MCGILL BROS.

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

Operated by EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION (P-5 257128) in the KELSEY, DEEP (ZONE 20-A) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 11136District 04Field 48631400OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$182 k

Jan 1993 – Jun 2000

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The KELSEY, DEEP (ZONE 20-A) 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 2 leases and 8 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1945-02-28

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

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 40 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “TRANS. FROM KELSEY (DEEP, ZONE 20-B) EFF. 3-1-63”

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	10,266 bbl	$176,311
Casinghead gas	Production	27,949 Mcf	$5,755
Total			$182,066

25,572 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 (2)

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 26.8147, -98.3993. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

26.81469, -98.39926 · 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%

2 of 2 wells

With a plug date

50.0%

1 of 2 wells

Median depth

7,844 ft

2 wells filed one

Completion to plug

14.9 years

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

2100.0%

A plug date is filed

150.0%

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

150.0%

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

Between 7,783 and 7,905 ft, median 7,844 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Sep 1996 – Oct 2010

2 of 2 wells

Plug dates filed

Aug 2011

1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.9 years and 14.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells


42-04731329	504	7,905 ft	Oct 2010	—	Yes
42-04731301	500 D	7,783 ft	Sep 1996	Aug 2011	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 (90)

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

90 months


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	1	0	10.38	1.90	$10
Dec 1998	11	0	9.20	1.77	$101
Nov 1998	59	8	10.89	2.19	$660
Oct 1998	71	8	12.42	1.97	$898
Sep 1998	60	7	12.59	2.08	$770
Aug 1998	81	10	11.30	1.91	$934
Jul 1998	64	11	11.74	2.24	$776
Jun 1998	46	6	11.24	2.24	$530
May 1998	59	32	12.62	2.21	$815
Apr 1998	53	11	13.04	2.51	$719
Mar 1998	104	621	12.80	2.31	$2,765
Feb 1998	96	17	13.95	2.30	$1,378
Jan 1998	139	22	14.70	2.15	$2,091
Dec 1997	129	84	16.32	2.41	$2,308
Nov 1997	184	28	18.19	3.09	$3,433
Oct 1997	139	26	19.25	3.15	$2,758
Sep 1997	121	19	17.74	2.95	$2,203
Aug 1997	115	19	17.86	2.55	$2,102
Jul 1997	145	24	17.58	2.25	$2,603
Jun 1997	133	518	17.24	2.26	$3,462
May 1997	119	26	18.97	2.31	$2,317
Apr 1997	236	191	17.88	2.08	$4,617
Mar 1997	283	50	18.95	1.94	$5,460
Feb 1997	253	363	20.49	2.21	$5,985
Jan 1997	281	276	23.48	3.54	$7,575
Dec 1996	152	539	23.32	—	$3,545
Nov 1996	149	404	21.97	—	$3,274
Oct 1996	159	692	23.31	—	$3,706
Sep 1996	153	538	22.22	—	$3,400
Aug 1996	142	676	20.26	—	$2,877
Jul 1996	168	436	19.55	—	$3,284
Jun 1996	117	379	18.73	—	$2,191
May 1996	163	389	19.43	—	$3,167
Apr 1996	147	504	21.51	—	$3,162
Mar 1996	160	512	19.38	—	$3,101
Feb 1996	115	193	16.98	—	$1,953
Jan 1996	147	44	17.07	—	$2,509
Dec 1995	140	359	17.19	—	$2,407
Nov 1995	127	16	16.00	—	$2,032
Oct 1995	110	16	15.43	—	$1,697
Sep 1995	119	222	16.18	—	$1,925
Aug 1995	160	295	15.92	—	$2,547
Jul 1995	156	120	15.24	—	$2,377
Jun 1995	145	76	16.41	—	$2,379
May 1995	158	115	17.56	—	$2,774
Apr 1995	120	452	17.73	—	$2,128
Mar 1995	129	584	16.44	—	$2,121
Feb 1995	106	293	16.58	—	$1,757
Jan 1995	90	584	15.92	—	$1,433
Dec 1994	88	655	15.03	—	$1,323
Nov 1994	95	457	15.90	—	$1,511
Oct 1994	80	451	15.58	—	$1,246
Sep 1994	90	279	15.29	—	$1,376
Aug 1994	89	40	16.13	—	$1,436
Jul 1994	87	257	17.56	—	$1,528
Jun 1994	90	145	17.09	—	$1,538
May 1994	150	2,553	15.88	—	$2,382
Apr 1994	83	38	14.14	—	$1,174
Mar 1994	152	54	12.46	—	$1,894
Feb 1994	139	1	12.50	—	$1,738
Jan 1994	176	1	12.66	—	$2,228
Dec 1993	193	557	12.33	—	$2,380
Nov 1993	2	4,213	14.49	—	$29
Oct 1993	209	1,134	15.85	—	$3,313
Sep 1993	164	503	15.03	—	$2,465
Aug 1993	244	538	15.66	—	$3,821
Jul 1993	222	795	15.46	—	$3,432
Jun 1993	214	626	16.79	—	$3,593
May 1993	237	808	17.68	—	$4,190
Apr 1993	247	749	18.05	—	$4,458
Mar 1993	436	943	18.14	—	$7,909
Feb 1993	219	670	17.90	—	$3,920
Jan 1993	246	667	16.93	—	$4,165

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.

Jan 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                    1 bbl  × $ 10.38 =        $10
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  1.90 =         $0

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Month total                                      $10

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. 04/O/11136 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.