CAGE RANCH
Operated by TXCO RESOURCES INC. (P-5 875172) in the COMANCHE-HALSELL (6500) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.
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 47 leases and 159 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.
A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 2020-06-16.
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: “TOP ALLOWABLE 800 BBLS PER DAY, EFFECTIVE 06-16-20”
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 | 1,084,726 bbl | $82,053,259 |
| Total | $82,053,259 | ||
Wells on this lease (20)
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 28.5048, -100.2262. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 5.9 miles.
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.
What the state filed about each well
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, 20 of 20 wells. Median 6,841 ft, with the middle half between 6,773 and 6,916 ft; the shallowest is 681 ft and the deepest 7,097 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, 20 of 20 wells, Sep 2005 – Oct 2009. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.
Last completion to plug: a median of 7.9 years across the 17 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.2 years and 13.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.
20 wells
| 42-32333333 | 326H | 681 ft | Oct 2009 | — | — |
| 42-32333163 | 737H | 6,777 ft | Oct 2008 | Oct 2021 | Yes |
| 42-32332817 | 138 | 6,305 ft | Jul 2008 | Oct 2021 | Yes |
| 42-32333034 | 239H | 6,875 ft | Apr 2008 | Mar 2014 | Yes |
| 42-32332973 | 120H | 6,834 ft | Apr 2008 | Apr 2025 | Yes |
| 42-32332929 | 135H | 4,553 ft | Mar 2008 | May 2014 | Yes |
| 42-32332981 | 235H | 6,890 ft | Feb 2008 | Jul 2018 | Yes |
| 42-32332971 | 241H | 6,943 ft | Oct 2007 | — | — |
| 42-32332967 | 124H | 6,970 ft | Sep 2007 | Oct 2010 | Yes |
| 42-32332962 | 141H | 7,097 ft | Aug 2007 | Dec 2023 | Yes |
| 42-32332917 | 154H | 6,757 ft | Jun 2007 | Feb 2014 | Yes |
| 42-32332894 | 318H | 6,821 ft | May 2007 | Mar 2014 | Yes |
| 42-32332950 | 637H | 6,760 ft | May 2007 | Jun 2018 | Yes |
| 42-32332878 | 445D | 6,806 ft | Nov 2006 | Oct 2014 | Yes |
| 42-32332819 | 425 D | 6,907 ft | Oct 2006 | Oct 2010 | Yes |
| 42-32332872 | 237H | 6,788 ft | Jun 2006 | Apr 2014 | Yes |
| 42-32332831 | 345 | 7,040 ft | Mar 2006 | Jun 2018 | Yes |
| 42-32332822 | 139H | 6,879 ft | Nov 2005 | Oct 2021 | Yes |
| 42-32332818 | 137 | 6,847 ft | Oct 2005 | — | — |
| 42-32332815 | 325 | 7,032 ft | Sep 2005 | Oct 2010 | 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 (66)
Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.
66 months
| Jan 2011 | 0 | 86.50 | 4.59 | $0 |
| Dec 2010 | 0 | 85.73 | 4.35 | $0 |
| Nov 2010 | 0 | 80.84 | 3.80 | $0 |
| Oct 2010 | 0 | 78.10 | 3.51 | $0 |
| Sep 2010 | 0 | 72.63 | 3.98 | $0 |
| Aug 2010 | 0 | 73.68 | 4.42 | $0 |
| Jul 2010 | 0 | 72.55 | 4.74 | $0 |
| Jun 2010 | 0 | 70.36 | 4.91 | $0 |
| May 2010 | 0 | 71.12 | 4.24 | $0 |
| Apr 2010 | 0 | 81.69 | 4.12 | $0 |
| Mar 2010 | 0 | 78.39 | 4.39 | $0 |
| Feb 2010 | 17,814 | 73.58 | 5.44 | $1,310,754 |
| Jan 2010 | 14,149 | 74.36 | 5.96 | $1,052,120 |
| Dec 2009 | 14,715 | 71.44 | 5.48 | $1,051,240 |
| Nov 2009 | 16,706 | 74.59 | 3.75 | $1,246,101 |
| Oct 2009 | 13,088 | 72.54 | 4.11 | $949,404 |
| Sep 2009 | 10,452 | 65.54 | 3.06 | $685,024 |
| Aug 2009 | 11,742 | 67.42 | 3.22 | $791,646 |
| Jul 2009 | 10,290 | 61.13 | 3.46 | $629,028 |
| Jun 2009 | 11,462 | 66.16 | 3.90 | $758,326 |
| May 2009 | 11,715 | 54.74 | 3.93 | $641,279 |
| Apr 2009 | 12,324 | 46.77 | 3.59 | $576,393 |
| Mar 2009 | 12,755 | 42.14 | 4.06 | $537,496 |
| Feb 2009 | 13,107 | 32.81 | 4.63 | $430,041 |
| Jan 2009 | 13,874 | 35.86 | 5.37 | $497,522 |
| Dec 2008 | 16,056 | 37.10 | 5.98 | $595,678 |
| Nov 2008 | 19,345 | 55.49 | 6.86 | $1,073,454 |
| Oct 2008 | 25,813 | 75.24 | 6.92 | $1,942,170 |
| Sep 2008 | 19,108 | 101.76 | 7.88 | $1,944,430 |
| Aug 2008 | 19,627 | 114.22 | 8.48 | $2,241,796 |
| Jul 2008 | 25,956 | 131.08 | 11.39 | $3,402,312 |
| Jun 2008 | 31,406 | 131.33 | 13.03 | $4,124,550 |
| May 2008 | 39,389 | 123.17 | 11.57 | $4,851,543 |
| Apr 2008 | 39,789 | 110.31 | 10.45 | $4,389,125 |
| Mar 2008 | 13,562 | 101.90 | 9.66 | $1,381,968 |
| Feb 2008 | 21,081 | 92.53 | 8.77 | $1,950,625 |
| Jan 2008 | 29,937 | 90.38 | 8.21 | $2,705,706 |
| Dec 2007 | 36,274 | 88.33 | 7.30 | $3,204,082 |
| Nov 2007 | 36,167 | 91.67 | 7.29 | $3,315,429 |
| Oct 2007 | 56,753 | 82.85 | 6.92 | $4,701,986 |
| Sep 2007 | 44,836 | 75.84 | 6.24 | $3,400,362 |
| Aug 2007 | 18,116 | 69.06 | 6.39 | $1,251,091 |
| Jul 2007 | 7,314 | 70.90 | 6.39 | $518,563 |
| Jun 2007 | 25,298 | 62.00 | 7.55 | $1,568,476 |
| May 2007 | 23,764 | 58.74 | 7.85 | $1,395,897 |
| Apr 2007 | 3,960 | 59.61 | 7.81 | $236,056 |
| Mar 2007 | 7,438 | 56.92 | 7.30 | $423,371 |
| Feb 2007 | 5,334 | 55.10 | 8.22 | $293,903 |
| Jan 2007 | 7,409 | 50.30 | 6.73 | $372,673 |
| Dec 2006 | 14,927 | 56.65 | 6.92 | $845,615 |
| Nov 2006 | 19,707 | 54.20 | 7.62 | $1,068,119 |
| Oct 2006 | 10,238 | 54.90 | 6.01 | $562,066 |
| Sep 2006 | 10,366 | 60.08 | 5.04 | $622,789 |
| Aug 2006 | 11,540 | 68.71 | 7.34 | $792,913 |
| Jul 2006 | 17,702 | 69.37 | 6.34 | $1,227,988 |
| Jun 2006 | 23,889 | 66.28 | 6.38 | $1,583,363 |
| May 2006 | 29,302 | 66.01 | 6.42 | $1,934,225 |
| Apr 2006 | 25,302 | 64.39 | 7.36 | $1,629,196 |
| Mar 2006 | 31,523 | 56.70 | 7.08 | $1,787,354 |
| Feb 2006 | 27,743 | 57.59 | 7.75 | $1,597,719 |
| Jan 2006 | 23,825 | 60.59 | 8.93 | $1,443,557 |
| Dec 2005 | 29,280 | 54.94 | 13.42 | $1,608,643 |
| Nov 2005 | 28,286 | 54.69 | 10.59 | $1,546,961 |
| Oct 2005 | 20,169 | 58.34 | 13.80 | $1,176,659 |
| Sep 2005 | 3,002 | 61.45 | 12.08 | $184,473 |
| Aug 2005 | 0 | 61.51 | 9.80 | $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.
Oil 17,814 bbl × $ 73.58 = $1,310,754 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── Month total $1,310,754
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/14617 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.