TUMBLEWEED SOUTH UNIT

Operated by L.C.S. PRODUCTION COMPANY (P-5 479574) in the TUMBLEWEED (LOWER TANNEHILL) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 66435District 8AField 91780500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$562 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
85
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 37 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1985-02-03
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 1986-12-01.

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
OilDisposition33,183 bbl$561,931
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$561,931

21 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 (6)

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 33.4458, -100.5165. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

33.44595, -100.51691 · 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%
6 of 6 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
6 of 6 wells
Median depth
3,913 ft
6 wells filed one
Completion to plug
11.1 years
median over 6 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
6100.0%
A plug date is filed
6100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
6100.0%
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 3,842 and 3,947 ft, median 3,913 ft, over the 6 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jan 1986 – Apr 1992
6 of 6 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 1999 – Jan 2000
6 of 6 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 11.1 years across the 6 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 10.3 years and 12.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

6 wells

42-2693158613,900 ftApr 1992Jan 2000Yes
42-125303384I3,924 ftOct 1989Dec 1999Yes
42-2693161523,947 ftApr 1989Dec 1999Yes
42-2693181663,842 ftJul 1988Dec 1999Yes
42-2693167153,910 ftApr 1987Dec 1999Yes
42-1253031033,915 ftJan 1986Jan 2000Yes

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 (85)

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

85 months

Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 1999148015.792.32$2,337
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 199913909.981.82$1,387
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 1998155012.592.08$1,951
Aug 1998177011.301.91$2,000
Jul 1998176011.742.24$2,066
Jun 1998142011.242.24$1,596
May 1998277012.622.21$3,496
Apr 1998167013.042.51$2,178
Mar 1998349012.802.31$4,467
Feb 1998178013.952.30$2,483
Jan 1998175014.702.15$2,573
Dec 1997347016.322.41$5,663
Nov 1997349018.193.09$6,348
Oct 1997327019.253.15$6,295
Sep 1997318017.742.95$5,641
Aug 1997348017.862.55$6,215
Jul 1997340017.582.25$5,977
Jun 1997501017.242.26$8,637
May 1997352018.972.31$6,677
Apr 1997352017.882.08$6,294
Mar 1997501018.951.94$9,494
Feb 1997358020.492.21$7,335
Jan 1997486023.483.54$11,411
Dec 1996523023.32$12,196
Nov 1996711021.97$15,621
Oct 1996463023.31$10,793
Sep 1996706022.22$15,687
Aug 1996467020.26$9,461
Jul 1996585019.55$11,437
Jun 1996526018.73$9,852
May 1996745019.43$14,475
Apr 1996527021.51$11,336
Mar 1996700019.38$13,566
Feb 1996658016.98$11,173
Jan 1996863017.07$14,731
Dec 1995893017.19$15,351
Nov 1995713016.00$11,408
Oct 1995701015.43$10,816
Sep 1995701016.18$11,342
Aug 1995706015.92$11,240
Jul 1995536015.24$8,169
Jun 1995700016.41$11,487
May 1995672017.56$11,800
Apr 1995527017.73$9,344
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 1995179016.58$2,968
Jan 1995349015.92$5,556
Dec 1994343015.03$5,155
Nov 1994363015.90$5,772
Oct 1994553015.58$8,616
Sep 1994345115.29$5,275
Aug 1994711116.13$11,468
Jul 1994530117.56$9,307
Jun 1994701117.09$11,980
May 1994516115.88$8,194
Apr 1994836114.14$11,821
Mar 1994873112.46$10,878
Feb 1994527112.50$6,588
Jan 1994696112.66$8,811
Dec 1993862112.33$10,628
Nov 1993681114.49$9,868
Oct 1993347115.85$5,500
Sep 1993342115.03$5,140
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 1993340115.46$5,256
Jun 1993353116.79$5,927
May 1993528117.68$9,335
Apr 1993519118.05$9,368
Mar 1993348118.14$6,313
Feb 1993537117.90$9,612
Jan 1993519116.93$8,787

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.

May 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  148 bbl  × $ 15.79 =     $2,337
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.32 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,337

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/66435 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.