CLARE "A"

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

Operated by MERIT ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 561136) in the PRENTICE (6700) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 64408District 8AField 72995498Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.2 M

Jan 1993 – Oct 2006

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

166

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The PRENTICE (6700) 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 64 leases and 1,041 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1950-06-13

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

600 ft

minimum

From a lease line

440 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 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: “20 AC. OPTION - MAX DIAG 1500”

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	1	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	54,241 bbl	$1,210,846
Casinghead gas	Production	2,655 Mcf	$0
Total			$1,210,846

2,655 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 25 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 33.2551, -102.5671. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.25512, -102.56709 · 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%

1 of 1 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

1 of 1 wells

Median depth

6,870 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

—

1 well filed both, dated out of order

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 6,870 ft.

Completions filed

Jun 1983

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Apr 1983

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: no median is published. 1 well on this lease filed both dates, and on that one the last completion is dated after the plug date, so there is no interval to take a median of. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-44531114	1	6,870 ft	Jun 1983	Apr 1983	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 (166)

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

166 months


Oct 2006	0	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	0	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	0	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	0	0	66.28	6.38	$0
May 2006	0	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	0	0	64.39	7.36	$0
Mar 2006	0	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	0	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	0	0	60.59	8.93	$0
Dec 2005	0	0	54.94	13.42	$0
Nov 2005	0	0	54.69	10.59	$0
Oct 2005	0	0	58.34	13.80	$0
Sep 2005	0	0	61.45	12.08	$0
Aug 2005	0	0	61.51	9.80	$0
Jul 2005	0	0	55.69	7.84	$0
Jun 2005	0	0	52.33	7.38	$0
May 2005	0	0	45.22	6.65	$0
Apr 2005	0	0	49.20	7.36	$0
Mar 2005	0	0	50.37	7.15	$0
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	0	0	45.28	6.33	$0
Oct 2004	0	0	49.70	6.52	$0
Sep 2004	0	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	820	0	42.37	5.55	$34,743
Jul 2004	528	0	38.28	6.08	$20,212
Jun 2004	530	0	36.10	6.43	$19,133
May 2004	719	0	37.48	6.49	$26,948
Apr 2004	697	0	34.47	5.86	$24,026
Mar 2004	541	0	34.36	5.53	$18,589
Feb 2004	681	0	32.45	5.51	$22,098
Jan 2004	706	0	32.03	6.30	$22,613
Dec 2003	526	0	30.26	6.30	$15,917
Nov 2003	700	0	28.80	4.60	$20,160
Oct 2003	680	0	28.17	4.76	$19,156
Sep 2003	356	0	26.31	4.75	$9,366
Aug 2003	517	0	29.76	5.13	$15,386
Jul 2003	517	0	29.41	5.17	$15,205
Jun 2003	518	0	28.56	5.98	$14,794
May 2003	663	0	26.59	5.97	$17,629
Apr 2003	490	0	26.67	5.41	$13,068
Mar 2003	505	0	31.14	6.10	$15,726
Feb 2003	719	0	33.48	7.93	$24,072
Jan 2003	537	0	30.31	5.58	$16,276
Dec 2002	678	0	26.91	4.85	$18,245
Nov 2002	651	0	24.66	4.14	$16,054
Oct 2002	520	0	26.46	4.23	$13,759
Sep 2002	347	0	27.44	3.64	$9,522
Aug 2002	480	0	25.96	3.16	$12,461
Jul 2002	267	0	24.58	3.06	$6,563
Jun 2002	487	0	23.73	3.34	$11,557
May 2002	327	0	24.66	3.58	$8,064
Apr 2002	361	0	23.65	3.51	$8,538
Mar 2002	523	0	22.00	3.10	$11,506
Feb 2002	358	0	18.22	2.38	$6,523
Jan 2002	528	0	17.17	2.38	$9,066
Dec 2001	343	0	16.93	2.36	$5,807
Nov 2001	523	0	18.07	2.41	$9,451
Oct 2001	325	0	19.78	2.53	$6,429
Sep 2001	335	0	24.26	2.25	$8,127
Aug 2001	327	0	24.87	3.05	$8,132
Jul 2001	333	0	23.93	3.20	$7,969
Jun 2001	338	0	24.56	3.82	$8,301
May 2001	488	0	25.52	4.31	$12,454
Apr 2001	327	0	24.68	5.34	$8,070
Mar 2001	334	0	24.54	5.38	$8,196
Feb 2001	288	0	27.75	5.77	$7,992
Jan 2001	326	0	27.47	8.40	$8,955
Dec 2000	282	0	26.88	9.12	$7,580
Nov 2000	481	0	32.21	5.66	$15,493
Oct 2000	355	0	31.23	5.15	$11,087
Sep 2000	306	0	31.87	5.19	$9,752
Aug 2000	491	0	29.64	4.54	$14,553
Jul 2000	330	0	28.53	4.09	$9,415
Jun 2000	339	0	29.30	4.40	$9,933
May 2000	318	0	27.26	3.68	$8,669
Apr 2000	483	0	24.51	3.12	$11,838
Mar 2000	349	0	28.42	2.86	$9,919
Feb 2000	297	0	27.62	2.73	$8,203
Jan 2000	326	0	25.27	2.48	$8,238
Dec 1999	342	0	24.28	2.42	$8,304
Nov 1999	334	0	23.19	2.43	$7,745
Oct 1999	336	0	20.98	2.80	$7,049
Sep 1999	345	0	21.75	2.62	$7,504
Aug 1999	322	0	19.26	2.88	$6,202
Jul 1999	355	0	17.89	2.37	$6,351
Jun 1999	167	0	15.94	2.36	$2,662
May 1999	335	0	15.79	2.32	$5,290
Apr 1999	173	0	15.10	2.21	$2,612
Mar 1999	188	0	12.47	1.84	$2,344
Feb 1999	346	0	9.98	1.82	$3,453
Jan 1999	150	0	10.38	1.90	$1,557
Dec 1998	330	0	9.20	1.77	$3,036
Nov 1998	341	0	10.89	2.19	$3,713
Oct 1998	180	0	12.42	1.97	$2,236
Sep 1998	169	0	12.59	2.08	$2,128
Aug 1998	298	0	11.30	1.91	$3,367
Jul 1998	157	0	11.74	2.24	$1,843
Jun 1998	343	0	11.24	2.24	$3,855
May 1998	178	0	12.62	2.21	$2,246
Apr 1998	331	0	13.04	2.51	$4,316
Mar 1998	368	0	12.80	2.31	$4,710
Feb 1998	175	0	13.95	2.30	$2,441
Jan 1998	346	0	14.70	2.15	$5,086
Dec 1997	184	0	16.32	2.41	$3,003
Nov 1997	171	0	18.19	3.09	$3,110
Oct 1997	366	0	19.25	3.15	$7,046
Sep 1997	313	0	17.74	2.95	$5,553
Aug 1997	294	0	17.86	2.55	$5,251
Jul 1997	312	0	17.58	2.25	$5,485
Jun 1997	317	0	17.24	2.26	$5,465
May 1997	348	0	18.97	2.31	$6,602
Apr 1997	330	0	17.88	2.08	$5,900
Mar 1997	312	0	18.95	1.94	$5,912
Feb 1997	474	0	20.49	2.21	$9,712
Jan 1997	479	0	23.48	3.54	$11,247
Dec 1996	172	0	23.32	—	$4,011
Nov 1996	487	0	21.97	—	$10,699
Oct 1996	335	0	23.31	—	$7,809
Sep 1996	336	0	22.22	—	$7,466
Aug 1996	330	0	20.26	—	$6,686
Jul 1996	479	0	19.55	—	$9,364
Jun 1996	331	0	18.73	—	$6,200
May 1996	474	0	19.43	—	$9,210
Apr 1996	320	0	21.51	—	$6,883
Mar 1996	488	0	19.38	—	$9,457
Feb 1996	480	0	16.98	—	$8,150
Jan 1996	321	0	17.07	—	$5,479
Dec 1995	493	0	17.19	—	$8,475
Nov 1995	306	0	16.00	—	$4,896
Oct 1995	341	0	15.43	—	$5,262
Sep 1995	491	0	16.18	—	$7,944
Aug 1995	336	0	15.92	—	$5,349
Jul 1995	482	0	15.24	—	$7,346
Jun 1995	472	0	16.41	—	$7,746
May 1995	319	0	17.56	—	$5,602
Apr 1995	323	0	17.73	—	$5,727
Mar 1995	487	0	16.44	—	$8,006
Feb 1995	326	0	16.58	—	$5,405
Jan 1995	473	100	15.92	—	$7,530
Dec 1994	474	100	15.03	—	$7,124
Nov 1994	478	100	15.90	—	$7,600
Oct 1994	487	100	15.58	—	$7,587
Sep 1994	480	100	15.29	—	$7,339
Aug 1994	485	100	16.13	—	$7,823
Jul 1994	492	100	17.56	—	$8,640
Jun 1994	482	100	17.09	—	$8,237
May 1994	632	100	15.88	—	$10,036
Apr 1994	473	100	14.14	—	$6,688
Mar 1994	635	100	12.46	—	$7,912
Feb 1994	487	100	12.50	—	$6,088
Jan 1994	324	100	12.66	—	$4,102
Dec 1993	495	100	12.33	—	$6,103
Nov 1993	318	100	14.49	—	$4,608
Oct 1993	160	100	15.85	—	$2,536
Sep 1993	165	100	15.03	—	$2,480
Aug 1993	168	100	15.66	—	$2,631
Jul 1993	160	100	15.46	—	$2,474
Jun 1993	161	150	16.79	—	$2,703
May 1993	160	155	17.68	—	$2,829
Apr 1993	164	150	18.05	—	$2,960
Mar 1993	161	100	18.14	—	$2,921
Feb 1993	3	100	17.90	—	$54
Jan 1993	165	100	16.93	—	$2,793

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 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  820 bbl  × $ 42.37 =    $34,743
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.55 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                  $34,743

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/64408 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.