WOODUL, H. J.

Operated by TEXACO E & P INC. (P-5 844118) in the SPRABERRY, W. (DEEP, SPRABERRY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 66219District 8AField 85292450Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$132 k
Jan 1993 – Apr 1994
Value, last 12 filed months
$78 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
16
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 12 leases and 96 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1988-08-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 1988-08-01.

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: LOWER) EFF. 8-01-88

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
OilDisposition7,900 bbl$131,923
Casinghead gasProduction3,250 Mcf$0
Total$131,923

3,250 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 10 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 (4)

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 32.6902, -101.7791. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

32.69084, -101.77934 · 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
50.0%
2 of 4 wells
With a plug date
50.0%
2 of 4 wells
Median depth
7,657 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
18.7 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
250.0%
A plug date is filed
250.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
250.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
250.0%

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 7,644 and 8,347 ft, median 7,657 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Aug 1987 – Jun 1997
4 of 4 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 2007 – Oct 2011
2 of 4 wells; 2 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 18.7 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 18.1 years and 19.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-1150083227,655 ftJun 1997
42-1150083337,659 ftMay 1997
42-1151044057,644 ftApr 1994Oct 2011Yes
42-1150083118,347 ftAug 1987Jun 2007Yes

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 (16)

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

16 months

Apr 19940014.14$0
Mar 19940012.46$0
Feb 19940012.50$0
Jan 19940012.66$0
Dec 19930012.33$0
Nov 1993272014.49$3,941
Oct 199347228815.85$7,481
Sep 199394325015.03$14,173
Aug 199395025815.66$14,877
Jul 199347139615.46$7,282
Jun 199385633316.79$14,372
May 199391421517.68$16,160
Apr 199347422818.05$8,556
Mar 19931,22030518.14$22,131
Feb 199348247317.90$8,628
Jan 199384650416.93$14,323

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.

Nov 1993 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  272 bbl  × $ 14.49 =     $3,941
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $3,941

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/66219 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.