feb 2000049327.622.73$1,344
Jan 200018926825.272.48$5,441
Dec 19990924.282.42$22
Nov 199918513723.192.43$4,624
Oct 1999030320.982.80$850
Sep 1999010821.752.62$283
Aug 1999016319.262.88$469
Jul 1999023717.892.37$562
Jun 1999060215.942.36$1,422
May 199916781315.792.32$4,524
Apr 1999059715.102.21$1,318
Mar 199918735312.471.84$2,981
Feb 199901559.981.82$282
Jan 1999047910.381.90$910
Dec 199805499.201.77$974
Nov 199817237910.892.19$2,701
Oct 1998088112.421.97$1,735
Sep 199818192312.592.08$4,201
Aug 199818373711.301.91$3,474
Jul 1998085611.742.24$1,915
Jun 199818389711.242.24$4,064
May 1998062712.622.21$1,383
Apr 199818368513.042.51$4,102
Mar 1998043512.802.31$1,005
Feb 199870039513.952.30$10,673
Jan 1998092814.702.15$2,000
Dec 1997089416.322.41$2,156
Nov 1997097018.193.09$2,996
Oct 1997086319.253.15$2,718
Sep 1997069017.742.95$2,039
Aug 199716576317.862.55$4,896
Jul 1997070417.582.25$1,582
Jun 1997058617.242.26$1,323
May 1997067818.972.31$1,565
Apr 199717473917.882.08$4,650
Mar 1997066618.951.94$1,291
Feb 1997064420.492.21$1,421
Jan 19971861,67623.483.54$10,300
Dec 199601,75423.32$0
Nov 19961811,84321.97$3,977
Oct 199601,65623.31$0
Sep 199601,66822.22$0
Aug 19961671,61520.26$3,383
Jul 199601,50419.55$0
Jun 199601,47018.73$0
May 19961541,41719.43$2,992
Apr 199601,44521.51$0
Mar 199601,60619.38$0
Feb 19961831,55416.98$3,107
Jan 199601,40317.07$0
Dec 199501,51117.19$0
Nov 19953671,82216.00$5,872

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.

Feb 2010 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   46 bbl  × $ 73.58 =     $3,385
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.44 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,385

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/13909 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.