EL OSO CATTLE CO.

Operated by CITATION OIL & GAS CORP. (P-5 154235) in the MARY ELLEN OCONNOR (FS-96) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 4185District 02Field 57911520OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$136 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 2005
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
156
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 18 leases and 121 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1954-05-03
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
660 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: RULES ADOPTED.

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
OilDisposition8,329 bbl$135,379
Casinghead gasProduction16,650 Mcf$166
Total$135,544

16,565 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 42 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 (9)

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 28.2484, -97.2391. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.9 miles.

28.24836, -97.23839 · 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%
9 of 9 wells
With a plug date
66.7%
6 of 9 wells
Median depth
6,077 ft
6 wells filed one
Completion to plug
37.5 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
9100.0%
A plug date is filed
666.7%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
666.7%
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, 6 of 9 wells. Median 6,077 ft, with the middle half between 6,001 and 6,198 ft; the shallowest is 6,000 ft and the deepest 6,215 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, 4 of 9 wells, Dec 1981 – Oct 1991. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Dec 1981 – Oct 1991
4 of 9 wells; 5 filed none
Plug dates filed
Mar 1979 – Jan 2022
6 of 9 wells; 3 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 37.5 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 29.9 years and 39.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

9 wells

42-391019759Yes
42-391036833Yes
42-391036867Yes
42-3910368846,150 ftMar 1979Yes
42-3910372886,000 ftSep 1979Yes
42-3910367710 L6,003 ftOct 1991Oct 2005Yes
42-3910368226,214 ftOct 1986Jan 2022Yes
42-3910368456,000 ftApr 1982Dec 2021Yes
42-3910368716,215 ftDec 1981Jan 2022Yes

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 (156)

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

156 months

Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
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 19991019.262.88$19
Jul 19993017.892.37$54
Jun 19998015.942.36$128
May 199948015.792.32$758
Apr 1999105015.102.21$1,586
Mar 1999295812.471.84$468
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 19983609.201.77$331
Nov 1998512710.892.19$614
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 199613627021.97$2,988
Oct 199612428123.31$2,890
Sep 199612128022.22$2,689
Aug 199613323320.26$2,695
Jul 199613031919.55$2,542
Jun 199611432418.73$2,135
May 199612035319.43$2,332
Apr 199614530821.51$3,119
Mar 199616932419.38$3,275
Feb 199614838016.98$2,513
Jan 199617841917.07$3,038
Dec 199520342417.19$3,490
Nov 199516048216.00$2,560
Oct 199519248615.43$2,963
Sep 199513642316.18$2,200
Aug 199517947015.92$2,850
Jul 199516641015.24$2,530
Jun 199518235416.41$2,987
May 199519345317.56$3,389
Apr 199519247617.73$3,404
Mar 199521246316.44$3,485
Feb 199523742916.58$3,929
Jan 199525832715.92$4,107
Dec 199424532515.03$3,682
Nov 199425133615.90$3,991
Oct 199427460015.58$4,269
Sep 199420732315.29$3,165
Aug 199420257516.13$3,258
Jul 199422155017.56$3,881
Jun 19942482617.09$4,238
May 199424931515.88$3,954
Apr 199426949414.14$3,804
Mar 199420330912.46$2,529
Feb 199417730512.50$2,213
Jan 199424151612.66$3,051
Dec 199324456412.33$3,009
Nov 199320849314.49$3,014
Oct 199324149215.85$3,820
Sep 199322850515.03$3,427
Aug 199322143115.66$3,461
Jul 199313142315.46$2,025
Jun 199316029516.79$2,686
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.

Aug 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    1 bbl  × $ 19.26 =        $19
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.88 =         $0

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Month total                                      $19

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/4185 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.