OCONNOR, THOMAS, -A-

Operated by HILCORP ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 386310) in the TOM OCONNOR (4400) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 2489District 02Field 90534325OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$93 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
106
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 71 leases and 224 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1955-12-27
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
300 ft
minimum
From a lease line
150 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 acres. The field rule took effect on 2005-05-10.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AND FIELD CLASSIFIED AS SALVAGE.

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
OilDisposition5,686 bbl$92,780
Casinghead gasProduction80,799 Mcf$0
Total$92,780

80,799 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 45 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 (8)

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 28.3545, -97.1518. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 2.0 miles.

28.35537, -97.14784 · 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%
8 of 8 wells
With a plug date
37.5%
3 of 8 wells
Median depth
5,075 ft
8 wells filed one
Completion to plug
15.3 years
median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
8100.0%
A plug date is filed
337.5%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
337.5%
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

Total depth in feet, 8 of 8 wells. Median 5,075 ft, with the middle half between 4,498 and 5,920 ft; the shallowest is 4,477 ft and the deepest 5,999 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, 8 of 8 wells, Apr 1985 – Jun 2023. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Apr 1985 – Jun 2023
8 of 8 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 2000 – Aug 2020
3 of 8 wells; 5 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.3 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 11.8 years and 16.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

8 wells

42-39101551845,919 ftJun 2023Yes
42-391014831114,477 ftAug 2020Yes
42-39102026825,923 ftApr 2003Aug 2020Yes
42-39101547475,999 ftJun 2000Yes
42-391015301134,500 ftNov 1996Yes
42-391014821095,625 ftNov 1991Apr 2000Yes
42-391015291104,525 ftMay 1989Aug 2004Yes
42-391014841124,493 ftApr 1985Yes

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 (106)

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

106 months

Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
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 19965647922.22$1,244
Aug 19968988420.26$1,803
Jul 19969374119.55$1,818
Jun 19967998618.73$1,480
May 19965287019.43$1,010
Apr 1996781,14621.51$1,678
Mar 1996781,17219.38$1,512
Feb 1996871,21116.98$1,477
Jan 1996881,39417.07$1,502
Dec 19951051,65917.19$1,805
Nov 19951311,39216.00$2,096
Oct 19951331,39415.43$2,052
Sep 19951421,57916.18$2,298
Aug 19951281,64515.92$2,038
Jul 1995761,39115.24$1,158
Jun 19951211,69316.41$1,986
May 19951401,43317.56$2,458
Apr 19951481,27317.73$2,624
Mar 19951271,21916.44$2,088
Feb 19951141,14416.58$1,890
Jan 19951211,20115.92$1,926
Dec 19941321,65315.03$1,984
Nov 19941231,84515.90$1,956
Oct 19942291,84915.58$3,568
Sep 19941502,48015.29$2,294
Aug 19941552,61116.13$2,500
Jul 19941522,26817.56$2,669
Jun 19941502,45217.09$2,564
May 19941552,55415.88$2,461
Apr 19941302,25614.14$1,838
Mar 19941382,68812.46$1,719
Feb 19941262,21912.50$1,575
Jan 19941552,20612.66$1,962
Dec 19931552,27212.33$1,911
Nov 19931372,23514.49$1,985
Oct 19931051,90315.85$1,664
Sep 19931472,61515.03$2,209
Aug 19931502,49915.66$2,349
Jul 1993932,38315.46$1,438
Jun 1993902,36616.79$1,511
May 1993591,55617.68$1,043
Apr 19931442,01018.05$2,599
Mar 19931962,82418.14$3,555
Feb 19932242,85917.90$4,010
Jan 19932052,29016.93$3,471

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.

Sep 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   56 bbl  × $ 22.22 =     $1,244
Casinghead gas       479 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $1,244

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/O/2489 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.