DANSBY "A"

Operated by MCDANIEL COMPANY, INC., THE (P-5 545300) 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 20160District 03Field 50424500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$314 k
Jan 1993 – May 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$7 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
113
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
OilDisposition18,541 bbl$313,834
Casinghead gasProduction49 Mcf$0
Total$313,834

49 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 28 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 30.7207, -96.4391. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.72069, -96.43907 · 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
8,316 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
4.4 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 8,316 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 2003
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2007
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 4.4 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 4.4 years and 4.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-0413143018,316 ftApr 2003Sep 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 (113)

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

113 months

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 200143018.072.41$777
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 200182024.262.25$1,989
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 2001174023.933.20$4,164
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20013024.685.34$74
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 2001181027.755.77$5,023
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 2000175031.235.15$5,465
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20002029.644.54$59
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 2000195029.304.40$5,714
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 2000189027.622.73$5,220
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 1999182020.982.80$3,818
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19991019.262.88$19
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 1999195015.942.36$3,108
May 19991015.792.32$16
Apr 1999187015.102.21$2,824
Mar 1999359012.471.84$4,477
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 1998359012.421.97$4,459
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 1998165013.042.51$2,152
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 1998185013.952.30$2,581
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 1997188016.322.41$3,068
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 1997183017.742.95$3,246
Aug 1997179017.862.55$3,197
Jul 1997178017.582.25$3,129
Jun 1997519017.242.26$8,948
May 1997746018.972.31$14,152
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 1997175018.951.94$3,316
Feb 1997184020.492.21$3,770
Jan 19971023.483.54$23
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 1996376021.97$8,261
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 1996185022.22$4,111
Aug 199667020.26$1,357
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 1996184019.43$3,575
Apr 1996191021.51$4,108
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 1996187016.98$3,175
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19951017.19$17
Nov 1995166016.00$2,656
Oct 1995174015.43$2,685
Sep 1995184016.18$2,977
Aug 1995352015.92$5,604
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 1995182016.41$2,987
May 1995164017.56$2,880
Apr 1995173117.73$3,067
Mar 1995374116.44$6,149
Feb 1995192116.58$3,183
Jan 1995352115.92$5,604
Dec 1994166115.03$2,495
Nov 1994170115.90$2,703
Oct 1994354115.58$5,515
Sep 1994188115.29$2,875
Aug 1994356116.13$5,742
Jul 1994337117.56$5,918
Jun 1994355117.09$6,067
May 1994334115.88$5,304
Apr 1994332114.14$4,694
Mar 1994889112.46$11,077
Feb 19942112.50$25
Jan 1994547112.66$6,925
Dec 1993357112.33$4,402
Nov 1993552114.49$7,998
Oct 1993358115.85$5,674
Sep 1993534115.03$8,026
Aug 1993534115.66$8,362
Jul 1993663115.46$10,250
Jun 1993352116.79$5,910
May 1993874117.68$15,452
Apr 1993354118.05$6,390
Mar 1993692118.14$12,553
Feb 1993349117.90$6,247
Jan 19933572216.93$6,044

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.

Nov 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   43 bbl  × $ 18.07 =       $777
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.41 =         $0

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Month total                                     $777

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/20160 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.