SLAUGHTER, ALEX A. ESTATE "E"

Operated by ALTURA ENERGY LTD. (P-5 15726) in the TSTAR (ABO) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 67851District 8AField 91621001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$5.0 M
Dec 1997 – Mar 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$4.1 M
at the published price for each month
Months reported
16
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 181 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1996-01-06
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 2016-09-12.

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: SHOW ACREAGE CREDIT CLAIMED FOR EACH WELL.

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
OilDisposition415,621 bbl$4,968,895
Casinghead gasProduction8,344 Mcf$17,988
Total$4,986,884

Wells on this lease (9)

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 33.4538, -102.4668. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

33.45423, -102.46713 · 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 9 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 9 wells
Median depth
8,330 ft
9 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.
9100.0%

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

Total depth in feet, 9 of 9 wells. Median 8,330 ft, with the middle half between 8,056 and 8,332 ft; the shallowest is 7,803 ft and the deepest 8,338 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 9 of 9 wells, Jan 1998 – Mar 2024. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Jan 1998 – Mar 2024
9 of 9 wells

9 wells

42-21936433228,056 ftMar 2024
42-21936432218,050 ftNov 2021
42-21936368168,338 ftDec 2016
42-21936413188,332 ftMar 2013
42-21936434237,803 ftFeb 2013
42-21936380158,330 ftMay 2009
42-21936379148,334 ftAug 2006
42-21936421178,330 ftJun 1998
42-21936378138,330 ftJan 1998

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 (16)

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

16 months

Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 199835,0376429.201.77$323,479
Nov 199839,51768610.892.19$431,840
Oct 199848,13168712.421.97$599,140
Sep 199849,27976012.592.08$622,005
Aug 199850,53374411.301.91$572,442
Jul 199848,27095311.742.24$568,822
Jun 199831,4151,02111.242.24$355,389
May 199829,2091,26712.622.21$371,413
Apr 199819,59867213.042.51$257,242
Mar 199830,43010112.802.31$389,737
Feb 199821,50220413.952.30$300,422
Jan 19988,46225514.702.15$124,941
Dec 19974,23835216.322.41$70,013

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 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil               35,037 bbl  × $  9.20 =   $322,340
Casinghead gas       642 Mcf  × $  1.77 =     $1,138

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Month total                                 $323,479

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/67851 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.