POST-MONTGOMERY "F"

Operated by WHEELER OPERATING CORPORATION (P-5 914263) in the H & L (GLORIETA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 61297District 8AField 37695500OilCasinghead gasSave
Value, all time
$90 k
Jan 1993 – Sep 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
105
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead gas

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
OilDisposition5,188 bbl$87,933
Casinghead gasProduction878 Mcf$2,340
Total$90,272

12 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 12 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 (26)

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 33.2634, -101.2928. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 2.6 miles.

33.25422, -101.29111 · 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%
26 of 26 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
26 of 26 wells
Median depth
3,560 ft
26 wells filed one
Completion to plug
13.4 years
median over 26 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
26100.0%
A plug date is filed
26100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
26100.0%
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

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Total depth in feet, 26 of 26 wells. Median 3,560 ft, with the middle half between 3,542 and 3,571 ft; the shallowest is 3,460 ft and the deepest 3,600 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

70s
80s
90s

Last completion by decade, 26 of 26 wells, Jun 1972 – Sep 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
Jun 1972 – Sep 1993
26 of 26 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 1994 – Aug 2001
26 of 26 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.4 years across the 26 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 13.3 years and 19.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

26 wells

42-1693039783,460 ftSep 1993Aug 2001Yes
42-1693048393,524 ftMar 1988Apr 1998Yes
42-16932827253,545 ftFeb 1988Feb 2001Yes
42-16932826243,571 ftJan 1988Feb 2001Yes
42-16932828283,540 ftJan 1988Mar 2001Yes
42-16932799193,575 ftDec 1987Jan 2001Yes
42-16932809203,530 ftNov 1987Jun 2001Yes
42-16932797233,558 ftNov 1987Feb 2001Yes
42-16932796293,598 ftOct 1987Mar 2001Yes
42-16932785273,562 ftOct 1987Mar 2001Yes
42-16932787153,542 ftOct 1987Feb 2001Yes
42-16932798223,570 ftOct 1987Jun 2001Yes
42-16932784303,549 ftOct 1987Mar 2001Yes
42-16932786163,542 ftOct 1987Jun 2001Yes
42-16932773143,589 ftAug 1987Mar 2001Yes
42-16932776133,567 ftAug 1987Jan 2001Yes
42-16932774113,557 ftAug 1987Jan 2001Yes
42-16932775123,584 ftAug 1987Jan 2001Yes
42-16930596103,560 ftMay 1977Jan 1994Yes
42-1693031173,500 ftMar 1975May 2001Yes
42-1693027363,480 ftOct 1974Sep 1995Yes
42-1693023253,560 ftApr 1974Jan 1998Yes
42-1693016543,560 ftSep 1973Feb 2001Yes
42-1693013633,585 ftJan 1973Mar 1994Yes
42-1693011623,560 ftSep 1972Jan 1994Yes
42-1693010213,600 ftJun 1972Mar 2001Yes

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 (105)

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

105 months

Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 2001172023.933.20$4,116
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 20010227.478.40$17
Dec 200001426.889.12$128
Nov 200001232.215.66$68
Oct 200002631.235.15$134
Sep 20001102631.875.19$3,641
Aug 20000129.644.54$5
Jul 20000128.534.09$4
Jun 200089329.304.40$2,621
May 20000327.263.68$11
Apr 2000899324.513.12$2,471
Mar 20000128.422.86$3
Feb 20000127.622.73$3
Jan 20000125.272.48$2
Dec 19990124.282.42$2
Nov 19990123.192.43$2
Oct 19990120.982.80$3
Sep 19990121.752.62$3
Aug 19990119.262.88$3
Jul 19990117.892.37$2
Jun 19990115.942.36$2
May 19990115.792.32$2
Apr 19990115.102.21$2
Mar 19990112.471.84$2
Feb 1999019.981.82$2
Jan 19990110.381.90$2
Dec 1998019.201.77$2
Nov 199802610.892.19$57
Oct 1998942612.421.97$1,219
Sep 1998972612.592.08$1,275
Aug 199809311.301.91$177
Jul 1998779311.742.24$1,112
Jun 199801211.242.24$27
May 19981749312.622.21$2,401
Apr 19983179313.042.51$4,367
Mar 19983499312.802.31$4,682
Feb 19980913.952.30$21
Jan 199801214.702.15$26
Dec 19973499316.322.41$5,920
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19940015.29$0
Aug 19940016.13$0
Jul 19940017.56$0
Jun 19940017.09$0
May 19940015.88$0
Apr 19940014.14$0
Mar 19940012.46$0
Feb 19940012.50$0
Jan 199488012.66$1,114
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 199388115.85$1,395
Sep 1993172115.03$2,585
Aug 1993170115.66$2,662
Jul 1993171115.46$2,644
Jun 1993523116.79$8,781
May 1993454117.68$8,027
Apr 1993377118.05$6,805
Mar 1993347118.14$6,295
Feb 1993530117.90$9,487
Jan 1993351116.93$5,942

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.

Jul 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  172 bbl  × $ 23.93 =     $4,116
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.20 =         $0

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Month total                                   $4,116

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/61297 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.