GRAHAM "A"

Operated by BYRD OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 118748) in the FELKEN (SPRABERRY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 67394District 8AField 30559166OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$144 k
Apr 1995 – Apr 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$18 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
61
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 26 leases and 104 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1955-12-30
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.

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
OilDisposition8,319 bbl$141,911
Casinghead gasProduction1,776 Mcf$2,378
Total$144,289

777 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 20 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 32.8794, -101.7415. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.87943, -101.74145 · 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 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
7,600 ft
1 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.
1100.0%

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 7,600 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 1995
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-1153285417,600 ftApr 1995

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 (61)

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

61 months

Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20003142525.272.48$7,997
Dec 199902524.282.42$61
Nov 199902523.192.43$61
Oct 19991612520.982.80$3,448
Sep 199902521.752.62$65
Aug 19991762519.262.88$3,462
Jul 199902517.892.37$59
Jun 19991702515.942.36$2,769
May 199902515.792.32$58
Apr 19991732515.102.21$2,668
Mar 199902512.471.84$46
Feb 1999168259.981.82$1,722
Jan 199902510.381.90$48
Dec 1998171259.201.77$1,618
Nov 19981762510.892.19$1,971
Oct 199802512.421.97$49
Sep 19981712512.592.08$2,205
Aug 19981592511.301.91$1,844
Jul 199802511.742.24$56
Jun 19981702511.242.24$1,967
May 19981772512.622.21$2,289
Apr 199802713.042.51$68
Mar 19981702812.802.31$2,241
Feb 19981822713.952.30$2,601
Jan 19983533514.702.15$5,265
Dec 199704316.322.41$104
Nov 19973675418.193.09$6,843
Oct 19971833419.253.15$3,630
Sep 199702517.742.95$74
Aug 199702517.862.55$64
Jul 19971882517.582.25$3,361
Jun 19971892517.242.26$3,315
May 199702618.972.31$60
Apr 19971882517.882.08$3,414
Mar 19971872518.951.94$3,592
Feb 19971862520.492.21$3,866
Jan 199702523.483.54$88
Dec 19961892923.32$4,407
Nov 199602521.97$0
Oct 19961832723.31$4,266
Sep 19961882522.22$4,177
Aug 19961883120.26$3,809
Jul 19961943119.55$3,793
Jun 199603218.73$0
May 19961843319.43$3,575
Apr 19961872521.51$4,022
Mar 19961923619.38$3,721
Feb 19961963516.98$3,328
Jan 19961962517.07$3,346
Dec 19953685517.19$6,326
Nov 19951925616.00$3,072
Oct 19953656615.43$5,632
Sep 19953805616.18$6,148
Aug 19955508415.92$8,756
Jul 19951887615.24$2,865
Jun 199501516.41$0
May 199501517.56$0
Apr 19950017.73$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.

Jan 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  314 bbl  × $ 25.27 =     $7,935
Casinghead gas        25 Mcf  × $  2.48 =        $62

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Month total                                   $7,997

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/67394 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.