CUTBIRTH "A"

Operated by CAGO, INC. (P-5 122891) in the KURTEN (BUDA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 20141District 03Field 50424500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$318 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$14 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
120
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 456 leases and 533 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1976-12-02
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2015-03-24.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ALLOCATION FORMULA SET TO 100 % ACRES.

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
OilDisposition18,808 bbl$302,661
Casinghead gasProduction14,177 Mcf$15,428
Total$318,089

8,756 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 30.7551, -96.4486. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.75505, -96.44861 · 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
7,930 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
14.3 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 7,930 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 1988
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Oct 2002
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.3 years and 14.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-0413141617,930 ftJun 1988Oct 2002Yes

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 (120)

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

120 months

Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 200259026.464.23$1,561
Sep 2002179027.443.64$4,912
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 2002180023.733.34$4,271
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020223.653.51$7
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20021761917.172.38$3,067
Dec 200102616.932.36$61
Nov 200103518.072.41$84
Oct 200101219.782.53$30
Sep 200101124.262.25$25
Aug 2001172024.873.05$4,278
Jul 200101223.933.20$38
Jun 20011775424.563.82$4,554
May 20011706825.524.31$4,631
Apr 200103424.685.34$181
Mar 200109924.545.38$532
Feb 200103727.755.77$213
Jan 2001010527.478.40$882
Dec 20001829626.889.12$5,768
Nov 200007032.215.66$396
Oct 200005631.235.15$288
Sep 200001531.875.19$78
Aug 20001803429.644.54$5,490
Jul 20001755528.534.09$5,218
Jun 200004429.304.40$193
May 200003227.263.68$118
Apr 20001792324.513.12$4,459
Mar 200002528.422.86$71
Feb 200006427.622.73$175
Jan 20001467625.272.48$3,878
Dec 199907624.282.42$184
Nov 199907123.192.43$173
Oct 199907120.982.80$199
Sep 19991918121.752.62$4,366
Aug 19991888019.262.88$3,851
Jul 199907717.892.37$183
Jun 19991847715.942.36$3,115
May 1999016415.792.32$381
Apr 199906115.102.21$135
Mar 1999015112.471.84$278
Feb 199901379.981.82$249
Jan 1999010410.381.90$198
Dec 199801239.201.77$218
Nov 1998028110.892.19$614
Oct 1998017712.421.97$349
Sep 199817922012.592.08$2,712
Aug 1998017111.301.91$326
Jul 199819414411.742.24$2,600
Jun 1998020711.242.24$463
May 1998020612.622.21$455
Apr 199833013813.042.51$4,649
Mar 1998017112.802.31$395
Feb 1998032413.952.30$745
Jan 19981743514.702.15$2,633
Dec 1997016316.322.41$393
Nov 199717113218.193.09$3,518
Oct 1997017119.253.15$539
Sep 199709817.742.95$290
Aug 19971709717.862.55$3,284
Jul 199717310417.582.25$3,275
Jun 199704417.242.26$99
May 199701118.972.31$25
Apr 199701917.882.08$40
Mar 19971882418.951.94$3,609
Feb 199705620.492.21$124
Jan 199705123.483.54$181
Dec 19961622223.32$3,778
Nov 199603221.97$0
Oct 1996194823.31$4,522
Sep 19960222.22$0
Aug 19960120.26$0
Jul 1996192119.55$3,754
Jun 199602118.73$0
May 19961833919.43$3,556
Apr 199609321.51$0
Mar 19961988219.38$3,837
Feb 1996017316.98$0
Jan 19961928217.07$3,277
Dec 199507817.19$0
Nov 199504016.00$0
Oct 199519264215.43$2,963
Sep 1995062716.18$0
Aug 1995014715.92$0
Jul 19951871315.24$2,850
Jun 19950616.41$0
May 199531719917.56$5,567
Apr 1995010717.73$0
Mar 199504116.44$0
Feb 199536612716.58$6,068
Jan 199501015.92$0
Dec 1994010015.03$0
Nov 1994010515.90$0
Oct 199418222115.58$2,836
Sep 199429714315.29$4,541
Aug 199435132116.13$5,662
Jul 199433144117.56$5,812
Jun 199466130917.09$11,296
May 199447336515.88$7,511
Apr 199450819314.14$7,183
Mar 199451329312.46$6,392
Feb 19941,02436612.50$12,800
Jan 19942,61275012.66$33,068
Dec 19932,60862212.33$32,157
Nov 19933504414.49$5,072
Oct 19933571315.85$5,658
Sep 19933418415.03$5,125
Aug 199316918515.66$2,647
Jul 199317323115.46$2,675
Jun 199334622116.79$5,809
May 199334820417.68$6,153
Apr 199317515818.05$3,159
Mar 199317522318.14$3,175
Feb 199318728917.90$3,347
Jan 199332728216.93$5,536

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.

Oct 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   59 bbl  × $ 26.46 =     $1,561
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.23 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,561

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/20141 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.