BECK, DAN

Operated by ODESSA OIL INVESTMENT CO., INC. (P-5 618287) in the REEVES (SAN ANDRES) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 66904District 8AField 75552500Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$221 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$11 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
144
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 38 leases and 375 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1957-03-30
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 2003-02-05.

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: SWR 86 IN EFFECT FOR HORIZONTAL LATERALS.

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
OilDisposition11,136 bbl$220,576
Casinghead gasProduction59 Mcf$28
Total$220,605

48 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 (1)

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 33.0374, -102.6087. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.03735, -102.60873 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
5,750 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
12.3 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 5,750 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 1992
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2004
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 12.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 12.3 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.

1 well

42-5013378715,750 ftJul 1992Nov 2004Yes

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 (144)

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

144 months

Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20043049.706.52$149
Sep 200471043.245.28$3,070
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 200455034.475.86$1,896
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 2004177032.036.30$5,669
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 2003179026.314.75$4,709
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 2003175028.565.98$4,998
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 2003178026.675.41$4,747
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 2002179024.664.14$4,414
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 2002179027.443.64$4,912
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 2002176024.583.06$4,326
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 2002182023.653.51$4,304
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 2002363018.222.38$6,614
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 2001182024.262.25$4,415
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 2001187024.563.82$4,593
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 2001171024.685.34$4,220
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 2000235026.889.12$6,317
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 2000172031.875.19$5,482
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 2000178028.534.09$5,078
Jun 2000187029.304.40$5,479
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 2000161028.422.86$4,576
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 1999138024.282.42$3,351
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 1999159020.982.80$3,336
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 1999163019.262.88$3,139
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 1998184012.421.97$2,285
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 1998175011.301.91$1,978
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 1998182011.242.24$2,046
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 1998178013.042.51$2,321
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 1998200013.952.30$2,790
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 1997169016.322.41$2,758
Nov 19970118.193.09$3
Oct 1997182119.253.15$3,507
Sep 19970117.742.95$3
Aug 1997170117.862.55$3,039
Jul 19970117.582.25$2
Jun 1997179117.242.26$3,088
May 19970118.972.31$2
Apr 1997167117.882.08$2,988
Mar 19970118.951.94$2
Feb 1997152120.492.21$3,117
Jan 19970123.483.54$4
Dec 1996169123.32$3,941
Nov 19960121.97$0
Oct 1996134123.31$3,124
Sep 1996191122.22$4,244
Aug 19960120.26$0
Jul 1996189119.55$3,695
Jun 19960118.73$0
May 1996168119.43$3,264
Apr 19960121.51$0
Mar 1996113119.38$2,190
Feb 1996137116.98$2,326
Jan 1996184117.07$3,141
Dec 19950117.19$0
Nov 1995166116.00$2,656
Oct 1995181115.43$2,793
Sep 19950116.18$0
Aug 1995182115.92$2,897
Jul 1995186115.24$2,835
Jun 19950116.41$0
May 1995168117.56$2,950
Apr 1995180117.73$3,191
Mar 19950116.44$0
Feb 1995188116.58$3,117
Jan 1995181115.92$2,882
Dec 1994137115.03$2,059
Nov 1994170115.90$2,703
Oct 19940115.58$0
Sep 1994178115.29$2,722
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 1994182117.56$3,196
Jun 1994158117.09$2,700
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 1994178114.14$2,517
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 1994180112.50$2,250
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 1993175112.33$2,158
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 1993148115.85$2,346
Sep 1993164115.03$2,465
Aug 1993179115.66$2,803
Jul 19930115.46$0
Jun 1993157116.79$2,636
May 1993147117.68$2,599
Apr 1993162118.05$2,924
Mar 1993169118.14$3,066
Feb 19930117.90$0
Jan 1993147116.93$2,489

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.

Oct 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    3 bbl  × $ 49.70 =       $149
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.52 =         $0

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Month total                                     $149

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/66904 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.