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Operated by PATTERSON PETROLEUM, INC. (P-5 643392) in the PALADIN-BARTON (CANYON) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 67209District 8AField 68500075OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$218 k
Nov 1993 – Aug 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$13 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
46
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 10 leases and 11 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1991-10-25
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1993-09-27.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ADOPTED TEMPORARY RULES AS PERMANENT.

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
OilDisposition13,952 bbl$218,072
Casinghead gasProduction4,165 Mcf$0
Total$218,072

4,165 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 37 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 32.7049, -100.8961. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.70489, -100.89611 · 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
7,702 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
3.5 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 7,702 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 1993
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 1997
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 3.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3.5 years and 3.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4153326017,702 ftDec 1993Jun 1997Yes

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 (46)

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

46 months

Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 1996241023.32$5,620
Nov 199616620621.97$3,647
Oct 1996021423.31$0
Sep 199616920622.22$3,755
Aug 199617022320.26$3,444
Jul 199616622719.55$3,245
Jun 199617321818.73$3,240
May 199616923319.43$3,284
Apr 199617122521.51$3,678
Mar 199617421819.38$3,372
Feb 199617721016.98$3,005
Jan 199617116517.07$2,919
Dec 199536411517.19$6,257
Nov 19951621316.00$2,592
Oct 19951732015.43$2,669
Sep 19951752016.18$2,832
Aug 19951759615.92$2,786
Jul 19953462215.24$5,273
Jun 199517412216.41$2,855
May 199517613117.56$3,091
Apr 199535315217.73$6,259
Mar 199535816516.44$5,886
Feb 19951813016.58$3,001
Jan 19953583615.92$5,699
Dec 19943513815.03$5,276
Nov 19945334015.90$8,475
Oct 19943564315.58$5,546
Sep 19943614515.29$5,520
Aug 19945385116.13$8,678
Jul 19947085717.56$12,432
Jun 19945316717.09$9,075
May 19941,0829315.88$17,182
Apr 19943565214.14$5,034
Mar 19947316812.46$9,108
Feb 19949146012.50$11,425
Jan 19941,45914512.66$18,471
Dec 19931,09012512.33$13,440
Nov 199301414.49$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.

Dec 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  241 bbl  × $ 23.32 =     $5,620
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $5,620

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/67209 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.