GERTIE "A"

Operated by PARALLEL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (P-5 639025) in the DIAMOND -M- (CLEAR FORK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 66210District 8AField 24562284Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$2.6 M
Jan 1993 – Oct 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$240 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
142
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 52 leases and 468 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1940-10-09
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
660 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 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.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: DIAMOND -M- (SAN ANDRES)CONS TO THIS FLD PER DOC 8A-0201285 4-5-93

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
OilDisposition126,103 bbl$2,573,367
Casinghead gasProduction29,331 Mcf$54,458
Total$2,627,826

14,866 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 32.6817, -101.0822. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

32.68198, -101.08130 · 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
0.0%
0 of 5 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 5 wells
Median depth
3,421 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 3,400 and 3,428 ft, median 3,421 ft, over the 5 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jun 1988 – Nov 2023
5 of 5 wells

5 wells

42-41532962123,400 ftNov 2023
42-4153227793,421 ftNov 2005
42-41532438103,428 ftFeb 2005
42-41532475113,421 ftJan 1996
42-41532960133,413 ftJun 1988

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 (142)

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

142 months

Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 200479322238.286.08$31,707
Jun 200479023736.106.43$30,044
May 200467624537.486.49$26,928
Apr 200474922034.475.86$27,107
Mar 200473817734.365.53$26,337
Feb 200471618132.455.51$24,231
Jan 200497822932.036.30$32,768
Dec 200374215830.266.30$23,449
Nov 200358713228.804.60$17,512
Oct 200354114628.174.76$15,935
Sep 200377816926.314.75$21,272
Aug 200360218929.765.13$18,885
Jul 200370616929.415.17$21,637
Jun 200375415628.565.98$22,468
May 200353818526.595.97$15,410
Apr 200374018126.675.41$20,715
Mar 200377312331.146.10$24,821
Feb 20037288733.487.93$25,063
Jan 20037508530.315.58$23,207
Dec 20025408926.914.85$14,963
Nov 200277510324.664.14$19,538
Oct 200295612026.464.23$25,803
Sep 200269715527.443.64$19,689
Aug 200276318425.963.16$20,390
Jul 20021,04712924.583.06$26,130
Jun 20026839623.733.34$16,528
May 200292513724.663.58$23,302
Apr 200269018423.653.51$16,965
Mar 20021,0198522.003.10$22,682
Feb 200295210018.222.38$17,583
Jan 200279611717.172.38$13,945
Dec 20011,08419516.932.36$18,813
Nov 200197918918.072.41$18,145
Oct 20011,18824719.782.53$24,123
Sep 20011,08922624.262.25$26,928
Aug 20011,10137524.873.05$28,527
Jul 20011,33833023.933.20$33,073
Jun 20011,32728424.563.82$33,677
May 20011,31133625.524.31$34,904
Apr 20011,69833524.685.34$43,694
Mar 20011,44425224.545.38$36,791
Feb 20011,66323127.755.77$47,480
Jan 200178210027.478.40$22,321
Dec 20005835626.889.12$16,182
Nov 20005355532.215.66$17,544
Oct 200061115231.235.15$19,864
Sep 200063716931.875.19$21,178
Aug 200074318429.644.54$22,858
Jul 200077113428.534.09$22,545
Jun 200053010629.304.40$15,995
May 200077319327.263.68$21,782
Apr 200075321624.513.12$19,129
Mar 200063118728.422.86$18,468
Feb 200076615527.622.73$21,580
Jan 20008195925.272.48$20,842
Dec 19999856424.282.42$24,071
Nov 1999724023.192.43$16,790
Oct 19998197020.982.80$17,379
Sep 199995510021.752.62$21,033
Aug 199980018719.262.88$15,946
Jul 199986921217.892.37$16,049
Jun 199994721515.942.36$15,603
May 199982323015.792.32$13,529
Apr 199981819815.102.21$12,789
Mar 199981013212.471.84$10,343
Feb 19996571329.981.82$6,797
Jan 199968613310.381.90$7,373
Dec 19988232449.201.77$8,004
Nov 199885620710.892.19$9,774
Oct 199864323912.421.97$8,457
Sep 199880623912.592.08$10,645
Aug 1998647011.301.91$7,311
Jul 19988132411.742.24$9,598
Jun 199892821111.242.24$10,903
May 199879725712.622.21$10,625
Apr 199875726913.042.51$10,545
Mar 199898118312.802.31$12,979
Feb 19981,00214913.952.30$14,320
Jan 19981,0097914.702.15$15,003
Dec 19978312416.322.41$13,620
Nov 199784010118.193.09$15,592
Oct 19971,01312519.253.15$19,894
Sep 19971,1307917.742.95$20,280
Aug 199797214717.862.55$17,735
Jul 199787314817.582.25$15,680
Jun 199783515917.242.26$14,754
May 19971,01318918.972.31$19,653
Apr 19978856217.882.08$15,953
Mar 19978112618.951.94$15,419
Feb 19979861220.492.21$20,230
Jan 19978366323.483.54$19,852
Dec 19968418023.32$19,612
Nov 199699811821.97$21,926
Oct 19961,01319723.31$23,613
Sep 199698129422.22$21,798
Aug 199694024020.26$19,044
Jul 19961,15535819.55$22,580
Jun 199699736018.73$18,674
May 19961,17642619.43$22,850
Apr 199699034721.51$21,295
Mar 19961,28834319.38$24,961
Feb 19961,20121516.98$20,393
Jan 199696925417.07$16,541
Dec 19951,33824017.19$23,000
Nov 19951,11829616.00$17,888
Oct 19951,34338115.43$20,722
Sep 19951,36051816.18$22,005
Aug 19951,70746815.92$27,175
Jul 19951,16039415.24$17,678
Jun 199599426916.41$16,312
May 199598425817.56$17,279
Apr 19951,32823317.73$23,545
Mar 199584732616.44$13,925
Feb 199582819816.58$13,728
Jan 199581414815.92$12,959
Dec 19941,1473215.03$17,239
Nov 199482318815.90$13,086
Oct 199497924615.58$15,253
Sep 199482143615.29$12,553
Aug 199498740716.13$15,920
Jul 199482654317.56$14,505
Jun 199497053417.09$16,577
May 19941,13647215.88$18,040
Apr 199498043614.14$13,857
Mar 199498645412.46$12,286
Feb 19941,31535112.50$16,438
Jan 199499630712.66$12,609
Dec 199398349312.33$12,120
Nov 199382344314.49$11,925
Oct 199398041315.85$15,533
Sep 199384436515.03$12,685
Aug 19931,07040515.66$16,756
Jul 19931,00540115.46$15,537
Jun 199382820116.79$13,902
May 19931,15612717.68$20,438
Apr 199392516518.05$16,696
Mar 199348512618.14$8,798
Feb 199349918117.90$8,932
Jan 199351117916.93$8,651

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.

Jul 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  793 bbl  × $ 38.28 =    $30,356
Casinghead gas       222 Mcf  × $  6.08 =     $1,351

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Month total                                  $31,707

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/66210 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.