CUTBIRTH "C"

Name: CUTBIRTH "C" lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

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 20298District 03Field 50424500OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$167 k

Jan 1993 – Dec 2002

Value, last 12 filed months

$7 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

120

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The KURTEN (BUDA) field

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	9,127 bbl	$155,825
Casinghead gas	Production	11,933 Mcf	$11,181
Total			$167,006

8,102 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 45 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 30.7478, -96.4458. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.74776, -96.44575 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

7,938 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

13.8 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 7,938 ft.

Completions filed

Nov 1988

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Sep 2002

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 13.8 years and 13.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-04131414	1	7,938 ft	Nov 1988	Sep 2002	Yes

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 2002	0	0	26.91	4.85	$0
Nov 2002	0	0	24.66	4.14	$0
Oct 2002	82	0	26.46	4.23	$2,170
Sep 2002	0	0	27.44	3.64	$0
Aug 2002	0	0	25.96	3.16	$0
Jul 2002	0	0	24.58	3.06	$0
Jun 2002	186	0	23.73	3.34	$4,414
May 2002	0	0	24.66	3.58	$0
Apr 2002	0	0	23.65	3.51	$0
Mar 2002	0	0	22.00	3.10	$0
Feb 2002	0	0	18.22	2.38	$0
Jan 2002	0	20	17.17	2.38	$48
Dec 2001	0	19	16.93	2.36	$45
Nov 2001	0	53	18.07	2.41	$127
Oct 2001	0	10	19.78	2.53	$25
Sep 2001	0	9	24.26	2.25	$20
Aug 2001	190	0	24.87	3.05	$4,725
Jul 2001	0	10	23.93	3.20	$32
Jun 2001	0	31	24.56	3.82	$119
May 2001	0	51	25.52	4.31	$220
Apr 2001	190	21	24.68	5.34	$4,801
Mar 2001	0	56	24.54	5.38	$301
Feb 2001	0	59	27.75	5.77	$340
Jan 2001	0	61	27.47	8.40	$512
Dec 2000	0	56	26.88	9.12	$511
Nov 2000	0	69	32.21	5.66	$390
Oct 2000	0	73	31.23	5.15	$376
Sep 2000	0	32	31.87	5.19	$166
Aug 2000	0	27	29.64	4.54	$123
Jul 2000	0	90	28.53	4.09	$368
Jun 2000	0	93	29.30	4.40	$409
May 2000	0	95	27.26	3.68	$350
Apr 2000	0	24	24.51	3.12	$75
Mar 2000	0	32	28.42	2.86	$92
Feb 2000	0	70	27.62	2.73	$191
Jan 2000	0	72	25.27	2.48	$179
Dec 1999	169	72	24.28	2.42	$4,278
Nov 1999	0	70	23.19	2.43	$170
Oct 1999	0	70	20.98	2.80	$196
Sep 1999	0	85	21.75	2.62	$223
Aug 1999	189	84	19.26	2.88	$3,882
Jul 1999	0	86	17.89	2.37	$204
Jun 1999	0	84	15.94	2.36	$198
May 1999	183	186	15.79	2.32	$3,321
Apr 1999	0	103	15.10	2.21	$227
Mar 1999	0	182	12.47	1.84	$335
Feb 1999	0	265	9.98	1.82	$482
Jan 1999	0	100	10.38	1.90	$190
Dec 1998	0	136	9.20	1.77	$241
Nov 1998	0	259	10.89	2.19	$566
Oct 1998	0	161	12.42	1.97	$317
Sep 1998	0	38	12.59	2.08	$79
Aug 1998	0	95	11.30	1.91	$181
Jul 1998	0	44	11.74	2.24	$98
Jun 1998	0	18	11.24	2.24	$40
May 1998	0	41	12.62	2.21	$90
Apr 1998	100	13	13.04	2.51	$1,337
Mar 1998	0	29	12.80	2.31	$67
Feb 1998	0	28	13.95	2.30	$64
Jan 1998	181	48	14.70	2.15	$2,764
Dec 1997	0	28	16.32	2.41	$68
Nov 1997	0	37	18.19	3.09	$114
Oct 1997	0	36	19.25	3.15	$113
Sep 1997	0	74	17.74	2.95	$219
Aug 1997	167	40	17.86	2.55	$3,085
Jul 1997	0	9	17.58	2.25	$20
Jun 1997	0	29	17.24	2.26	$65
May 1997	0	20	18.97	2.31	$46
Apr 1997	175	17	17.88	2.08	$3,164
Mar 1997	0	29	18.95	1.94	$56
Feb 1997	0	24	20.49	2.21	$53
Jan 1997	190	58	23.48	3.54	$4,667
Dec 1996	0	50	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	68	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	182	56	23.31	—	$4,242
Sep 1996	0	89	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	192	121	20.26	—	$3,890
Jul 1996	190	31	19.55	—	$3,715
Jun 1996	0	12	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	188	4	19.43	—	$3,653
Apr 1996	0	6	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	0	11	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	185	11	16.98	—	$3,141
Jan 1996	0	5	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	0	33	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	171	36	16.00	—	$2,736
Oct 1995	186	20	15.43	—	$2,870
Sep 1995	0	20	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	127	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	348	401	15.24	—	$5,304
Jun 1995	0	48	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	10	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	145	8	17.73	—	$2,571
Mar 1995	354	37	16.44	—	$5,820
Feb 1995	182	8	16.58	—	$3,018
Jan 1995	0	0	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	0	265	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	181	260	15.90	—	$2,878
Oct 1994	180	230	15.58	—	$2,804
Sep 1994	288	270	15.29	—	$4,404
Aug 1994	457	717	16.13	—	$7,371
Jul 1994	360	301	17.56	—	$6,322
Jun 1994	185	401	17.09	—	$3,162
May 1994	325	1,059	15.88	—	$5,161
Apr 1994	509	528	14.14	—	$7,197
Mar 1994	976	778	12.46	—	$12,161
Feb 1994	1	259	12.50	—	$13
Jan 1994	0	0	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	0	0	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	0	113	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	490	200	15.85	—	$7,767
Sep 1993	159	10	15.03	—	$2,390
Aug 1993	0	147	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	0	167	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	170	129	16.79	—	$2,854
May 1993	0	161	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	352	160	18.05	—	$6,354
Mar 1993	0	214	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	0	224	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	169	297	16.93	—	$2,861

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                   82 bbl  × $ 26.46 =     $2,170
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.23 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,170

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/20298 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.