BROWN, CECIL

Operated by EXXON CORP. (P-5 257097) in the HASTINGS, EAST field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 5591District 03Field 39598001NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.3 M
Jan 1993 – May 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
77
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 44 leases and 225 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1958-10-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
150 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 acres. The field rule took effect on 2007-11-06.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: DENSITY RULE WITH PRORATION PLATS NO LONGER REQUIRED.

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA1none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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
OilDisposition69,375 bbl$1,151,871
Casinghead gasProduction247,743 Mcf$139,178
Total$1,291,049

189,080 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 (19)

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 29.5133, -95.2360. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.9 miles.

29.51556, -95.23563 · 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%
19 of 19 wells
With a plug date
68.4%
13 of 19 wells
Median depth
6,113 ft
13 wells filed one
Completion to plug
13.1 years
median over 10 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
19100.0%
A plug date is filed
1368.4%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1368.4%
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, 13 of 19 wells. Median 6,113 ft, with the middle half between 6,078 and 6,170 ft; the shallowest is 3,040 ft and the deepest 9,273 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 10 of 19 wells, Jul 1966 – Dec 1989. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Jul 1966 – Dec 1989
10 of 19 wells; 9 filed none
Plug dates filed
Feb 1986 – Apr 1999
13 of 19 wells; 6 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.1 years across the 10 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.1 years and 21.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

19 wells

42-0390052776,090 ftDec 1996Yes
42-039005288Yes
42-0390052996,114 ftApr 1997Yes
42-0390053212Yes
42-0390053414Yes
42-0398103711DYes
42-0398104115Yes
42-0398104317Yes
42-03920361186,172 ftDec 1989Feb 1997Yes
42-039810344D3,040 ftMay 1988Feb 1989Yes
42-03900536166,118 ftJun 1987Apr 1998Yes
42-03932009206,190 ftMar 1987May 1998Yes
42-0390052449,273 ftFeb 1982Feb 1997Yes
42-0390052116,080 ftDec 1980Dec 1996Yes
42-0390052336,078 ftNov 1979Feb 1986Yes
42-0390052553,040 ftSep 1975Apr 1999Yes
42-03900533136,077 ft1972Nov 1994Yes
42-03930062196,170 ftJan 1970May 1997Yes
42-039005261D6,113 ftJul 1966Apr 1998Yes

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 (77)

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

77 months

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 1998419012.622.21$5,288
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 1998308012.802.31$3,942
Feb 199836597213.952.30$7,327
Jan 19988342,25214.702.15$17,112
Dec 19976591,82416.322.41$15,153
Nov 19976181,61418.193.09$16,226
Oct 19971,2011,82219.253.15$28,858
Sep 199703,56317.742.95$10,528
Aug 19979078,41417.862.55$37,695
Jul 19971,8744,49717.582.25$43,049
Jun 199707,34317.242.26$16,575
May 19979007,30818.972.31$33,944
Apr 19971,2249,07517.882.08$40,786
Mar 19979206,72718.951.94$30,479
Feb 199701,54520.492.21$3,408
Jan 199701,70723.483.54$6,042
Dec 19969963,87923.32$23,227
Nov 19968724,70321.97$19,158
Oct 19961,3012,55723.31$30,326
Sep 19964344,21522.22$9,643
Aug 19961,15416,58320.26$23,380
Jul 19967569,91619.55$14,780
Jun 19967445,32818.73$13,935
May 19967415,71619.43$14,398
Apr 19961,6353,86021.51$35,169
Mar 19967645,31919.38$14,806
Feb 19968655,66916.98$14,688
Jan 19965497,43017.07$9,371
Dec 19958789,50717.19$15,093
Nov 19957644,20016.00$12,224
Oct 19951,4131,04215.43$21,803
Sep 19955793,70716.18$9,368
Aug 19951,9483,12315.92$31,012
Jul 199542193715.24$6,416
Jun 19951,0046,48316.41$16,476
May 19951,3017,87517.56$22,846
Apr 19951,1452,51017.73$20,301
Mar 1995201,89416.44$329
Feb 19958731,84816.58$14,474
Jan 19951,5706,05915.92$24,994
Dec 19945466,97515.03$8,206
Nov 199403415.90$0
Oct 19941,3085715.58$20,379
Sep 199402,27515.29$0
Aug 19942,5814,54116.13$41,632
Jul 19946463,30117.56$11,344
Jun 19947552,51517.09$12,903
May 19942,1723,31615.88$34,491
Apr 19941,7822014.14$25,197
Mar 19942,5042012.46$31,200
Feb 19941,8014,57812.50$22,513
Jan 19942,0774,94712.66$26,295
Dec 19931,9193,65312.33$23,661
Nov 19931,9253,88514.49$27,893
Oct 19932,4534,65215.85$38,880
Sep 19932,1714,06315.03$32,630
Aug 19932,7041,10115.66$42,345
Jul 19931,7143,43015.46$26,498
Jun 1993111916.79$17
May 199305017.68$0
Apr 19939681,28818.05$17,472
Mar 19932,0572,15918.14$37,314
Feb 19932,2264,19817.90$39,845
Jan 19932,1093,54316.93$35,705

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.

May 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  419 bbl  × $ 12.62 =     $5,288
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.21 =         $0

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Month total                                   $5,288

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/5591 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.