MORGAN

Operated by LYTLE CREEK OPERATING, INC. (P-5 517255) in the LITTLE JIM (PALO PINTO) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 3855District 7CField 53975500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$64 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
78
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 3 leases and 4 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1962-04-04
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

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
OilDisposition3,764 bbl$63,793
Casinghead gasProduction50 Mcf$6
Total$63,799

48 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 months, carries no value here. No free Texas wellhead gas price exists before 1997, so those months are left out of the total rather than valued at zero. The total above is therefore a floor, not an estimate.

Wells on this lease (2)

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 31.8154, -100.0388. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

31.81543, -100.03880 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
50.0%
1 of 2 wells
Median depth
3,840 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
150.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
150.0%
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 3,840 ft.

Plug dates filed
Apr 1999
1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none

2 wells

42-3990325223,840 ftApr 1999Yes
42-399803041Yes

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 (78)

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

78 months

Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 1999110015.102.21$1,661
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 1998150012.622.21$1,893
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 1997166018.193.09$3,020
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 1997172017.582.25$3,024
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 1997178017.882.08$3,183
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970120.492.21$2
Jan 19970123.483.54$4
Dec 1996157123.32$3,661
Nov 19960121.97$0
Oct 19960123.31$0
Sep 1996157122.22$3,489
Aug 19960120.26$0
Jul 19960119.55$0
Jun 1996154118.73$2,884
May 19960119.43$0
Apr 1996169121.51$3,635
Mar 19960119.38$0
Feb 19960116.98$0
Jan 1996140117.07$2,390
Dec 19950117.19$0
Nov 1995172116.00$2,752
Oct 19950115.43$0
Sep 19950116.18$0
Aug 1995174115.92$2,770
Jul 19950115.24$0
Jun 19950116.41$0
May 1995177117.56$3,108
Apr 19950117.73$0
Mar 1995181116.44$2,976
Feb 19950116.58$0
Jan 19950115.92$0
Dec 1994178115.03$2,675
Nov 19940115.90$0
Oct 19940115.58$0
Sep 1994173115.29$2,645
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 19940117.56$0
Jun 1994147117.09$2,512
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 1994164112.46$2,043
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 1994162112.66$2,051
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 1993172115.85$2,726
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 1993170115.46$2,628
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 1993171117.68$3,023
Apr 19930118.05$0
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 1993170117.90$3,043
Jan 19930116.93$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.

Apr 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  110 bbl  × $ 15.10 =     $1,661
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.21 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,661

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/3855 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.