KIRKPATRICK "A"

Operated by MARALO, INC. (P-5 525320) in the GREG-JOHN (STRAWN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 65186District 8AField 36809500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$129 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 1996
Value, last 12 filed months
$31 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
39
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 9 leases and 11 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1976-11-19
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres.

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.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA1none

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.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
OilDisposition8,068 bbl$128,510
Casinghead gasProduction7,740 Mcf$0
Total$128,510

7,740 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 36 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 (3)

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 33.1125, -101.2774. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

33.11304, -101.27732 · 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%
3 of 3 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
3 of 3 wells
Median depth
8,226 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
9.3 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
3100.0%
A plug date is filed
3100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
3100.0%
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

Between 4,892 and 8,356 ft, median 8,226 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Sep 1985 – Mar 2024
3 of 3 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 1992 – Jan 1996
3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 9.3 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.8 years and 9.8 years. A further 1 well is excluded, because the last completion the Commission holds for it is dated after the plug date. Both dates are the latest of their kind on the wellbore record and they are filed separately, so the two need not run in order. The gap is the distance between two filed dates — it is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-169324451A8,226 ftMar 2024Jul 1992Yes
42-1693278328,356 ftSep 1987Jan 1996Yes
42-1693242614,892 ftSep 1985Jan 1996Yes

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 (39)

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

39 months

Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 199665017.07$1,110
Dec 1995307617.19$516
Nov 19953568716.00$5,696
Oct 1995022815.43$0
Sep 199535917916.18$5,809
Aug 1995024215.92$0
Jul 199535029915.24$5,334
Jun 199535618616.41$5,842
May 1995021317.56$0
Apr 199535724617.73$6,330
Mar 199535433416.44$5,820
Feb 19957628916.58$1,260
Jan 199536824815.92$5,859
Dec 1994023815.03$0
Nov 199436620215.90$5,819
Oct 199435420915.58$5,515
Sep 1994023415.29$0
Aug 199436028516.13$5,807
Jul 1994021917.56$0
Jun 199436525217.09$6,238
May 1994023215.88$0
Apr 199436320414.14$5,133
Mar 1994022212.46$0
Feb 199436422112.50$4,550
Jan 199435420012.66$4,482
Dec 1993021212.33$0
Nov 199336220914.49$5,245
Oct 199336119915.85$5,722
Sep 1993022115.03$0
Aug 199336125315.66$5,653
Jul 199335826315.46$5,535
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 199334920717.68$6,170
Apr 1993020618.05$0
Mar 199336124118.14$6,549
Feb 199335616417.90$6,372
Jan 199336321916.93$6,146

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 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   65 bbl  × $ 17.07 =     $1,110
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $1,110

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/65186 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.