CLARE "B"

Name: CLARE "B" 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, NW. (SAN ANDRES) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 64457District 8AField 72999500Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.1 M

Jan 1993 – Mar 2005

Value, last 12 filed months

$72 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

147

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The PRENTICE, NW. (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 18 leases and 86 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1969-01-01

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

1,200 ft

minimum

From a lease line

467 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2012-09-01.

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: “PSUEDO RULES FOR HORIZONTAL WELLS.”

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	5	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	45,697 bbl	$921,583
Casinghead gas	Production	90,333 Mcf	$170,666
Total			$1,092,249

42,957 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 (5)

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 33.2607, -102.5529. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.9 miles.

33.26039, -102.55288 · 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 5 wells

With a plug date

0.0%

0 of 5 wells

Median depth

5,302 ft

5 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.

5100.0%

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

Between 5,266 and 5,353 ft, median 5,302 ft, over the 5 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Oct 1983 – Aug 2021

5 of 5 wells

5 wells


42-44531135	1	5,274 ft	Aug 2021	—	—
42-44531158	5	5,353 ft	May 2016	—	—
42-44531160	3	5,302 ft	Aug 2013	—	—
42-44531157	4	5,320 ft	Dec 2010	—	—
42-44531159	2	5,266 ft	Oct 1983	—	—

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 (147)

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

147 months


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	391	128	45.28	6.33	$18,515
Oct 2004	177	147	49.70	6.52	$9,755
Sep 2004	0	257	43.24	5.28	$1,358
Aug 2004	177	153	42.37	5.55	$8,349
Jul 2004	180	212	38.28	6.08	$8,180
Jun 2004	176	261	36.10	6.43	$8,033
May 2004	164	556	37.48	6.49	$9,758
Apr 2004	187	254	34.47	5.86	$7,934
Mar 2004	357	806	34.36	5.53	$16,724
Feb 2004	184	389	32.45	5.51	$8,114
Jan 2004	179	439	32.03	6.30	$8,499
Dec 2003	180	448	30.26	6.30	$8,270
Nov 2003	173	684	28.80	4.60	$8,125
Oct 2003	334	624	28.17	4.76	$12,379
Sep 2003	183	515	26.31	4.75	$7,261
Aug 2003	180	524	29.76	5.13	$8,045
Jul 2003	344	646	29.41	5.17	$13,457
Jun 2003	176	585	28.56	5.98	$8,527
May 2003	178	514	26.59	5.97	$7,803
Apr 2003	171	511	26.67	5.41	$7,324
Mar 2003	344	365	31.14	6.10	$12,937
Feb 2003	160	226	33.48	7.93	$7,148
Jan 2003	174	470	30.31	5.58	$7,898
Dec 2002	179	600	26.91	4.85	$7,729
Nov 2002	166	281	24.66	4.14	$5,256
Oct 2002	515	539	26.46	4.23	$15,906
Sep 2002	176	628	27.44	3.64	$7,112
Aug 2002	334	751	25.96	3.16	$11,047
Jul 2002	179	589	24.58	3.06	$6,203
Jun 2002	178	715	23.73	3.34	$6,611
May 2002	167	563	24.66	3.58	$6,136
Apr 2002	181	182	23.65	3.51	$4,920
Mar 2002	184	322	22.00	3.10	$5,047
Feb 2002	178	563	18.22	2.38	$4,581
Jan 2002	319	704	17.17	2.38	$7,150
Dec 2001	173	560	16.93	2.36	$4,253
Nov 2001	350	0	18.07	2.41	$6,325
Oct 2001	183	567	19.78	2.53	$5,054
Sep 2001	164	633	24.26	2.25	$5,404
Aug 2001	169	665	24.87	3.05	$6,233
Jul 2001	338	680	23.93	3.20	$10,262
Jun 2001	175	535	24.56	3.82	$6,344
May 2001	507	642	25.52	4.31	$15,704
Apr 2001	162	424	24.68	5.34	$6,260
Mar 2001	356	287	24.54	5.38	$10,279
Feb 2001	340	283	27.75	5.77	$11,067
Jan 2001	172	423	27.47	8.40	$8,278
Dec 2000	353	475	26.88	9.12	$13,822
Nov 2000	348	358	32.21	5.66	$13,235
Oct 2000	337	375	31.23	5.15	$12,454
Sep 2000	169	466	31.87	5.19	$7,803
Aug 2000	346	619	29.64	4.54	$13,066
Jul 2000	165	594	28.53	4.09	$7,137
Jun 2000	175	573	29.30	4.40	$7,647
May 2000	351	512	27.26	3.68	$11,452
Apr 2000	171	427	24.51	3.12	$5,522
Mar 2000	337	479	28.42	2.86	$10,947
Feb 2000	170	428	27.62	2.73	$5,862
Jan 2000	513	382	25.27	2.48	$13,911
Dec 1999	0	308	24.28	2.42	$747
Nov 1999	172	427	23.19	2.43	$5,028
Oct 1999	175	414	20.98	2.80	$4,832
Sep 1999	336	532	21.75	2.62	$8,701
Aug 1999	177	464	19.26	2.88	$4,743
Jul 1999	326	518	17.89	2.37	$7,061
Jun 1999	164	634	15.94	2.36	$4,112
May 1999	316	628	15.79	2.32	$6,447
Apr 1999	331	398	15.10	2.21	$5,877
Mar 1999	167	324	12.47	1.84	$2,678
Feb 1999	170	364	9.98	1.82	$2,358
Jan 1999	327	462	10.38	1.90	$4,272
Dec 1998	343	502	9.20	1.77	$4,046
Nov 1998	351	426	10.89	2.19	$4,754
Oct 1998	173	547	12.42	1.97	$3,226
Sep 1998	347	705	12.59	2.08	$5,837
Aug 1998	331	586	11.30	1.91	$4,858
Jul 1998	347	821	11.74	2.24	$5,911
Jun 1998	340	800	11.24	2.24	$5,611
May 1998	163	705	12.62	2.21	$3,613
Apr 1998	366	644	13.04	2.51	$6,386
Mar 1998	174	637	12.80	2.31	$3,698
Feb 1998	344	605	13.95	2.30	$6,190
Jan 1998	352	588	14.70	2.15	$6,441
Dec 1997	535	379	16.32	2.41	$9,645
Nov 1997	4	312	18.19	3.09	$1,036
Oct 1997	339	473	19.25	3.15	$8,016
Sep 1997	331	645	17.74	2.95	$7,778
Aug 1997	347	611	17.86	2.55	$7,758
Jul 1997	516	512	17.58	2.25	$10,222
Jun 1997	346	546	17.24	2.26	$7,197
May 1997	360	611	18.97	2.31	$8,240
Apr 1997	358	627	17.88	2.08	$7,707
Mar 1997	342	660	18.95	1.94	$7,761
Feb 1997	340	660	20.49	2.21	$8,422
Jan 1997	663	763	23.48	3.54	$18,268
Dec 1996	363	632	23.32	—	$8,465
Nov 1996	1	587	21.97	—	$22
Oct 1996	684	622	23.31	—	$15,944
Sep 1996	355	585	22.22	—	$7,888
Aug 1996	358	592	20.26	—	$7,253
Jul 1996	669	743	19.55	—	$13,079
Jun 1996	0	642	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	473	668	19.43	—	$9,190
Apr 1996	671	667	21.51	—	$14,433
Mar 1996	319	674	19.38	—	$6,182
Feb 1996	343	276	16.98	—	$5,824
Jan 1996	669	528	17.07	—	$11,420
Dec 1995	312	553	17.19	—	$5,363
Nov 1995	332	452	16.00	—	$5,312
Oct 1995	329	766	15.43	—	$5,076
Sep 1995	646	929	16.18	—	$10,452
Aug 1995	335	741	15.92	—	$5,333
Jul 1995	331	772	15.24	—	$5,044
Jun 1995	325	1,040	16.41	—	$5,333
May 1995	325	1,097	17.56	—	$5,707
Apr 1995	660	904	17.73	—	$11,702
Mar 1995	328	919	16.44	—	$5,392
Feb 1995	321	1,044	16.58	—	$5,322
Jan 1995	649	857	15.92	—	$10,332
Dec 1994	308	1,049	15.03	—	$4,629
Nov 1994	653	1,223	15.90	—	$10,383
Oct 1994	325	864	15.58	—	$5,064
Sep 1994	652	1,117	15.29	—	$9,969
Aug 1994	316	1,199	16.13	—	$5,097
Jul 1994	316	1,071	17.56	—	$5,549
Jun 1994	325	1,391	17.09	—	$5,554
May 1994	648	1,069	15.88	—	$10,290
Apr 1994	325	1,119	14.14	—	$4,596
Mar 1994	667	1,157	12.46	—	$8,311
Feb 1994	324	884	12.50	—	$4,050
Jan 1994	332	1,048	12.66	—	$4,203
Dec 1993	654	1,094	12.33	—	$8,064
Nov 1993	662	1,089	14.49	—	$9,592
Oct 1993	324	1,131	15.85	—	$5,135
Sep 1993	328	1,062	15.03	—	$4,930
Aug 1993	497	1,073	15.66	—	$7,783
Jul 1993	484	1,001	15.46	—	$7,483
Jun 1993	327	1,102	16.79	—	$5,490
May 1993	650	1,036	17.68	—	$11,492
Apr 1993	653	1,037	18.05	—	$11,787
Mar 1993	326	948	18.14	—	$5,914
Feb 1993	328	948	17.90	—	$5,871
Jan 1993	653	955	16.93	—	$11,055

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                  391 bbl  × $ 45.28 =    $17,704
Casinghead gas       128 Mcf  × $  6.33 =       $810

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Month total                                  $18,515

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/64457 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.