ROSS, W. R. "A"

Operated by ARMOR PETROLEUM, INC. (P-5 31585) in the ROSS RANCH (STRAWN SD.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 17596District 8AField 78403500Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.5 M
Jan 1993 – Mar 2012
Value, last 12 filed months
$11 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
231
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 2 leases and 9 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1963-03-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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
OilDisposition82,897 bbl$1,539,132
Casinghead gasProduction4,059 Mcf$231
Total$1,539,363

3,969 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 34 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 (8)

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 33.5731, -100.0496. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.6 miles.

33.57299, -100.04985 · 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%
8 of 8 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
8 of 8 wells
Median depth
5,346 ft
8 wells filed one
Completion to plug
21.7 years
median over 6 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
8100.0%
A plug date is filed
8100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
8100.0%
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

Total depth in feet, 8 of 8 wells. Median 5,346 ft, with the middle half between 5,299 and 5,664 ft; the shallowest is 5,238 ft and the deepest 6,378 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 6 of 8 wells, Nov 1946 – Jul 1993. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Nov 1946 – Jul 1993
6 of 8 wells; 2 filed none
Plug dates filed
Apr 1991 – Jan 2012
8 of 8 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 21.7 years across the 6 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 18.5 years and 31.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

8 wells

42-269002974 U5,294 ftApr 1991Yes
42-269002997 U5,629 ftDec 2011Yes
42-26932123145,238 ftJul 1993Oct 2003Yes
42-269320524R5,300 ftJun 1991Jan 2012Yes
42-26932014135,770 ftDec 1990Sep 2008Yes
42-26931901116,378 ftMay 1989Jan 2012Yes
42-26930201105,340 ftAug 1974Sep 2008Yes
42-2690030065,351 ftNov 1946Jan 2012Yes

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 (231)

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

231 months

Mar 201200105.052.22$0
Feb 201200101.102.57$0
Jan 20120098.092.73$0
Dec 20110096.873.24$0
Nov 20110095.723.31$0
Oct 20110084.983.65$0
Sep 20110083.623.99$0
Aug 20110083.404.15$0
Jul 20110094.144.52$0
Jun 2011118092.904.64$10,962
May 20110098.134.40$0
Apr 201100105.964.33$0
Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 20100072.554.74$0
Jun 20100070.364.91$0
May 20100071.124.24$0
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 20100078.394.39$0
Feb 20100073.585.44$0
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20090042.144.06$0
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 2007185062.007.55$11,470
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 2006196054.207.62$10,623
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 2006175068.717.34$12,024
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 2005182052.337.38$9,524
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 2005179050.377.15$9,016
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 2005332043.166.32$14,329
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 2004166049.706.52$8,250
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 2004148036.106.43$5,343
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 2004184032.455.51$5,971
Jan 2004167032.036.30$5,349
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 2003171028.804.60$4,925
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 2003175026.314.75$4,604
Aug 2003168029.765.13$5,000
Jul 2003181029.415.17$5,323
Jun 2003182028.565.98$5,198
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 2003121026.675.41$3,227
Mar 2003173031.146.10$5,387
Feb 2003348033.487.93$11,651
Jan 2003172030.315.58$5,213
Dec 2002368026.914.85$9,903
Nov 2002376024.664.14$9,272
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 200223027.443.64$631
Aug 2002100025.963.16$2,596
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 2002184023.733.34$4,366
May 2002238024.663.58$5,869
Apr 2002228023.653.51$5,392
Mar 200291022.003.10$2,002
Feb 2002130018.222.38$2,369
Jan 2002279017.172.38$4,790
Dec 2001187016.932.36$3,166
Nov 2001138018.072.41$2,494
Oct 2001235019.782.53$4,648
Sep 2001278024.262.25$6,744
Aug 2001213024.873.05$5,297
Jul 2001283023.933.20$6,772
Jun 2001271024.563.82$6,656
May 2001212025.524.31$5,410
Apr 2001298024.685.34$7,355
Mar 2001310024.545.38$7,607
Feb 2001190027.755.77$5,273
Jan 2001285027.478.40$7,829
Dec 2000307026.889.12$8,252
Nov 2000221032.215.66$7,118
Oct 2000375031.235.15$11,711
Sep 2000226031.875.19$7,203
Aug 2000268029.644.54$7,944
Jul 2000289028.534.09$8,245
Jun 2000294029.304.40$8,614
May 2000449027.263.68$12,240
Apr 2000372024.513.12$9,118
Mar 2000368028.422.86$10,459
Feb 2000457027.622.73$12,622
Jan 2000477025.272.48$12,054
Dec 1999619024.282.42$15,029
Nov 1999608023.192.43$14,100
Oct 1999545020.982.80$11,434
Sep 1999670021.752.62$14,573
Aug 1999470019.262.88$9,052
Jul 1999555017.892.37$9,929
Jun 1999513015.942.36$8,177
May 1999517015.792.32$8,163
Apr 1999616015.102.21$9,302
Mar 1999747012.471.84$9,315
Feb 199958209.981.82$5,808
Jan 1999907010.381.90$9,415
Dec 199858809.201.77$5,410
Nov 1998919010.892.19$10,008
Oct 1998631012.421.97$7,837
Sep 1998733012.592.08$9,228
Aug 1998785011.301.91$8,871
Jul 1998590011.742.24$6,927
Jun 1998749011.242.24$8,419
May 1998545012.622.21$6,878
Apr 1998248013.042.51$3,234
Mar 1998311012.802.31$3,981
Feb 1998248013.952.30$3,460
Jan 1998274014.702.15$4,028
Dec 1997419016.322.41$6,838
Nov 1997317018.193.09$5,766
Oct 1997315019.253.15$6,064
Sep 1997342017.742.95$6,067
Aug 1997505017.862.55$9,019
Jul 1997521017.582.25$9,159
Jun 1997489017.242.26$8,430
May 1997577018.972.31$10,946
Apr 1997329017.882.08$5,883
Mar 19974623018.951.94$8,813
Feb 19974653020.492.21$9,594
Jan 19975253023.483.54$12,433
Dec 19965253023.32$12,243
Nov 1996480021.97$10,546
Oct 19966383023.31$14,872
Sep 19968373022.22$18,598
Aug 19966483020.26$13,128
Jul 1996755019.55$14,760
Jun 1996692018.73$12,961
May 1996766019.43$14,883
Apr 1996723021.51$15,552
Mar 1996842019.38$16,318
Feb 19967341416.98$12,463
Jan 19969661517.07$16,490
Dec 19958691517.19$14,938
Nov 1995830016.00$13,280
Oct 1995835015.43$12,884
Sep 1995511016.18$8,268
Aug 1995311015.92$4,951
Jul 1995352015.24$5,364
Jun 1995380016.41$6,236
May 1995384017.56$6,743
Apr 1995509017.73$9,025
Mar 19955713116.44$9,387
Feb 19955282816.58$8,754
Jan 19955913115.92$9,409
Dec 19946383115.03$9,589
Nov 19945673015.90$9,015
Oct 199467115215.58$10,454
Sep 199461813215.29$9,449
Aug 199465715216.13$10,597
Jul 199473915217.56$12,977
Jun 199479314717.09$13,552
May 199486715215.88$13,768
Apr 19941,01514714.14$14,352
Mar 19941,14915212.46$14,317
Feb 19941,13713712.50$14,213
Jan 19941,33915212.66$16,952
Dec 19931,35915212.33$16,756
Nov 19931,38614214.49$20,083
Oct 19931,4461,21715.85$22,919
Sep 19931,76914715.03$26,588
Aug 19931,8937615.66$29,644
Jul 19932,1817615.46$33,718
Jun 19931,8487316.79$31,028
May 19932,3727617.68$41,937
Apr 19932,5387318.05$45,811
Mar 19932,7967618.14$50,719
Feb 19932,689117.90$48,133
Jan 19933,1747016.93$53,736

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.

Jun 2011 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  118 bbl  × $ 92.90 =    $10,962
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.64 =         $0

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Month total                                  $10,962

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/17596 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.