O'CONNOR, M.V. ESTATE

Name: O'CONNOR, M.V. ESTATE lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by FREEMAN, JAMES C. (P-5 285130) in the GRETA (MASSIVE CATAHOULA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 6472District 02Field 36867492OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$223 k

Jan 1993 – Sep 2000

Value, last 12 filed months

$21 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The GRETA (MASSIVE CATAHOULA) 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 4 leases and 7 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1956-10-23

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

933 ft

minimum

From a lease line

466 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 25 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “100 FT. BETWEEN WELLS”

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
Oil	Disposition	13,013 bbl	$218,931
Casinghead gas	Production	10,049 Mcf	$3,619
Total			$222,550

8,547 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 (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 28.3950, -97.2028. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.39495, -97.20277 · 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

4,315 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

17.5 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 4,315 ft.

Completions filed

Jan 1983

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Jul 2000

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 17.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 17.5 years and 17.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-39131596	2	4,315 ft	Jan 1983	Jul 2000	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 (93)

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

93 months


Sep 2000	0	0	31.87	5.19	$0
Aug 2000	0	0	29.64	4.54	$0
Jul 2000	36	0	28.53	4.09	$1,027
Jun 2000	0	0	29.30	4.40	$0
May 2000	0	0	27.26	3.68	$0
Apr 2000	125	21	24.51	3.12	$3,129
Mar 2000	158	20	28.42	2.86	$4,548
Feb 2000	0	15	27.62	2.73	$41
Jan 2000	182	32	25.27	2.48	$4,679
Dec 1999	0	23	24.28	2.42	$56
Nov 1999	160	29	23.19	2.43	$3,781
Oct 1999	153	35	20.98	2.80	$3,308
Sep 1999	0	28	21.75	2.62	$73
Aug 1999	161	29	19.26	2.88	$3,184
Jul 1999	156	33	17.89	2.37	$2,869
Jun 1999	0	34	15.94	2.36	$80
May 1999	155	31	15.79	2.32	$2,519
Apr 1999	156	38	15.10	2.21	$2,440
Mar 1999	0	34	12.47	1.84	$63
Feb 1999	157	32	9.98	1.82	$1,625
Jan 1999	156	34	10.38	1.90	$1,684
Dec 1998	153	38	9.20	1.77	$1,475
Nov 1998	154	40	10.89	2.19	$1,764
Oct 1998	0	40	12.42	1.97	$79
Sep 1998	150	41	12.59	2.08	$1,974
Aug 1998	155	47	11.30	1.91	$1,841
Jul 1998	152	51	11.74	2.24	$1,899
Jun 1998	163	49	11.24	2.24	$1,942
May 1998	159	50	12.62	2.21	$2,117
Apr 1998	327	53	13.04	2.51	$4,397
Mar 1998	167	56	12.80	2.31	$2,267
Feb 1998	161	50	13.95	2.30	$2,361
Jan 1998	166	58	14.70	2.15	$2,565
Dec 1997	165	24	16.32	2.41	$2,751
Nov 1997	164	80	18.19	3.09	$3,230
Oct 1997	160	56	19.25	3.15	$3,256
Sep 1997	164	46	17.74	2.95	$3,045
Aug 1997	164	38	17.86	2.55	$3,026
Jul 1997	166	77	17.58	2.25	$3,091
Jun 1997	168	13	17.24	2.26	$2,926
May 1997	0	43	18.97	2.31	$99
Apr 1997	164	43	17.88	2.08	$3,022
Mar 1997	160	0	18.95	1.94	$3,032
Feb 1997	167	0	20.49	2.21	$3,422
Jan 1997	167	41	23.48	3.54	$4,066
Dec 1996	163	36	23.32	—	$3,801
Nov 1996	158	45	21.97	—	$3,471
Oct 1996	159	48	23.31	—	$3,706
Sep 1996	166	48	22.22	—	$3,689
Aug 1996	156	44	20.26	—	$3,161
Jul 1996	153	45	19.55	—	$2,991
Jun 1996	5	42	18.73	—	$94
May 1996	157	41	19.43	—	$3,051
Apr 1996	160	47	21.51	—	$3,442
Mar 1996	164	49	19.38	—	$3,178
Feb 1996	193	35	16.98	—	$3,277
Jan 1996	184	26	17.07	—	$3,141
Dec 1995	159	49	17.19	—	$2,733
Nov 1995	0	45	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	161	50	15.43	—	$2,484
Sep 1995	314	47	16.18	—	$5,081
Aug 1995	155	53	15.92	—	$2,468
Jul 1995	157	51	15.24	—	$2,393
Jun 1995	163	51	16.41	—	$2,675
May 1995	157	43	17.56	—	$2,757
Apr 1995	158	79	17.73	—	$2,801
Mar 1995	157	486	16.44	—	$2,581
Feb 1995	156	474	16.58	—	$2,586
Jan 1995	156	510	15.92	—	$2,484
Dec 1994	156	507	15.03	—	$2,345
Nov 1994	154	444	15.90	—	$2,449
Oct 1994	160	507	15.58	—	$2,493
Sep 1994	158	423	15.29	—	$2,416
Aug 1994	157	555	16.13	—	$2,532
Jul 1994	154	540	17.56	—	$2,704
Jun 1994	156	561	17.09	—	$2,666
May 1994	155	516	15.88	—	$2,461
Apr 1994	156	465	14.14	—	$2,206
Mar 1994	152	507	12.46	—	$1,894
Feb 1994	168	459	12.50	—	$2,100
Jan 1994	152	54	12.66	—	$1,924
Dec 1993	164	56	12.33	—	$2,022
Nov 1993	159	51	14.49	—	$2,304
Oct 1993	182	58	15.85	—	$2,885
Sep 1993	0	8	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	174	48	15.66	—	$2,725
Jul 1993	355	63	15.46	—	$5,488
Jun 1993	181	28	16.79	—	$3,039
May 1993	11	53	17.68	—	$194
Apr 1993	181	45	18.05	—	$3,267
Mar 1993	181	55	18.14	—	$3,283
Feb 1993	182	49	17.90	—	$3,258
Jan 1993	183	51	16.93	—	$3,098

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.

Jul 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   36 bbl  × $ 28.53 =     $1,027
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.09 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,027

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/6472 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.