DEBNAM, M. M.

Name: DEBNAM, M. M. lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by CHEVRON U. S. A. INC. (P-5 148113) in the GIN (MISS.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 60251District 8AField 34961250OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$517 k

Jan 1993 – Mar 2003

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

123

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The GIN (MISS.) field

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 9 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1965-09-15

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

1,320 ft

minimum

From a lease line

660 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres.

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	24,022 bbl	$437,464
Casinghead gas	Production	77,156 Mcf	$79,323
Total			$516,787

51,681 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 (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 32.6930, -102.0196. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

32.69304, -102.01959 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

100.0%

2 of 2 wells

Median depth

11,662 ft

2 wells filed one

Completion to plug

33.2 years

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

2100.0%

A plug date is filed

2100.0%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

2100.0%

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 11,480 and 11,843 ft, median 11,662 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Jun 1969 – Oct 2004

2 of 2 wells

Plug dates filed

Nov 1978 – Aug 2002

2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 33.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 33.2 years and 33.2 years. A further 1 well is excluded, because the last completion the Commission holds for it is dated after the plug date. Both dates are the latest of their kind on the wellbore record and they are filed separately, so the two need not run in order. The gap is the distance between two filed dates — it is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells


42-11510472	1	11,843 ft	Oct 2004	Nov 1978	Yes
42-11530041	2	11,480 ft	Jun 1969	Aug 2002	Yes

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 (123)

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

123 months


Mar 2003	0	0	31.14	6.10	$0
Feb 2003	0	0	33.48	7.93	$0
Jan 2003	0	0	30.31	5.58	$0
Dec 2002	0	0	26.91	4.85	$0
Nov 2002	0	0	24.66	4.14	$0
Oct 2002	0	0	26.46	4.23	$0
Sep 2002	0	0	27.44	3.64	$0
Aug 2002	0	0	25.96	3.16	$0
Jul 2002	0	0	24.58	3.06	$0
Jun 2002	0	0	23.73	3.34	$0
May 2002	0	0	24.66	3.58	$0
Apr 2002	0	0	23.65	3.51	$0
Mar 2002	0	0	22.00	3.10	$0
Feb 2002	0	0	18.22	2.38	$0
Jan 2002	163	1	17.17	2.38	$2,801
Dec 2001	0	0	16.93	2.36	$0
Nov 2001	0	11	18.07	2.41	$26
Oct 2001	180	396	19.78	2.53	$4,562
Sep 2001	180	410	24.26	2.25	$5,290
Aug 2001	167	436	24.87	3.05	$5,484
Jul 2001	184	443	23.93	3.20	$5,819
Jun 2001	209	428	24.56	3.82	$6,770
May 2001	184	445	25.52	4.31	$6,612
Apr 2001	185	429	24.68	5.34	$6,855
Mar 2001	375	442	24.54	5.38	$11,579
Feb 2001	188	399	27.75	5.77	$7,518
Jan 2001	186	436	27.47	8.40	$8,771
Dec 2000	186	455	26.88	9.12	$9,150
Nov 2000	187	325	32.21	5.66	$7,862
Oct 2000	181	479	31.23	5.15	$8,117
Sep 2000	178	478	31.87	5.19	$8,152
Aug 2000	170	506	29.64	4.54	$7,336
Jul 2000	179	521	28.53	4.09	$7,238
Jun 2000	360	0	29.30	4.40	$10,548
May 2000	0	364	27.26	3.68	$1,339
Apr 2000	375	467	24.51	3.12	$10,646
Mar 2000	0	0	28.42	2.86	$0
Feb 2000	363	462	27.62	2.73	$11,286
Jan 2000	0	501	25.27	2.48	$1,243
Dec 1999	548	512	24.28	2.42	$14,546
Nov 1999	0	508	23.19	2.43	$1,236
Oct 1999	175	566	20.98	2.80	$5,258
Sep 1999	361	572	21.75	2.62	$9,350
Aug 1999	178	577	19.26	2.88	$5,088
Jul 1999	347	447	17.89	2.37	$7,268
Jun 1999	179	436	15.94	2.36	$3,883
May 1999	0	443	15.79	2.32	$1,028
Apr 1999	348	378	15.10	2.21	$6,089
Mar 1999	0	285	12.47	1.84	$524
Feb 1999	352	112	9.98	1.82	$3,717
Jan 1999	0	374	10.38	1.90	$711
Dec 1998	165	287	9.20	1.77	$2,027
Nov 1998	176	269	10.89	2.19	$2,505
Oct 1998	152	469	12.42	1.97	$2,811
Sep 1998	170	478	12.59	2.08	$3,136
Aug 1998	165	507	11.30	1.91	$2,832
Jul 1998	365	488	11.74	2.24	$5,377
Jun 1998	0	460	11.24	2.24	$1,029
May 1998	352	478	12.62	2.21	$5,497
Apr 1998	0	465	13.04	2.51	$1,165
Mar 1998	353	490	12.80	2.31	$5,650
Feb 1998	0	448	13.95	2.30	$1,030
Jan 1998	352	501	14.70	2.15	$6,254
Dec 1997	0	512	16.32	2.41	$1,234
Nov 1997	334	491	18.19	3.09	$7,592
Oct 1997	0	507	19.25	3.15	$1,597
Sep 1997	334	498	17.74	2.95	$7,397
Aug 1997	0	524	17.86	2.55	$1,339
Jul 1997	328	542	17.58	2.25	$6,984
Jun 1997	0	526	17.24	2.26	$1,187
May 1997	345	539	18.97	2.31	$7,789
Apr 1997	0	488	17.88	2.08	$1,016
Mar 1997	338	505	18.95	1.94	$7,384
Feb 1997	0	445	20.49	2.21	$982
Jan 1997	340	514	23.48	3.54	$9,803
Dec 1996	0	521	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	479	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	370	246	23.31	—	$8,625
Sep 1996	186	558	22.22	—	$4,133
Aug 1996	183	570	20.26	—	$3,708
Jul 1996	1	572	19.55	—	$20
Jun 1996	174	205	18.73	—	$3,259
May 1996	167	756	19.43	—	$3,245
Apr 1996	0	765	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	169	810	19.38	—	$3,275
Feb 1996	342	623	16.98	—	$5,807
Jan 1996	172	793	17.07	—	$2,936
Dec 1995	164	1,236	17.19	—	$2,819
Nov 1995	169	845	16.00	—	$2,704
Oct 1995	175	821	15.43	—	$2,700
Sep 1995	0	542	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	160	799	15.92	—	$2,547
Jul 1995	170	950	15.24	—	$2,591
Jun 1995	170	1,022	16.41	—	$2,790
May 1995	167	906	17.56	—	$2,933
Apr 1995	159	998	17.73	—	$2,819
Mar 1995	171	1,224	16.44	—	$2,811
Feb 1995	327	1,182	16.58	—	$5,422
Jan 1995	339	1,321	15.92	—	$5,397
Dec 1994	340	1,312	15.03	—	$5,110
Nov 1994	359	1,281	15.90	—	$5,708
Oct 1994	318	1,328	15.58	—	$4,954
Sep 1994	325	1,333	15.29	—	$4,969
Aug 1994	499	1,432	16.13	—	$8,049
Jul 1994	340	1,366	17.56	—	$5,970
Jun 1994	330	1,375	17.09	—	$5,640
May 1994	338	1,405	15.88	—	$5,367
Apr 1994	321	1,353	14.14	—	$4,539
Mar 1994	490	1,380	12.46	—	$6,105
Feb 1994	330	1,222	12.50	—	$4,125
Jan 1994	501	1,353	12.66	—	$6,343
Dec 1993	336	1,383	12.33	—	$4,143
Nov 1993	317	1,309	14.49	—	$4,593
Oct 1993	512	1,463	15.85	—	$8,115
Sep 1993	332	1,342	15.03	—	$4,990
Aug 1993	336	1,528	15.66	—	$5,262
Jul 1993	511	1,554	15.46	—	$7,900
Jun 1993	494	1,510	16.79	—	$8,294
May 1993	341	1,464	17.68	—	$6,029
Apr 1993	323	1,322	18.05	—	$5,830
Mar 1993	309	1,350	18.14	—	$5,605
Feb 1993	323	1,195	17.90	—	$5,782
Jan 1993	325	1,377	16.93	—	$5,502

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 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  163 bbl  × $ 17.17 =     $2,799
Casinghead gas         1 Mcf  × $  2.38 =         $2

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Month total                                   $2,801

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/60251 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.