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Operated by QUINTANA PET. CORP. (P-5 685610) in the TOM OCONNOR (5900 SAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 2870District 02Field 90534875OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$140 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$15 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
68
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 27 leases and 362 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1961-03-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
0 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 2020-10-20.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: SPECIAL HORIZ. LANGUAGE (TAKE POINTS)

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
OilDisposition7,931 bbl$129,021
Casinghead gasProduction37,759 Mcf$10,941
Total$139,962

33,151 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 23 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 (3)

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 28.3811, -97.1584. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

28.38143, -97.15843 · 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%
3 of 3 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 3 wells
Median depth
5,929 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
3100.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
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 5,910 and 8,325 ft, median 5,929 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Sep 1995 – Apr 2005
3 of 3 wells

3 wells

42-3910073615,910 ftApr 2005Yes
42-39130127128,325 ftAug 2002Yes
42-391007372 T5,929 ftSep 1995Yes

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 (68)

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

68 months

Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19986011.242.24$67
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 199841,67113.042.51$4,239
Mar 199828815212.802.31$4,037
Feb 199862,78513.952.30$6,487
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 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19961243619.43$2,409
Apr 19961692,90021.51$3,635
Mar 19962002,18519.38$3,876
Feb 19961201,32316.98$2,038
Jan 199611770117.07$1,997
Dec 199512372517.19$2,114
Nov 199516970416.00$2,704
Oct 199521897715.43$3,364
Sep 19954031,36116.18$6,521
Aug 19954943,27215.92$7,864
Jul 19951462,27415.24$2,225
Jun 19951321,44616.41$2,166
May 199544896517.56$7,867
Apr 199546676517.73$8,262
Mar 199532169216.44$5,277
Feb 199552820916.58$8,754
Jan 19955732,13215.92$9,122
Dec 19945591,13415.03$8,402
Nov 1994891,23715.90$1,415
Oct 19945571,88115.58$8,678
Sep 19946143,18315.29$9,388
Aug 19941,0552,46616.13$17,017
Jul 1994258317.56$35
Jun 19940017.09$0
May 19940015.88$0
Apr 19940014.14$0
Mar 19940012.46$0
Feb 19940012.50$0
Jan 19940012.66$0
Dec 19930012.33$0
Nov 19930014.49$0
Oct 19930015.85$0
Sep 19930015.03$0
Aug 19930015.66$0
Jul 19930015.46$0
Jun 19930016.79$0
May 19930017.68$0
Apr 19930018.05$0
Mar 19930018.14$0
Feb 19930017.90$0
Jan 19930016.93$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.

Jun 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    6 bbl  × $ 11.24 =        $67
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.24 =         $0

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Month total                                      $67

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/2870 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.