WHEELER "C"

Operated by J-D OIL CO. (P-5 427564) in the RIDGE, SOUTH (CLEAR FORK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 62038District 8AField 76599500Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$243 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2006
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
159
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 46 leases and 249 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1959-11-14
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
660 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 1986-02-14.

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: FORK) 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
OilDisposition14,880 bbl$242,605
Casinghead gasProduction74 Mcf$60
Total$242,665

48 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 (13)

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 33.4868, -101.4585. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.8 miles.

33.49135, -101.45694 · 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%
13 of 13 wells
With a plug date
38.5%
5 of 13 wells
Median depth
4,204 ft
13 wells filed one
Completion to plug
30.1 years
median over 5 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
13100.0%
A plug date is filed
538.5%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
538.5%
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, 13 of 13 wells. Median 4,204 ft, with the middle half between 4,160 and 4,220 ft; the shallowest is 4,066 ft and the deepest 5,463 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, 13 of 13 wells, Nov 1977 – Dec 2006. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Nov 1977 – Dec 2006
13 of 13 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2009 – Apr 2024
5 of 13 wells; 8 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 30.1 years across the 5 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 10.8 years and 31.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

13 wells

42-10730809144,204 ftDec 2006Sep 2017Yes
42-107303091D4,360 ftFeb 2006Oct 2014Yes
42-1073085984,066 ftMar 1986Apr 2024Yes
42-10730810134,190 ftDec 1984Oct 2016Yes
42-10730811124,140 ftNov 1984Yes
42-10730741215,463 ftOct 1983Yes
42-10730703104,210 ftNov 1982Yes
42-10730365114,160 ftAug 1979Sep 2009Yes
42-1073030154,207 ftMar 1978Yes
42-1073029644,220 ftDec 1977Yes
42-1073029314,220 ftNov 1977Yes
42-1073029424,160 ftNov 1977Yes
42-1073029534,200 ftNov 1977Yes

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 (159)

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

159 months

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 1999240112.471.84$2,995
Feb 199932619.981.82$3,255
Jan 19990110.381.90$2
Dec 1998019.201.77$2
Nov 1998171110.892.19$1,864
Oct 19980112.421.97$2
Sep 19980112.592.08$2
Aug 1998338111.301.91$3,821
Jul 1998163111.742.24$1,916
Jun 1998168111.242.24$1,891
May 1998172112.622.21$2,173
Apr 1998170113.042.51$2,219
Mar 1998167112.802.31$2,140
Feb 1998352113.952.30$4,913
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 1997363116.322.41$5,927
Nov 1997166118.193.09$3,023
Oct 1997163119.253.15$3,141
Sep 1997171117.742.95$3,036
Aug 1997164117.862.55$2,932
Jul 1997173117.582.25$3,044
Jun 1997166117.242.26$2,864
May 1997175118.972.31$3,322
Apr 1997167117.882.08$2,988
Mar 1997348118.951.94$6,597
Feb 1997336120.492.21$6,887
Jan 19970123.483.54$4
Dec 1996178123.32$4,151
Nov 1996333121.97$7,316
Oct 1996163123.31$3,800
Sep 1996167122.22$3,711
Aug 1996163120.26$3,302
Jul 1996328119.55$6,412
Jun 1996182118.73$3,409
May 1996190119.43$3,692
Apr 1996186121.51$4,001
Mar 1996193119.38$3,740
Feb 1996200116.98$3,396
Jan 1996193117.07$3,295
Dec 1995179117.19$3,077
Nov 1995393116.00$6,288
Oct 19950115.43$0
Sep 1995162116.18$2,621
Aug 1995329115.92$5,238
Jul 1995326115.24$4,968
Jun 1995182116.41$2,987
May 19950117.56$0
Apr 1995174117.73$3,085
Mar 1995152116.44$2,499
Feb 1995367116.58$6,085
Jan 1995181115.92$2,882
Dec 19940115.03$0
Nov 1994155115.90$2,465
Oct 1994187115.58$2,913
Sep 1994153115.29$2,339
Aug 1994151116.13$2,436
Jul 1994148117.56$2,599
Jun 1994178117.09$3,042
May 1994331115.88$5,256
Apr 1994181114.14$2,559
Mar 1994519112.46$6,467
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 1994340112.66$4,304
Dec 1993331112.33$4,081
Nov 1993332114.49$4,811
Oct 1993163115.85$2,584
Sep 1993327115.03$4,915
Aug 1993165115.66$2,584
Jul 1993149115.46$2,304
Jun 1993164116.79$2,754
May 1993156117.68$2,758
Apr 1993338118.05$6,101
Mar 1993329118.14$5,968
Feb 19930117.90$0
Jan 1993503116.93$8,516

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.

Mar 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  240 bbl  × $ 12.47 =     $2,993
Casinghead gas         1 Mcf  × $  1.84 =         $2

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Month total                                   $2,995

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/62038 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.