BURT, R. E.

Operated by TEXACO E & P INC. (P-5 844118) in the HUMBLE field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 2406District 03Field 43464001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$32 k
Jan 1993 – Nov 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
83
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 138 leases and 891 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1905-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
0 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 0 acres.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: THIS IS A PIERCEMENT TYPE SALT DOME.

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
OilDisposition1,997 bbl$31,865
Casinghead gasProduction760 Mcf$0
Total$31,865

760 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 (8)

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 29.9983, -95.2140. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

29.99807, -95.21347 · centre of 6 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%
8 of 8 wells
With a plug date
62.5%
5 of 8 wells
Median depth
3,400 ft
5 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
8100.0%
A plug date is filed
562.5%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
562.5%
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

Total depth in feet, 5 of 8 wells. Median 3,400 ft, with the middle half between 3,200 and 3,413 ft; the shallowest is 3,068 ft and the deepest 5,998 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

Plug dates filed
Apr 1994 – Oct 1999
5 of 8 wells; 3 filed none

8 wells

42-2010245233,413 ftApr 1994Yes
42-2010245553,400 ftMay 1994Yes
42-2010246093,200 ftOct 1999Yes
42-20102461103,068 ftFeb 1996Yes
42-201024637Yes
42-201024646Yes
42-20130255115,998 ftOct 1999Yes
42-201811068Yes

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 (83)

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

83 months

Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
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 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 199712018.951.94$227
Feb 199710020.492.21$205
Jan 199711023.483.54$258
Dec 199610023.32$233
Nov 199610021.97$220
Oct 199611023.31$256
Sep 199611022.22$244
Aug 199611020.26$223
Jul 199613019.55$254
Jun 199612018.73$225
May 199613019.43$253
Apr 199614021.51$301
Mar 199614019.38$271
Feb 199618016.98$306
Jan 199620017.07$341
Dec 199516017.19$275
Nov 199515016.00$240
Oct 199514015.43$216
Sep 199515016.18$243
Aug 199516015.92$255
Jul 199517015.24$259
Jun 199512016.41$197
May 199510017.56$176
Apr 199510017.73$177
Mar 199512016.44$197
Feb 199512016.58$199
Jan 199520015.92$318
Dec 199411015.03$165
Nov 19947315.90$111
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19943015.29$46
Aug 1994281016.13$452
Jul 1994754517.56$1,317
Jun 1994637317.09$1,077
May 19947519215.88$1,191
Apr 1994909114.14$1,273
Mar 19941072012.46$1,333
Feb 1994933212.50$1,163
Jan 19941282712.66$1,620
Dec 1993971712.33$1,196
Nov 199368714.49$985
Oct 199368615.85$1,078
Sep 1993691915.03$1,037
Aug 1993741615.66$1,159
Jul 1993792715.46$1,221
Jun 199369116.79$1,159
May 1993682617.68$1,202
Apr 1993773318.05$1,390
Mar 199313811318.14$2,503
Feb 199362117.90$1,110
Jan 199389116.93$1,507

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.

Mar 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   12 bbl  × $ 18.95 =       $227
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  1.94 =         $0

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Month total                                     $227

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/2406 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.