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Operated by FORTUNE ENERGY, INC. (P-5 278757) in the LUCKY-MAG (DIVIDE SAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 16235District 7CField 55504400OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$4.9 M
May 2007 – Feb 2010
Value, last 12 filed months
$572 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
34
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 18 leases and 38 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1956-05-22
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: 500 MCFGPD.

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
OilDisposition38,969 bbl$3,159,682
Casinghead gasProduction253,689 Mcf$1,691,730
Total$4,851,412

Wells on this lease (5)

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 31.3274, -100.8451. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.0 miles.

31.32730, -100.84517 · 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%
5 of 5 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 5 wells
Median depth
6,800 ft
5 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
5100.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
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 6,764 and 6,874 ft, median 6,800 ft, over the 5 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
May 2007 – Apr 2009
5 of 5 wells

5 wells

42-2353441766,848 ftApr 2009Yes
42-2353439356,874 ftMar 2009Yes
42-2353424246,800 ftMay 2008Yes
42-2353415836,800 ftFeb 2008Yes
42-2353403326,764 ftMay 2007Yes

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 (34)

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

34 months

Feb 20100073.585.44$0
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 200991310,46267.423.22$95,226
Jul 200952110,69661.133.46$68,905
Jun 200988910,90166.163.90$101,276
May 200988512,03354.743.93$95,683
Apr 20091,03811,85146.773.59$91,063
Mar 20091,59213,05642.144.06$120,081
Feb 20091,07610,60732.814.63$84,446
Jan 20091,02411,45335.865.37$98,235
Dec 200886012,73237.105.98$108,007
Nov 20081,25311,22055.496.86$146,502
Oct 20081,60310,89575.246.92$196,025
Sep 20081,3919,326101.767.88$215,010
Aug 20081,6199,128114.228.48$262,355
Jul 20081,0347,730131.0811.39$223,577
Jun 20081,9438,638131.3313.03$367,750
May 20082,5687,423123.1711.57$402,217
Apr 20081,6057,813110.3110.45$258,731
Mar 20081,8566,714101.909.66$254,011
Feb 20081,8245,86492.538.77$220,205
Jan 20088786,43890.388.21$132,182
Dec 20071,1017,36988.337.30$151,060
Nov 20078706,97091.677.29$130,576
Oct 20071,4328,29182.856.92$176,031
Sep 20071,0347,44175.846.24$124,881
Aug 20071,6067,56669.066.39$159,242
Jul 20071,9707,77070.906.39$189,307
Jun 20072,3378,14762.007.55$206,391
May 20072,2475,15558.747.85$172,436

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.

Aug 2009 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  913 bbl  × $ 67.42 =    $61,554
Casinghead gas    10,462 Mcf  × $  3.22 =    $33,672

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Month total                                  $95,226

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/16235 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.