MCGILL BROS.

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

Operated by EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION (P-5 257128) in the KELSEY, DEEP (ZONE 22-A) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 5140District 04Field 48631768NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.0 M

Jan 1993 – Jun 2000

Value, last 12 filed months

$81 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The KELSEY, DEEP (ZONE 22-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 3 leases and 25 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1945-08-10

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 1945-12-10.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “KELSEY SOUTH /6250 SD./ FLDS. EFF. 1-1-62”

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	1	none	—	—

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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	55,297 bbl	$890,240
Casinghead gas	Production	138,281 Mcf	$122,840
Total			$1,013,080

85,785 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 45 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 (23)

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 26.7796, -98.4133. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 2.3 miles. 1 well has no surveyed location and is left out of it.

26.78947, -98.41361 · centre of 22 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%

23 of 23 wells

With a plug date

91.3%

21 of 23 wells

Median depth

6,867 ft

22 wells filed one

Completion to plug

9.5 years

median over 16 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

23100.0%

A plug date is filed

2191.3%

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

2191.3%

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, 22 of 23 wells. Median 6,867 ft, with the middle half between 6,543 and 7,537 ft; the shallowest is 6,350 ft and the deepest 9,515 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, 17 of 23 wells, Feb 1974 – Jul 2012. 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 – Jul 2012

17 of 23 wells; 6 filed none

Plug dates filed

Nov 1978 – Nov 2025

21 of 23 wells; 2 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 9.5 years across the 16 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 4.0 years and 16.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

23 wells


42-04701166	226 C	6,850 ft	—	Oct 1990	Yes
42-04780348	187 C	—	—	—	Yes
42-42700215	179 T	7,748 ft	—	Nov 1978	Yes
42-42700226	222 T	7,550 ft	—	Oct 1979	Yes
42-42700234	240	7,498 ft	—	Nov 1988	Yes
42-42705104	407 F	6,550 ft	—	Nov 1983	Yes
42-42700223	211 T	7,237 ft	Jul 2012	Nov 2025	Yes
42-04730972	477	8,285 ft	Jan 2005	Nov 2009	Yes
42-42700238	268	6,502 ft	Jun 1999	Mar 2011	Yes
42-42700240	277	6,390 ft	Mar 1999	May 2006	Yes
42-42730247	431 D	6,540 ft	Oct 1998	Aug 2004	Yes
42-42700230	230 C	7,223 ft	Jan 1998	May 2001	Yes
42-42704993	393 D	6,800 ft	Sep 1997	Jul 2010	Yes
42-42700227	224	6,883 ft	Sep 1989	Nov 1993	Yes
42-42704994	396 D	6,350 ft	Apr 1989	Sep 2008	Yes
42-42700233	238 C	9,515 ft	Dec 1984	Feb 1985	Yes
42-42700207	56 E	6,600 ft	Jul 1983	—	Yes
42-42705101	406 F	8,100 ft	Jan 1981	Oct 1983	Yes
42-42720117	368 D	6,530 ft	Jul 1980	Jun 1983	Yes
42-42730620	442 F	6,515 ft	May 1980	Oct 2010	Yes
42-04701158	200 T	7,296 ft	Mar 1979	Sep 1995	Yes
42-04701161	185 T	7,803 ft	Jan 1977	Sep 2010	Yes
42-42704869	362	6,550 ft	Feb 1974	Sep 1990	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 (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 2000	0	0	29.30	4.40	$0
May 2000	0	0	27.26	3.68	$0
Apr 2000	0	0	24.51	3.12	$0
Mar 2000	0	0	28.42	2.86	$0
Feb 2000	0	0	27.62	2.73	$0
Jan 2000	0	0	25.27	2.48	$0
Dec 1999	334	930	24.28	2.42	$10,364
Nov 1999	377	916	23.19	2.43	$10,972
Oct 1999	308	921	20.98	2.80	$9,044
Sep 1999	565	1,092	21.75	2.62	$15,149
Aug 1999	540	2,472	19.26	2.88	$17,509
Jul 1999	606	3,210	17.89	2.37	$18,457
Jun 1999	525	2,482	15.94	2.36	$14,231
May 1999	545	2,862	15.79	2.32	$15,248
Apr 1999	690	6,591	15.10	2.21	$24,972
Mar 1999	680	1,842	12.47	1.84	$11,866
Feb 1999	489	2,034	9.98	1.82	$8,578
Jan 1999	540	1,234	10.38	1.90	$7,950
Dec 1998	645	968	9.20	1.77	$7,651
Nov 1998	617	1,992	10.89	2.19	$11,073
Oct 1998	629	1,794	12.42	1.97	$11,345
Sep 1998	527	1,588	12.59	2.08	$9,942
Aug 1998	476	1,620	11.30	1.91	$8,469
Jul 1998	423	1,434	11.74	2.24	$8,174
Jun 1998	468	1,669	11.24	2.24	$8,994
May 1998	356	570	12.62	2.21	$5,750
Apr 1998	223	1,490	13.04	2.51	$6,641
Mar 1998	440	280	12.80	2.31	$6,279
Feb 1998	329	444	13.95	2.30	$5,610
Jan 1998	382	450	14.70	2.15	$6,585
Dec 1997	236	1,222	16.32	2.41	$6,798
Nov 1997	447	1,598	18.19	3.09	$13,066
Oct 1997	497	1,446	19.25	3.15	$14,122
Sep 1997	507	203	17.74	2.95	$9,594
Aug 1997	487	219	17.86	2.55	$9,257
Jul 1997	569	258	17.58	2.25	$10,583
Jun 1997	491	1,806	17.24	2.26	$12,541
May 1997	392	242	18.97	2.31	$7,995
Apr 1997	421	754	17.88	2.08	$9,098
Mar 1997	358	375	18.95	1.94	$7,511
Feb 1997	601	1,740	20.49	2.21	$16,153
Jan 1997	506	1,748	23.48	3.54	$18,068
Dec 1996	519	2,514	23.32	—	$12,103
Nov 1996	639	2,494	21.97	—	$14,039
Oct 1996	657	2,928	23.31	—	$15,315
Sep 1996	811	1,575	22.22	—	$18,020
Aug 1996	800	1,434	20.26	—	$16,208
Jul 1996	561	258	19.55	—	$10,968
Jun 1996	44	11	18.73	—	$824
May 1996	401	198	19.43	—	$7,791
Apr 1996	355	666	21.51	—	$7,636
Mar 1996	306	664	19.38	—	$5,930
Feb 1996	249	477	16.98	—	$4,228
Jan 1996	313	277	17.07	—	$5,343
Dec 1995	50	109	17.19	—	$860
Nov 1995	0	0	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	2	0	15.43	—	$31
Sep 1995	21	43	16.18	—	$340
Aug 1995	22	9	15.92	—	$350
Jul 1995	178	264	15.24	—	$2,713
Jun 1995	44	47	16.41	—	$722
May 1995	407	1,444	17.56	—	$7,147
Apr 1995	438	1,780	17.73	—	$7,766
Mar 1995	556	1,238	16.44	—	$9,141
Feb 1995	175	467	16.58	—	$2,902
Jan 1995	51	0	15.92	—	$812
Dec 1994	394	1,215	15.03	—	$5,922
Nov 1994	928	3,023	15.90	—	$14,755
Oct 1994	972	3,157	15.58	—	$15,144
Sep 1994	1,078	2,215	15.29	—	$16,483
Aug 1994	1,145	1	16.13	—	$18,469
Jul 1994	1,058	1,552	17.56	—	$18,578
Jun 1994	599	407	17.09	—	$10,237
May 1994	824	1	15.88	—	$13,085
Apr 1994	1,058	114	14.14	—	$14,960
Mar 1994	1,338	395	12.46	—	$16,671
Feb 1994	1,548	902	12.50	—	$19,350
Jan 1994	1,868	1,979	12.66	—	$23,649
Dec 1993	3,108	10,000	12.33	—	$38,322
Nov 1993	1,365	8,407	14.49	—	$19,779
Oct 1993	1,907	15,362	15.85	—	$30,226
Sep 1993	1,183	2,334	15.03	—	$17,780
Aug 1993	1,241	2,742	15.66	—	$19,434
Jul 1993	1,141	3,106	15.46	—	$17,640
Jun 1993	1,151	2,765	16.79	—	$19,325
May 1993	1,427	1,527	17.68	—	$25,229
Apr 1993	1,478	1,188	18.05	—	$26,678
Mar 1993	1,434	1,733	18.14	—	$26,013
Feb 1993	847	1,755	17.90	—	$15,161
Jan 1993	1,380	1,008	16.93	—	$23,363

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.

Dec 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  334 bbl  × $ 24.28 =     $8,110
Casinghead gas       930 Mcf  × $  2.42 =     $2,254

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Month total                                  $10,364

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/5140 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.