CROSS, D.

Operated by ORYX ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 627127) in the PEARSALL (AUSTIN CHALK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 12842District 01Field 69981125OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$365 k
Jan 1993 – Jul 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
55
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead gas

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 1,992 leases and 3,388 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1936-12-28
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
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 2025-06-17.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: LEASE PLAT. PRORATION PLAT IS NOT 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
OilDisposition22,876 bbl$364,823
Casinghead gasProduction23,230 Mcf$0
Total$364,823

23,230 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 40 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 28.5800, -99.3467. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.58000, -99.34673 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
9,463 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
5.5 years
median over 1 well

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 9,463 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 1991
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 1997
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 5.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 5.5 years and 5.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2833131219,463 ftDec 1991Jun 1997Yes

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 (55)

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

55 months

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 199639019.43$758
Apr 1996642321.51$1,377
Mar 199621521919.38$4,167
Feb 1996838716.98$1,409
Jan 199638388817.07$6,538
Dec 199529178717.19$5,002
Nov 199550784016.00$8,112
Oct 199570393115.43$10,847
Sep 199569965016.18$11,310
Aug 199544942515.92$7,148
Jul 199546670015.24$7,102
Jun 199546275116.41$7,581
May 199558648217.56$10,290
Apr 199532824117.73$5,815
Mar 199557952216.44$9,519
Feb 199556726316.58$9,401
Jan 199525530415.92$4,060
Dec 1994199715.03$286
Nov 199412417215.90$1,972
Oct 1994912215.58$1,418
Sep 19942196215.29$3,349
Aug 199448853716.13$7,871
Jul 199461893617.56$10,852
Jun 19941,0601,05517.09$18,115
May 19941,38164715.88$21,930
Apr 19941,12181414.14$15,851
Mar 19941,0151,05812.46$12,647
Feb 199449041812.50$6,125
Jan 199451352412.66$6,495
Dec 199360764212.33$7,484
Nov 199381085614.49$11,737
Oct 199353877415.85$8,527
Sep 199385078815.03$12,776
Aug 199375381715.66$11,792
Jul 199383888115.46$12,955
Jun 199366761316.79$11,199
May 199377862917.68$13,755
Apr 199394289018.05$17,003
Mar 199386172518.14$15,619
Feb 199366077417.90$11,814
Jan 199375738616.93$12,816

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 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   39 bbl  × $ 19.43 =       $758
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                     $758

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. 01/O/12842 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.