STATE TRACT -156-

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

Oil lease lease 252District 04Field 08318001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.7 M
Jan 1993 – Jan 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$121 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
109
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 6 leases and 7 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1939-02-08
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: FIELD TYPE CHANGED TO ONE WELL TO CAPACITY EFFECTIVE 10/1/93.

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
OilDisposition78,368 bbl$1,398,535
Casinghead gasProduction309,650 Mcf$283,414
Total$1,681,949

216,743 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 (1)

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 27.5291, -97.3056. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.52912, -97.30565 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
7,277 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 7,277 ft.

Plug dates filed
Oct 2001
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-2730056417,277 ftOct 2001Yes

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 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 200122419024.262.25$5,862
Aug 20014321,13424.873.05$14,206
Jul 200129461323.933.20$8,995
Jun 20013721,56424.563.82$15,117
May 20014711,00725.524.31$16,357
Apr 200150163024.685.34$15,726
Mar 20016771,26624.545.38$23,420
Feb 20015311,17327.755.77$21,500
Jan 200155998827.478.40$23,654
Dec 20004492,62526.889.12$36,016
Nov 20004522,64332.215.66$29,513
Oct 20004491,71031.235.15$22,821
Sep 20003791,87831.875.19$21,819
Aug 20001671,27829.644.54$10,753
Jul 200022887928.534.09$10,100
Jun 20001691,97829.304.40$13,649
May 200017876027.263.68$7,649
Apr 200021712024.513.12$5,693
Mar 20003301,43328.422.86$13,477
Feb 20005321,27627.622.73$18,173
Jan 20006193,02625.272.48$23,148
Dec 19995714,92124.282.42$25,791
Nov 19995302,76823.192.43$19,028
Oct 19994671,83620.982.80$14,945
Sep 19994743,53821.752.62$19,575
Aug 19993271,72019.262.88$11,244
Jul 19995726,00017.892.37$24,467
Jun 19996845,71415.942.36$24,400
May 199950471615.792.32$9,620
Apr 19997103,39015.102.21$18,206
Mar 19995732,39312.471.84$11,544
Feb 19994271,3769.981.82$6,763
Jan 19996281,04810.381.90$8,510
Dec 19987065,0709.201.77$15,486
Nov 19986274,38910.892.19$16,421
Oct 19986081,61412.421.97$10,730
Sep 19985372,13412.592.08$11,205
Aug 199866685011.301.91$9,147
Jul 199856711111.742.24$6,905
Jun 199854510311.242.24$6,356
May 199829291712.622.21$5,708
Apr 199847726513.042.51$6,884
Mar 199845014112.802.31$6,086
Feb 19982174,88413.952.30$14,256
Jan 199811427414.702.15$2,266
Dec 19974942,40116.322.41$13,851
Nov 19974751,14518.193.09$12,176
Oct 199746122419.253.15$9,580
Sep 199773534517.742.95$14,058
Aug 199761837617.862.55$11,998
Jul 199780079617.582.25$15,853
Jun 199771633017.242.26$13,089
May 19978121,26018.972.31$18,312
Apr 199782937317.882.08$15,599
Mar 199793536718.951.94$18,430
Feb 199782974920.492.21$18,638
Jan 19971,07119823.483.54$25,848
Dec 19961,3691,00223.32$31,925
Nov 19961,35987521.97$29,857
Oct 19961,0392,28923.31$24,219
Sep 19969451,74522.22$20,998
Aug 19961,2041,85820.26$24,393
Jul 19968421,70619.55$16,461
Jun 199669056518.73$12,924
May 199660988419.43$11,833
Apr 19961802,26921.51$3,872
Mar 19962602,92819.38$5,039
Feb 19962632,08216.98$4,466
Jan 199627846817.07$4,745
Dec 199543662517.19$7,495
Nov 19952951,62916.00$4,720
Oct 199539920115.43$6,157
Sep 199536922816.18$5,970
Aug 19952924,46915.92$4,649
Jul 19952101,64915.24$3,200
Jun 19957696116.41$1,247
May 199542071117.56$7,375
Apr 19952233,03317.73$3,954
Mar 19951789,57116.44$2,926
Feb 19951744,81616.58$2,885
Jan 199518680915.92$2,961
Dec 19942003,63615.03$3,006
Nov 199421085115.90$3,339
Oct 19941,04828,65715.58$16,328
Sep 19949397,71515.29$14,357
Aug 19941,1236,09416.13$18,114
Jul 19941,3049,68717.56$22,898
Jun 19941,2088,79817.09$20,645
May 19941,33829,83015.88$21,247
Apr 19941,3107,68514.14$18,523
Mar 19941,3246,81812.46$16,497
Feb 19941,2526,63212.50$15,650
Jan 19941,2584,72612.66$15,926
Dec 19931,3225,67512.33$16,300
Nov 19931,3637,39414.49$19,750
Oct 19931,5302,14515.85$24,251
Sep 19931,8576,88315.03$27,911
Aug 19931,9575,66415.66$30,647
Jul 19931,9461,63915.46$30,085
Jun 19932,3841,68816.79$40,027
May 19932,6714,45517.68$47,223
Apr 19932,2232,89918.05$40,125
Mar 19932,5772,04818.14$46,747
Feb 19932,1836,17217.90$39,076
Jan 19932,2671,57916.93$38,380

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                  224 bbl  × $ 24.26 =     $5,434
Casinghead gas       190 Mcf  × $  2.25 =       $428

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Month total                                   $5,862

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/252 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.