ARCO AB "3"

Operated by FOREST OIL CORPORATION (P-5 275740) in the WEBB RAY (ELLENBURGER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 14742District 7CField 95677080Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilSaveExport
Value, all time
$526 k
Jan 1998 – Mar 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
123
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
oil

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 other leases, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1998-01-13
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

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.

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
OilDisposition31,145 bbl$526,244
Total$526,244

Wells on this lease (10)

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 31.0805, -102.2676. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 10.1 miles.

31.09401, -102.20688 · 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%
10 of 10 wells
With a plug date
30.0%
3 of 10 wells
Median depth
5,505 ft
9 wells filed one
Completion to plug
16.8 years
median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
10100.0%
A plug date is filed
330.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
330.0%
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

Total depth in feet, 9 of 10 wells. Median 5,505 ft, with the middle half between 5,473 and 5,530 ft; the shallowest is 5,300 ft and the deepest 8,753 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, 10 of 10 wells, Mar 1960 – Feb 2025. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Mar 1960 – Feb 2025
10 of 10 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2000 – Sep 2019
3 of 10 wells; 7 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.8 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.3 years and 16.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

10 wells

42-1050255845,473 ftFeb 2025Yes
42-1050256665,475 ftJan 2024Yes
42-10502574115,508 ftJan 2019Yes
42-4613386318,753 ftNov 2002Sep 2019Yes
42-1050256975,530 ftFeb 2000Yes
42-1050256255,505 ftFeb 1989Sep 2000Yes
42-1050257185,300 ftOct 1988Yes
42-1050255435,395 ftNov 1983Sep 2000Yes
42-1050254515,560 ftFeb 1982Yes
42-105025502Mar 1960Yes

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 (123)

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

123 months

Mar 20080101.909.66$0
Feb 2008092.538.77$0
Jan 2008090.388.21$0
Dec 2007088.337.30$0
Nov 2007091.677.29$0
Oct 2007082.856.92$0
Sep 2007075.846.24$0
Aug 2007069.066.39$0
Jul 2007070.906.39$0
Jun 2007062.007.55$0
May 2007058.747.85$0
Apr 2007059.617.81$0
Mar 2007056.927.30$0
Feb 2007055.108.22$0
Jan 2007050.306.73$0
Dec 2006056.656.92$0
Nov 2006054.207.62$0
Oct 2006054.906.01$0
Sep 2006060.085.04$0
Aug 2006068.717.34$0
Jul 2006069.376.34$0
Jun 2006066.286.38$0
May 2006066.016.42$0
Apr 2006064.397.36$0
Mar 2006056.707.08$0
Feb 2006057.597.75$0
Jan 2006060.598.93$0
Dec 2005054.9413.42$0
Nov 2005054.6910.59$0
Oct 2005058.3413.80$0
Sep 2005061.4512.08$0
Aug 2005061.519.80$0
Jul 2005055.697.84$0
Jun 2005052.337.38$0
May 2005045.226.65$0
Apr 2005049.207.36$0
Mar 2005050.377.15$0
Feb 2005045.226.31$0
Jan 2005043.166.32$0
Dec 2004039.866.75$0
Nov 2004045.286.33$0
Oct 2004049.706.52$0
Sep 2004043.245.28$0
Aug 2004042.375.55$0
Jul 2004038.286.08$0
Jun 2004036.106.43$0
May 2004037.486.49$0
Apr 2004034.475.86$0
Mar 2004034.365.53$0
Feb 2004032.455.51$0
Jan 2004032.036.30$0
Dec 2003030.266.30$0
Nov 2003028.804.60$0
Oct 2003028.174.76$0
Sep 2003026.314.75$0
Aug 2003029.765.13$0
Jul 2003029.415.17$0
Jun 2003028.565.98$0
May 2003026.595.97$0
Apr 2003026.675.41$0
Mar 2003031.146.10$0
Feb 2003033.487.93$0
Jan 2003030.315.58$0
Dec 2002026.914.85$0
Nov 2002024.664.14$0
Oct 2002026.464.23$0
Sep 200217927.443.64$4,912
Aug 2002025.963.16$0
Jul 2002024.583.06$0
Jun 2002023.733.34$0
May 2002024.663.58$0
Apr 2002023.653.51$0
Mar 200232322.003.10$7,106
Feb 200236818.222.38$6,705
Jan 2002017.172.38$0
Dec 200136716.932.36$6,213
Nov 2001018.072.41$0
Oct 2001019.782.53$0
Sep 2001024.262.25$0
Aug 2001024.873.05$0
Jul 200136123.933.20$8,639
Jun 2001024.563.82$0
May 200136825.524.31$9,391
Apr 200172224.685.34$17,819
Mar 2001024.545.38$0
Feb 200136727.755.77$10,184
Jan 200135327.478.40$9,697
Dec 200038426.889.12$10,322
Nov 200038732.215.66$12,465
Oct 200038031.235.15$11,867
Sep 200037831.875.19$12,047
Aug 200037929.644.54$11,234
Jul 200038028.534.09$10,841
Jun 200038229.304.40$11,193
May 200030527.263.68$8,314
Apr 200039124.513.12$9,583
Mar 200038428.422.86$10,913
Feb 200038827.622.73$10,717
Jan 200038625.272.48$9,754
Dec 199938824.282.42$9,421
Nov 199938123.192.43$8,835
Oct 199937020.982.80$7,763
Sep 199957021.752.62$12,398
Aug 199938319.262.88$7,377
Jul 199939017.892.37$6,977
Jun 199938415.942.36$6,121
May 199977615.792.32$12,253
Apr 199938615.102.21$5,829
Mar 199979212.471.84$9,876
Feb 19993919.981.82$3,902
Jan 199978610.381.90$8,159
Dec 19987939.201.77$7,296
Nov 199877010.892.19$8,385
Oct 19981,13712.421.97$14,122
Sep 19981,11312.592.08$14,013
Aug 199896811.301.91$10,938
Jul 19981,13611.742.24$13,337
Jun 19981,08611.242.24$12,207
May 19981,13312.622.21$14,298
Apr 19982,04613.042.51$26,680
Mar 19982,70312.802.31$34,598
Feb 19982,82913.952.30$39,465
Jan 19981,50214.702.15$22,079

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.

Sep 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  179 bbl  × $ 27.44 =     $4,912

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Month total                                   $4,912

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/14742 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.