BRAZOS RIVERBED STATE

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

Operated by MCGOWAN WORKING PARTNERS, INC. (P-5 549836) in the THOMPSON, NORTH field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 4130District 03Field 89527001OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$181 k

Jan 1993 – Apr 2003

Value, last 12 filed months

$107 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

124

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The THOMPSON, NORTH 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 17 leases and 110 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1939-04-09

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

660 ft

minimum

From a lease line

330 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 1947-05-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “PER DOCKET 3-10530 EFF 5-1-47, RULES ADOPTED”

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	8,238 bbl	$175,274
Casinghead gas	Production	2,947 Mcf	$5,851
Total			$181,125

1,387 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 30 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 (7)

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 29.4951, -95.5571. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

29.49520, -95.56029 · 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

42.9%

3 of 7 wells

With a plug date

42.9%

3 of 7 wells

Median depth

8,017 ft

6 wells filed one

Completion to plug

16.4 years

median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

342.9%

A plug date is filed

342.9%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

228.6%

NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.

342.9%

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

Between 7,890 and 8,250 ft, median 8,017 ft, over the 6 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Feb 1958 – Apr 2008

4 of 7 wells; 3 filed none

Plug dates filed

Oct 1970 – Apr 1997

3 of 7 wells; 4 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.4 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.5 years and 18.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

7 wells


42-15702757	1	7,914 ft	—	—	Yes
42-15702759	3	7,890 ft	—	Apr 1987	Yes
42-15702758	2	—	—	—	—
42-15731052	6	8,056 ft	Apr 2008	—	—
42-15730418	5	8,250 ft	Mar 1977	Apr 1997	Yes
42-15700750	7	8,054 ft	Jul 1974	—	—
42-15702760	4	7,979 ft	Feb 1958	Oct 1970	—

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 (124)

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

124 months


Apr 2003	0	0	26.67	5.41	$0
Mar 2003	0	0	31.14	6.10	$0
Feb 2003	0	0	33.48	7.93	$0
Jan 2003	0	0	30.31	5.58	$0
Dec 2002	480	75	26.91	4.85	$13,281
Nov 2002	736	330	24.66	4.14	$19,515
Oct 2002	1,056	240	26.46	4.23	$28,957
Sep 2002	177	450	27.44	3.64	$6,493
Aug 2002	1,439	465	25.96	3.16	$38,828
Jul 2002	0	0	24.58	3.06	$0
Jun 2002	0	0	23.73	3.34	$0
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	0	17.17	2.38	$0
Dec 2001	0	0	16.93	2.36	$0
Nov 2001	0	0	18.07	2.41	$0
Oct 2001	0	0	19.78	2.53	$0
Sep 2001	0	0	24.26	2.25	$0
Aug 2001	0	0	24.87	3.05	$0
Jul 2001	0	0	23.93	3.20	$0
Jun 2001	0	0	24.56	3.82	$0
May 2001	0	0	25.52	4.31	$0
Apr 2001	0	0	24.68	5.34	$0
Mar 2001	0	0	24.54	5.38	$0
Feb 2001	0	0	27.75	5.77	$0
Jan 2001	0	0	27.47	8.40	$0
Dec 2000	0	0	26.88	9.12	$0
Nov 2000	0	0	32.21	5.66	$0
Oct 2000	0	0	31.23	5.15	$0
Sep 2000	0	0	31.87	5.19	$0
Aug 2000	0	0	29.64	4.54	$0
Jul 2000	0	0	28.53	4.09	$0
Jun 2000	0	0	29.30	4.40	$0
May 2000	0	0	27.26	3.68	$0
Apr 2000	0	0	24.51	3.12	$0
Mar 2000	0	0	28.42	2.86	$0
Feb 2000	0	0	27.62	2.73	$0
Jan 2000	0	0	25.27	2.48	$0
Dec 1999	0	0	24.28	2.42	$0
Nov 1999	0	0	23.19	2.43	$0
Oct 1999	0	0	20.98	2.80	$0
Sep 1999	0	0	21.75	2.62	$0
Aug 1999	0	0	19.26	2.88	$0
Jul 1999	0	0	17.89	2.37	$0
Jun 1999	0	0	15.94	2.36	$0
May 1999	0	0	15.79	2.32	$0
Apr 1999	0	0	15.10	2.21	$0
Mar 1999	0	0	12.47	1.84	$0
Feb 1999	0	0	9.98	1.82	$0
Jan 1999	0	0	10.38	1.90	$0
Dec 1998	0	0	9.20	1.77	$0
Nov 1998	0	0	10.89	2.19	$0
Oct 1998	0	0	12.42	1.97	$0
Sep 1998	0	0	12.59	2.08	$0
Aug 1998	0	0	11.30	1.91	$0
Jul 1998	0	0	11.74	2.24	$0
Jun 1998	0	0	11.24	2.24	$0
May 1998	0	0	12.62	2.21	$0
Apr 1998	0	0	13.04	2.51	$0
Mar 1998	0	0	12.80	2.31	$0
Feb 1998	0	0	13.95	2.30	$0
Jan 1998	0	0	14.70	2.15	$0
Dec 1997	0	0	16.32	2.41	$0
Nov 1997	0	0	18.19	3.09	$0
Oct 1997	0	0	19.25	3.15	$0
Sep 1997	0	0	17.74	2.95	$0
Aug 1997	0	0	17.86	2.55	$0
Jul 1997	0	0	17.58	2.25	$0
Jun 1997	14	0	17.24	2.26	$241
May 1997	25	0	18.97	2.31	$474
Apr 1997	39	0	17.88	2.08	$697
Mar 1997	39	0	18.95	1.94	$739
Feb 1997	39	0	20.49	2.21	$799
Jan 1997	50	0	23.48	3.54	$1,174
Dec 1996	74	0	23.32	—	$1,726
Nov 1996	88	0	21.97	—	$1,933
Oct 1996	93	0	23.31	—	$2,168
Sep 1996	81	0	22.22	—	$1,800
Aug 1996	84	0	20.26	—	$1,702
Jul 1996	101	0	19.55	—	$1,975
Jun 1996	83	0	18.73	—	$1,555
May 1996	79	0	19.43	—	$1,535
Apr 1996	75	0	21.51	—	$1,613
Mar 1996	65	0	19.38	—	$1,260
Feb 1996	66	0	16.98	—	$1,121
Jan 1996	93	0	17.07	—	$1,588
Dec 1995	82	0	17.19	—	$1,410
Nov 1995	102	0	16.00	—	$1,632
Oct 1995	88	0	15.43	—	$1,358
Sep 1995	79	0	16.18	—	$1,278
Aug 1995	83	0	15.92	—	$1,321
Jul 1995	88	0	15.24	—	$1,341
Jun 1995	85	32	16.41	—	$1,395
May 1995	88	34	17.56	—	$1,545
Apr 1995	78	33	17.73	—	$1,383
Mar 1995	84	33	16.44	—	$1,381
Feb 1995	85	30	16.58	—	$1,409
Jan 1995	93	33	15.92	—	$1,481
Dec 1994	85	33	15.03	—	$1,278
Nov 1994	75	34	15.90	—	$1,193
Oct 1994	192	18	15.58	—	$2,991
Sep 1994	86	42	15.29	—	$1,315
Aug 1994	106	43	16.13	—	$1,710
Jul 1994	80	45	17.56	—	$1,405
Jun 1994	69	44	17.09	—	$1,179
May 1994	89	45	15.88	—	$1,413
Apr 1994	84	60	14.14	—	$1,188
Mar 1994	87	62	12.46	—	$1,084
Feb 1994	75	56	12.50	—	$938
Jan 1994	86	62	12.66	—	$1,089
Dec 1993	103	62	12.33	—	$1,270
Nov 1993	99	20	14.49	—	$1,435
Oct 1993	86	50	15.85	—	$1,363
Sep 1993	102	60	15.03	—	$1,533
Aug 1993	68	64	15.66	—	$1,065
Jul 1993	97	36	15.46	—	$1,500
Jun 1993	65	32	16.79	—	$1,091
May 1993	92	62	17.68	—	$1,627
Apr 1993	100	60	18.05	—	$1,805
Mar 1993	69	62	18.14	—	$1,252
Feb 1993	65	78	17.90	—	$1,164
Jan 1993	67	62	16.93	—	$1,134

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.

Dec 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  480 bbl  × $ 26.91 =    $12,917
Casinghead gas        75 Mcf  × $  4.85 =       $364

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Month total                                  $13,281

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/4130 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.