WEST-MASTERSON

Operated by SUNLIGHT EXPLORATION, INC. (P-5 829612) in the GUTHRIE, N. (STRAWN REEF, UPPER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 65045District 8AField 37509700Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$859 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 2006
Value, last 12 filed months
$39 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
162
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 3 leases and 17 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1982-02-06
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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.

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
OilDisposition40,097 bbl$858,871
Casinghead gasProduction107 Mcf$184
Total$859,055

48 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 33.6475, -100.2348. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.64747, -100.23475 · 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
5,450 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
21.5 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 5,450 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 1984
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2006
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 21.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 21.5 years and 21.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2693132215,450 ftSep 1984Mar 2006Yes

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 (162)

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

162 months

Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 200652060.598.93$3,151
Dec 200586054.9413.42$4,725
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 2005179061.4512.08$11,000
Aug 2005171061.519.80$10,518
Jul 2005172055.697.84$9,579
Jun 2005169052.337.38$8,844
May 2005178045.226.65$8,049
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 2005178050.377.15$8,966
Feb 2005345045.226.31$15,601
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 2004339039.866.75$13,513
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 2004171049.706.52$8,499
Sep 2004180043.245.28$7,783
Aug 2004181042.375.55$7,669
Jul 2004185038.286.08$7,082
Jun 2004180036.106.43$6,498
May 2004180037.486.49$6,746
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 2004181034.365.53$6,219
Feb 2004186032.455.51$6,036
Jan 2004179032.036.30$5,733
Dec 2003181030.266.30$5,477
Nov 2003158028.804.60$4,550
Oct 2003180028.174.76$5,071
Sep 2003181026.314.75$4,762
Aug 2003178029.765.13$5,297
Jul 2003180029.415.17$5,294
Jun 2003180028.565.98$5,141
May 2003180026.595.97$4,786
Apr 2003180026.675.41$4,801
Mar 2003341031.146.10$10,619
Feb 2003159033.487.93$5,323
Jan 2003160030.315.58$4,850
Dec 2002155026.914.85$4,171
Nov 2002178024.664.14$4,389
Oct 2002175026.464.23$4,631
Sep 2002343027.443.64$9,412
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 2002178024.583.06$4,375
Jun 2002176023.733.34$4,176
May 2002348024.663.58$8,582
Apr 2002176023.653.51$4,162
Mar 2002180022.003.10$3,960
Feb 2002178018.222.38$3,243
Jan 2002173017.172.38$2,970
Dec 2001344016.932.36$5,824
Nov 2001175118.072.41$3,165
Oct 2001176119.782.53$3,484
Sep 2001174124.262.25$4,223
Aug 2001175124.873.05$4,355
Jul 2001174123.933.20$4,167
Jun 2001347124.563.82$8,526
May 2001185125.524.31$4,726
Apr 2001175124.685.34$4,324
Mar 2001354124.545.38$8,693
Feb 2001178127.755.77$4,945
Jan 2001176127.478.40$4,843
Dec 2000178126.889.12$4,794
Nov 2000344132.215.66$11,086
Oct 2000176131.235.15$5,502
Sep 2000174131.875.19$5,551
Aug 2000174129.644.54$5,162
Jul 2000349128.534.09$9,961
Jun 2000174129.304.40$5,103
May 2000177127.263.68$4,829
Apr 2000364124.513.12$8,925
Mar 2000349128.422.86$9,921
Feb 20000127.622.73$3
Jan 2000351125.272.48$8,872
Dec 1999173124.282.42$4,203
Nov 1999176123.192.43$4,084
Oct 1999349120.982.80$7,325
Sep 1999174121.752.62$3,787
Aug 1999344119.262.88$6,628
Jul 1999348117.892.37$6,228
Jun 19990115.942.36$2
May 1999351115.792.32$5,545
Apr 1999176115.102.21$2,660
Mar 1999175112.471.84$2,184
Feb 199935019.981.82$3,495
Jan 1999180110.381.90$1,870
Dec 199836419.201.77$3,351
Nov 1998177110.892.19$1,930
Oct 1998356112.421.97$4,423
Sep 1998174112.592.08$2,193
Aug 1998359111.301.91$4,059
Jul 1998179111.742.24$2,104
Jun 1998366111.242.24$4,116
May 1998361112.622.21$4,558
Apr 1998179113.042.51$2,337
Mar 1998354112.802.31$4,534
Feb 1998185113.952.30$2,583
Jan 1998371114.702.15$5,456
Dec 1997182116.322.41$2,973
Nov 1997366118.193.09$6,661
Oct 1997178119.253.15$3,430
Sep 1997353117.742.95$6,265
Aug 1997174117.862.55$3,110
Jul 1997359117.582.25$6,313
Jun 1997348117.242.26$6,002
May 1997355118.972.31$6,737
Apr 1997176117.882.08$3,149
Mar 1997355118.951.94$6,729
Feb 1997353120.492.21$7,235
Jan 1997185123.483.54$4,347
Dec 1996359123.32$8,372
Nov 1996353121.97$7,755
Oct 1996364123.31$8,485
Sep 1996354122.22$7,866
Aug 1996365120.26$7,395
Jul 1996175119.55$3,421
Jun 1996353118.73$6,612
May 1996356119.43$6,917
Apr 1996356121.51$7,658
Mar 1996353119.38$6,841
Feb 1996358116.98$6,079
Jan 1996531117.07$9,064
Dec 1995175117.19$3,008
Nov 1995352116.00$5,632
Oct 1995359115.43$5,539
Sep 1995364116.18$5,890
Aug 1995179115.92$2,850
Jul 1995354115.24$5,395
Jun 1995355116.41$5,826
May 1995359117.56$6,304
Apr 1995351117.73$6,223
Mar 1995355116.44$5,836
Feb 1995370116.58$6,135
Jan 1995354115.92$5,636
Dec 1994356115.03$5,351
Nov 1994362115.90$5,756
Oct 1994359115.58$5,593
Sep 1994360115.29$5,504
Aug 1994358116.13$5,775
Jul 1994352117.56$6,181
Jun 1994360117.09$6,152
May 1994506115.88$8,035
Apr 1994359114.14$5,076
Mar 1994358112.46$4,461
Feb 1994184112.50$2,300
Jan 1994360112.66$4,558
Dec 1993356112.33$4,389
Nov 1993539114.49$7,810
Oct 1993357115.85$5,658
Sep 1993355115.03$5,336
Aug 1993353115.66$5,528
Jul 1993355115.46$5,488
Jun 1993354116.79$5,944
May 1993305117.68$5,392
Apr 1993338118.05$6,101
Mar 1993350118.14$6,349
Feb 1993537117.90$9,612
Jan 1993362116.93$6,129

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.

Jan 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   52 bbl  × $ 60.59 =     $3,151
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  8.93 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,151

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/65045 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.