ARNOLD

Operated by CHISHOLM OPERATING, INC. (P-5 149454) in the ROAD BEND (TANNEHILL) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 68937District 8AField 77102380Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$8.4 M
May 2006 – Nov 2010
Value, last 12 filed months
$557 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
55
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 5 leases and 15 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
2004-04-01
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

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.

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
OilDisposition120,574 bbl$8,208,404
Casinghead gasProduction24,303 Mcf$188,181
Total$8,396,585

Wells on this lease (4)

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 33.4244, -100.8567. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

33.42424, -100.85674 · 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
50.0%
2 of 4 wells
With a plug date
50.0%
2 of 4 wells
Median depth
5,138 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
17.0 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
250.0%
A plug date is filed
250.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
250.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
250.0%

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

Between 5,060 and 5,300 ft, median 5,138 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
May 2006 – Aug 2015
4 of 4 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 2023 – Jul 2023
2 of 4 wells; 2 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 17.0 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16.9 years and 17.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-1253105845,300 ftAug 2015
42-1253104535,195 ftSep 2006Jul 2023Yes
42-1253104025,060 ftJun 2006
42-1253102615,081 ftMay 2006Jun 2023Yes

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 (55)

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

55 months

Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 20101,307072.554.74$94,823
Jun 20101,113070.364.91$78,311
May 2010761071.124.24$54,122
Apr 2010745081.694.12$60,859
Mar 20101,125078.394.39$88,189
Feb 2010756073.585.44$55,626
Jan 2010761074.365.96$56,588
Dec 2009959071.445.48$68,511
Nov 2009752074.593.75$56,092
Oct 2009999072.544.11$72,467
Sep 2009747065.543.06$48,958
Aug 20091,094067.423.22$73,757
Jul 2009988061.133.46$60,396
Jun 2009942066.163.90$62,323
May 20099261,05654.743.93$54,835
Apr 20099451,17646.773.59$48,417
Mar 20091,131042.144.06$47,660
Feb 20091,081032.814.63$35,468
Jan 20091,138035.865.37$40,809
Dec 20081,154037.105.98$42,813
Nov 20081,29682655.496.86$77,582
Oct 20081,331075.246.92$100,144
Sep 20081,319726101.767.88$139,940
Aug 20081,3130114.228.48$149,971
Jul 20081,313947131.0811.39$182,894
Jun 20081,305839131.3313.03$182,320
May 20081,5081,097123.1711.57$198,437
Apr 20081,475985110.3110.45$173,005
Mar 20081,8991,034101.909.66$203,501
Feb 20081,70561192.538.77$163,122
Jan 20081,69069290.388.21$158,421
Dec 20072,0561,16888.337.30$190,135
Nov 20072,2831,04691.677.29$216,910
Oct 20072,8351,34282.856.92$244,169
Sep 20072,8121,32675.846.24$221,542
Aug 20073,1901,68669.066.39$231,071
Jul 20073,5281,26270.906.39$258,197
Jun 20073,8671,78162.007.55$253,198
May 20074,8481,71658.747.85$298,236
Apr 20075,2981,13759.617.81$324,688
Mar 20076,61893356.927.30$383,509
Feb 20075,69091755.108.22$321,053
Jan 20075,754050.306.73$289,426
Dec 20065,532056.656.92$313,388
Nov 20064,905054.207.62$265,851
Oct 20064,693054.906.01$257,646
Sep 20064,713060.085.04$283,157
Aug 20065,091068.717.34$349,803
Jul 20065,456069.376.34$378,483
Jun 20064,153066.286.38$275,261
May 20061,674066.016.42$110,501

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.

Jul 2010 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                1,307 bbl  × $ 72.55 =    $94,823
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.74 =         $0

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Month total                                  $94,823

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/68937 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.