MCGILL BROS. NCT-1

Operated by TEXACO E & P INC. (P-5 844118) in the KELSEY, DEEP (ZONE 18) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 1346District 04Field 48631208OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$287
Jan 1993 – Feb 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
86
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 4 leases and 25 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1945-07-07
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: (FRIO CONSOL) FIELD 48630030 EFFECTIVE 2-1-00.

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
OilDisposition23 bbl$285
Casinghead gasProduction1 Mcf$2
Total$287

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 26.8383, -98.3778. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.7 miles.

26.83814, -98.37657 · 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
100.0%
19 of 19 wells
Median depth
6,736 ft
19 wells filed one
Completion to plug
13.3 years
median over 15 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
19100.0%
A plug date is filed
19100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
19100.0%
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

Total depth in feet, 19 of 19 wells. Median 6,736 ft, with the middle half between 6,215 and 6,852 ft; the shallowest is 5,860 ft and the deepest 7,010 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, 15 of 19 wells, Oct 1968 – Sep 1998. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Oct 1968 – Sep 1998
15 of 19 wells; 4 filed none
Plug dates filed
Feb 1986 – Dec 2011
19 of 19 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.3 years across the 15 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.4 years and 18.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

19 wells

42-04700889165,860 ftMar 1994Yes
42-04700908155,860 ftMar 1994Yes
42-0470091466,763 ftMar 1994Yes
42-0470151038 F6,644 ftMay 1996Yes
42-04730109516,215 ftSep 1998Dec 2011Yes
42-0473019357D6,912 ftNov 1996Apr 2005Yes
42-0470151139GI6,200 ftJan 1985Jun 1996Yes
42-047009073 U6,800 ftOct 1984Nov 2011Yes
42-0473015454WI7,000 ftJun 1984Feb 1986Yes
42-0470090996,400 ftFeb 1979Mar 1994Yes
42-0470089213WI6,705 ftFeb 1979Feb 1986Yes
42-047009115WS6,099 ftOct 1978Apr 1994Yes
42-0473020261WI6,772 ftMar 1978Feb 1986Yes
42-0473015553 F7,000 ftMar 1978Aug 2006Yes
42-0470089386,745 ftJan 1978Mar 1994Yes
42-0470088876,736 ftOct 1977Feb 1986Yes
42-04730110526,215 ftAug 1974Jan 1996Yes
42-047009064WI7,010 ftMay 1973Feb 1986Yes
42-0470088710D6,903 ftOct 1968Aug 1988Yes

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 (86)

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

86 months

Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
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 19982010.892.19$22
Oct 19985012.421.97$62
Sep 199816112.592.08$204
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 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19940015.29$0
Aug 19940016.13$0
Jul 19940017.56$0
Jun 19940017.09$0
May 19940015.88$0
Apr 19940014.14$0
Mar 19940012.46$0
Feb 19940012.50$0
Jan 19940012.66$0
Dec 19930012.33$0
Nov 19930014.49$0
Oct 19930015.85$0
Sep 19930015.03$0
Aug 19930015.66$0
Jul 19930015.46$0
Jun 19930016.79$0
May 19930017.68$0
Apr 19930018.05$0
Mar 19930018.14$0
Feb 19930017.90$0
Jan 19930016.93$0

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.

Nov 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    2 bbl  × $ 10.89 =        $22
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.19 =         $0

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Month total                                      $22

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/1346 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.