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Operated by RATTLESNAKE OPERATING CO, LLC (P-5 694746) in the LOPEZ, NORTH (LOPEZ) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 13743District 04Field 54885666OilSaveExport
Value, all time
$2.1 M
Aug 2012 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$33 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
166
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
oil

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 12 leases and 53 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1951-03-03
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 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 1951-05-14.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: NO PRODUCTION

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
OilDisposition27,450 bbl$2,135,609
Total$2,135,609

Wells on this lease (9)

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 27.7166, -98.7908. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.2 miles.

27.71617, -98.79117 · 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
11.1%
1 of 9 wells
With a plug date
11.1%
1 of 9 wells
Median depth
2,350 ft
9 wells filed one
Completion to plug
9.3 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
111.1%
A plug date is filed
111.1%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
111.1%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
888.9%

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

Total depth in feet, 9 of 9 wells. Median 2,350 ft, with the middle half between 2,350 and 2,350 ft; the shallowest is 2,340 ft and the deepest 2,505 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, 9 of 9 wells, Aug 2012 – Oct 2013. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Aug 2012 – Oct 2013
9 of 9 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2022
1 of 9 wells; 8 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 9.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.3 years and 9.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

9 wells

42-13139416152,350 ftOct 2013
42-13139419182,345 ftOct 2013
42-13139417162,350 ftOct 2013
42-13139378142,500 ftJun 2013Sep 2022Yes
42-1313929232,505 ftJun 2013
42-1313929892,340 ftOct 2012
42-1313929562,350 ftAug 2012
42-1313928412,350 ftAug 2012
42-1313929782,350 ftAug 2012

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 (166)

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

166 months

May 20260106.413.05$0
Apr 2026098.932.87$0
Mar 2026089.753.15$0
Feb 2026063.503.75$0
Jan 20268759.138.00$5,144
Dec 202515456.664.41$8,726
Nov 202515658.593.93$9,140
Oct 2025059.383.30$0
Sep 2025062.743.08$0
Aug 2025063.933.01$0
Jul 202515666.743.32$10,411
Jun 2025066.483.13$0
May 2025060.553.23$0
Apr 2025062.363.54$0
Mar 202512267.704.27$8,259
Feb 2025070.884.34$0
Jan 202513774.324.28$10,182
Dec 202413268.993.12$9,107
Nov 202430269.052.20$20,853
Oct 2024071.372.28$0
Sep 202417169.612.36$11,903
Aug 202415475.632.06$11,647
Jul 2024079.932.15$0
Jun 202415078.082.63$11,712
May 202416478.812.20$12,925
Apr 202415984.451.66$13,428
Mar 202416980.301.55$13,571
Feb 2024076.091.78$0
Jan 202415673.023.30$11,391
Dec 202314771.262.61$10,475
Nov 20234677.892.81$3,583
Oct 202313885.443.09$11,791
Sep 202315589.042.74$13,801
Aug 20235280.522.67$4,187
Jul 2023074.852.64$0
Jun 202373068.962.26$50,341
May 202316170.622.23$11,370
Apr 2023078.122.24$0
Mar 2023072.852.39$0
Feb 2023075.112.47$0
Jan 202316276.533.39$12,398
Dec 202216376.415.73$12,455
Nov 202216585.005.65$14,025
Oct 202216487.185.86$14,298
Sep 202216584.888.16$14,005
Aug 202216494.529.13$15,501
Jul 2022163101.587.54$16,558
Jun 2022163115.097.98$18,760
May 2022330109.378.43$36,092
Apr 2022159104.226.84$16,571
Mar 2022326108.885.08$35,495
Feb 202216191.054.86$14,659
Jan 202232981.844.54$26,925
Dec 202116671.323.90$11,839
Nov 202116277.435.24$12,544
Oct 2021079.795.71$0
Sep 2021069.865.35$0
Aug 2021066.024.22$0
Jul 2021070.783.98$0
Jun 2021069.493.38$0
May 2021063.483.02$0
Apr 2021060.362.76$0
Mar 2021061.302.72$0
Feb 202115957.805.55$9,190
Jan 2021050.412.81$0
Dec 2020044.642.68$0
Nov 202016338.772.71$6,320
Oct 2020036.972.48$0
Sep 2020037.091.99$0
Aug 202015839.982.39$6,317
Jul 2020038.371.83$0
Jun 2020034.901.69$0
May 2020016.921.81$0
Apr 202016014.751.80$2,360
Mar 202015930.341.86$4,824
Feb 202016149.881.98$8,031
Jan 202015857.252.09$9,046
Dec 201916059.012.30$9,442
Nov 201915955.302.75$8,793
Oct 201915953.472.42$8,502
Sep 2019055.052.66$0
Aug 201916253.112.30$8,604
Jul 201916056.272.46$9,003
Jun 201916552.782.49$8,709
May 201916158.482.74$9,415
Apr 201916362.632.75$10,209
Mar 2019056.803.06$0
Feb 2019050.852.79$0
Jan 2019046.033.23$0
Dec 2018046.594.19$0
Nov 201816852.934.24$8,892
Oct 2018061.443.40$0
Sep 201816759.543.11$9,943
Aug 201816659.403.07$9,860
Jul 201832765.142.93$21,301
Jun 2018060.183.08$0
May 2018065.382.90$0
Apr 2018063.842.90$0
Mar 2018061.222.79$0
Feb 201815361.782.77$9,452
Jan 201815762.874.01$9,871
Dec 201715557.272.92$8,877
Nov 2017055.423.12$0
Oct 2017049.292.98$0
Sep 201730047.523.09$14,256
Aug 201714645.373.00$6,624
Jul 201715343.873.09$6,712
Jun 201715242.493.09$6,458
May 201715445.373.26$6,987
Apr 201730247.933.21$14,475
Mar 201715946.772.98$7,436
Feb 201715750.452.95$7,921
Jan 201714949.413.42$7,362
Dec 201635248.763.72$17,164
Nov 201615642.492.64$6,628
Oct 201626946.193.09$12,425
Sep 201617341.553.10$7,188
Aug 201633541.442.92$13,882
Jul 201616841.622.92$6,992
Jun 2016045.352.69$0
May 201617842.521.99$7,569
Apr 2016036.561.99$0
Mar 2016033.011.79$0
Feb 201616226.472.06$4,288
Jan 2016027.352.36$0
Dec 2015032.362.00$0
Nov 2015038.792.17$0
Oct 201515243.552.43$6,620
Sep 2015042.992.76$0
Aug 2015040.162.87$0
Jul 2015048.152.95$0
Jun 2015056.152.88$0
May 2015055.212.96$0
Apr 201516249.822.71$8,071
Mar 201515942.892.93$6,820
Feb 201515344.662.98$6,833
Jan 2015043.433.10$0
Dec 2014054.693.59$0
Nov 2014070.464.25$0
Oct 2014078.303.90$0
Sep 201430886.164.05$26,537
Aug 201415189.394.04$13,498
Jul 2014096.564.18$0
Jun 201430198.164.74$29,546
May 201416694.734.73$15,725
Apr 201415295.944.81$14,583
Mar 201445995.895.06$44,014
Feb 201430597.406.19$29,707
Jan 2014090.404.86$0
Dec 201363191.824.35$57,938
Nov 201346688.853.74$41,404
Oct 201333397.423.78$32,441
Sep 2013457104.113.72$47,578
Aug 2013917104.253.52$95,597
Jul 2013467102.523.72$47,877
Jun 201378794.403.93$74,293
May 201379294.834.15$75,105
Apr 201378193.964.28$73,383
Mar 201378393.623.91$73,304
Feb 201384791.233.42$77,272
Jan 20131,19191.603.42$109,096
Dec 201263986.773.42$55,446
Nov 201281786.953.62$71,038
Oct 20121,16989.383.40$104,485
Sep 2012094.672.92$0
Aug 2012092.662.91$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.

Jan 2026 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   87 bbl  × $ 59.13 =     $5,144

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Month total                                   $5,144

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/13743 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.