CUTBIRTH "B"

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 20234District 03Field 50424500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$301 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$5 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
OilDisposition16,956 bbl$291,992
Casinghead gasProduction14,011 Mcf$9,343
Total$301,335

10,770 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 30.7517, -96.4453. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.75174, -96.44525 · 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
7,963 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 7,963 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 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

42-0413141517,963 ftJul 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 200287026.464.23$2,302
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 2002167018.222.38$3,043
Jan 200201017.172.38$24
Dec 200102316.932.36$54
Nov 200102918.072.41$70
Oct 200101119.782.53$28
Sep 200101024.262.25$23
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 200101123.933.20$35
Jun 200101924.563.82$73
May 200102525.524.31$108
Apr 200101524.685.34$80
Mar 20011913424.545.38$4,870
Feb 200109627.755.77$554
Jan 200103927.478.40$328
Dec 200003826.889.12$347
Nov 200004032.215.66$226
Oct 200003931.235.15$201
Sep 200001931.875.19$99
Aug 20001875229.644.54$5,779
Jul 200003628.534.09$147
Jun 200004129.304.40$180
May 200004327.263.68$158
Apr 20001932224.513.12$4,799
Mar 200006428.422.86$183
Feb 200003227.622.73$87
Jan 200003425.272.48$84
Dec 19992213424.282.42$5,448
Nov 199903423.192.43$83
Oct 19991963420.982.80$4,207
Sep 199904121.752.62$107
Aug 19993573819.262.88$6,985
Jul 199904117.892.37$97
Jun 19991903815.942.36$3,118
May 19991855915.792.32$3,058
Apr 199903715.102.21$82
Mar 19991344112.471.84$1,746
Feb 19990709.981.82$127
Jan 199903710.381.90$70
Dec 19980469.201.77$82
Nov 199808210.892.19$179
Oct 19981816512.421.97$2,376
Sep 199809112.592.08$190
Aug 199806311.301.91$120
Jul 19981945411.742.24$2,398
Jun 199807211.242.24$161
May 19983707712.622.21$4,839
Apr 199804713.042.51$118
Mar 199808312.802.31$192
Feb 199835112213.952.30$5,177
Jan 199805814.702.15$125
Dec 19971737216.322.41$2,997
Nov 199706218.193.09$191
Oct 19971708019.253.15$3,524
Sep 19971745817.742.95$3,258
Aug 19971726517.862.55$3,238
Jul 199709617.582.25$216
Jun 199715911717.242.26$3,005
May 19971859318.972.31$3,724
Apr 19971459117.882.08$2,782
Mar 199736115518.951.94$7,142
Feb 199709120.492.21$201
Jan 199716411523.483.54$4,258
Dec 199618410923.32$4,291
Nov 199619611621.97$4,306
Oct 19961858323.31$4,312
Sep 19961947422.22$4,311
Aug 199619710420.26$3,991
Jul 19961933119.55$3,773
Jun 19961955618.73$3,652
May 19961879019.43$3,633
Apr 19961936121.51$4,151
Mar 19961805119.38$3,488
Feb 19961968016.98$3,328
Jan 19961945117.07$3,312
Dec 19951883117.19$3,232
Nov 19951908016.00$3,040
Oct 199571524815.43$11,032
Sep 1995024216.18$0
Aug 1995017815.92$0
Jul 1995026215.24$0
Jun 199533024316.41$5,415
May 199519123817.56$3,354
Apr 199569123017.73$12,251
Mar 1995019516.44$0
Feb 199535416816.58$5,869
Jan 1995016415.92$0
Dec 1994024515.03$0
Nov 199434827115.90$5,533
Oct 199418425015.58$2,867
Sep 199431422115.29$4,801
Aug 199418340316.13$2,952
Jul 199433150717.56$5,812
Jun 199418847217.09$3,213
May 199417034815.88$2,700
Apr 199433735514.14$4,765
Mar 199451248012.46$6,380
Feb 199416743212.50$2,088
Jan 199417455812.66$2,203
Dec 199352740912.33$6,498
Nov 199318015414.49$2,608
Oct 199317820515.85$2,821
Sep 199335921915.03$5,396
Aug 199335322015.66$5,528
Jul 199335229715.46$5,442
Jun 199334931216.79$5,860
May 199335024817.68$6,188
Apr 199368121218.05$12,292
Mar 199334818618.14$6,313
Feb 199318425917.90$3,294
Jan 199332732216.93$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                   87 bbl  × $ 26.46 =     $2,302
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.23 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,302

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/20234 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.