FRENCH, VELMA M.

Name: FRENCH, VELMA M. lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by PRIME OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 677770) 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 6712District 7CField 85279200OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$191 k

Jan 1993 – May 2003

Value, last 12 filed months

$3 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

125

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The SPRABERRY (TREND AREA) 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 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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	8,740 bbl	$162,428
Casinghead gas	Production	19,666 Mcf	$28,881
Total			$191,309

9,640 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 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 (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 31.4266, -101.9543. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.42661, -101.95430 · 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%

1 of 1 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

1 of 1 wells

Median depth

8,800 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

18.6 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 8,800 ft.

Completions filed

Apr 1984

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Nov 2002

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 18.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 18.6 years and 18.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-46130416	1	8,800 ft	Apr 1984	Nov 2002	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 (125)

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

125 months


May 2003	0	0	26.59	5.97	$0
Apr 2003	0	0	26.67	5.41	$0
Mar 2003	0	0	31.14	6.10	$0
Feb 2003	39	0	33.48	7.93	$1,306
Jan 2003	0	0	30.31	5.58	$0
Dec 2002	0	0	26.91	4.85	$0
Nov 2002	0	25	24.66	4.14	$103
Oct 2002	0	22	26.46	4.23	$93
Sep 2002	0	14	27.44	3.64	$51
Aug 2002	59	31	25.96	3.16	$1,630
Jul 2002	0	62	24.58	3.06	$190
Jun 2002	0	0	23.73	3.34	$0
May 2002	39	63	24.66	3.58	$1,188
Apr 2002	64	91	23.65	3.51	$1,833
Mar 2002	41	96	22.00	3.10	$1,200
Feb 2002	52	88	18.22	2.38	$1,157
Jan 2002	71	93	17.17	2.38	$1,440
Dec 2001	66	94	16.93	2.36	$1,340
Nov 2001	44	67	18.07	2.41	$956
Oct 2001	65	64	19.78	2.53	$1,448
Sep 2001	0	0	24.26	2.25	$0
Aug 2001	0	0	24.87	3.05	$0
Jul 2001	145	110	23.93	3.20	$3,822
Jun 2001	0	103	24.56	3.82	$394
May 2001	62	85	25.52	4.31	$1,948
Apr 2001	40	114	24.68	5.34	$1,595
Mar 2001	77	133	24.54	5.38	$2,605
Feb 2001	88	114	27.75	5.77	$3,099
Jan 2001	79	0	27.47	8.40	$2,170
Dec 2000	76	133	26.88	9.12	$3,256
Nov 2000	88	131	32.21	5.66	$3,576
Oct 2000	67	137	31.23	5.15	$2,797
Sep 2000	78	135	31.87	5.19	$3,186
Aug 2000	63	121	29.64	4.54	$2,417
Jul 2000	71	140	28.53	4.09	$2,598
Jun 2000	79	123	29.30	4.40	$2,856
May 2000	67	174	27.26	3.68	$2,467
Apr 2000	56	129	24.51	3.12	$1,775
Mar 2000	97	147	28.42	2.86	$3,177
Feb 2000	75	147	27.62	2.73	$2,472
Jan 2000	77	161	25.27	2.48	$2,345
Dec 1999	95	151	24.28	2.42	$2,673
Nov 1999	71	166	23.19	2.43	$2,051
Oct 1999	64	172	20.98	2.80	$1,825
Sep 1999	90	154	21.75	2.62	$2,361
Aug 1999	62	183	19.26	2.88	$1,720
Jul 1999	89	182	17.89	2.37	$2,024
Jun 1999	89	181	15.94	2.36	$1,846
May 1999	49	92	15.79	2.32	$987
Apr 1999	82	176	15.10	2.21	$1,627
Mar 1999	69	187	12.47	1.84	$1,204
Feb 1999	76	173	9.98	1.82	$1,073
Jan 1999	84	180	10.38	1.90	$1,214
Dec 1998	165	185	9.20	1.77	$1,846
Nov 1998	0	199	10.89	2.19	$435
Oct 1998	85	208	12.42	1.97	$1,465
Sep 1998	73	206	12.59	2.08	$1,348
Aug 1998	94	213	11.30	1.91	$1,468
Jul 1998	111	205	11.74	2.24	$1,762
Jun 1998	0	211	11.24	2.24	$472
May 1998	112	218	12.62	2.21	$1,894
Apr 1998	82	203	13.04	2.51	$1,578
Mar 1998	102	204	12.80	2.31	$1,777
Feb 1998	101	179	13.95	2.30	$1,820
Jan 1998	75	198	14.70	2.15	$1,529
Dec 1997	102	193	16.32	2.41	$2,130
Nov 1997	72	193	18.19	3.09	$1,906
Oct 1997	87	203	19.25	3.15	$2,314
Sep 1997	71	208	17.74	2.95	$1,874
Aug 1997	141	223	17.86	2.55	$3,088
Jul 1997	91	189	17.58	2.25	$2,024
Jun 1997	81	216	17.24	2.26	$1,884
May 1997	93	228	18.97	2.31	$2,291
Apr 1997	78	199	17.88	2.08	$1,809
Mar 1997	83	218	18.95	1.94	$1,996
Feb 1997	86	186	20.49	2.21	$2,172
Jan 1997	89	197	23.48	3.54	$2,787
Dec 1996	90	203	23.32	—	$2,099
Nov 1996	82	216	21.97	—	$1,802
Oct 1996	90	168	23.31	—	$2,098
Sep 1996	0	3	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	59	139	20.26	—	$1,195
Jul 1996	93	291	19.55	—	$1,818
Jun 1996	20	0	18.73	—	$375
May 1996	101	141	19.43	—	$1,962
Apr 1996	171	141	21.51	—	$3,678
Mar 1996	0	3	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	199	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	125	197	17.07	—	$2,134
Dec 1995	172	193	17.19	—	$2,957
Nov 1995	0	189	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	194	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	57	206	16.18	—	$922
Aug 1995	68	209	15.92	—	$1,083
Jul 1995	113	232	15.24	—	$1,722
Jun 1995	172	230	16.41	—	$2,823
May 1995	0	228	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	0	202	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	80	343	16.44	—	$1,315
Feb 1995	93	246	16.58	—	$1,542
Jan 1995	78	236	15.92	—	$1,242
Dec 1994	87	222	15.03	—	$1,308
Nov 1994	71	222	15.90	—	$1,129
Oct 1994	75	240	15.58	—	$1,169
Sep 1994	83	225	15.29	—	$1,269
Aug 1994	86	226	16.13	—	$1,387
Jul 1994	90	242	17.56	—	$1,580
Jun 1994	64	227	17.09	—	$1,094
May 1994	83	188	15.88	—	$1,318
Apr 1994	80	207	14.14	—	$1,131
Mar 1994	100	210	12.46	—	$1,246
Feb 1994	88	189	12.50	—	$1,100
Jan 1994	276	211	12.66	—	$3,494
Dec 1993	0	201	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	0	205	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	88	218	15.85	—	$1,395
Sep 1993	60	219	15.03	—	$902
Aug 1993	94	218	15.66	—	$1,472
Jul 1993	110	232	15.46	—	$1,701
Jun 1993	65	233	16.79	—	$1,091
May 1993	132	231	17.68	—	$2,334
Apr 1993	74	193	18.05	—	$1,336
Mar 1993	178	287	18.14	—	$3,229
Feb 1993	173	269	17.90	—	$3,097
Jan 1993	0	116	16.93	—	$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.

Feb 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   39 bbl  × $ 33.48 =     $1,306
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  7.93 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,306

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/6712 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.