8602 JV-P SWENSON "B"
Operated by BTA OIL PRODUCERS (P-5 41860) in the SWENSON-BARRON (ELLEN.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.
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 18 leases and 94 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.
A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 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.
The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “OPTIONAL 40AC. UNITS-99 BBLS.”
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 | 7,120 bbl | $125,000 |
| Casinghead gas | Production | 4,982 Mcf | $0 |
| Total | $125,000 | ||
4,982 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 9 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 (30)
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 33.2782, -101.0815. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 2.0 miles.
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.
What the state filed about each well
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, 29 of 30 wells. Median 7,782 ft, with the middle half between 7,762 and 7,808 ft; the shallowest is 7,725 ft and the deepest 7,971 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, 22 of 30 wells, Nov 1977 – Dec 2018. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.
Last completion to plug: a median of 5.3 years across the 15 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 2.8 years and 9.8 years. A further 6 wells are excluded, because the last completion the Commission holds for them 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.
30 wells
| 42-16930093 | 4 | 7,752 ft | — | Aug 1988 | Yes |
| 42-16930126 | 7W | 7,785 ft | — | Feb 1993 | Yes |
| 42-16930291 | 10 | 7,768 ft | — | May 2017 | Yes |
| 42-16930309 | 12 | 7,770 ft | — | Jul 1993 | Yes |
| 42-16930340 | 16 | 7,757 ft | — | Jun 1989 | Yes |
| 42-16930384 | 13A | 7,725 ft | — | Jul 1993 | Yes |
| 42-16930893 | 25 | 7,780 ft | — | Aug 1993 | Yes |
| 42-16980972 | 17 | — | — | — | Yes |
| 42-16930342 | 17 L | 7,786 ft | Dec 2018 | — | Yes |
| 42-16930365 | 18 | 7,808 ft | Oct 2016 | Nov 1992 | Yes |
| 42-16930279 | 9 | 7,784 ft | Jun 2016 | Aug 1993 | Yes |
| 42-16930075 | 1 L | 7,817 ft | Oct 2015 | Dec 2018 | Yes |
| 42-16930393 | 19 | 7,737 ft | Oct 2014 | Oct 1988 | Yes |
| 42-16930125 | 8 | 7,819 ft | Sep 2014 | Oct 1988 | Yes |
| 42-16930514 | 20 | 7,782 ft | Jun 2013 | Jun 1989 | Yes |
| 42-16930079 | 2 | 7,806 ft | May 2013 | Oct 1988 | Yes |
| 42-16910447 | 14 | 7,957 ft | Apr 1987 | Jan 1991 | Yes |
| 42-16930590 | 23 | 7,765 ft | Sep 1986 | Aug 1988 | Yes |
| 42-16930524 | 22 | 7,754 ft | Sep 1986 | Feb 1989 | Yes |
| 42-16930331 | 15 | 7,748 ft | Aug 1986 | Feb 1989 | Yes |
| 42-16930894 | 26 | 7,762 ft | Aug 1986 | Nov 1991 | Yes |
| 42-16930293 | 11 | 7,780 ft | Apr 1985 | Dec 1986 | Yes |
| 42-16930098 | 5 | 7,971 ft | Apr 1984 | Jun 1990 | Yes |
| 42-16930090 | 3 | 7,830 ft | Mar 1983 | Jul 1993 | Yes |
| 42-16930101 | 6 | 7,952 ft | May 1981 | Sep 1986 | Yes |
| 42-16930516 | 21 | 7,842 ft | Mar 1980 | Dec 1986 | Yes |
| 42-16930931 | 29 | 7,761 ft | Jun 1978 | Jul 1993 | Yes |
| 42-16930912 | 28 | 7,779 ft | May 1978 | Feb 1989 | Yes |
| 42-16930911 | 27 | 7,783 ft | Dec 1977 | Feb 1989 | Yes |
| 42-16930887 | 24 | 7,796 ft | Nov 1977 | Dec 1986 | 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 (11)
Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.
11 months
| Nov 1993 | 0 | 0 | 14.49 | — | $0 |
| Oct 1993 | 0 | 0 | 15.85 | — | $0 |
| Sep 1993 | 186 | 1 | 15.03 | — | $2,796 |
| Aug 1993 | 24 | 1 | 15.66 | — | $376 |
| Jul 1993 | 376 | 1 | 15.46 | — | $5,813 |
| Jun 1993 | 236 | 1 | 16.79 | — | $3,962 |
| May 1993 | 0 | 1 | 17.68 | — | $0 |
| Apr 1993 | 2,122 | 300 | 18.05 | — | $38,302 |
| Mar 1993 | 1,755 | 1,559 | 18.14 | — | $31,836 |
| Feb 1993 | 957 | 1,559 | 17.90 | — | $17,130 |
| Jan 1993 | 1,464 | 1,559 | 16.93 | — | $24,786 |
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.
Oil 186 bbl × $ 15.03 = $2,796 Casinghead gas 1 Mcf × no price — ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── Month total $2,796
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/62010 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.