SMITH, GEORGE W. "A"

Name: SMITH, GEORGE W. "A" lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by LANDRETH, ROBERT E. (P-5 484680) in the LEVELLAND field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 62843District 8AField 53411001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$989 k

Jan 1993 – Feb 2005

Value, last 12 filed months

$130 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

146

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The LEVELLAND field

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 568 leases and 7,034 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1945-01-17

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

880 ft

minimum

From a lease line

440 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 21.25 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: “ASSOCIATED GAS FIELD LEVELLAND (SAN ANDRES)”

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	43,150 bbl	$977,121
Casinghead gas	Production	4,976 Mcf	$12,203
Total			$989,324

1,146 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 46 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 (1)

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 33.5776, -102.6373. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.57760, -102.63731 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

0.0%

0 of 1 wells

With a plug date

0.0%

0 of 1 wells

Median depth

4,940 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

—

no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

00.0%

A plug date is filed

00.0%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

00.0%

NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.

1100.0%

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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 4,940 ft.

Completions filed

Mar 1980

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-07931197	1	4,940 ft	Mar 1980	—	—

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 (146)

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

146 months


Feb 2005	0	0	45.22	6.31	$0
Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	0	0	39.86	6.75	$0
Nov 2004	461	0	45.28	6.33	$20,874
Oct 2004	348	0	49.70	6.52	$17,296
Sep 2004	346	0	43.24	5.28	$14,961
Aug 2004	340	0	42.37	5.55	$14,406
Jul 2004	333	0	38.28	6.08	$12,747
Jun 2004	346	0	36.10	6.43	$12,491
May 2004	343	0	37.48	6.49	$12,856
Apr 2004	349	0	34.47	5.86	$12,030
Mar 2004	357	0	34.36	5.53	$12,267
Feb 2004	347	0	32.45	5.51	$11,260
Jan 2004	344	0	32.03	6.30	$11,018
Dec 2003	448	0	30.26	6.30	$13,556
Nov 2003	270	0	28.80	4.60	$7,776
Oct 2003	434	0	28.17	4.76	$12,226
Sep 2003	341	0	26.31	4.75	$8,972
Aug 2003	344	0	29.76	5.13	$10,237
Jul 2003	330	0	29.41	5.17	$9,705
Jun 2003	352	0	28.56	5.98	$10,053
May 2003	363	0	26.59	5.97	$9,652
Apr 2003	349	0	26.67	5.41	$9,308
Mar 2003	366	0	31.14	6.10	$11,397
Feb 2003	350	0	33.48	7.93	$11,718
Jan 2003	431	0	30.31	5.58	$13,064
Dec 2002	329	0	26.91	4.85	$8,853
Nov 2002	432	0	24.66	4.14	$10,653
Oct 2002	262	0	26.46	4.23	$6,933
Sep 2002	327	0	27.44	3.64	$8,973
Aug 2002	417	0	25.96	3.16	$10,825
Jul 2002	347	0	24.58	3.06	$8,529
Jun 2002	339	0	23.73	3.34	$8,044
May 2002	427	0	24.66	3.58	$10,530
Apr 2002	353	0	23.65	3.51	$8,348
Mar 2002	430	2	22.00	3.10	$9,466
Feb 2002	341	0	18.22	2.38	$6,213
Jan 2002	354	7	17.17	2.38	$6,095
Dec 2001	421	2	16.93	2.36	$7,132
Nov 2001	344	0	18.07	2.41	$6,216
Oct 2001	429	0	19.78	2.53	$8,486
Sep 2001	350	5	24.26	2.25	$8,502
Aug 2001	429	6	24.87	3.05	$10,688
Jul 2001	419	33	23.93	3.20	$10,132
Jun 2001	326	89	24.56	3.82	$8,347
May 2001	496	57	25.52	4.31	$12,903
Apr 2001	350	55	24.68	5.34	$8,931
Mar 2001	435	43	24.54	5.38	$10,906
Feb 2001	437	64	27.75	5.77	$12,496
Jan 2001	321	69	27.47	8.40	$9,397
Dec 2000	472	77	26.88	9.12	$13,390
Nov 2000	327	77	32.21	5.66	$10,968
Oct 2000	429	81	31.23	5.15	$13,814
Sep 2000	363	76	31.87	5.19	$11,963
Aug 2000	417	102	29.64	4.54	$12,823
Jul 2000	502	104	28.53	4.09	$14,747
Jun 2000	400	93	29.30	4.40	$12,129
May 2000	459	93	27.26	3.68	$12,855
Apr 2000	495	83	24.51	3.12	$12,391
Mar 2000	489	83	28.42	2.86	$14,135
Feb 2000	602	83	27.62	2.73	$16,854
Jan 2000	608	83	25.27	2.48	$15,570
Dec 1999	520	88	24.28	2.42	$12,839
Nov 1999	606	106	23.19	2.43	$14,311
Oct 1999	621	117	20.98	2.80	$13,357
Sep 1999	642	105	21.75	2.62	$14,238
Aug 1999	650	141	19.26	2.88	$12,924
Jul 1999	892	154	17.89	2.37	$16,323
Jun 1999	747	146	15.94	2.36	$12,252
May 1999	1,049	172	15.79	2.32	$16,963
Apr 1999	818	102	15.10	2.21	$12,577
Mar 1999	775	136	12.47	1.84	$9,914
Feb 1999	828	129	9.98	1.82	$8,498
Jan 1999	694	137	10.38	1.90	$7,464
Dec 1998	1,327	200	9.20	1.77	$12,563
Nov 1998	196	62	10.89	2.19	$2,270
Oct 1998	133	14	12.42	1.97	$1,679
Sep 1998	152	13	12.59	2.08	$1,941
Aug 1998	129	17	11.30	1.91	$1,490
Jul 1998	131	27	11.74	2.24	$1,598
Jun 1998	128	31	11.24	2.24	$1,508
May 1998	149	31	12.62	2.21	$1,949
Apr 1998	130	30	13.04	2.51	$1,770
Mar 1998	128	27	12.80	2.31	$1,701
Feb 1998	133	24	13.95	2.30	$1,911
Jan 1998	165	25	14.70	2.15	$2,479
Dec 1997	110	30	16.32	2.41	$1,868
Nov 1997	129	33	18.19	3.09	$2,448
Oct 1997	130	43	19.25	3.15	$2,638
Sep 1997	130	45	17.74	2.95	$2,439
Aug 1997	128	39	17.86	2.55	$2,386
Jul 1997	146	32	17.58	2.25	$2,639
Jun 1997	130	30	17.24	2.26	$2,309
May 1997	131	27	18.97	2.31	$2,547
Apr 1997	124	9	17.88	2.08	$2,236
Mar 1997	141	0	18.95	1.94	$2,672
Feb 1997	109	19	20.49	2.21	$2,275
Jan 1997	132	22	23.48	3.54	$3,177
Dec 1996	146	15	23.32	—	$3,405
Nov 1996	110	14	21.97	—	$2,417
Oct 1996	126	11	23.31	—	$2,937
Sep 1996	126	8	22.22	—	$2,800
Aug 1996	149	10	20.26	—	$3,019
Jul 1996	146	12	19.55	—	$2,854
Jun 1996	127	14	18.73	—	$2,379
May 1996	128	10	19.43	—	$2,487
Apr 1996	131	4	21.51	—	$2,818
Mar 1996	124	5	19.38	—	$2,403
Feb 1996	127	4	16.98	—	$2,156
Jan 1996	129	0	17.07	—	$2,202
Dec 1995	128	0	17.19	—	$2,200
Nov 1995	127	2	16.00	—	$2,032
Oct 1995	129	14	15.43	—	$1,990
Sep 1995	140	16	16.18	—	$2,265
Aug 1995	129	26	15.92	—	$2,054
Jul 1995	128	33	15.24	—	$1,951
Jun 1995	145	50	16.41	—	$2,379
May 1995	128	55	17.56	—	$2,248
Apr 1995	130	50	17.73	—	$2,305
Mar 1995	148	22	16.44	—	$2,433
Feb 1995	119	28	16.58	—	$1,973
Jan 1995	127	8	15.92	—	$2,022
Dec 1994	148	18	15.03	—	$2,224
Nov 1994	131	9	15.90	—	$2,083
Oct 1994	126	10	15.58	—	$1,963
Sep 1994	145	19	15.29	—	$2,217
Aug 1994	170	32	16.13	—	$2,742
Jul 1994	124	32	17.56	—	$2,177
Jun 1994	126	49	17.09	—	$2,153
May 1994	154	38	15.88	—	$2,446
Apr 1994	151	33	14.14	—	$2,135
Mar 1994	155	34	12.46	—	$1,931
Feb 1994	234	24	12.50	—	$2,925
Jan 1994	157	12	12.66	—	$1,988
Dec 1993	156	73	12.33	—	$1,923
Nov 1993	161	39	14.49	—	$2,333
Oct 1993	158	28	15.85	—	$2,504
Sep 1993	157	19	15.03	—	$2,360
Aug 1993	133	31	15.66	—	$2,083
Jul 1993	162	42	15.46	—	$2,505
Jun 1993	149	43	16.79	—	$2,502
May 1993	159	45	17.68	—	$2,811
Apr 1993	177	37	18.05	—	$3,195
Mar 1993	190	10	18.14	—	$3,447
Feb 1993	153	26	17.90	—	$2,739
Jan 1993	174	32	16.93	—	$2,946

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.

Nov 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  461 bbl  × $ 45.28 =    $20,874
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.33 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                  $20,874

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/62843 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.