MCDOUGAL, F. P.

Operated by APACHE CORPORATION (P-5 27200) in the TEX-HAMON (FUSSELMAN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 16576District 8AField 88977426Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$569 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$36 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
87
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 11 leases and 20 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1962-01-22
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
1,700 ft
minimum
From a lease line
560 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 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
OilDisposition34,946 bbl$569,351
Casinghead gasProduction3,425 Mcf$0
Total$569,351

3,425 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 26 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 (2)

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 32.5673, -101.9359. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

32.56724, -101.93585 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
50.0%
1 of 2 wells
Median depth
11,918 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
20.1 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
150.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
150.0%
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 11,745 and 12,090 ft, median 11,918 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Mar 2000
1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none
Plug dates filed
Apr 2020
1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 20.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 20.1 years and 20.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-115009001 M12,090 ftYes
42-115303413 L11,745 ftMar 2000Apr 2020Yes

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 (87)

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

87 months

Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 200024025.272.48$606
Dec 1999118024.282.42$2,865
Nov 199999023.192.43$2,296
Oct 1999169020.982.80$3,546
Sep 199978021.752.62$1,697
Aug 1999680019.262.88$13,097
Jul 19991017.892.37$18
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 1999367015.792.32$5,795
Apr 1999392015.102.21$5,919
Mar 1999398012.471.84$4,963
Feb 199947709.981.82$4,760
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 199882609.201.77$7,599
Nov 1998371010.892.19$4,040
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 1998473012.592.08$5,955
Aug 1998421011.301.91$4,757
Jul 1998465011.742.24$5,459
Jun 1998355011.242.24$3,990
May 1998463012.622.21$5,843
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 1997436016.322.41$7,116
Nov 1997473018.193.09$8,604
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 1997464017.742.95$8,231
Aug 1997388017.862.55$6,930
Jul 1997358017.582.25$6,294
Jun 1997382017.242.26$6,586
May 1997745018.972.31$14,133
Apr 1997371017.882.08$6,633
Mar 1997363018.951.94$6,879
Feb 1997360020.492.21$7,376
Jan 1997681023.483.54$15,990
Dec 1996393023.32$9,165
Nov 1996292021.97$6,415
Oct 1996684023.31$15,944
Sep 1996368022.22$8,177
Aug 1996299020.26$6,058
Jul 1996368019.55$7,194
Jun 1996281018.73$5,263
May 1996561019.43$10,900
Apr 1996676021.51$14,541
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 1996737016.98$12,514
Jan 1996727017.07$12,410
Dec 1995727017.19$12,497
Nov 1995344016.00$5,504
Oct 1995729015.43$11,248
Sep 1995378016.18$6,116
Aug 19959895315.92$15,745
Jul 199537114115.24$5,654
Jun 199570118816.41$11,503
May 199567015017.56$11,765
Apr 199533116317.73$5,869
Mar 199534216916.44$5,622
Feb 199554720416.58$9,069
Jan 199586019815.92$13,691
Dec 199462520615.03$9,394
Nov 199452217015.90$8,300
Oct 199455114215.58$8,585
Sep 19948977315.29$13,715
Aug 199462310616.13$10,049
Jul 199462911917.56$11,045
Jun 199466613317.09$11,382
May 199479313015.88$12,593
Apr 199448910114.14$6,914
Mar 199470215412.46$8,747
Feb 199473717212.50$9,213
Jan 199470917912.66$8,976
Dec 199383914412.33$10,345
Nov 199377615414.49$11,244
Oct 199382217315.85$13,029
Sep 1993890115.03$13,377
Aug 199343115.66$673
Jul 199360115.46$928
Jun 19930016.79$0
May 19930017.68$0
Apr 19930018.05$0
Mar 19930018.14$0
Feb 19930017.90$0
Jan 19930016.93$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.

Jan 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   24 bbl  × $ 25.27 =       $606
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.48 =         $0

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Month total                                     $606

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/16576 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.