WRIGHT, J. M. UNIT

Operated by WALSH PETROLEUM, INC. (P-5 894720) in the LEVELLAND (SAN ANDRES) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 20499District 8AField 53411426Hydrogen sulphide fieldGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$117 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$37 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
102
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
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 other leases, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1945-01-17
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
880 ft
minimum
From a lease line
440 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 21.25 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: FIELD

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
GasProduction82,179 Mcf$116,728
Total$116,728

43,430 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 (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 33.5600, -102.7571. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.55999, -102.75708 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
4,988 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
1100.0%
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 4,988 ft.

Completions filed
May 1958
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-07900142514,988 ftMay 1958Yes

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 (102)

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

102 months

Jun 2001024.563.82$0
May 200147525.524.31$2,046
Apr 200150024.685.34$2,668
Mar 200150024.545.38$2,688
Feb 200152527.755.77$3,028
Jan 200153927.478.40$4,527
Dec 200053926.889.12$4,917
Nov 200062832.215.66$3,553
Oct 200072931.235.15$3,751
Sep 200071131.875.19$3,688
Aug 200074529.644.54$3,383
Jul 200068628.534.09$2,806
Jun 200074929.304.40$3,294
May 200077427.263.68$2,848
Apr 200065024.513.12$2,025
Mar 200073828.422.86$2,111
Feb 200065727.622.73$1,791
Jan 200074225.272.48$1,841
Dec 199957124.282.42$1,384
Nov 199971223.192.43$1,733
Oct 199974120.982.80$2,078
Sep 199977721.752.62$2,035
Aug 199983219.262.88$2,393
Jul 199981417.892.37$1,931
Jun 199980515.942.36$1,901
May 199984215.792.32$1,954
Apr 199978015.102.21$1,722
Mar 199965912.471.84$1,211
Feb 19996739.981.82$1,223
Jan 199970910.381.90$1,347
Dec 19987989.201.77$1,415
Nov 199886410.892.19$1,888
Oct 199863912.421.97$1,258
Sep 199886012.592.08$1,791
Aug 199889011.301.91$1,698
Jul 199891411.742.24$2,045
Jun 199893111.242.24$2,083
May 199897212.622.21$2,145
Apr 199851613.042.51$1,293
Mar 199860112.802.31$1,388
Feb 199852813.952.30$1,214
Jan 199864514.702.15$1,390
Dec 199762316.322.41$1,502
Nov 199773818.193.09$2,279
Oct 199790819.253.15$2,860
Sep 199789117.742.95$2,633
Aug 199793517.862.55$2,389
Jul 199788917.582.25$1,998
Jun 199787517.242.26$1,975
May 199774118.972.31$1,711
Apr 199775417.882.08$1,570
Mar 199778418.951.94$1,520
Feb 199777720.492.21$1,714
Jan 199787423.483.54$3,094
Dec 199689723.32$0
Nov 199693021.97$0
Oct 199699823.31$0
Sep 19961,08622.22$0
Aug 19961,12120.26$0
Jul 199695719.55$0
Jun 199659118.73$0
May 199662719.43$0
Apr 199659821.51$0
Mar 199661219.38$0
Feb 199657716.98$0
Jan 199654817.07$0
Dec 199557317.19$0
Nov 199559316.00$0
Oct 199564915.43$0
Sep 199539016.18$0
Aug 199554015.92$0
Jul 199553515.24$0
Jun 199550316.41$0
May 199543617.56$0
Apr 199536617.73$0
Mar 199576716.44$0
Feb 199573516.58$0
Jan 199592315.92$0
Dec 19941,01215.03$0
Nov 19941,02315.90$0
Oct 19941,10915.58$0
Sep 19941,08015.29$0
Aug 19941,11116.13$0
Jul 19941,07817.56$0
Jun 19941,11517.09$0
May 19941,07615.88$0
Apr 19941,02614.14$0
Mar 19941,05112.46$0
Feb 199496112.50$0
Jan 19941,11912.66$0
Dec 19931,24212.33$0
Nov 19931,23814.49$0
Oct 19931,33715.85$0
Sep 19931,33915.03$0
Aug 19931,55515.66$0
Jul 19931,73915.46$0
Jun 199395116.79$0
May 19931,37217.68$0
Apr 199351218.05$0
Mar 199339018.14$0
Feb 19931,10817.90$0
Jan 19931,33416.93$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.

May 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  475 Mcf  × $  4.31 =     $2,046

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Month total                                   $2,046

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. 8A/G/20499 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.