WOOLEY 5

Name: WOOLEY 5 lease production and value, Apr 2008 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by MID-STATES OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 566121) in the BENEDUM (FUSSELMAN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 16562District 7CField 07109500Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$15.5 M

Apr 2008 – Aug 2014

Value, last 12 filed months

$252 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The BENEDUM (FUSSELMAN) field

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 119 leases and 139 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1948-08-30

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

1,320 ft

minimum

From a lease line

660 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres.

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.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “PER DOCKET 7C-0239112 EFF 7/22/04, ALLOCATION FORMULA SUSPENDED.”

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	71,243 bbl	$5,663,069
Casinghead gas	Production	1,897,103 Mcf	$9,808,124
Total			$15,471,193

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 31.3258, -101.8976. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.7 miles.

31.32621, -101.89889 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

16.7%

1 of 6 wells

Median depth

11,896 ft

6 wells filed one

Completion to plug

11 months

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

6100.0%

A plug date is filed

116.7%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

116.7%

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 11,859 and 11,969 ft, median 11,896 ft, over the 6 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Feb 2014 – Oct 2020

6 of 6 wells

Plug dates filed

Sep 2021

1 of 6 wells; 5 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 11 months across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 11 months and 11 months. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

6 wells


42-46136081	9	11,859 ft	Oct 2020	Sep 2021	Yes
42-46135596	3	11,950 ft	Jun 2014	—	Yes
42-46135909	1R	11,888 ft	Jun 2014	—	Yes
42-46135645	2	11,882 ft	May 2014	—	Yes
42-46136023	6	11,903 ft	Mar 2014	—	Yes
42-46135569	4	11,969 ft	Feb 2014	—	Yes

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 (77)

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

77 months


Aug 2014	0	0	89.39	4.04	$0
Jul 2014	0	0	96.56	4.18	$0
Jun 2014	0	0	98.16	4.74	$0
May 2014	0	0	94.73	4.73	$0
Apr 2014	0	0	95.94	4.81	$0
Mar 2014	0	0	95.89	5.06	$0
Feb 2014	49	0	97.40	6.19	$4,773
Jan 2014	354	8,339	90.40	4.86	$72,535
Dec 2013	198	4,968	91.82	4.35	$39,813
Nov 2013	172	3,215	88.85	3.74	$27,301
Oct 2013	340	6,899	97.42	3.78	$59,197
Sep 2013	185	7,717	104.11	3.72	$47,950
Aug 2013	378	8,804	104.25	3.52	$70,420
Jul 2013	385	10,058	102.52	3.72	$76,863
Jun 2013	519	11,227	94.40	3.93	$93,154
May 2013	378	12,319	94.83	4.15	$86,958
Apr 2013	564	12,290	93.96	4.28	$105,626
Mar 2013	381	12,998	93.62	3.91	$86,529
Feb 2013	381	12,060	91.23	3.42	$76,003
Jan 2013	570	13,633	91.60	3.42	$98,836
Dec 2012	377	14,049	86.77	3.42	$80,762
Nov 2012	560	13,690	86.95	3.62	$98,318
Oct 2012	739	14,179	89.38	3.40	$114,256
Sep 2012	582	12,443	94.67	2.92	$91,412
Aug 2012	567	13,036	92.66	2.91	$90,449
Jul 2012	715	10,424	85.13	3.02	$92,357
Jun 2012	746	7,117	79.82	2.52	$77,474
May 2012	0	18,408	91.61	2.49	$45,805
Apr 2012	921	10,827	101.65	2.00	$115,239
Mar 2012	0	8,238	105.05	2.22	$18,306
Feb 2012	376	8,300	101.10	2.57	$59,347
Jan 2012	569	8,683	98.09	2.73	$79,553
Dec 2011	586	11,100	96.87	3.24	$92,727
Nov 2011	737	17,851	95.72	3.31	$129,655
Oct 2011	929	21,147	84.98	3.65	$156,102
Sep 2011	371	18,524	83.62	3.99	$104,856
Aug 2011	520	21,316	83.40	4.15	$131,815
Jul 2011	732	22,660	94.14	4.52	$171,271
Jun 2011	545	16,400	92.90	4.64	$126,725
May 2011	553	17,225	98.13	4.40	$130,139
Apr 2011	547	18,494	105.96	4.33	$138,100
Mar 2011	1,101	20,151	96.36	4.06	$187,852
Feb 2011	728	20,374	85.64	4.18	$147,509
Jan 2011	919	23,596	86.50	4.59	$187,770
Dec 2010	743	20,157	85.73	4.35	$151,335
Nov 2010	932	19,958	80.84	3.80	$151,090
Oct 2010	1,128	15,813	78.10	3.51	$143,583
Sep 2010	367	21,337	72.63	3.98	$111,565
Aug 2010	739	21,722	73.68	4.42	$150,447
Jul 2010	735	23,318	72.55	4.74	$163,770
Jun 2010	551	19,874	70.36	4.91	$136,358
May 2010	716	30,282	71.12	4.24	$179,173
Apr 2010	1,293	30,517	81.69	4.12	$231,437
Mar 2010	1,110	31,609	78.39	4.39	$225,734
Feb 2010	1,122	28,751	73.58	5.44	$239,030
Jan 2010	1,480	33,996	74.36	5.96	$312,808
Dec 2009	1,311	35,248	71.44	5.48	$286,949
Nov 2009	1,447	36,470	74.59	3.75	$244,749
Oct 2009	1,113	36,736	72.54	4.11	$231,731
Sep 2009	1,431	37,954	65.54	3.06	$210,107
Aug 2009	1,632	36,351	67.42	3.22	$227,025
Jul 2009	1,672	43,677	61.13	3.46	$253,528
Jun 2009	2,033	43,271	66.16	3.90	$303,044
May 2009	2,410	53,274	54.74	3.93	$341,064
Apr 2009	2,406	55,508	46.77	3.59	$311,664
Mar 2009	2,660	67,011	42.14	4.06	$384,090
Feb 2009	2,133	66,964	32.81	4.63	$380,228
Jan 2009	2,567	101,270	35.86	5.37	$635,974
Dec 2008	1,406	95,577	37.10	5.98	$623,440
Nov 2008	2,228	65,485	55.49	6.86	$572,882
Oct 2008	2,334	78,530	75.24	6.92	$719,193
Sep 2008	3,080	73,116	101.76	7.88	$889,362
Aug 2008	3,558	75,375	114.22	8.48	$1,045,802
Jul 2008	2,165	48,464	131.08	11.39	$835,766
Jun 2008	2,499	46,312	131.33	13.03	$931,761
May 2008	768	6,419	123.17	11.57	$168,890
Apr 2008	200	3,998	110.31	10.45	$63,861

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 2014 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   49 bbl  × $ 97.40 =     $4,773
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.19 =         $0

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Month total                                   $4,773

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/16562 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.