FORKS 1B

Operated by MEDDERS OIL COMPANY, INC. (P-5 558355) in the BALT (TANNEHILL) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 68456District 8AField 05355380OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$3.3 M
Jul 2002 – Oct 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$153 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
112
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 21 leases and 186 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1996-02-21
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2011-06-27.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ON THE LEASE. PRORATION PLATS ARE REQUIRED.

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
OilDisposition69,725 bbl$3,326,054
Casinghead gasProduction3,240 Mcf$20,373
Total$3,346,427

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 33.5744, -100.4849. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.57437, -100.48486 · 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
3,910 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 3,910 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 2012
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-2693246833,910 ftJun 2012

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 (112)

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

112 months

Oct 20110084.983.65$0
Sep 20110083.623.99$0
Aug 20110083.404.15$0
Jul 20110094.144.52$0
Jun 20113623092.904.64$33,769
May 2011473098.134.40$4,744
Apr 201117930105.964.33$19,097
Mar 20111843096.364.06$17,852
Feb 20111853085.644.18$15,969
Jan 20111873086.504.59$16,313
Dec 20101853085.734.35$15,990
Nov 20103573080.843.80$28,974
Oct 20101783078.103.51$14,007
Sep 20101823072.633.98$13,338
Aug 20101823073.684.42$13,542
Jul 20101813072.554.74$13,274
Jun 20103583070.364.91$25,336
May 20101813071.124.24$13,000
Apr 20101843081.694.12$15,155
Mar 20101883078.394.39$14,869
Feb 20101843073.585.44$13,702
Jan 20103553074.365.96$26,577
Dec 20091793071.445.48$12,952
Nov 20091883074.593.75$14,135
Oct 20091833072.544.11$13,398
Sep 20091733065.543.06$11,430
Aug 20093543067.423.22$23,963
Jul 20091793061.133.46$11,046
Jun 20091803066.163.90$12,026
May 20093683054.743.93$20,262
Apr 20091813046.773.59$8,573
Mar 20093633042.144.06$15,419
Feb 20093693032.814.63$12,246
Jan 20095453035.865.37$19,705
Dec 20081813037.105.98$6,894
Nov 20083763055.496.86$21,070
Oct 20083653075.246.92$27,670
Sep 200817730101.767.88$18,248
Aug 200836930114.228.48$42,402
Jul 200818930131.0811.39$25,116
Jun 200837230131.3313.03$49,246
May 200819630123.1711.57$24,489
Apr 200836830110.3110.45$40,908
Mar 200836730101.909.66$37,687
Feb 20085323092.538.77$49,489
Jan 20083733090.388.21$33,958
Dec 20073363088.337.30$29,898
Nov 20073613091.677.29$33,312
Oct 20073563082.856.92$29,702
Sep 20075463075.846.24$41,596
Aug 20075153069.066.39$35,758
Jul 20073483070.906.39$24,865
Jun 20075313062.007.55$33,148
May 20073573058.747.85$21,206
Apr 20075543059.617.81$33,258
Mar 20075513056.927.30$31,582
Feb 20075553055.108.22$30,827
Jan 20073653050.306.73$18,561
Dec 20065313056.656.92$30,289
Nov 20065553054.207.62$30,310
Oct 20065393054.906.01$29,772
Sep 20065483060.085.04$33,075
Aug 20066993068.717.34$48,248
Jul 20065143069.376.34$35,846
Jun 20065573066.286.38$37,109
May 20066863066.016.42$45,476
Apr 20067023064.397.36$45,423
Mar 20067263056.707.08$41,377
Feb 20065673057.597.75$32,886
Jan 20067413060.598.93$45,165
Dec 20059253054.9413.42$51,222
Nov 20057023054.6910.59$38,710
Oct 20056973058.3413.80$41,077
Sep 20056963061.4512.08$43,132
Aug 20058793061.519.80$54,361
Jul 20051,0403055.697.84$58,153
Jun 20056643052.337.38$34,969
May 20058523045.226.65$38,727
Apr 20058203049.207.36$40,565
Mar 20058183050.377.15$41,417
Feb 20056743045.226.31$30,668
Jan 20051,0133043.166.32$43,911
Dec 20048223039.866.75$32,967
Nov 20048143045.286.33$37,048
Oct 20049993049.706.52$49,846
Sep 20048433043.245.28$36,610
Aug 20049023042.375.55$38,384
Jul 20048573038.286.08$32,988
Jun 20041,0793036.106.43$39,145
May 20041,1893037.486.49$44,759
Apr 20048563034.475.86$29,682
Mar 20041,0423034.365.53$35,969
Feb 20048643032.455.51$28,202
Jan 20041,2293032.036.30$39,554
Dec 20031,2423030.266.30$37,772
Nov 20031,0713028.804.60$30,983
Oct 20031,0583028.174.76$29,947
Sep 20031,2073026.314.75$31,899
Aug 20031,4213029.765.13$42,443
Jul 20031,4003029.415.17$41,329
Jun 20031,1583028.565.98$33,252
May 20031,3783026.595.97$36,820
Apr 20031,4053026.675.41$37,634
Mar 20031,5933031.146.10$49,789
Feb 20031,2513033.487.93$42,121
Jan 20031,7713030.315.58$53,846
Dec 20021,4093026.914.85$38,062
Nov 20021,6203024.664.14$40,073
Oct 20021,5913026.464.23$42,225
Sep 20021,7983027.443.64$49,446
Aug 20021,6273025.963.16$42,332
Jul 20027233024.583.06$17,863

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.

Jun 2011 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  362 bbl  × $ 92.90 =    $33,630
Casinghead gas        30 Mcf  × $  4.64 =       $139

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Month total                                  $33,769

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/68456 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.