WHEELER

Operated by AOCO OPERATING, L.P. (P-5 26760) in the RIDGE (CLEAR FORK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 61287District 8AField 76595500Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.4 M
Jan 1993 – Mar 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
183
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 16 leases and 106 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1957-12-01
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.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: HOOPLE (CLEARFORK) EFFECTIVE 2/9/99.

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
OilDisposition86,267 bbl$1,412,228
Casinghead gasProduction34 Mcf$0
Total$1,412,228

34 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 33.4990, -101.5074. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.7 miles.

33.49856, -101.50678 · 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
62.5%
5 of 8 wells
Median depth
4,455 ft
8 wells filed one
Completion to plug
11.3 years
median over 5 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
8100.0%
A plug date is filed
562.5%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
562.5%
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 4,455 ft, with the middle half between 4,444 and 4,477 ft; the shallowest is 4,400 ft and the deepest 4,502 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, 8 of 8 wells, Mar 1981 – May 2021. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Mar 1981 – May 2021
8 of 8 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2010 – May 2021
5 of 8 wells; 3 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 11.3 years across the 5 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 11.1 years and 34.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

8 wells

42-1073053854,460 ftMay 2021Yes
42-1073078284,482 ftMar 2011Yes
42-1073001714,475 ftApr 2010May 2021Yes
42-1073053634,450 ftFeb 2010May 2021Yes
42-1073003324,400 ftMay 2003Nov 2010Yes
42-1073069864,502 ftApr 1987Yes
42-1073069774,425 ftJul 1982Jan 2017Yes
42-1073053744,450 ftMar 1981Jan 2017Yes

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 (183)

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

183 months

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 20070062.007.55$0
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 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
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 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 19991,14809.981.82$11,457
Jan 1999881010.381.90$9,145
Dec 19981,20509.201.77$11,086
Nov 1998874010.892.19$9,518
Oct 19981,127012.421.97$13,997
Sep 1998805012.592.08$10,135
Aug 1998963011.301.91$10,882
Jul 19981,254011.742.24$14,722
Jun 1998776011.242.24$8,722
May 19981,096012.622.21$13,832
Apr 19981,096013.042.51$14,292
Mar 1998936012.802.31$11,981
Feb 1998771013.952.30$10,755
Jan 19981,207014.702.15$17,743
Dec 1997934016.322.41$15,243
Nov 19971,231018.193.09$22,392
Oct 19971,252019.253.15$24,101
Sep 1997749017.742.95$13,287
Aug 19971,414017.862.55$25,254
Jul 19971,271017.582.25$22,344
Jun 1997986017.242.26$16,999
May 1997464018.972.31$8,802
Apr 19971,123017.882.08$20,079
Mar 19971,125018.951.94$21,319
Feb 1997968020.492.21$19,834
Jan 19971,117023.483.54$26,227
Dec 1996950023.32$22,154
Nov 19961,101021.97$24,189
Oct 19961,447023.31$33,730
Sep 1996952022.22$21,153
Aug 19961,128020.26$22,853
Jul 19961,238019.55$24,203
Jun 19961,082018.73$20,266
May 19961,422019.43$27,629
Apr 19961,068021.51$22,973
Mar 19961,296019.38$25,116
Feb 19961,306016.98$22,176
Jan 19961,370017.07$23,386
Dec 19951,276017.19$21,934
Nov 1995916016.00$14,656
Oct 19951,119115.43$17,266
Sep 1995956116.18$15,468
Aug 1995798115.92$12,704
Jul 19951,112115.24$16,947
Jun 19951,116116.41$18,314
May 19951,265117.56$22,213
Apr 19951,422117.73$25,212
Mar 19951,718116.44$28,244
Feb 1995953116.58$15,801
Jan 19951,272115.92$20,250
Dec 19941,290115.03$19,389
Nov 19941,286115.90$20,447
Oct 19941,280115.58$19,942
Sep 19941,581115.29$24,173
Aug 19941,259116.13$20,308
Jul 19941,263117.56$22,178
Jun 19941,270117.09$21,704
May 19941,250115.88$19,850
Apr 19941,578114.14$22,313
Mar 1994943112.46$11,750
Feb 19941,102112.50$13,775
Jan 19941,103112.66$13,964
Dec 19931,125112.33$13,871
Nov 19931,274114.49$18,460
Oct 19931,421115.85$22,523
Sep 19931,279115.03$19,223
Aug 19931,621115.66$25,385
Jul 19931,649115.46$25,494
Jun 19931,320116.79$22,163
May 19931,337117.68$23,638
Apr 19931,334118.05$24,079
Mar 19931,320118.14$23,945
Feb 19931,328117.90$23,771
Jan 1993998116.93$16,896

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.

Feb 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                1,148 bbl  × $  9.98 =    $11,457
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  1.82 =         $0

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Month total                                  $11,457

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/61287 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.