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Operated by WHEELER OPERATING CORPORATION (P-5 914263) in the CLAUENE (CLEAR FORK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 65429District 8AField 18663250Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$227 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 1996
Value, last 12 filed months
$53 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
42
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 8 leases and 11 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1953-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 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.

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
OilDisposition14,252 bbl$226,989
Casinghead gasProduction4,788 Mcf$0
Total$226,989

4,788 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 38 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 33.4902, -102.4079. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

33.49021, -102.40792 · 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
50.0%
1 of 2 wells
Median depth
7,863 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
23.4 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
150.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
150.0%
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 7,700 and 8,025 ft, median 7,863 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jan 1986 – Jan 1996
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 2009
1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 23.4 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 23.4 years and 23.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-2193475317,700 ftJan 1996Yes
42-2193487928,025 ftJan 1986Jun 2009Yes

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 (42)

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

42 months

Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 199664612616.98$10,969
Jan 199652812617.07$9,013
Dec 199518012617.19$3,094
Nov 199535312616.00$5,648
Oct 199535712615.43$5,509
Sep 199517512616.18$2,832
Aug 199532912615.92$5,238
Jul 199567912615.24$10,348
Jun 199517212616.41$2,823
May 199551612617.56$9,061
Apr 199517512617.73$3,103
Mar 199549112616.44$8,072
Feb 199517712616.58$2,935
Jan 199550012615.92$7,960
Dec 199434612615.03$5,200
Nov 199417812615.90$2,830
Oct 199451212615.58$7,977
Sep 199417312615.29$2,645
Aug 199435212616.13$5,678
Jul 199417712617.56$3,108
Jun 199433512617.09$5,725
May 199434012615.88$5,399
Apr 199435012614.14$4,949
Mar 199433912612.46$4,224
Feb 199451512612.50$6,438
Jan 199433312612.66$4,216
Dec 199335312612.33$4,352
Nov 199335512614.49$5,144
Oct 199353212615.85$8,432
Sep 199336512615.03$5,486
Aug 199335512615.66$5,559
Jul 199349112615.46$7,591
Jun 199334812616.79$5,843
May 199350312617.68$8,893
Apr 199352112618.05$9,404
Mar 199350912618.14$9,233
Feb 199335412617.90$6,337
Jan 199333812616.93$5,722

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.

Feb 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  646 bbl  × $ 16.98 =    $10,969
Casinghead gas       126 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                  $10,969

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/65429 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.