BIG MULE (5500 SAND), District 01, Texas

A field is the Railroad Commission's unit of geology and of regulation. Its spacing rule is what decides how many wells an acreage can hold.

Leases
11
with a page here
Operators
5
Value, all time
$3.6 M
52% of the register's 21
Discovered
1983-01-24
Oil and gas

Our estimate: volumes the operator filed with the Commission, valued at the EIA first-purchase price for that month. It is not a payment anyone received, and it is not a royalty. It sums the 11 leases in this field that have a page here — 52% of the register's 21 — so it understates the field.

Production, 2025

The Railroad Commission's Oil and Gas Annual Report for 2025, its most recent. These are the state's figures for the whole field, not ours.

WellsIn the fieldProducingProduced in 2025Also producedCumulative
Oil1000 bbl0 mcfcasinghead1,213,060 bblsince discovery
Gas200 mcf0 bblcondensate3,588,032 mcfsince 1970

This field filed no production for 2025. It remains on the Commission's schedules.

The discovery well's oil measured 45.0° API gravity, perforated at 5,556 ft.

Spacing rule

What the Commission requires of a well on this field.

WellsRuleEffectiveFrom the lease lineBetween wellsAcres per unitMax diagonal
GasB1983-07-11467 ft933 ft402,500 ft
OilB467 ft933 ft402,500 ft

Commission remarks: FIELD RULES EFF. 7-11-83 PER DKT. #1-80078.

County

Leases in this field

Every lease here files this field's number with the Commission and has a page on this site.

Field number 08001700, from the Railroad Commission's field register. The register's own index resolves 21 leases and 49 wells to this field by name, over every lease in Texas rather than only those with a page here. It resolves a lease by NAME and refuses an ambiguous one, so it counts nothing for a field that shares its name with another — which is why the lease count above comes from the field number instead.