ECHOLS, P. "B"

Operated by BLUE RIVER INC. (P-5 76767) in the SHARON RIDGE (1700) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 66473District 8AField 82710498Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$430 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$30 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
183
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 403 leases and 3,269 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1923-12-29
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
165 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 5 acres. The field rule took effect on 2014-02-18.

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: REQUIRED.

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
OilDisposition9,888 bbl$430,174
Casinghead gasProduction57 Mcf$27
Total$430,201

46 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 46 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 32.5697, -100.9588. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

32.57018, -100.95846 · 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
1,845 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 1,840 and 1,850 ft, median 1,845 ft, over the 5 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Nov 1989 – Aug 1990
5 of 5 wells

5 wells

42-41533064171,850 ftAug 1990
42-41533063161,840 ftMay 1990
42-41533061141,845 ftFeb 1990
42-41533062151,845 ftDec 1989
42-41533060131,850 ftNov 1989

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 (183)

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

183 months

Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 2007351058.747.85$20,618
Apr 2007162059.617.81$9,657
Mar 2007168056.927.30$9,563
Feb 2007163055.108.22$8,981
Jan 2007163050.306.73$8,199
Dec 2006163056.656.92$9,234
Nov 2006169054.207.62$9,160
Oct 2006157054.906.01$8,619
Sep 2006161060.085.04$9,673
Aug 2006172068.717.34$11,818
Jul 2006325069.376.34$22,545
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 2006325066.016.42$21,453
Apr 2006312064.397.36$20,090
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 2006157057.597.75$9,042
Jan 2006149060.598.93$9,028
Dec 2005316054.9413.42$17,361
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 2005161058.3413.80$9,393
Sep 2005347061.4512.08$21,323
Aug 2005161061.519.80$9,903
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 2005324052.337.38$16,955
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 2005149050.377.15$7,505
Feb 2005302045.226.31$13,656
Jan 2005162043.166.32$6,992
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 2004315045.286.33$14,263
Oct 2004164049.706.52$8,151
Sep 2004186043.245.28$8,043
Aug 2004321042.375.55$13,601
Jul 200473038.286.08$2,794
Jun 2004227036.106.43$8,195
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 2004159034.475.86$5,481
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 2004163032.455.51$5,289
Jan 2004162032.036.30$5,189
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 2003163028.804.60$4,694
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 2003107029.765.13$3,184
Jul 2003155029.415.17$4,559
Jun 200373028.565.98$2,085
May 2003164026.595.97$4,361
Apr 2003168026.675.41$4,481
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 2003327033.487.93$10,948
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 200272024.583.06$1,770
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
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 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980112.622.21$2
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970116.322.41$2
Nov 19970118.193.09$3
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970117.862.55$3
Jul 199788117.582.25$1,549
Jun 19970117.242.26$2
May 19970118.972.31$2
Apr 19970117.882.08$2
Mar 19970118.951.94$2
Feb 1997122120.492.21$2,502
Jan 19970123.483.54$4
Dec 19960123.32$0
Nov 19960121.97$0
Oct 19960123.31$0
Sep 19960122.22$0
Aug 1996132120.26$2,674
Jul 19960119.55$0
Jun 19960118.73$0
May 19960119.43$0
Apr 1996134121.51$2,882
Mar 19960119.38$0
Feb 19960116.98$0
Jan 1996145117.07$2,475
Dec 19950117.19$0
Nov 19950116.00$0
Oct 19950115.43$0
Sep 19950116.18$0
Aug 19950115.92$0
Jul 19950115.24$0
Jun 19950116.41$0
May 19950117.56$0
Apr 19950117.73$0
Mar 1995179116.44$2,943
Feb 19950116.58$0
Jan 19950115.92$0
Dec 19940115.03$0
Nov 1994181115.90$2,878
Oct 19940115.58$0
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 1994182117.56$3,196
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 19940012.46$0
Feb 19940012.50$0
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 1993178112.33$2,195
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 1993179115.66$2,803
Jul 19930115.46$0
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 1993172117.68$3,041
Apr 19930118.05$0
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 1993178117.90$3,186
Jan 19930116.93$0

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 2007 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  351 bbl  × $ 58.74 =    $20,618
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  7.85 =         $0

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Month total                                  $20,618

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/66473 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.