CORNELIUS "A"

Operated by BUFFCO PRODUCTION INC. (P-5 106406) in the WADSWORTH (8600) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 18715District 03Field 94543565NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$885 k
Jan 1993 – Apr 2007
Value, last 12 filed months
$16 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
172
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 6 leases and 6 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1978-01-25
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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
OilDisposition39,448 bbl$884,656
Casinghead gasProduction1,413 Mcf$0
Total$884,656

1,413 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 20 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 28.8890, -95.8861. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.88904, -95.88608 · 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
9,812 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
21.7 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 9,812 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 1985
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2007
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 21.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 21.7 years and 21.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3213145429,812 ftJul 1985Mar 2007Yes

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 (172)

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

172 months

Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 2006239066.286.38$15,841
May 20061066.016.42$66
Apr 2006166064.397.36$10,689
Mar 2006296056.707.08$16,783
Feb 2006335057.597.75$19,293
Jan 2006166060.598.93$10,058
Dec 2005165054.9413.42$9,065
Nov 2005329054.6910.59$17,993
Oct 2005333058.3413.80$19,427
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 2005166061.519.80$10,211
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20051052.337.38$52
May 2005491045.226.65$22,203
Apr 2005166049.207.36$8,167
Mar 2005170050.377.15$8,563
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 2005165043.166.32$7,121
Dec 2004168039.866.75$6,696
Nov 2004334045.286.33$15,124
Oct 2004168049.706.52$8,350
Sep 20041043.245.28$43
Aug 2004324042.375.55$13,728
Jul 2004172038.286.08$6,584
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 2004324034.475.86$11,168
Mar 2004163034.365.53$5,601
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 2003150026.314.75$3,947
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 2003356029.415.17$10,470
Jun 2003161028.565.98$4,598
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 2003154026.675.41$4,107
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 2003178033.487.93$5,959
Jan 2003178030.315.58$5,395
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 2002184024.664.14$4,537
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 2002180024.583.06$4,424
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 2002180024.663.58$4,439
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 2002349018.222.38$6,359
Jan 2002179017.172.38$3,073
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 2001177018.072.41$3,198
Oct 2001173019.782.53$3,422
Sep 2001175024.262.25$4,246
Aug 2001531024.873.05$13,206
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 2001178024.563.82$4,372
May 2001372025.524.31$9,493
Apr 2001367024.685.34$9,058
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 2001360027.755.77$9,990
Jan 2001370027.478.40$10,164
Dec 2000180026.889.12$4,838
Nov 2000359032.215.66$11,563
Oct 2000183031.235.15$5,715
Sep 2000725031.875.19$23,106
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 2000178027.263.68$4,852
Apr 2000178024.513.12$4,363
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 2000179027.622.73$4,944
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 1999190024.282.42$4,613
Nov 1999189023.192.43$4,383
Oct 1999373020.982.80$7,826
Sep 1999365021.752.62$7,939
Aug 1999180019.262.88$3,467
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 1999354015.942.36$5,643
May 1999358015.792.32$5,653
Apr 1999167015.102.21$2,522
Mar 1999349012.471.84$4,352
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 1999175010.381.90$1,817
Dec 199870409.201.77$6,477
Nov 1998173010.892.19$1,884
Oct 1998346012.421.97$4,297
Sep 1998348012.592.08$4,381
Aug 1998354011.301.91$4,000
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 1998176011.242.24$1,978
May 1998171012.622.21$2,158
Apr 1998354013.042.51$4,616
Mar 1998510012.802.31$6,528
Feb 1998180013.952.30$2,511
Jan 1998175014.702.15$2,573
Dec 1997354016.322.41$5,777
Nov 1997179018.193.09$3,256
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 1997518017.742.95$9,189
Aug 1997178017.862.55$3,179
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 1997525017.242.26$9,051
May 1997178018.972.31$3,377
Apr 1997526017.882.08$9,405
Mar 1997174018.951.94$3,297
Feb 1997183020.492.21$3,750
Jan 1997364023.483.54$8,547
Dec 1996362023.32$8,442
Nov 1996348021.97$7,646
Oct 1996357023.31$8,322
Sep 1996172022.22$3,822
Aug 1996357020.26$7,233
Jul 1996360019.55$7,038
Jun 1996175018.73$3,278
May 1996523019.43$10,162
Apr 1996346021.51$7,442
Mar 1996352019.38$6,822
Feb 1996355016.98$6,028
Jan 1996365017.07$6,231
Dec 1995334017.19$5,741
Nov 1995167016.00$2,672
Oct 1995339015.43$5,231
Sep 1995352016.18$5,695
Aug 1995352015.92$5,604
Jul 1995356015.24$5,425
Jun 1995503016.41$8,254
May 1995349017.56$6,128
Apr 1995362017.73$6,418
Mar 1995507016.44$8,335
Feb 1995360016.58$5,969
Jan 1995527015.92$8,390
Dec 1994351015.03$5,276
Nov 1994875015.90$13,913
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 1994360015.29$5,504
Aug 1994536116.13$8,646
Jul 1994362117.56$6,357
Jun 1994518117.09$8,853
May 1994357115.88$5,669
Apr 1994354114.14$5,006
Mar 1994339112.46$4,224
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 1994361112.66$4,570
Dec 1993363112.33$4,476
Nov 1993714114.49$10,346
Oct 1993357115.85$5,658
Sep 1993359115.03$5,396
Aug 1993713115.66$11,166
Jul 1993695115.46$10,745
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 1993179117.68$3,165
Apr 199316845018.05$3,032
Mar 19931,02938718.14$18,666
Feb 199318228817.90$3,258
Jan 199354927216.93$9,295

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 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  239 bbl  × $ 66.28 =    $15,841
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.38 =         $0

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Month total                                  $15,841

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/18715 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.