MOORE, EMILY BUSH

Operated by BROWNING OIL COMPANY, INC. (P-5 103088) in the GIDDINGS (AUSTIN CHALK-3) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 15227District 03Field 34733500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$57 k
Jan 1993 – Nov 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$5 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
71
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 5,900 leases and 6,985 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1960-10-29
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2025-09-30.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: DKT OG-25-00028011: UFT FIELD, ALLOCATION FORMULA SUSPENDED

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA1none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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
OilDisposition2,928 bbl$50,267
Casinghead gasProduction22,457 Mcf$6,535
Total$56,802

19,846 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 29.9576, -97.0626. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.95764, -97.06260 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
8,178 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
16.8 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 8,178 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 1981
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 1998
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16.8 years and 16.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-1493119918,178 ftDec 1981Sep 1998Yes

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 (71)

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

71 months

Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 199836012.592.08$453
Aug 199815211.301.91$173
Jul 199894111.742.24$1,106
Jun 199835011.242.24$393
May 19980112.622.21$2
Apr 1998740813.042.51$1,113
Mar 199806012.802.31$139
Feb 19981521813.952.30$710
Jan 199886114.702.15$249
Dec 199788516.322.41$336
Nov 199766218.193.09$301
Oct 199731016419.253.15$6,484
Sep 1997912617.742.95$532
Aug 19971138917.862.55$1,190
Jul 1997134117.582.25$321
Jun 19971311517.242.26$484
May 19971019218.972.31$633
Apr 19971319717.882.08$643
Mar 19971019318.951.94$564
Feb 1997813020.492.21$451
Jan 19971016623.483.54$822
Dec 19961822323.32$420
Nov 1996716421.97$154
Oct 199617328823.31$4,033
Sep 199618732022.22$4,155
Aug 199620132920.26$4,072
Jul 1996209719.55$391
Jun 1996203718.73$375
May 1996215019.43$408
Apr 1996104921.51$215
Mar 199678519.38$136
Feb 199604816.98$0
Jan 1996156217.07$256
Dec 1995138517.19$223
Nov 19951812416.00$288
Oct 1995515915.43$77
Sep 199536031616.18$5,825
Aug 1995966915.92$143
Jul 1995773715.24$107
Jun 19951162816.41$181
May 19951056717.56$176
Apr 19951450317.73$248
Mar 199534060616.44$5,590
Feb 1995415116.58$66
Jan 1995431315.92$64
Dec 1994633315.03$90
Nov 1994127915.90$191
Oct 1994632415.58$93
Sep 1994634315.29$92
Aug 1994564516.13$81
Jul 1994571417.56$88
Jun 1994354517.09$51
May 199418871815.88$2,985
Apr 1994661014.14$85
Mar 199419168812.46$2,380
Feb 1994664112.50$75
Jan 1994559212.66$63
Dec 1993576312.33$62
Nov 199318290914.49$2,637
Oct 199318147215.85$2,869
Sep 1993444815.03$60
Aug 1993345915.66$47
Jul 1993255515.46$31
Jun 1993245116.79$34
May 1993360817.68$53
Apr 1993058018.05$0
Mar 1993159618.14$18
Feb 1993051717.90$0
Jan 1993164616.93$17

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 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   36 bbl  × $ 12.59 =       $453
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.08 =         $0

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Month total                                     $453

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. 03/O/15227 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.