SMITH

Operated by RHONDA OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 706300) in the G-M-K (SAN ANDRES) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 61383District 8AField 33473250Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$160 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$7 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
99
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 8 leases and 88 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1957-05-26
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
770 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 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
OilDisposition9,634 bbl$159,952
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$159,952

21 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 32.8045, -102.4999. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

32.80448, -102.49989 · 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
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
5,725 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
26.1 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
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 5,700 and 5,750 ft, median 5,725 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Nov 1974
1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none
Plug dates filed
Dec 2000 – Jan 2001
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 26.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 26.1 years and 26.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-165314412W5,750 ftJan 2001Yes
42-1653045015,700 ftNov 1974Dec 2000Yes

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 (99)

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

99 months

Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 200163027.478.40$1,731
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 2000167029.304.40$4,893
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 2000173028.422.86$4,917
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 19997309.981.82$729
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 199860012.622.21$757
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 1998181014.702.15$2,661
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 1997176018.193.09$3,201
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 1997180017.582.25$3,164
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 1997180018.972.31$3,415
Apr 1997180017.882.08$3,218
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 1997179020.492.21$3,668
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 1996161021.51$3,463
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 1996358017.07$6,111
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 1995166016.00$2,656
Oct 1995325015.43$5,015
Sep 1995167016.18$2,702
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 1995167015.24$2,545
Jun 1995168016.41$2,757
May 1995338017.56$5,935
Apr 1995170017.73$3,014
Mar 1995318016.44$5,228
Feb 1995335016.58$5,554
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 1994167015.03$2,510
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 1994164115.29$2,508
Aug 1994165116.13$2,661
Jul 1994328117.56$5,760
Jun 1994334117.09$5,708
May 1994335115.88$5,320
Apr 1994166114.14$2,347
Mar 1994497112.46$6,193
Feb 1994328112.50$4,100
Jan 1994168112.66$2,127
Dec 1993168112.33$2,071
Nov 1993336114.49$4,869
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 1993371115.03$5,576
Aug 1993367115.66$5,747
Jul 1993367115.46$5,674
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 1993370117.68$6,542
Apr 1993360118.05$6,498
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 1993358117.90$6,408
Jan 19930116.93$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 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   63 bbl  × $ 27.47 =     $1,731
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  8.40 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,731

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/61383 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.