STATE TRACT 169

Name: STATE TRACT 169 lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by TOTALFINAELF E&P USA INC (P-5 862791) in the BIRD ISLAND (10-A SEG A) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 12128District 04Field 08318111OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$4.4 M

Jan 1993 – Jan 2002

Value, last 12 filed months

$363 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

109

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The BIRD ISLAND (10-A SEG 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 4 leases and 5 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1957-10-14

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

1,320 ft

minimum

From a lease line

660 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “ TRANS. FROM BIRD ISLAND FIELD, EFF. 10-14-57 CAL. DAY TEST”

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	224,849 bbl	$4,058,647
Casinghead gas	Production	287,462 Mcf	$307,588
Total			$4,366,235

180,752 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 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 27.5365, -97.2978. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.53646, -97.29778 · 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

100.0%

2 of 2 wells

Median depth

8,925 ft

2 wells filed one

Completion to plug

5.2 years

median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

2100.0%

A plug date is filed

2100.0%

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

2100.0%

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 7,572 and 10,278 ft, median 8,925 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Nov 1992 – Dec 1998

2 of 2 wells

Plug dates filed

Jun 2000 – Sep 2001

2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 5.2 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3.3 years and 7.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells


42-27330380	2	10,278 ft	Dec 1998	Jun 2000	Yes
42-27300560	1	7,572 ft	Nov 1992	Sep 2001	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 (109)

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

109 months


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	1,170	186	24.26	2.25	$28,803
Aug 2001	2,261	461	24.87	3.05	$57,639
Jul 2001	1,537	251	23.93	3.20	$37,583
Jun 2001	1,879	1,029	24.56	3.82	$50,083
May 2001	1,863	60	25.52	4.31	$47,802
Apr 2001	1,767	348	24.68	5.34	$45,466
Mar 2001	1,771	1,610	24.54	5.38	$52,116
Feb 2001	1,158	1,966	27.75	5.77	$43,473
Jan 2001	1,329	2,787	27.47	8.40	$59,915
Dec 2000	1,143	2,083	26.88	9.12	$49,726
Nov 2000	1,217	1,602	32.21	5.66	$48,264
Oct 2000	1,476	925	31.23	5.15	$50,855
Sep 2000	2,384	103	31.87	5.19	$76,512
Aug 2000	1,514	379	29.64	4.54	$46,596
Jul 2000	2,064	526	28.53	4.09	$61,037
Jun 2000	1,583	241	29.30	4.40	$47,442
May 2000	2,078	381	27.26	3.68	$58,048
Apr 2000	2,206	612	24.51	3.12	$55,976
Mar 2000	2,447	1,081	28.42	2.86	$72,635
Feb 2000	2,046	470	27.62	2.73	$57,792
Jan 2000	2,525	5,612	25.27	2.48	$77,727
Dec 1999	2,221	515	24.28	2.42	$55,174
Nov 1999	1,935	1,858	23.19	2.43	$49,395
Oct 1999	1,929	1,469	20.98	2.80	$44,589
Sep 1999	1,998	2,933	21.75	2.62	$51,138
Aug 1999	2,108	3,183	19.26	2.88	$49,753
Jul 1999	2,099	5,327	17.89	2.37	$50,189
Jun 1999	2,093	4,400	15.94	2.36	$43,756
May 1999	1,540	0	15.79	2.32	$24,317
Apr 1999	1,786	221	15.10	2.21	$27,457
Mar 1999	1,814	2,303	12.47	1.84	$26,854
Feb 1999	2,182	3,110	9.98	1.82	$27,430
Jan 1999	2,051	1,337	10.38	1.90	$23,830
Dec 1998	2,240	4,876	9.20	1.77	$29,255
Nov 1998	2,469	791	10.89	2.19	$28,616
Oct 1998	2,251	470	12.42	1.97	$28,883
Sep 1998	1,986	105	12.59	2.08	$25,222
Aug 1998	2,472	345	11.30	1.91	$28,592
Jul 1998	2,180	984	11.74	2.24	$27,795
Jun 1998	2,469	2,551	11.24	2.24	$33,459
May 1998	2,170	2,743	12.62	2.21	$33,437
Apr 1998	2,840	2,349	13.04	2.51	$42,919
Mar 1998	2,838	669	12.80	2.31	$37,871
Feb 1998	2,148	2,463	13.95	2.30	$35,627
Jan 1998	2,204	2,536	14.70	2.15	$37,863
Dec 1997	2,659	3,490	16.32	2.41	$51,810
Nov 1997	2,376	1,470	18.19	3.09	$47,759
Oct 1997	2,193	1,311	19.25	3.15	$46,345
Sep 1997	2,367	1,862	17.74	2.95	$47,493
Aug 1997	2,190	2,523	17.86	2.55	$45,559
Jul 1997	2,234	5,277	17.58	2.25	$51,131
Jun 1997	1,882	6,296	17.24	2.26	$46,657
May 1997	1,981	6,859	18.97	2.31	$53,414
Apr 1997	2,035	925	17.88	2.08	$38,312
Mar 1997	2,227	2,905	18.95	1.94	$47,835
Feb 1997	1,771	2,084	20.49	2.21	$40,885
Jan 1997	2,213	1,457	23.48	3.54	$57,119
Dec 1996	2,830	1,854	23.32	—	$65,996
Nov 1996	2,717	3,481	21.97	—	$59,692
Oct 1996	2,106	511	23.31	—	$49,091
Sep 1996	651	111	22.22	—	$14,465
Aug 1996	272	0	20.26	—	$5,511
Jul 1996	2,288	56	19.55	—	$44,730
Jun 1996	2,580	643	18.73	—	$48,323
May 1996	1,869	5,377	19.43	—	$36,315
Apr 1996	1,327	77	21.51	—	$28,544
Mar 1996	1,725	70	19.38	—	$33,431
Feb 1996	1,411	2,776	16.98	—	$23,959
Jan 1996	1,446	1,110	17.07	—	$24,683
Dec 1995	2,310	1,643	17.19	—	$39,709
Nov 1995	1,882	769	16.00	—	$30,112
Oct 1995	2,002	328	15.43	—	$30,891
Sep 1995	1,992	106	16.18	—	$32,231
Aug 1995	1,939	2,806	15.92	—	$30,869
Jul 1995	2,020	3,946	15.24	—	$30,785
Jun 1995	1,161	8,855	16.41	—	$19,052
May 1995	2,346	3,601	17.56	—	$41,196
Apr 1995	3,182	731	17.73	—	$56,417
Mar 1995	2,734	1,324	16.44	—	$44,947
Feb 1995	2,762	1,281	16.58	—	$45,794
Jan 1995	2,946	1,258	15.92	—	$46,900
Dec 1994	3,355	2,158	15.03	—	$50,426
Nov 1994	2,793	1,544	15.90	—	$44,409
Oct 1994	2,815	10,118	15.58	—	$43,858
Sep 1994	2,191	1,678	15.29	—	$33,500
Aug 1994	2,620	3,279	16.13	—	$42,261
Jul 1994	3,042	3,864	17.56	—	$53,418
Jun 1994	2,727	3,754	17.09	—	$46,604
May 1994	2,500	8,544	15.88	—	$39,700
Apr 1994	3,057	10,663	14.14	—	$43,226
Mar 1994	3,100	12,009	12.46	—	$38,626
Feb 1994	3,099	8,811	12.50	—	$38,738
Jan 1994	3,492	14,575	12.66	—	$44,209
Dec 1993	3,603	10,883	12.33	—	$44,425
Nov 1993	3,255	7,926	14.49	—	$47,165
Oct 1993	3,289	4,582	15.85	—	$52,131
Sep 1993	3,163	5,448	15.03	—	$47,540
Aug 1993	3,435	5,853	15.66	—	$53,792
Jul 1993	2,975	6,755	15.46	—	$45,994
Jun 1993	2,307	5,005	16.79	—	$38,735
May 1993	1,799	5,771	17.68	—	$31,806
Apr 1993	715	1,017	18.05	—	$12,906
Mar 1993	691	1	18.14	—	$12,535
Feb 1993	532	1,693	17.90	—	$9,523
Jan 1993	227	2,107	16.93	—	$3,843

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.

Sep 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                1,170 bbl  × $ 24.26 =    $28,384
Casinghead gas       186 Mcf  × $  2.25 =       $419

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Month total                                  $28,803

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/12128 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.