SCHWAB, D. L.

Name: SCHWAB, D. L. lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by ROCKER A OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 722932) in the D-L-S (SAN ANDRES) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 62908District 8AField 22660500Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$766 k

Jan 1993 – Jun 2003

Value, last 12 filed months

$4 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

126

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The D-L-S (SAN ANDRES) 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 33 leases and 246 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1971-06-16

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

450 ft

minimum

From a lease line

230 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 acres. The field rule took effect on 1990-03-05.

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: “10 ACRE OPT., DIAG. 1100'”

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	4	none	—	—

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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	44,528 bbl	$748,902
Casinghead gas	Production	37,766 Mcf	$17,302
Total			$766,204

32,104 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 (11)

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 33.4505, -102.3900. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

33.45070, -102.38926 · 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

100.0%

11 of 11 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

11 of 11 wells

Median depth

5,151 ft

11 wells filed one

Completion to plug

15.7 years

median over 11 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

11100.0%

A plug date is filed

11100.0%

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

11100.0%

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

Total depth in feet, 11 of 11 wells. Median 5,151 ft, with the middle half between 5,146 and 5,152 ft; the shallowest is 5,140 ft and the deepest 7,489 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, 11 of 11 wells, Jun 1980 – Feb 1990. 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 1980 – Feb 1990

11 of 11 wells

Plug dates filed

Aug 1996 – Dec 2002

11 of 11 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.7 years across the 11 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.9 years and 21.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

11 wells


42-21935514	5A	5,175 ft	Feb 1990	Dec 2002	Yes
42-21934957	6W	5,151 ft	May 1986	Jul 1998	Yes
42-21933752	5	5,140 ft	Jun 1983	Jul 1998	Yes
42-21933285	4	7,489 ft	Jan 1982	Dec 2002	Yes
42-21933283	4W	5,151 ft	Oct 1981	Aug 1996	Yes
42-21933253	3	5,151 ft	Aug 1981	Dec 2002	Yes
42-21933194	3W	5,149 ft	Aug 1981	Aug 1996	Yes
42-21933195	2W	5,141 ft	Jun 1981	Jul 1998	Yes
42-21933054	1W	5,144 ft	Dec 1980	Aug 1996	Yes
42-21932977	2	5,153 ft	Oct 1980	Dec 2002	Yes
42-21932825	1	5,147 ft	Jun 1980	Dec 2002	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 (126)

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

126 months


Jun 2003	0	0	28.56	5.98	$0
May 2003	0	0	26.59	5.97	$0
Apr 2003	0	0	26.67	5.41	$0
Mar 2003	0	0	31.14	6.10	$0
Feb 2003	0	0	33.48	7.93	$0
Jan 2003	0	0	30.31	5.58	$0
Dec 2002	0	0	26.91	4.85	$0
Nov 2002	0	0	24.66	4.14	$0
Oct 2002	0	0	26.46	4.23	$0
Sep 2002	0	0	27.44	3.64	$0
Aug 2002	160	0	25.96	3.16	$4,154
Jul 2002	0	0	24.58	3.06	$0
Jun 2002	0	1	23.73	3.34	$3
May 2002	0	23	24.66	3.58	$82
Apr 2002	176	23	23.65	3.51	$4,243
Mar 2002	0	23	22.00	3.10	$71
Feb 2002	0	23	18.22	2.38	$55
Jan 2002	0	1	17.17	2.38	$2
Dec 2001	0	1	16.93	2.36	$2
Nov 2001	173	23	18.07	2.41	$3,181
Oct 2001	0	45	19.78	2.53	$114
Sep 2001	170	45	24.26	2.25	$4,226
Aug 2001	0	93	24.87	3.05	$284
Jul 2001	164	45	23.93	3.20	$4,068
Jun 2001	0	45	24.56	3.82	$172
May 2001	168	93	25.52	4.31	$4,688
Apr 2001	164	45	24.68	5.34	$4,288
Mar 2001	0	93	24.54	5.38	$500
Feb 2001	176	93	27.75	5.77	$5,420
Jan 2001	175	93	27.47	8.40	$5,588
Dec 2000	0	93	26.88	9.12	$848
Nov 2000	170	93	32.21	5.66	$6,002
Oct 2000	0	93	31.23	5.15	$479
Sep 2000	176	93	31.87	5.19	$6,091
Aug 2000	157	93	29.64	4.54	$5,076
Jul 2000	0	93	28.53	4.09	$380
Jun 2000	163	93	29.30	4.40	$5,185
May 2000	152	93	27.26	3.68	$4,486
Apr 2000	175	93	24.51	3.12	$4,579
Mar 2000	0	93	28.42	2.86	$266
Feb 2000	170	93	27.62	2.73	$4,949
Jan 2000	169	93	25.27	2.48	$4,501
Dec 1999	171	93	24.28	2.42	$4,377
Nov 1999	174	93	23.19	2.43	$4,261
Oct 1999	169	93	20.98	2.80	$3,806
Sep 1999	0	93	21.75	2.62	$244
Aug 1999	342	126	19.26	2.88	$6,949
Jul 1999	0	45	17.89	2.37	$107
Jun 1999	0	45	15.94	2.36	$106
May 1999	159	45	15.79	2.32	$2,615
Apr 1999	0	45	15.10	2.21	$99
Mar 1999	170	45	12.47	1.84	$2,203
Feb 1999	166	45	9.98	1.82	$1,738
Jan 1999	168	126	10.38	1.90	$1,983
Dec 1998	163	126	9.20	1.77	$1,723
Nov 1998	172	126	10.89	2.19	$2,148
Oct 1998	169	126	12.42	1.97	$2,347
Sep 1998	160	126	12.59	2.08	$2,277
Aug 1998	172	126	11.30	1.91	$2,184
Jul 1998	170	126	11.74	2.24	$2,278
Jun 1998	332	126	11.24	2.24	$4,014
May 1998	177	126	12.62	2.21	$2,512
Apr 1998	358	126	13.04	2.51	$4,984
Mar 1998	344	126	12.80	2.31	$4,694
Feb 1998	0	126	13.95	2.30	$290
Jan 1998	146	126	14.70	2.15	$2,418
Dec 1997	177	93	16.32	2.41	$3,113
Nov 1997	179	93	18.19	3.09	$3,543
Oct 1997	167	93	19.25	3.15	$3,508
Sep 1997	179	45	17.74	2.95	$3,308
Aug 1997	247	126	17.86	2.55	$4,733
Jul 1997	254	126	17.58	2.25	$4,748
Jun 1997	0	126	17.24	2.26	$284
May 1997	355	126	18.97	2.31	$7,025
Apr 1997	178	126	17.88	2.08	$3,445
Mar 1997	358	126	18.95	1.94	$7,028
Feb 1997	175	126	20.49	2.21	$3,864
Jan 1997	181	126	23.48	3.54	$4,696
Dec 1996	177	126	23.32	—	$4,128
Nov 1996	179	126	21.97	—	$3,933
Oct 1996	340	126	23.31	—	$7,925
Sep 1996	350	126	22.22	—	$7,777
Aug 1996	336	263	20.26	—	$6,807
Jul 1996	174	204	19.55	—	$3,402
Jun 1996	357	182	18.73	—	$6,687
May 1996	349	263	19.43	—	$6,781
Apr 1996	354	243	21.51	—	$7,615
Mar 1996	357	290	19.38	—	$6,919
Feb 1996	358	657	16.98	—	$6,079
Jan 1996	178	484	17.07	—	$3,038
Dec 1995	360	405	17.19	—	$6,188
Nov 1995	355	428	16.00	—	$5,680
Oct 1995	726	475	15.43	—	$11,202
Sep 1995	0	863	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	510	813	15.92	—	$8,119
Jul 1995	326	842	15.24	—	$4,968
Jun 1995	516	834	16.41	—	$8,468
May 1995	535	772	17.56	—	$9,395
Apr 1995	173	850	17.73	—	$3,067
Mar 1995	835	1,116	16.44	—	$13,727
Feb 1995	872	979	16.58	—	$14,458
Jan 1995	695	873	15.92	—	$11,064
Dec 1994	884	1,053	15.03	—	$13,287
Nov 1994	1,005	1,120	15.90	—	$15,980
Oct 1994	872	921	15.58	—	$13,586
Sep 1994	1,021	988	15.29	—	$15,611
Aug 1994	874	1,090	16.13	—	$14,098
Jul 1994	866	776	17.56	—	$15,207
Jun 1994	1,002	968	17.09	—	$17,124
May 1994	988	704	15.88	—	$15,689
Apr 1994	1,011	604	14.14	—	$14,296
Mar 1994	1,177	661	12.46	—	$14,665
Feb 1994	1,064	677	12.50	—	$13,300
Jan 1994	1,239	524	12.66	—	$15,686
Dec 1993	1,072	656	12.33	—	$13,218
Nov 1993	1,075	546	14.49	—	$15,577
Oct 1993	1,082	600	15.85	—	$17,150
Sep 1993	1,029	726	15.03	—	$15,466
Aug 1993	1,011	426	15.66	—	$15,832
Jul 1993	1,361	468	15.46	—	$21,041
Jun 1993	988	732	16.79	—	$16,589
May 1993	1,340	1,729	17.68	—	$23,691
Apr 1993	1,366	1,665	18.05	—	$24,656
Mar 1993	1,211	496	18.14	—	$21,968
Feb 1993	1,025	342	17.90	—	$18,348
Jan 1993	1,363	1,292	16.93	—	$23,076

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.

Aug 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  160 bbl  × $ 25.96 =     $4,154
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.16 =         $0

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Month total                                   $4,154

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/62908 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.