MCLEAN-BOWMAN -B-

Operated by DOUBLE U OIL CO., LTD. (P-5 224949) in the GOOD LUCK (SAN MIGUEL) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 4246District 01Field 35772500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$337 k
Jan 1993 – May 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$70 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
53
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 26 leases and 44 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1970-09-29
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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
OilDisposition19,634 bbl$336,843
Casinghead gasProduction13,015 Mcf$374
Total$337,216

12,903 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 (4)

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 28.5023, -99.5145. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

28.50162, -99.51434 · 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%
4 of 4 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
4 of 4 wells
Median depth
5,966 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
25.3 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
4100.0%
A plug date is filed
4100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
4100.0%
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

Between 5,940 and 6,009 ft, median 5,966 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jul 1971 – Jan 1972
4 of 4 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 1997
4 of 4 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 25.3 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 25.2 years and 25.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-12730383196,009 ftJan 1972Feb 1997Yes
42-12730375185,940 ftDec 1971Feb 1997Yes
42-12730357165,969 ftNov 1971Feb 1997Yes
42-12730287145,963 ftJul 1971Feb 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 (53)

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

53 months

May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19971561720.492.21$3,234
Jan 19973769523.483.54$9,165
Dec 199641413223.32$9,654
Nov 199637214121.97$8,173
Oct 199640015623.31$9,324
Sep 199635214522.22$7,821
Aug 199645115320.26$9,137
Jul 199636215219.55$7,077
Jun 199634213318.73$6,406
May 199634813619.43$6,762
Apr 199635214321.51$7,572
Mar 199635615719.38$6,899
Feb 199633010916.98$5,603
Jan 199641913017.07$7,152
Dec 199535114217.19$6,034
Nov 199535514816.00$5,680
Oct 199534416015.43$5,308
Sep 199540515216.18$6,553
Aug 199540815015.92$6,495
Jul 199540015015.24$6,096
Jun 199541814916.41$6,859
May 199582115017.56$14,417
Apr 1995016117.73$0
Mar 199542816616.44$7,036
Feb 199544214816.58$7,328
Jan 199547016315.92$7,482
Dec 199444117215.03$6,628
Nov 199441119415.90$6,535
Oct 199441817915.58$6,512
Sep 199443218015.29$6,605
Aug 199442519716.13$6,855
Jul 199467018917.56$11,765
Jun 199445421117.09$7,759
May 199433924315.88$5,383
Apr 199435211814.14$4,977
Mar 199431416512.46$3,912
Feb 199436914712.50$4,613
Jan 199440018512.66$5,064
Dec 199338217912.33$4,710
Nov 199334114914.49$4,941
Oct 199333714715.85$5,341
Sep 199337715715.03$5,666
Aug 199330915615.66$4,839
Jul 199340915815.46$6,323
Jun 199339817416.79$6,682
May 199345219517.68$7,991
Apr 19933951,32618.05$7,130
Mar 19938911,48918.14$16,163
Feb 199301,49217.90$0
Jan 19934461,57516.93$7,551

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.

Feb 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  156 bbl  × $ 20.49 =     $3,196
Casinghead gas        17 Mcf  × $  2.21 =        $38

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Month total                                   $3,234

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/4246 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.