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DESPERADO W 538

Operated by RILEY PERMIAN OPERATING CO, LLC (P-5 712217) in the PLATANG (SAN ANDRES) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 70700District 8AField 71823666Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$24.3 M
May 2017 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$1.6 M
at the published price for each month
Months reported
109
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead gas

The PLATANG (SAN ANDRES) field

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 277 leases and 646 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1955-05-15
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 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2026-06-02.

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: “AND VERTICAL WELLS ARE INDEPENDENT AND MAY OVERLAP.”

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
OilDisposition331,929 bbl$20,821,585
Casinghead gasProduction963,711 Mcf$3,454,079
Total$24,275,665

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 33.1387, -102.9891. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.13874, -102.98915 · 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
5,261 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 5,261 ft.

Completions filed
May 2017
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-501367674H5,261 ftMay 2017——

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 (109)

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

109 months

May 20261,2729,244106.413.05$163,509
Apr 20261,4157,99098.932.87$162,915
Mar 20261,3587,64189.753.15$145,945
Feb 20261,2827,80563.503.75$110,678
Jan 20261,5679,26359.138.00$166,741
Dec 20251,3238,89656.664.41$114,222
Nov 20251,5919,26358.593.93$129,587
Oct 20251,6169,00959.383.30$125,731
Sep 20251,4499,62562.743.08$120,526
Aug 20251,4329,96063.933.01$121,575
Jul 20251,51910,54066.743.32$136,320
Jun 20251,61510,16066.483.13$139,153
May 20251,60710,40260.553.23$130,926
Apr 20251,47210,17762.363.54$127,852
Mar 20251,5469,98967.704.27$147,300
Feb 20251,4989,25970.884.34$146,370
Jan 20251,80411,04974.324.28$181,348
Dec 20241,5376,54168.993.12$126,455
Nov 20241,7108,36969.052.20$136,474
Oct 20241,48810,84171.372.28$130,931
Sep 20241,47611,15769.612.36$129,124
Aug 20241,68711,16075.632.06$150,618
Jul 20241,92912,27079.932.15$180,524
Jun 20241,75211,54778.082.63$167,211
May 20241,92911,85078.812.20$178,076
Apr 20241,94110,72584.451.66$181,712
Mar 20242,16013,07480.301.55$193,649
Feb 20241,97712,36576.091.78$172,485
Jan 20242,66413,65773.023.30$239,561
Dec 20233,21312,91271.262.61$262,668
Nov 20232,55012,30577.892.81$233,167
Oct 20232,65512,58985.443.09$265,709
Sep 20233,17910,94689.042.74$312,996
Aug 20233,09511,25380.522.67$279,287
Jul 20232,11711,15174.852.64$187,916
Jun 20231,5819,62268.962.26$130,757
May 20232,32615,62370.622.23$199,061
Apr 20232,3461,41678.122.24$186,438
Mar 20232,15515,98672.852.39$195,249
Feb 20231,5909,21475.112.47$142,144
Jan 20231,9188,84176.533.39$176,735
Dec 20222,0438,70376.415.73$205,966
Nov 20221,6898,72885.005.65$192,845
Oct 20222,3908,93287.185.86$260,735
Sep 20222,0639,87784.888.16$255,740
Aug 20222,31710,85894.529.13$318,106
Jul 20222,56613,435101.587.54$361,982
Jun 20222,60712,155115.097.98$397,003
May 20222,35611,511109.378.43$354,748
Apr 20222,40712,031104.226.84$333,121
Mar 20222,48012,691108.885.08$334,447
Feb 20222,29911,21591.054.86$263,816
Jan 20222,70413,12481.844.54$280,848
Dec 20212,63912,97671.323.90$238,808
Nov 20212,47812,39477.435.24$256,777
Oct 20212,75312,99179.795.71$293,891
Sep 20212,79712,79269.865.35$263,847
Aug 20213,14612,19966.024.22$259,186
Jul 20213,04513,42970.783.98$269,000
Jun 20213,00613,07169.493.38$253,075
May 20213,15111,84863.483.02$235,779
Apr 20213,4759,51860.362.76$236,006
Mar 20212,1325,15861.302.72$144,706
Feb 20211,9204,08157.805.55$133,617
Jan 20212,4236,19650.412.81$139,556
Dec 20202,5395,11944.642.68$127,037
Nov 20202,3244,34338.772.71$101,856
Oct 20201,8724,44936.972.48$80,234
Sep 20202,0516,47637.091.99$88,966
Aug 20202,0895,39939.982.39$96,395
Jul 20202,0715,37238.371.83$89,269
Jun 20202,2085,49534.901.69$86,347
May 20202,2795,26016.921.81$48,106
Apr 20202,3385,08614.751.80$43,663
Mar 20202,3785,29630.341.86$81,979
Feb 20202,6585,15749.881.98$142,795
Jan 20202,8525,61657.252.09$175,041
Dec 20192,9025,33859.012.30$183,548
Nov 20193,0985,51455.302.75$186,487
Oct 20193,3255,27253.472.42$190,538
Sep 20192,7154,94355.052.66$162,596
Aug 20192,7575,29353.112.30$158,621
Jul 20192,3395,29756.272.46$144,646
Jun 20193,2896,71252.782.49$190,314
May 20193,5557,63358.482.74$228,813
Apr 20193,1155,99162.632.75$211,572
Mar 20193,4325,85756.803.06$212,872
Feb 20192,5784,78950.852.79$144,463
Jan 20193,6196,35246.033.23$187,088
Dec 20184,1326,72246.594.19$220,644
Nov 20184,0016,52152.934.24$239,404
Oct 20185,0837,70961.443.40$338,495
Sep 20186,2768,40159.543.11$399,783
Aug 20186,6268,33259.403.07$419,135
Jul 20185,6916,02565.142.93$388,376
Jun 20187,6538,21360.183.08$485,828
May 20186,45610,53765.382.90$452,659
Apr 20186,4579,95863.842.90$441,101
Mar 20187,1559,98261.222.79$465,847
Feb 20185,8966,68261.782.77$382,738
Jan 20188,29814,12162.874.01$578,311
Dec 20178,86315,20857.272.92$552,014
Nov 201710,32116,32355.423.12$622,891
Oct 20173,0213,81849.292.98$160,297
Sep 20175,5397,50147.523.09$286,371
Aug 20177,339045.373.00$332,970
Jul 20179,191043.873.09$403,209
Jun 201710,387042.493.09$441,344
May 20171,934045.373.26$87,746

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.

May 2026 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                1,272 bbl  × $106.41 =   $135,354
Casinghead gas     9,244 Mcf  × $  3.05 =    $28,156

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Month total                                 $163,509

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/70700 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.