SAU MARINER 18-3A

Operated by APACHE CORPORATION (P-5 27200) 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 15618District 7CField 85279200OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$4.2 M
Oct 2004 – Apr 2014
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
115
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
OilDisposition43,072 bbl$2,921,424
Casinghead gasProduction182,547 Mcf$1,239,739
Total$4,161,163

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 31.4343, -101.6427. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.43429, -101.64270 · 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
8,267 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
8 months
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 8,267 ft.

Completions filed
Jan 2019
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2019
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 8 months across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8 months and 8 months. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-383354553A8,267 ftJan 2019Sep 2019Yes

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 (115)

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

115 months

Apr 20140095.944.81$0
Mar 20140095.895.06$0
Feb 20140097.406.19$0
Jan 20140090.404.86$0
Dec 20130091.824.35$0
Nov 20130088.853.74$0
Oct 20130097.423.78$0
Sep 201300104.113.72$0
Aug 201300104.253.52$0
Jul 201300102.523.72$0
Jun 20130094.403.93$0
May 20130094.834.15$0
Apr 20130093.964.28$0
Mar 20130093.623.91$0
Feb 20130091.233.42$0
Jan 20130091.603.42$0
Dec 20120086.773.42$0
Nov 20120086.953.62$0
Oct 20120089.383.40$0
Sep 20120094.672.92$0
Aug 20120092.662.91$0
Jul 20120085.133.02$0
Jun 20120079.822.52$0
May 20120091.612.49$0
Apr 201200101.652.00$0
Mar 201200105.052.22$0
Feb 20122681,313101.102.57$30,470
Jan 20121501,43998.092.73$18,648
Dec 20113091,36896.873.24$34,365
Nov 20112351,28695.723.31$26,753
Oct 20111411,41284.983.65$17,134
Sep 20112391,15383.623.99$24,581
Aug 20112511,35683.404.15$26,560
Jul 20112881,40794.144.52$33,468
Jun 201125892792.904.64$28,269
May 20112261,22298.134.40$27,560
Apr 20112441,761105.964.33$33,485
Mar 20112481,62696.364.06$30,495
Feb 20113801,56185.644.18$39,068
Jan 20113221,78386.504.59$36,035
Dec 20102451,76885.734.35$28,691
Nov 20103532,28680.843.80$37,213
Oct 20103382,41878.103.51$34,882
Sep 20102402,38572.633.98$26,922
Aug 20103082,31273.684.42$32,911
Jul 20103512,21672.554.74$35,961
Jun 20103222,14170.364.91$33,169
May 20103132,24571.124.24$31,769
Apr 20103732,16281.694.12$39,384
Mar 20103762,08478.394.39$38,621
Feb 20103412,01673.585.44$36,063
Jan 20103962,18774.365.96$42,490
Dec 20092872,02371.445.48$31,597
Nov 20093461,98774.593.75$33,262
Oct 20094471,92272.544.11$40,325
Sep 20093771,56065.543.06$29,490
Aug 200937498667.423.22$28,389
Jul 20092911,37361.133.46$22,546
Jun 20093421,25666.163.90$27,519
May 20093121,50854.743.93$22,999
Apr 20094831,66346.773.59$28,556
Mar 20094771,68242.144.06$26,928
Feb 20093471,67832.814.63$19,159
Jan 20094422,38935.865.37$28,681
Dec 20084452,47537.105.98$31,303
Nov 20085082,26155.496.86$43,700
Oct 20083792,42175.246.92$45,274
Sep 20083392,133101.767.88$51,298
Aug 20083592,326114.228.48$60,736
Jul 20084372,369131.0811.39$84,264
Jun 20084732,306131.3313.03$92,172
May 20084313,156123.1711.57$89,615
Apr 20086053,161110.3110.45$99,785
Mar 20084192,886101.909.66$70,587
Feb 20085862,34192.538.77$74,755
Jan 20085232,27090.388.21$65,896
Dec 20076552,34088.337.30$74,943
Nov 20073001,14591.677.29$35,850
Oct 20075892,54782.856.92$66,429
Sep 20074722,34975.846.24$50,464
Aug 20075882,07969.066.39$53,888
Jul 20076602,16970.906.39$60,649
Jun 20075162,01962.007.55$47,232
May 20075242,09858.747.85$47,241
Apr 20076772,21059.617.81$57,605
Mar 20072891,61656.927.30$28,250
Feb 20075782,48955.108.22$52,297
Jan 20075892,62650.306.73$47,291
Dec 20064862,36256.656.92$43,873
Nov 20066202,42554.207.62$52,076
Oct 20065572,65754.906.01$46,558
Sep 20065532,51460.085.04$45,888
Aug 20066582,72368.717.34$65,198
Jul 20065282,69769.376.34$53,734
Jun 20065812,51166.286.38$54,539
May 20067993,18966.016.42$73,231
Apr 20067322,93364.397.36$68,722
Mar 20066812,54056.707.08$56,603
Feb 20064471,50557.597.75$37,408
Jan 20068983,69060.598.93$87,374
Dec 20058533,69254.9413.42$96,393
Nov 20059743,76154.6910.59$93,091
Oct 20051,1223,26658.3413.80$110,514
Sep 20057052,40861.4512.08$72,408
Aug 20058982,00961.519.80$74,918
Jul 20058041,77055.697.84$58,658
Jun 20059191,77052.337.38$61,156
May 20051,0672,52345.226.65$65,031
Apr 20057041,67649.207.36$46,973
Mar 20058971,43250.377.15$55,428
Feb 20057651,32145.226.31$42,931
Jan 20055531,01143.166.32$30,259
Dec 20046051,06139.866.75$31,278
Nov 20045181,13145.286.33$30,615
Oct 200416731749.706.52$10,365

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 2012 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  268 bbl  × $101.10 =    $27,095
Casinghead gas     1,313 Mcf  × $  2.57 =     $3,375

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Month total                                  $30,470

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/15618 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.