ELLWOOD "A"

Operated by APACHE CORPORATION (P-5 27200) in the SMYER, N. (CANYON) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 9174District 8AField 84347333OilCasinghead gasSave
Value, all time
$1.6 M
Jan 1993 – Dec 2010
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
216
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead gas

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
OilDisposition99,053 bbl$1,567,954
Casinghead gasProduction68,327 Mcf$0
Total$1,567,954

68,327 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 30 months, carries no value here. No free Texas wellhead gas price exists before 1997, so those months are left out of the total rather than valued at zero. The total above is therefore a floor, not an estimate.

Wells on this lease (17)

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 33.6572, -102.1896. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 2.9 miles.

33.65715, -102.19110 · 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%
17 of 17 wells
With a plug date
64.7%
11 of 17 wells
Median depth
10,075 ft
17 wells filed one
Completion to plug
24.2 years
median over 8 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
17100.0%
A plug date is filed
1164.7%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1164.7%
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

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Total depth in feet, 17 of 17 wells. Median 10,075 ft, with the middle half between 10,052 and 10,100 ft; the shallowest is 9,704 ft and the deepest 10,110 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

80s
90s
00s
10s

Last completion by decade, 14 of 17 wells, Feb 1980 – Apr 2016. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Feb 1980 – Apr 2016
14 of 17 wells; 3 filed none
Plug dates filed
Jan 1976 – Dec 2025
11 of 17 wells; 6 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 24.2 years across the 8 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 21.3 years and 25.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

17 wells

42-2190079023D10,100 ftJan 1976Yes
42-2190161255 U10,097 ftAug 1985Yes
42-219016216410,052 ftMay 1986Yes
42-2190161760 U10,105 ftApr 2016Yes
42-2190079427 U10,055 ftJun 2015Yes
42-219348781789,705 ftMay 2009Dec 2025Yes
42-219327631439,800 ftJan 2003Yes
42-21901616599,704 ftSep 1994Yes
42-2190080336 U10,065 ftFeb 1994Jul 2022Yes
42-2193276414410,100 ftApr 1992Yes
42-219016297210,036 ftMay 1985Oct 2010Yes
42-219007872010,100 ftMay 1985Jun 2008Yes
42-219007962910,068 ftDec 1984Nov 2007Yes
42-219016085110,110 ftOct 1984Yes
42-219007932610,096 ftJul 1984May 1989Yes
42-2190162366W10,075 ftOct 1982Dec 2007Yes
42-2193277414510,100 ftFeb 1980Aug 2006Yes

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 (216)

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

216 months

Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 20100072.554.74$0
Jun 20100070.364.91$0
May 20100071.124.24$0
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 20100078.394.39$0
Feb 20100073.585.44$0
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20090042.144.06$0
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19952973916.41$4,874
May 19951,08674017.56$19,070
Apr 19951,26770917.73$22,464
Mar 19951,19882716.44$19,695
Feb 19951,6291,24916.58$27,009
Jan 19951,9941,23315.92$31,744
Dec 19942,9391,90015.03$44,173
Nov 19942,5562,04615.90$40,640
Oct 19942,4131,76615.58$37,595
Sep 19942,7202,17715.29$41,589
Aug 19943,3973,93116.13$54,794
Jul 19943,6383,20817.56$63,883
Jun 19943,0773,33117.09$52,586
May 19943,3892,58215.88$53,817
Apr 19942,8301,77714.14$40,016
Mar 19943,6532,75112.46$45,516
Feb 19943,2762,23212.50$40,950
Jan 19943,6232,65712.66$45,867
Dec 19934,0562,50512.33$50,010
Nov 19934,1962,64214.49$60,800
Oct 19934,1172,62615.85$65,254
Sep 19934,1782,53715.03$62,795
Aug 19934,1032,52015.66$64,253
Jul 19934,2953,33815.46$66,401
Jun 19934,2473,33216.79$71,307
May 19934,8862,82317.68$86,384
Apr 19934,7272,53618.05$85,322
Mar 19935,0442,79418.14$91,498
Feb 19934,7282,69917.90$84,631
Jan 19935,4942,82016.93$93,013

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 1995 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  297 bbl  × $ 16.41 =     $4,874
Casinghead gas        39 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $4,874

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/9174 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.