O'BRIEN, J. M. III

Name: O'BRIEN, J. M. III lease production and value, Sep 1998 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by WELDER EXPLORATION & PROD., INC. (P-5 907297) in the MURPHY SISTERS (FRIO 3600) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 171441District 02Field 63947200CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$3.6 M

Sep 1998 – Dec 2004

Value, last 12 filed months

$944

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The MURPHY SISTERS (FRIO 3600) 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 10 leases and 10 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1998-09-02

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

—

no field rule filed

From a lease line

—

no field rule filed

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “FIELD MADE 100% AOF EFF 6/1/99 PER AOF 1 & 2”

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
Condensate	Disposition	175 bbl	$4,063
Gas	Production	1,026,029 Mcf	$3,557,151
Total			$3,561,213

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 28.3788, -97.5667. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.37884, -97.56669 · 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

4,810 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

5.8 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 4,810 ft.

Completions filed

Sep 1998

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Jun 2004

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 5.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 5.8 years and 5.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-02532903	1	4,810 ft	Sep 1998	Jun 2004	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 (76)

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

76 months


Dec 2004	0	0	39.86	6.75	$0
Nov 2004	0	0	45.28	6.33	$0
Oct 2004	19	0	49.70	6.52	$944
Sep 2004	0	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	0	0	42.37	5.55	$0
Jul 2004	0	0	38.28	6.08	$0
Jun 2004	0	0	36.10	6.43	$0
May 2004	0	0	37.48	6.49	$0
Apr 2004	0	0	34.47	5.86	$0
Mar 2004	0	0	34.36	5.53	$0
Feb 2004	0	0	32.45	5.51	$0
Jan 2004	0	0	32.03	6.30	$0
Dec 2003	0	0	30.26	6.30	$0
Nov 2003	0	0	28.80	4.60	$0
Oct 2003	0	0	28.17	4.76	$0
Sep 2003	0	0	26.31	4.75	$0
Aug 2003	0	0	29.76	5.13	$0
Jul 2003	0	75	29.41	5.17	$388
Jun 2003	0	188	28.56	5.98	$1,125
May 2003	0	370	26.59	5.97	$2,210
Apr 2003	0	734	26.67	5.41	$3,969
Mar 2003	0	1,062	31.14	6.10	$6,474
Feb 2003	0	1,613	33.48	7.93	$12,784
Jan 2003	0	1,763	30.31	5.58	$9,841
Dec 2002	0	1,645	26.91	4.85	$7,984
Nov 2002	0	2,798	24.66	4.14	$11,575
Oct 2002	0	5,946	26.46	4.23	$25,146
Sep 2002	0	6,632	27.44	3.64	$24,109
Aug 2002	0	13,386	25.96	3.16	$42,355
Jul 2002	0	19,081	24.58	3.06	$58,421
Jun 2002	0	17,683	23.73	3.34	$59,030
May 2002	0	22,843	24.66	3.58	$81,869
Apr 2002	0	14,886	23.65	3.51	$52,284
Mar 2002	73	14,977	22.00	3.10	$48,075
Feb 2002	83	12,791	18.22	2.38	$31,900
Jan 2002	0	12,041	17.17	2.38	$28,606
Dec 2001	0	17,580	16.93	2.36	$41,566
Nov 2001	0	15,353	18.07	2.41	$36,932
Oct 2001	0	17,462	19.78	2.53	$44,159
Sep 2001	0	15,764	24.26	2.25	$35,490
Aug 2001	0	17,312	24.87	3.05	$52,856
Jul 2001	0	18,463	23.93	3.20	$59,028
Jun 2001	0	17,252	24.56	3.82	$65,974
May 2001	0	17,444	25.52	4.31	$75,137
Apr 2001	0	19,488	24.68	5.34	$103,975
Mar 2001	0	20,045	24.54	5.38	$107,771
Feb 2001	0	20,355	27.75	5.77	$117,389
Jan 2001	0	21,073	27.47	8.40	$176,987
Dec 2000	0	21,134	26.88	9.12	$192,795
Nov 2000	0	20,607	32.21	5.66	$116,594
Oct 2000	0	22,668	31.23	5.15	$116,638
Sep 2000	0	23,655	31.87	5.19	$122,687
Aug 2000	0	26,223	29.64	4.54	$119,072
Jul 2000	0	27,879	28.53	4.09	$114,018
Jun 2000	0	26,157	29.30	4.40	$115,019
May 2000	0	28,360	27.26	3.68	$104,358
Apr 2000	0	29,594	24.51	3.12	$92,215
Mar 2000	0	32,139	28.42	2.86	$91,910
Feb 2000	0	29,561	27.62	2.73	$80,598
Jan 2000	0	31,778	25.27	2.48	$78,825
Dec 1999	0	31,668	24.28	2.42	$76,754
Nov 1999	0	31,817	23.19	2.43	$77,442
Oct 1999	0	35,089	20.98	2.80	$98,379
Sep 1999	0	32,046	21.75	2.62	$83,924
Aug 1999	0	27,243	19.26	2.88	$78,340
Jul 1999	0	22,238	17.89	2.37	$52,757
Jun 1999	0	20,663	15.94	2.36	$48,808
May 1999	0	22,573	15.79	2.32	$52,392
Apr 1999	0	27,417	15.10	2.21	$60,538
Mar 1999	0	26,342	12.47	1.84	$48,425
Feb 1999	0	30,330	9.98	1.82	$55,134
Jan 1999	0	21,276	10.38	1.90	$40,423
Dec 1998	0	9,389	9.20	1.77	$16,650
Nov 1998	0	0	10.89	2.19	$0
Oct 1998	0	0	12.42	1.97	$0
Sep 1998	0	78	12.59	2.08	$162

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.

Oct 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate            19 bbl  × $ 49.70 =       $944
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  6.52 =         $0

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Month total                                     $944

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. 02/G/171441 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.