NEAL

Operated by SWEETWATER DRILLING CO., INC. (P-5 833285) in the FUZZY CREEK (GOEN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 9662District 7CField 33368500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$300 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
128
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 19 leases and 47 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1978-08-02
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
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: AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 10/01/97.

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
OilDisposition17,176 bbl$293,884
Casinghead gasProduction33,713 Mcf$6,216
Total$300,100

31,290 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 (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 31.5654, -99.8484. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

31.56531, -99.84977 · 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%
6 of 6 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
6 of 6 wells
Median depth
3,759 ft
6 wells filed one
Completion to plug
11.6 years
median over 6 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
6100.0%
A plug date is filed
6100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
6100.0%
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 3,450 and 4,020 ft, median 3,759 ft, over the 6 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jul 1982 – May 1994
6 of 6 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 1990 – Jul 2002
6 of 6 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 11.6 years across the 6 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.6 years and 14.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

6 wells

42-095310411D3,848 ftMay 1994Jul 2002Yes
42-095314991A4,020 ftNov 1992Jul 2002Yes
42-0953091453,450 ftMay 1987Jul 2002Yes
42-0953071733,500 ftApr 1984Sep 1990Yes
42-0953070644,000 ftMar 1984Jul 2002Yes
42-0953060913,670 ftJul 1982Dec 1995Yes

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 (128)

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

128 months

Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20011025.524.31$26
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 199838010.892.19$414
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 199813114812.622.21$1,980
Apr 1998010413.042.51$261
Mar 199806712.802.31$155
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 199805014.702.15$108
Dec 199715616316.322.41$2,939
Nov 19971638418.193.09$3,224
Oct 199716336219.253.15$4,278
Sep 199715646417.742.95$4,139
Aug 1997162017.862.55$2,893
Jul 1997162017.582.25$2,848
Jun 19971707917.242.26$3,109
May 199717213518.972.31$3,574
Apr 19971635317.882.08$3,025
Mar 199717428618.951.94$3,852
Feb 199732835020.492.21$7,493
Jan 19971617823.483.54$4,056
Dec 199618376823.32$4,268
Nov 199652367421.97$11,490
Oct 199618169323.31$4,219
Sep 199617953322.22$3,977
Aug 199636426520.26$7,375
Jul 199635465619.55$6,921
Jun 199617853818.73$3,334
May 199653423719.43$10,376
Apr 199635974721.51$7,722
Mar 199617578719.38$3,392
Feb 199618578416.98$3,141
Jan 19963581,05217.07$6,111
Dec 199536390517.19$6,240
Nov 199536212116.00$5,792
Oct 199536013215.43$5,555
Sep 199536315216.18$5,873
Aug 199552065915.92$8,278
Jul 199518162215.24$2,758
Jun 19951811,63816.41$2,970
May 199518078417.56$3,161
Apr 199536466117.73$6,454
Mar 199554798816.44$8,993
Feb 199518385516.58$3,034
Jan 199554172615.92$8,613
Dec 199418057915.03$2,705
Nov 199435747115.90$5,676
Oct 199436458115.58$5,671
Sep 199435257015.29$5,382
Aug 199417179116.13$2,758
Jul 199435372317.56$6,199
Jun 199417462117.09$2,974
May 199450775515.88$8,051
Apr 199418085814.14$2,545
Mar 199436449912.46$4,535
Feb 199435034612.50$4,375
Jan 199436038212.66$4,558
Dec 199318454712.33$2,269
Nov 199336833914.49$5,332
Oct 199318273715.85$2,885
Sep 199335864615.03$5,381
Aug 199318295515.66$2,850
Jul 199335869615.46$5,535
Jun 199336291416.79$6,078
May 199317892317.68$3,147
Apr 199336472918.05$6,570
Mar 199336564918.14$6,621
Feb 199336849517.90$6,587
Jan 199317750716.93$2,997

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.

May 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    1 bbl  × $ 25.52 =        $26
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.31 =         $0

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Month total                                      $26

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/9662 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.