JONES ESTATE

Operated by MCDANIEL COMPANY, INC., THE (P-5 545300) in the BROWN (WICHITA-ALBANY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 15590District 8AField 12376666Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$408 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$51 k
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 7 leases and 21 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1960-12-24
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 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.

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
OilDisposition18,513 bbl$394,087
Casinghead gasProduction3,551 Mcf$13,421
Total$407,507

21 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 (3)

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 32.8690, -102.9932. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.6 miles.

32.87018, -102.99264 · 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%
3 of 3 wells
With a plug date
33.3%
1 of 3 wells
Median depth
8,029 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
3100.0%
A plug date is filed
133.3%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
133.3%
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 7,950 and 8,108 ft, median 8,029 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Mar 2003
1 of 3 wells; 2 filed none
Plug dates filed
Apr 1987
1 of 3 wells; 2 filed none

3 wells

42-1650315837,950 ftApr 1987Yes
42-165809451Yes
42-1650315928,108 ftMar 2003Yes

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 2003230026.675.41$6,134
Mar 200351610831.146.10$16,727
Feb 20031715733.487.93$6,177
Jan 20031708630.315.58$5,633
Dec 200215811626.914.85$4,815
Nov 20021426824.664.14$3,783
Oct 20021418626.464.23$4,095
Sep 200212111827.443.64$3,749
Aug 20021223025.963.16$3,262
Jul 20021258924.583.06$3,345
Jun 2002137023.733.34$3,251
May 2002158024.663.58$3,896
Apr 2002114023.653.51$2,696
Mar 2002112022.003.10$2,464
Feb 2002158018.222.38$2,879
Jan 200285017.172.38$1,459
Dec 200182016.932.36$1,388
Nov 2001135018.072.41$2,439
Oct 200110410019.782.53$2,310
Sep 200111910224.262.25$3,117
Aug 20011539824.873.05$4,104
Jul 20011689323.933.20$4,318
Jun 2001988424.563.82$2,728
May 20011969025.524.31$5,390
Apr 200110316524.685.34$3,422
Mar 2001414224.545.38$1,232
Feb 200122313227.755.77$6,950
Jan 20012118227.478.40$6,485
Dec 20001631926.889.12$4,555
Nov 20002479132.215.66$8,471
Oct 20003948531.235.15$12,742
Sep 20001455031.875.19$4,880
Aug 20002466329.644.54$7,578
Jul 20001426428.534.09$4,313
Jun 20001936329.304.40$5,932
May 20001927027.263.68$5,492
Apr 20001995624.513.12$5,052
Mar 20005475828.422.86$15,712
Feb 20005495427.622.73$15,311
Jan 200019811125.272.48$5,279
Dec 199920511124.282.42$5,246
Nov 19992045523.192.43$4,865
Oct 19991676120.982.80$3,675
Sep 19991646821.752.62$3,745
Aug 19992405219.262.88$4,772
Jul 19991134717.892.37$2,133
Jun 19991802515.942.36$2,928
May 19991173715.792.32$1,933
Apr 19991555115.102.21$2,453
Mar 19991827512.471.84$2,407
Feb 199989429.981.82$965
Jan 19991534810.381.90$1,679
Dec 199854539.201.77$591
Nov 1998212110.892.19$275
Oct 1998225312.421.97$378
Sep 1998313712.592.08$467
Aug 1998203811.301.91$298
Jul 1998105911.742.24$249
Jun 1998196711.242.24$363
May 199819012.622.21$240
Apr 19989013.042.51$117
Mar 199835012.802.31$448
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19989014.702.15$132
Dec 199737016.322.41$604
Nov 199771018.193.09$1,291
Oct 199764019.253.15$1,232
Sep 1997102017.742.95$1,809
Aug 199773017.862.55$1,304
Jul 1997119017.582.25$2,092
Jun 199737017.242.26$638
May 1997113018.972.31$2,144
Apr 199775017.882.08$1,341
Mar 1997102018.951.94$1,933
Feb 1997102020.492.21$2,090
Jan 199788023.483.54$2,066
Dec 1996107023.32$2,495
Nov 1996139021.97$3,054
Oct 1996395023.31$9,207
Sep 1996215022.22$4,777
Aug 1996253020.26$5,126
Jul 1996162019.55$3,167
Jun 1996197018.73$3,690
May 1996200019.43$3,886
Apr 1996227021.51$4,883
Mar 1996234019.38$4,535
Feb 1996179016.98$3,039
Jan 1996142017.07$2,424
Dec 1995204017.19$3,507
Nov 1995128016.00$2,048
Oct 1995143015.43$2,206
Sep 1995159016.18$2,573
Aug 1995117015.92$1,863
Jul 1995158015.24$2,408
Jun 199580016.41$1,313
May 1995121017.56$2,125
Apr 1995119017.73$2,110
Mar 1995188016.44$3,091
Feb 1995177016.58$2,935
Jan 1995142015.92$2,261
Dec 1994153015.03$2,300
Nov 1994134015.90$2,131
Oct 1994143015.58$2,228
Sep 1994157115.29$2,401
Aug 1994137116.13$2,210
Jul 199474117.56$1,299
Jun 199490117.09$1,538
May 1994148115.88$2,350
Apr 1994166114.14$2,347
Mar 1994149112.46$1,857
Feb 1994139112.50$1,738
Jan 1994156112.66$1,975
Dec 1993122112.33$1,504
Nov 1993115114.49$1,666
Oct 1993216115.85$3,424
Sep 1993293115.03$4,404
Aug 1993143115.66$2,239
Jul 1993165115.46$2,551
Jun 1993144116.79$2,418
May 1993174117.68$3,076
Apr 1993163118.05$2,942
Mar 1993155118.14$2,812
Feb 1993140117.90$2,506
Jan 1993142116.93$2,404

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.

Apr 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  230 bbl  × $ 26.67 =     $6,134
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.41 =         $0

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Month total                                   $6,134

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/15590 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.