SMALLWOOD J. L.

Operated by SPRINGFIELD OIL SERVICES, INC. (P-5 810580) 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 20840District 8AField 53411426Hydrogen sulphide fieldCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$27 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$9 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
75
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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
CondensateDisposition908 bbl$12,786
GasProduction20,682 Mcf$13,916
Total$26,702

14,819 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 33.5368, -102.5125. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.53682, -102.51249 · 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
4,915 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 4,915 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 1997
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-2198207014,915 ftSep 1997Yes

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 (75)

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

75 months

Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998909.201.77$83
Nov 19988220810.892.19$1,348
Oct 19988822412.421.97$1,534
Sep 1998019112.592.08$398
Aug 19987618311.301.91$1,208
Jul 19988510511.742.24$1,233
Jun 1998011911.242.24$266
May 19988612612.622.21$1,363
Apr 19989318113.042.51$1,666
Mar 1998017412.802.31$402
Feb 1998031213.952.30$717
Jan 1998021314.702.15$459
Dec 1997065016.322.41$1,567
Nov 1997034418.193.09$1,062
Oct 1997020419.253.15$643
Sep 1997016317.742.95$482
Aug 1997058117.862.55$1,484
Jul 1997051617.582.25$1,159
Jun 1997040217.242.26$907
May 1997035618.972.31$822
Apr 1997019917.882.08$414
Mar 1997027318.951.94$529
Feb 199707520.492.21$165
Jan 199706423.483.54$227
Dec 1996050923.32$0
Nov 1996049921.97$0
Oct 1996015123.31$0
Sep 1996011422.22$0
Aug 19961518320.26$304
Jul 19962420919.55$469
Jun 1996023818.73$0
May 1996014819.43$0
Apr 1996156421.51$323
Mar 1996105919.38$194
Feb 199607216.98$0
Jan 199603617.07$0
Dec 199502917.19$0
Nov 1995019916.00$0
Oct 19952021215.43$309
Sep 19952027216.18$324
Aug 19952819915.92$446
Jul 1995028915.24$0
Jun 19952532816.41$410
May 19952028917.56$351
Apr 1995025317.73$0
Mar 19953249416.44$526
Feb 1995046316.58$0
Jan 19951442715.92$223
Dec 19945829415.03$872
Nov 1994032815.90$0
Oct 1994029915.58$0
Sep 1994030415.29$0
Aug 1994029916.13$0
Jul 1994034917.56$0
Jun 1994039917.09$0
May 1994040515.88$0
Apr 1994016414.14$0
Mar 199409912.46$0
Feb 1994021412.50$0
Jan 1994028912.66$0
Dec 1993034312.33$0
Nov 1993032814.49$0
Oct 1993032815.85$0
Sep 1993035315.03$0
Aug 19931527815.66$235
Jul 19933335915.46$510
Jun 1993056716.79$0
May 19933027217.68$530
Apr 1993064918.05$0
Mar 199301,16918.14$0
Feb 19933018917.90$537
Jan 1993080516.93$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.

Dec 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             9 bbl  × $  9.20 =        $83
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  1.77 =         $0

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Month total                                      $83

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/20840 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.