MCGILL BROS.

Operated by EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION (P-5 257128) in the KELSEY, DEEP (ZONE 23, S) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 5005District 04Field 48631856OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$265 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
90
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 1 leases and 10 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1961-06-01
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: IN ZONE 23, SOUTH & SOUTH /6400/ FLD.

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
OilDisposition15,665 bbl$264,747
Casinghead gasProduction17,356 Mcf$187
Total$264,935

17,283 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 (10)

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 26.7805, -98.4109. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.9 miles. 1 well has no surveyed location and is left out of it.

26.78092, -98.41028 · centre of 9 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%
10 of 10 wells
With a plug date
90.0%
9 of 10 wells
Median depth
6,630 ft
9 wells filed one
Completion to plug
16.6 years
median over 7 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
10100.0%
A plug date is filed
990.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
990.0%
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, 9 of 10 wells. Median 6,630 ft, with the middle half between 6,550 and 7,168 ft; the shallowest is 6,515 ft and the deepest 7,453 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, 7 of 10 wells, Feb 1974 – Jan 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
Feb 1974 – Jan 1998
7 of 10 wells; 3 filed none
Plug dates filed
Jun 1983 – Oct 2011
9 of 10 wells; 1 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.6 years across the 7 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.8 years and 16.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

10 wells

42-04701166226 T6,850 ftOct 1990Yes
42-04780332187 TYes
42-42705104407 D6,550 ftNov 1983Yes
42-427002302307,223 ftJan 1998May 2001Yes
42-42730244432 D6,630 ftJul 1997Oct 2011Yes
42-04701154172 L7,168 ftSep 1994May 2011Yes
42-42720117368 E6,530 ftJul 1980Jun 1983Yes
42-42730620442 D6,515 ftMay 1980Oct 2010Yes
42-04701163204 T7,453 ftDec 1978Sep 1995Yes
42-42704869362 D6,550 ftFeb 1974Sep 1990Yes

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 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
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 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
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 19972118.951.94$40
Feb 19971155220.492.21$2,471
Jan 1997542023.483.54$1,339
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 199624825521.97$5,449
Oct 199642371623.31$9,860
Sep 19962736722.22$6,066
Aug 19962405920.26$4,862
Jul 199659617419.55$11,652
Jun 19963279218.73$6,125
May 199645717419.43$8,880
Apr 199643130921.51$9,271
Mar 199640241919.38$7,791
Feb 199632313216.98$5,485
Jan 199642512917.07$7,255
Dec 199534452117.19$5,913
Nov 199536211416.00$5,792
Oct 199531912315.43$4,922
Sep 199525744716.18$4,158
Aug 199530915.92$478
Jul 199524530215.24$3,734
Jun 199523539516.41$3,856
May 199524532217.56$4,302
Apr 199518617.73$319
Mar 199515727016.44$2,581
Feb 199514438316.58$2,388
Jan 199522352315.92$3,550
Dec 199410830015.03$1,623
Nov 199423483215.90$3,721
Oct 199432693415.58$5,079
Sep 199438131515.29$5,825
Aug 1994411116.13$6,629
Jul 1994317117.56$5,567
Jun 199431117.09$530
May 199461647015.88$9,782
Apr 1994380114.14$5,373
Mar 1994302112.46$3,763
Feb 1994338112.50$4,225
Jan 1994394112.66$4,988
Dec 199342958112.33$5,290
Nov 19937442,34114.49$10,781
Oct 19933901,40415.85$6,182
Sep 1993271115.03$4,073
Aug 199340529415.66$6,342
Jul 199338274915.46$5,906
Jun 199330132716.79$5,054
May 199338560717.68$6,807
Apr 199339857418.05$7,184
Mar 199347671918.14$8,635
Feb 199333629017.90$6,014
Jan 199341559716.93$7,026

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.

Mar 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    2 bbl  × $ 18.95 =        $38
Casinghead gas         1 Mcf  × $  1.94 =         $2

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Month total                                      $40

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/5005 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.