SIDES, ROSCOE

Operated by MERIT ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 561136) in the LEE HARRISON field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 11859District 8AField 52872001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$173 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2007
Value, last 12 filed months
$13 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
171
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 97 leases and 321 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1941-08-20
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
660 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 2008-12-16.

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: 5162',AMENDED SPACING,ADOPTED 20 ACRE OPTION WITH 1500'DIAGONAL.

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
OilDisposition6,870 bbl$173,021
Casinghead gasProduction134 Mcf$307
Total$173,328

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 (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 33.5729, -101.6900. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.57289, -101.68996 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
no depth filed
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
00.0%
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.
1100.0%

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.

1 well

42-303000901

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 (171)

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

171 months

Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 2006187069.376.34$12,972
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 2006171056.707.08$9,696
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 2005153058.3413.80$8,926
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 2005158052.337.38$8,268
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 2005159045.226.31$7,190
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 2004161043.245.28$6,962
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 2004154034.475.86$5,308
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040132.455.51$6
Jan 20040132.036.30$6
Dec 2003156130.266.30$4,727
Nov 20030128.804.60$5
Oct 20030128.174.76$5
Sep 20030126.314.75$5
Aug 2003155129.765.13$4,618
Jul 20030129.415.17$5
Jun 20030128.565.98$6
May 20030126.595.97$6
Apr 2003155126.675.41$4,139
Mar 20030131.146.10$6
Feb 20030133.487.93$8
Jan 20030130.315.58$6
Dec 2002163126.914.85$4,391
Nov 20020124.664.14$4
Oct 20020126.464.23$4
Sep 20020127.443.64$4
Aug 20020125.963.16$3
Jul 2002161124.583.06$3,960
Jun 20020123.733.34$3
May 20020124.663.58$4
Apr 2002157123.653.51$3,717
Mar 20020122.003.10$3
Feb 20020118.222.38$2
Jan 20020117.172.38$2
Dec 20010116.932.36$2
Nov 2001166118.072.41$3,002
Oct 20010119.782.53$3
Sep 20010124.262.25$2
Aug 20010124.873.05$3
Jul 2001154123.933.20$3,688
Jun 20010124.563.82$4
May 20010125.524.31$4
Apr 20010124.685.34$5
Mar 2001155124.545.38$3,809
Feb 20010127.755.77$6
Jan 20010127.478.40$8
Dec 20000126.889.12$9
Nov 2000172132.215.66$5,546
Oct 20000131.235.15$5
Sep 20000131.875.19$5
Aug 20000129.644.54$5
Jul 2000158128.534.09$4,512
Jun 20000129.304.40$4
May 20000127.263.68$4
Apr 20000124.513.12$3
Mar 2000159128.422.86$4,522
Feb 20000127.622.73$3
Jan 20000125.272.48$2
Dec 19990124.282.42$2
Nov 1999163123.192.43$3,782
Oct 19990120.982.80$3
Sep 19990121.752.62$3
Aug 19990119.262.88$3
Jul 1999160117.892.37$2,865
Jun 19990115.942.36$2
May 19990115.792.32$2
Apr 19990115.102.21$2
Mar 1999170112.471.84$2,122
Feb 1999019.981.82$2
Jan 19990110.381.90$2
Dec 1998019.201.77$2
Nov 1998162110.892.19$1,766
Oct 19980112.421.97$2
Sep 19980112.592.08$2
Aug 1998161111.301.91$1,821
Jul 19980111.742.24$2
Jun 19980111.242.24$2
May 19980112.622.21$2
Apr 1998162113.042.51$2,115
Mar 19980112.802.31$2
Feb 19980113.952.30$2
Jan 19980114.702.15$2
Dec 1997160116.322.41$2,614
Nov 19970118.193.09$3
Oct 19970119.253.15$3
Sep 19970117.742.95$3
Aug 1997161117.862.55$2,878
Jul 19970117.582.25$2
Jun 19970117.242.26$2
May 19970118.972.31$2
Apr 1997172117.882.08$3,077
Mar 19970118.951.94$2
Feb 19970120.492.21$2
Jan 19970123.483.54$4
Dec 1996159123.32$3,708
Nov 19960121.97$0
Oct 19960123.31$0
Sep 19960122.22$0
Aug 1996171120.26$3,464
Jul 19960119.55$0
Jun 19960118.73$0
May 1996166119.43$3,225
Apr 19960121.51$0
Mar 19960119.38$0
Feb 19960116.98$0
Jan 1996166117.07$2,834
Dec 19950117.19$0
Nov 19950116.00$0
Oct 19950115.43$0
Sep 1995170116.18$2,751
Aug 19950115.92$0
Jul 19950115.24$0
Jun 1995167116.41$2,740
May 19950117.56$0
Apr 19950117.73$0
Mar 19950116.44$0
Feb 1995169116.58$2,802
Jan 19950115.92$0
Dec 19940115.03$0
Nov 1994168115.90$2,671
Oct 19940115.58$0
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 1994168117.56$2,950
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 1994165114.14$2,333
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 1993172112.33$2,121
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 1993169115.03$2,540
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 19930115.46$0
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 1993167117.68$2,953
Apr 19930118.05$0
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 1993168117.90$3,007
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.

Jul 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  187 bbl  × $ 69.37 =    $12,972
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.34 =         $0

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Month total                                  $12,972

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/O/11859 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.