FORGUSON ET AL

Name: FORGUSON ET AL lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by PATTERSON PETROLEUM, INC. (P-5 643392) in the KELLY-SNYDER field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 9784District 8AField 48583001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$137 k

Jan 1993 – Sep 1997

Value, last 12 filed months

$12 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The KELLY-SNYDER 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 73 leases and 2,795 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1948-09-07

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 10 acres. The field rule took effect on 2021-04-13.

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: “CAPACITY EXEMPT ALLOWABLE; NO PRODUCING RATE RESTRICTIONS”

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	8,246 bbl	$136,557
Casinghead gas	Production	5,830 Mcf	$475
Total			$137,032

5,640 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 (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 32.7249, -100.9195. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.72490, -100.91948 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

6,795 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

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 6,795 ft.

Plug dates filed

Aug 1997

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-41502531	1	6,795 ft	—	Aug 1997	Yes

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 (57)

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

57 months


Sep 1997	0	0	17.74	2.95	$0
Aug 1997	0	0	17.86	2.55	$0
Jul 1997	0	0	17.58	2.25	$0
Jun 1997	0	0	17.24	2.26	$0
May 1997	220	47	18.97	2.31	$4,282
Apr 1997	39	39	17.88	2.08	$779
Mar 1997	15	20	18.95	1.94	$323
Feb 1997	62	38	20.49	2.21	$1,354
Jan 1997	80	46	23.48	3.54	$2,041
Dec 1996	0	44	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	64	27	21.97	—	$1,406
Oct 1996	61	101	23.31	—	$1,422
Sep 1996	149	80	22.22	—	$3,311
Aug 1996	48	81	20.26	—	$972
Jul 1996	0	83	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	106	79	18.73	—	$1,985
May 1996	171	125	19.43	—	$3,323
Apr 1996	222	133	21.51	—	$4,775
Mar 1996	53	141	19.38	—	$1,027
Feb 1996	154	154	16.98	—	$2,615
Jan 1996	185	214	17.07	—	$3,158
Dec 1995	145	205	17.19	—	$2,493
Nov 1995	124	272	16.00	—	$1,984
Oct 1995	158	63	15.43	—	$2,438
Sep 1995	124	96	16.18	—	$2,006
Aug 1995	148	93	15.92	—	$2,356
Jul 1995	136	116	15.24	—	$2,073
Jun 1995	147	142	16.41	—	$2,412
May 1995	104	137	17.56	—	$1,826
Apr 1995	163	128	17.73	—	$2,890
Mar 1995	256	139	16.44	—	$4,209
Feb 1995	220	134	16.58	—	$3,648
Jan 1995	219	147	15.92	—	$3,486
Dec 1994	253	135	15.03	—	$3,803
Nov 1994	121	130	15.90	—	$1,924
Oct 1994	190	132	15.58	—	$2,960
Sep 1994	245	145	15.29	—	$3,746
Aug 1994	265	94	16.13	—	$4,274
Jul 1994	227	98	17.56	—	$3,986
Jun 1994	241	111	17.09	—	$4,119
May 1994	117	115	15.88	—	$1,858
Apr 1994	177	124	14.14	—	$2,503
Mar 1994	306	116	12.46	—	$3,813
Feb 1994	278	109	12.50	—	$3,475
Jan 1994	108	111	12.66	—	$1,367
Dec 1993	142	106	12.33	—	$1,751
Nov 1993	231	57	14.49	—	$3,347
Oct 1993	109	72	15.85	—	$1,728
Sep 1993	248	104	15.03	—	$3,727
Aug 1993	121	131	15.66	—	$1,895
Jul 1993	223	130	15.46	—	$3,448
Jun 1993	216	124	16.79	—	$3,627
May 1993	193	130	17.68	—	$3,412
Apr 1993	111	99	18.05	—	$2,004
Mar 1993	204	126	18.14	—	$3,701
Feb 1993	100	95	17.90	—	$1,790
Jan 1993	247	112	16.93	—	$4,182

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 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  220 bbl  × $ 18.97 =     $4,173
Casinghead gas        47 Mcf  × $  2.31 =       $109

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Month total                                   $4,282

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/9784 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.