GRIFFITH "61"

Operated by SMITH ENERGY OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 790956) in the CY-JACK (LWCC) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 69942District 8AField 22588500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$765 k
May 2012 – Apr 2016
Value, last 12 filed months
$52 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
48
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 23 leases and 26 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
2012-08-21
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 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 2014-05-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: RECINDED AND STATEWIDE RULES IN EFFECT.

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
OilDisposition9,138 bbl$747,115
Casinghead gasProduction4,884 Mcf$18,230
Total$765,344

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 33.0709, -102.5349. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.07087, -102.53491 · 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
12,330 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
3.8 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 12,330 ft.

Completions filed
May 2012
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2016
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 3.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3.8 years and 3.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-44532303112,330 ftMay 2012Mar 2016Yes

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 (48)

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

48 months

Apr 20160036.561.99$0
Mar 20160033.011.79$0
Feb 20160026.472.06$0
Jan 2016286027.352.36$7,822
Dec 20150032.362.00$0
Nov 201520010038.792.17$7,975
Oct 2015012243.552.43$296
Sep 2015012142.992.76$334
Aug 201529612740.162.87$12,252
Jul 2015013048.152.95$383
Jun 201519811856.152.88$11,458
May 201519813955.212.96$11,342
Apr 20152019949.822.71$10,282
Mar 201514712842.892.93$6,680
Feb 201547844.662.98$411
Jan 2015010243.433.10$316
Dec 201420313954.693.59$11,601
Nov 201420012670.464.25$14,628
Oct 201420013878.303.90$16,198
Sep 2014015686.164.05$631
Aug 201439717589.394.04$36,194
Jul 2014012796.564.18$531
Jun 201416315398.164.74$16,725
May 201416314494.734.73$16,122
Apr 201415914995.944.81$15,971
Mar 201416318895.895.06$16,581
Feb 2014012597.406.19$774
Jan 201432316790.404.86$30,011
Dec 201316217691.824.35$15,641
Nov 20131601988.853.74$14,287
Oct 20131672097.423.78$16,345
Sep 201316720104.113.72$17,461
Aug 20133297104.253.52$34,323
Jul 201316455102.523.72$17,018
Jun 20131625594.403.93$15,509
May 201332411094.834.15$31,181
Apr 20131758393.964.28$16,798
Mar 201316314093.623.91$15,808
Feb 201332716991.233.42$30,410
Jan 201316325591.603.42$15,803
Dec 201233716586.773.42$29,806
Nov 201232616186.953.62$28,929
Oct 2012331089.383.40$29,585
Sep 2012330094.672.92$31,241
Aug 2012495092.662.91$45,867
Jul 201283739885.133.02$72,456
Jun 2012517079.822.52$41,267
May 20121091.612.49$92

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 2016 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  286 bbl  × $ 27.35 =     $7,822
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.36 =         $0

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Month total                                   $7,822

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/69942 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.