GAIL

Operated by SHARP IMAGE ENERGY, INC. (P-5 770731) in the RAFTER CROSS, S. (STRAWN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 67846District 8AField 74166600OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$127 k
Dec 1997 – May 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$20 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
42
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 2 leases and 2 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1979-10-09
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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
OilDisposition7,974 bbl$127,273
Casinghead gasProduction24 Mcf$54
Total$127,327

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 32.8498, -101.4145. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.84977, -101.41452 · 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
8,761 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
2.8 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 8,761 ft.

Completions filed
Jan 1998
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2000
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 2.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 2.8 years and 2.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-0333170018,761 ftJan 1998Nov 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 (42)

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

42 months

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 2000112032.215.66$3,608
Oct 2000178031.235.15$5,559
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 2000180028.534.09$5,135
Jun 2000184029.304.40$5,391
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 2000176024.513.12$4,314
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 1999173024.282.42$4,200
Nov 19990123.192.43$2
Oct 19990120.982.80$3
Sep 1999532121.752.62$11,574
Aug 19990119.262.88$3
Jul 19990117.892.37$2
Jun 19990115.942.36$2
May 19990115.792.32$2
Apr 1999184115.102.21$2,781
Mar 19990112.471.84$2
Feb 199918919.981.82$1,888
Jan 19990110.381.90$2
Dec 199818619.201.77$1,713
Nov 19980110.892.19$2
Oct 1998362112.421.97$4,498
Sep 1998184112.592.08$2,319
Aug 1998168111.301.91$1,900
Jul 1998535111.742.24$6,283
Jun 19980111.242.24$2
May 1998351112.622.21$4,432
Apr 1998372113.042.51$4,853
Mar 1998550112.802.31$7,042
Feb 1998957113.952.30$13,352
Jan 19981,684114.702.15$24,757
Dec 1997717116.322.41$11,704

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.

Nov 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  112 bbl  × $ 32.21 =     $3,608
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.66 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,608

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/67846 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.