CLAYTON-JOHNSON "D"

Operated by FAGADAU ENERGY CORPORATION (P-5 257680) in the CLAYTON RANCH, N. (SPRABERRY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 65283District 8AField 18790700Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.1 M
Jan 1993 – Nov 1995
Value, last 12 filed months
$300 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
35
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 21 leases and 78 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1985-03-14
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
933 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 2011-11-22.

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: THE LEASE.

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
OilDisposition69,828 bbl$1,111,841
Casinghead gasProduction84,281 Mcf$0
Total$1,111,841

84,281 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 31 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 (2)

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 32.9005, -101.5126. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

32.90051, -101.51262 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
7,401 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
22.6 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
2100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2100.0%
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 5,820 and 8,981 ft, median 7,401 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Mar 1985 – Aug 1994
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 2012 – Jul 2012
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 22.6 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 20.3 years and 25.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-0333157185,820 ftAug 1994Jun 2012Yes
42-0333110918,981 ftMar 1985Jul 2012Yes

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 (35)

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

35 months

Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 1995219015.92$3,486
Jul 19952,2962,94415.24$34,991
Jun 19951,8162,98716.41$29,801
May 19951,7733,09117.56$31,134
Apr 19952,3593,21817.73$41,825
Mar 19952,5473,22116.44$41,873
Feb 19952,3233,15316.58$38,515
Jan 19952,7232,94715.92$43,350
Dec 19942,3632,65215.03$35,516
Nov 19942,3622,59815.90$37,556
Oct 19941,9683,04415.58$30,661
Sep 19942,3332,98215.29$35,672
Aug 19942,8983,27016.13$46,745
Jul 19942,3472,90917.56$41,213
Jun 19942,8363,15217.09$48,467
May 19942,1892,78815.88$34,761
Apr 19941,8222,65714.14$25,763
Mar 19941,7602,70012.46$21,930
Feb 19941,8292,42812.50$22,863
Jan 19942,1722,65012.66$27,498
Dec 19931,9732,57412.33$24,327
Nov 19932,1832,91814.49$31,632
Oct 19932,1382,20915.85$33,887
Sep 19932,1942,85115.03$32,976
Aug 19932,1833,03015.66$34,186
Jul 19931,9402,47215.46$29,992
Jun 19932,1382,54416.79$35,897
May 19932,5162,50317.68$44,483
Apr 19932,37248518.05$42,815
Mar 19932,5292,43518.14$45,876
Feb 19932,1892,44017.90$39,183
Jan 19932,5382,42916.93$42,968

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 1995 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  219 bbl  × $ 15.92 =     $3,486
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $3,486

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/65283 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.