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Operated by DISCOVERY OPERATING, INC. (P-5 220865) in the DAI (WOLFCAMP) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 15036District 7CField 22490475OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$120 k
Aug 2000 – Mar 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
32
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 14 leases and 25 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1997-10-15
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 Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: #85280300 EFF 12/01/2019

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
OilDisposition2,711 bbl$77,402
Casinghead gasProduction6,980 Mcf$42,230
Total$119,632

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 31.4938, -102.2244. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.49377, -102.22438 · 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
10,410 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
2.7 years
median over 1 well

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 10,410 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 2000
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 2003
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 2.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 2.7 years and 2.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-46134035210,410 ftJun 2000Feb 2003Yes

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 (32)

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

32 months

Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 200333030.315.58$1,000
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 2002139023.733.34$3,298
May 200202024.663.58$72
Apr 20023723.653.51$96
Mar 20021778222.003.10$4,148
Feb 200275718.222.38$263
Jan 200222417.172.38$91
Dec 200157116.932.36$253
Nov 200112118.072.41$69
Oct 200124319.782.53$148
Sep 200116412924.262.25$4,269
Aug 2001516924.873.05$640
Jul 200118015623.933.20$4,806
Jun 2001213124.563.82$550
May 200106825.524.31$293
Apr 200119127124.685.34$6,160
Mar 2001040224.545.38$2,161
Feb 200118260827.755.77$8,557
Jan 200119366527.478.40$10,887
Dec 200001,22826.889.12$11,202
Nov 20003601,55932.215.66$20,416
Oct 20003571,05131.235.15$16,557
Sep 200070821831.875.19$23,695
Aug 20000029.644.54$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.

Jan 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   33 bbl  × $ 30.31 =     $1,000
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.58 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,000

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/15036 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.