COOKE, BATES, PETREE

Operated by WTG EXPLORATION (P-5 945220) in the LEE HARRISON field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 62946District 8AField 52872001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$103 k
Jan 1993 – May 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$8 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
65
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 97 leases and 321 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1941-08-20
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 2008-12-16.

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: 5162',AMENDED SPACING,ADOPTED 20 ACRE OPTION WITH 1500'DIAGONAL.

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
OilDisposition6,012 bbl$102,089
Casinghead gasProduction1,740 Mcf$757
Total$102,846

1,440 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 (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 33.5664, -101.6932. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.56637, -101.69324 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
4,903 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
17.8 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 4,903 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 1980
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 1998
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 17.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 17.8 years and 17.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3033053714,903 ftJun 1980Mar 1998Yes

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 (65)

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

65 months

May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 199889012.802.31$1,139
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 199703019.253.15$94
Sep 19971703017.742.95$3,104
Aug 19971763017.862.55$3,220
Jul 199703017.582.25$67
Jun 199703017.242.26$68
May 19971773018.972.31$3,427
Apr 199703017.882.08$62
Mar 19971783018.951.94$3,431
Feb 199703020.492.21$66
Jan 199703023.483.54$106
Dec 19961803023.32$4,198
Nov 199603021.97$0
Oct 19961753023.31$4,079
Sep 199603022.22$0
Aug 19961743020.26$3,525
Jul 199603019.55$0
Jun 199603018.73$0
May 19961743019.43$3,381
Apr 199603021.51$0
Mar 19961743019.38$3,372
Feb 19961783016.98$3,022
Jan 199603017.07$0
Dec 19951713017.19$2,939
Nov 199503016.00$0
Oct 19951753015.43$2,700
Sep 199503016.18$0
Aug 19951703015.92$2,706
Jul 19951643015.24$2,499
Jun 199503016.41$0
May 19951733017.56$3,038
Apr 19951693017.73$2,996
Mar 19951683016.44$2,762
Feb 199503016.58$0
Jan 19951803015.92$2,866
Dec 199403015.03$0
Nov 19941683015.90$2,671
Oct 199403015.58$0
Sep 19941703015.29$2,599
Aug 19941693016.13$2,726
Jul 199403017.56$0
Jun 19941663017.09$2,837
May 19941633015.88$2,588
Apr 19941743014.14$2,460
Mar 199403012.46$0
Feb 19941893012.50$2,363
Jan 19941783012.66$2,253
Dec 199303012.33$0
Nov 19931793014.49$2,594
Oct 19931803015.85$2,853
Sep 199303015.03$0
Aug 19931763015.66$2,756
Jul 19931753015.46$2,706
Jun 199303016.79$0
May 19931793017.68$3,165
Apr 19931763018.05$3,177
Mar 19931793018.14$3,247
Feb 199303017.90$0
Jan 19931763016.93$2,980

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 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   89 bbl  × $ 12.80 =     $1,139
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.31 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,139

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/62946 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.