DENIS

Operated by STEPHENS & JOHNSON OPERATING CO. (P-5 817555) in the CHILE PIEPER (L. KING SAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 14615District 7CField 17723240OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$3.3 M
Jul 1997 – Mar 2009
Value, last 12 filed months
$49 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
141
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 3 leases and 8 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1997-07-25
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

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
OilDisposition150,561 bbl$3,280,703
Casinghead gasProduction55 Mcf$126
Total$3,280,829

Wells on this lease (6)

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 31.2015, -100.0656. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.9 miles.

31.20266, -100.06519 · 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%
6 of 6 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
6 of 6 wells
Median depth
2,570 ft
6 wells filed one
Completion to plug
8.2 years
median over 6 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
6100.0%
A plug date is filed
6100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
6100.0%
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 2,490 and 2,610 ft, median 2,570 ft, over the 6 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jul 1997 – May 2000
6 of 6 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 2007 – Feb 2009
6 of 6 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 8.2 years across the 6 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 7.5 years and 8.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

6 wells

42-09531888102,610 ftMay 2000Feb 2009Yes
42-0953186082,593 ftAug 1999Feb 2007Yes
42-0953185972,570 ftAug 1999Feb 2007Yes
42-0953179332,490 ftJul 1999Feb 2007Yes
42-0953181542,570 ftMay 1998Feb 2007Yes
42-0953176512,509 ftJul 1997Feb 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 (141)

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

141 months

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 20081950131.0811.39$25,561
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 20081930123.1711.57$23,772
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 2008186092.538.77$17,211
Jan 2008190090.388.21$17,172
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 2007182091.677.29$16,684
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 2007187069.066.39$12,914
Jul 2007189070.906.39$13,400
Jun 2007187062.007.55$11,594
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 2007187059.617.81$11,147
Mar 2007184056.927.30$10,473
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 2006193056.656.92$10,933
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 2006189054.906.01$10,376
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 2006186068.717.34$12,780
Jul 2006180069.376.34$12,487
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 2006180066.016.42$11,882
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 2006186056.707.08$10,546
Feb 2006193057.597.75$11,115
Jan 2006184060.598.93$11,149
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 2005164054.6910.59$8,969
Oct 2005188058.3413.80$10,968
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 2005178061.519.80$10,949
Jul 2005184055.697.84$10,247
Jun 2005187052.337.38$9,786
May 2005182045.226.65$8,230
Apr 2005177049.207.36$8,708
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 2005352045.226.31$15,917
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 2004369039.866.75$14,708
Nov 2004177045.286.33$8,015
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 2004345043.245.28$14,918
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 2004357038.286.08$13,666
Jun 2004191036.106.43$6,895
May 2004188037.486.49$7,046
Apr 2004186034.475.86$6,411
Mar 2004190034.365.53$6,528
Feb 2004192032.455.51$6,230
Jan 2004183032.036.30$5,861
Dec 2003193030.266.30$5,840
Nov 2003381028.804.60$10,973
Oct 2003183028.174.76$5,155
Sep 2003189026.314.75$4,973
Aug 2003365029.765.13$10,862
Jul 2003365029.415.17$10,735
Jun 2003363028.565.98$10,367
May 2003373026.595.97$9,918
Apr 2003368026.675.41$9,815
Mar 2003378031.146.10$11,771
Feb 2003375033.487.93$12,555
Jan 2003375030.315.58$11,366
Dec 2002732026.914.85$19,698
Nov 2002362024.664.14$8,927
Oct 2002728026.464.23$19,263
Sep 2002511027.443.64$14,022
Aug 2002700025.963.16$18,172
Jul 2002728024.583.06$17,894
Jun 2002882023.733.34$20,930
May 2002726024.663.58$17,903
Apr 20021,099023.653.51$25,991
Mar 20021,111022.003.10$24,442
Feb 20021,136018.222.38$20,698
Jan 20021,452017.172.38$24,931
Dec 20011,281016.932.36$21,687
Nov 20011,627018.072.41$29,400
Oct 20011,615019.782.53$31,945
Sep 20011,798024.262.25$43,619
Aug 20011,809024.873.05$44,990
Jul 20011,994023.933.20$47,716
Jun 20011,999024.563.82$49,095
May 20012,197025.524.31$56,067
Apr 20011,827024.685.34$45,090
Mar 20012,209024.545.38$54,209
Feb 20011,816027.755.77$50,394
Jan 20011,817027.478.40$49,913
Dec 20001,675026.889.12$45,024
Nov 20001,815032.215.66$58,461
Oct 20001,774031.235.15$55,402
Sep 20001,969031.875.19$62,752
Aug 20001,938029.644.54$57,442
Jul 20002,392028.534.09$68,244
Jun 20002,667029.304.40$78,143
May 20003,310027.263.68$90,231
Apr 20003,263024.513.12$79,976
Mar 20002,328028.422.86$66,162
Feb 20002,164027.622.73$59,770
Jan 20002,325025.272.48$58,753
Dec 19992,740024.282.42$66,527
Nov 19993,586023.192.43$83,159
Oct 19993,791020.982.80$79,535
Sep 19994,059021.752.62$88,283
Aug 19994,055019.262.88$78,099
Jul 19992,850017.892.37$50,987
Jun 19993,152015.942.36$50,243
May 19993,401015.792.32$53,702
Apr 19994,135015.102.21$62,439
Mar 19994,353012.471.84$54,282
Feb 19993,26209.981.82$32,555
Jan 19993,463310.381.90$35,952
Dec 19983,07639.201.77$28,305
Nov 19983,104310.892.19$33,809
Oct 19983,470312.421.97$43,103
Sep 19983,450312.592.08$43,442
Aug 19983,456411.301.91$39,060
Jul 19983,108311.742.24$36,495
Jun 19983,204311.242.24$36,020
May 19983,004412.622.21$37,919
Apr 19981,582313.042.51$20,637
Mar 19981,531412.802.31$19,606
Feb 19981,074313.952.30$14,989
Jan 1998902314.702.15$13,266
Dec 19971,419316.322.41$23,165
Nov 19971,075218.193.09$19,560
Oct 19971,064319.253.15$20,491
Sep 19971,252217.742.95$22,216
Aug 1997898217.862.55$16,043
Jul 19970117.582.25$2

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.

Jul 2008 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  195 bbl  × $131.08 =    $25,561
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $ 11.39 =         $0

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Month total                                  $25,561

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/14615 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.