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FORKS SOUTH BALT UNIT

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 70869District 8AField 05355380OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$28.6 M
Apr 2019 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$5.6 M
at the published price for each month
Months reported
86
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead gas

The BALT (TANNEHILL) 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 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
OilDisposition426,017 bbl$28,594,110
Casinghead gasProduction3,880 Mcf$12,583
Total$28,606,693

Wells on this lease (53)

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 33.5356, -100.4697. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 2.9 miles.

33.53919, -100.47378 · 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
1.9%
1 of 53 wells
With a plug date
3.8%
2 of 53 wells
Median depth
3,950 ft
53 wells filed one
Completion to plug
18.3 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
11.9%
A plug date is filed
23.8%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
11.9%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
5196.2%

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, 53 of 53 wells. Median 3,950 ft, with the middle half between 3,910 and 3,975 ft; the shallowest is 3,880 ft and the deepest 4,020 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, 53 of 53 wells, Jan 2000 – Dec 2025. 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 2000 – Dec 2025
53 of 53 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2000 – Aug 2019
2 of 53 wells; 51 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 18.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 18.3 years and 18.3 years. A further 1 well is excluded, because the last completion the Commission holds for it is dated after the plug date. Both dates are the latest of their kind on the wellbore record and they are filed separately, so the two need not run in order. The gap is the distance between two filed dates — it is not a statement of how long the well produced.

53 wells

42-26932393C 44,020 ftDec 2025——
42-26932412C 54,020 ftJan 2025——
42-26932425G 34,000 ftJan 2025——
42-26932515G 63,940 ftJan 2025——
42-26932524C 123,980 ftJan 2025——
42-26932836G 273,950 ftAug 2024——
42-26932916G 343,953 ftAug 2024——
42-26932774G 173,925 ftAug 2022——
42-26932802C 173,940 ftAug 2022——
42-269323941023,950 ftJun 2021Sep 2000—
42-26932801C 163,900 ftJun 2021——
42-26932424C 63,970 ftJun 2021——
42-26932538C 133,925 ftAug 2020——
42-269329921014,000 ftJul 2020——
42-26932953G 373,975 ftJul 2015——
42-26932952G 363,950 ftJul 2015——
42-26932949C 213,970 ftJun 2015——
42-26932918G 353,960 ftJul 2014——
42-26932914C 203,980 ftJun 2014——
42-26932905G 333,975 ftFeb 2014——
42-26932895G 323,950 ftOct 2013——
42-26932854E 93,897 ftJun 2013——
42-26932855G 303,960 ftMar 2013——
42-26932856G 293,910 ftMar 2013——
42-26932843G 283,924 ftJun 2012——
42-26932825G 263,900 ftOct 2011——
42-26932815C 183,900 ftMay 2011——
42-26932810G 253,925 ftMay 2011——
42-26932798G 213,946 ftOct 2010——
42-26932800G 243,910 ftOct 2010——
42-26932785G 223,940 ftApr 2010——
42-26932784G 203,910 ftApr 2010——
42-26932778G 194,013 ftNov 2009——
42-26932779G 183,933 ftOct 2009——
42-26932773G 163,900 ftJun 2009——
42-26932750G 153,900 ftDec 2008——
42-26932749G 143,900 ftNov 2008——
42-26932734C 153,880 ftJul 2008——
42-26932729G 133,940 ftJul 2008——
42-26932709G 113,930 ftFeb 2008——
42-26932708G 103,891 ftFeb 2008——
42-26932699E 63,880 ftOct 2007——
42-26932567G 73,900 ftJun 2005——
42-26932500X 23,985 ftJun 2003——
42-26932487C 114,000 ftNov 2002——
42-26932464C 103,970 ftMay 2002——
42-26932460G 53,960 ftMar 2002——
42-26932455C 93,960 ftMar 2002——
42-26932449E 23,979 ftJan 2002——
42-26932440G 44,020 ftOct 2001——
42-26932438C 73,970 ftOct 2001——
42-26932417G 24,000 ftApr 2001Aug 2019Yes
42-26932359C 14,000 ftJan 2000——

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 (86)

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

86 months

May 20266,84710106.413.05$728,620
Apr 20266,0951098.932.87$603,007
Mar 20266,4211089.753.15$576,316
Feb 20266,2851063.503.75$399,135
Jan 20266,9741059.138.00$412,453
Dec 20256,8761056.664.41$389,638
Nov 20256,4561058.593.93$378,296
Oct 20256,3631059.383.30$377,868
Sep 20255,9421062.743.08$372,832
Aug 20257,0331063.933.01$449,650
Jul 20256,5021066.743.32$433,977
Jun 20257,4571066.483.13$495,773
May 20256,5981060.553.23$399,541
Apr 20255,4971062.363.54$342,828
Mar 20254,4871067.704.27$303,813
Feb 20254,1831070.884.34$296,534
Jan 20254,4461074.324.28$330,470
Dec 20243,9721068.993.12$274,059
Nov 20244,5981069.052.20$317,514
Oct 20244,2641071.372.28$304,344
Sep 20244,5571069.612.36$317,236
Aug 20244,6221075.632.06$349,583
Jul 20244,5111079.932.15$360,586
Jun 20244,3361078.082.63$338,581
May 20244,6211078.812.20$364,203
Apr 20245,0241084.451.66$424,293
Mar 20244,5111080.301.55$362,249
Feb 20244,3521076.091.78$331,162
Jan 20244,9841073.023.30$363,965
Dec 20234,5641071.262.61$325,257
Nov 20234,5841077.892.81$357,076
Oct 20234,9201085.443.09$420,396
Sep 20234,6881089.042.74$417,447
Aug 20234,4721080.522.67$360,112
Jul 20234,4081074.852.64$329,965
Jun 20235,0291068.962.26$346,822
May 20234,5851070.622.23$323,815
Apr 20234,8331078.122.24$377,576
Mar 20234,4061072.852.39$321,001
Feb 20234,2161075.112.47$316,688
Jan 20234,1731076.533.39$319,394
Dec 20224,3461076.415.73$332,135
Nov 20223,7601085.005.65$319,656
Oct 20223,9331087.185.86$342,938
Sep 20223,7581084.888.16$319,061
Aug 20224,1621094.529.13$393,484
Jul 20223,95710101.587.54$402,027
Jun 20224,30810115.097.98$495,887
May 20223,43210109.378.43$375,442
Apr 20224,31790104.226.84$450,533
Mar 20223,44590108.885.08$375,548
Feb 20223,6799091.054.86$335,410
Jan 20224,0009081.844.54$327,768
Dec 20213,9659071.323.90$283,135
Nov 20214,2389077.435.24$328,620
Oct 20214,5679079.795.71$364,915
Sep 20213,8409069.865.35$268,744
Aug 20213,9349066.024.22$260,103
Jul 20214,2989070.783.98$304,571
Jun 20213,9759069.493.38$276,527
May 20214,5599063.483.02$289,677
Apr 20214,0379060.362.76$243,922
Mar 20214,4439061.302.72$272,600
Feb 20214,3149057.805.55$249,849
Jan 20214,3029050.412.81$217,117
Dec 20205,3179044.642.68$237,592
Nov 20204,4589038.772.71$173,080
Oct 20205,0789036.972.48$187,957
Sep 20205,2009037.091.99$193,047
Aug 20205,3149039.982.39$212,668
Jul 20205,7489038.371.83$220,715
Jun 20205,0699034.901.69$177,060
May 20205,1339016.921.81$87,014
Apr 20205,8639014.751.80$86,642
Mar 20205,6009030.341.86$170,071
Feb 20205,7719049.881.98$288,036
Jan 20206,1729057.252.09$353,536
Dec 20196,0629059.012.30$357,926
Nov 20196,5019055.302.75$359,753
Oct 20196,2649053.472.42$335,154
Sep 20195,92112055.052.66$326,270
Aug 20196,67512053.112.30$354,786
Jul 20196,03112056.272.46$339,660
Jun 20196,01112052.782.49$317,560
May 20196,56812058.482.74$384,425
Apr 20190062.632.75$0

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                6,847 bbl  × $106.41 =   $728,589
Casinghead gas        10 Mcf  × $  3.05 =        $30

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Month total                                 $728,620

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/70869 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.