M PLUS LAND

Operated by COX & PERKINS EXPLORATION, INC. (P-5 183345) in the GRACEY RANCH (YEGUA 6850) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 23270District 03Field 36241495OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.7 M
Apr 1997 – Apr 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$94 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
25
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 7 leases and 7 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1996-07-17
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 12/01/98.

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
OilDisposition78,570 bbl$1,281,888
Casinghead gasProduction167,403 Mcf$425,781
Total$1,707,669

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 29.4840, -96.3572. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.48401, -96.35724 · 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
9,950 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
22 months
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 9,950 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 1997
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 1999
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 22 months across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 22 months and 22 months. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-0893202829,950 ftApr 1997Feb 1999Yes

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 (25)

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

25 months

Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 199924209.981.82$2,415
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998109.201.77$9
Nov 1998041210.892.19$901
Oct 19984012.421.97$50
Sep 199835412512.592.08$4,717
Aug 199834914911.301.91$4,228
Jul 199869137811.742.24$8,958
Jun 19981,41030111.242.24$16,522
May 19982,44711,58312.622.21$56,437
Apr 19981,8741,84813.042.51$29,067
Mar 19985,66711,48912.802.31$99,071
Feb 19986,21013,21813.952.30$117,019
Jan 19987,77114,09714.702.15$144,610
Dec 19978,54615,39016.322.41$176,578
Nov 19976,78114,76818.193.09$168,954
Oct 19977,76019,06519.253.15$209,431
Sep 19977,36817,15517.742.95$181,399
Aug 19977,01315,50517.862.55$164,863
Jul 19977,13715,10917.582.25$159,417
Jun 19974,0699,60717.242.26$91,834
May 19972,8767,20418.972.31$71,188
Apr 19970017.882.08$0

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.

Feb 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  242 bbl  × $  9.98 =     $2,415
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  1.82 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,415

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/23270 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.