FRIO E UNIT -B-

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

Operated by KERR-MCGEE OIL & GAS ONSHORE LLC (P-5 457809) in the RINCON field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 6304District 04Field 76721001NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$282 k

Jan 1993 – Mar 2004

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

135

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The RINCON 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 37 leases and 281 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1938-02-25

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 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 1994-05-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “(VICKSBURG CONS (76721550) EFF 4-1-04”

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	4	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	13,683 bbl	$240,332
Casinghead gas	Production	20,866 Mcf	$41,884
Total			$282,216

3,739 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 (26)

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 26.5245, -98.6063. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.5 miles. 6 wells have no surveyed location and are left out of it.

26.52724, -98.60534 · centre of 20 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%

26 of 26 wells

With a plug date

76.9%

20 of 26 wells

Median depth

4,299 ft

20 wells filed one

Completion to plug

6.1 years

median over 13 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

26100.0%

A plug date is filed

2076.9%

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

2076.9%

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, 20 of 26 wells. Median 4,299 ft, with the middle half between 4,244 and 4,454 ft; the shallowest is 3,925 ft and the deepest 7,300 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, 13 of 26 wells, Jul 1965 – Aug 1994. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed

Jul 1965 – Aug 1994

13 of 26 wells; 13 filed none

Plug dates filed

Jan 1981 – Jan 2012

20 of 26 wells; 6 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 6.1 years across the 13 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3.6 years and 9.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

26 wells


42-42701514	24	4,327 ft	—	Nov 1993	Yes
42-42701517	29	4,300 ft	—	Jan 1985	Yes
42-42701565	32	4,356 ft	—	Dec 1990	Yes
42-42701568	37	4,373 ft	—	Dec 1990	Yes
42-42701594	133	7,300 ft	—	Dec 1990	Yes
42-42701605	59	—	—	—	Yes
42-42701606	60	4,630 ft	—	Jan 1991	Yes
42-42780908	11	—	—	—	Yes
42-42780910	17	—	—	—	Yes
42-42780916	38	—	—	—	Yes
42-42780917	58	—	—	—	Yes
42-42780920	400	4,161 ft	—	Dec 1997	Yes
42-42780922	770	—	—	—	Yes
42-42701521	106	4,255 ft	Aug 1994	Aug 1997	Yes
42-42730164	157	3,950 ft	Feb 1989	Jan 1994	Yes
42-42701595	140	5,641 ft	May 1988	Jan 2012	Yes
42-42701566	33	4,465 ft	Dec 1987	Jan 1994	Yes
42-42701603	34	4,450 ft	Jun 1987	Jan 1991	Yes
42-42701604	460	4,245 ft	May 1987	Aug 1987	Yes
42-42701607	61	4,240 ft	Aug 1986	Mar 1987	Yes
42-42701522	107	4,234 ft	Aug 1986	Feb 1991	Yes
42-42701509	19 U	4,274 ft	Oct 1980	Aug 1987	Yes
42-42701518	30	4,298 ft	Apr 1975	Aug 1984	Yes
42-42701507	16	5,283 ft	Jul 1971	Oct 2004	Yes
42-42701580	57	4,251 ft	Mar 1971	Jan 1981	Yes
42-42704672	700	3,925 ft	Jul 1965	Mar 1987	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 (135)

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

135 months


Mar 2004	0	0	34.36	5.53	$0
Feb 2004	0	0	32.45	5.51	$0
Jan 2004	0	0	32.03	6.30	$0
Dec 2003	0	0	30.26	6.30	$0
Nov 2003	0	0	28.80	4.60	$0
Oct 2003	0	0	28.17	4.76	$0
Sep 2003	0	0	26.31	4.75	$0
Aug 2003	0	0	29.76	5.13	$0
Jul 2003	0	0	29.41	5.17	$0
Jun 2003	0	0	28.56	5.98	$0
May 2003	0	0	26.59	5.97	$0
Apr 2003	0	0	26.67	5.41	$0
Mar 2003	0	0	31.14	6.10	$0
Feb 2003	0	0	33.48	7.93	$0
Jan 2003	0	0	30.31	5.58	$0
Dec 2002	0	0	26.91	4.85	$0
Nov 2002	0	0	24.66	4.14	$0
Oct 2002	0	0	26.46	4.23	$0
Sep 2002	0	0	27.44	3.64	$0
Aug 2002	0	0	25.96	3.16	$0
Jul 2002	0	0	24.58	3.06	$0
Jun 2002	0	0	23.73	3.34	$0
May 2002	0	0	24.66	3.58	$0
Apr 2002	20	42	23.65	3.51	$621
Mar 2002	34	50	22.00	3.10	$903
Feb 2002	34	38	18.22	2.38	$710
Jan 2002	37	30	17.17	2.38	$707
Dec 2001	56	28	16.93	2.36	$1,014
Nov 2001	33	30	18.07	2.41	$668
Oct 2001	37	31	19.78	2.53	$810
Sep 2001	42	26	24.26	2.25	$1,077
Aug 2001	53	29	24.87	3.05	$1,407
Jul 2001	53	28	23.93	3.20	$1,358
Jun 2001	45	27	24.56	3.82	$1,208
May 2001	43	26	25.52	4.31	$1,209
Apr 2001	51	17	24.68	5.34	$1,349
Mar 2001	53	22	24.54	5.38	$1,419
Feb 2001	47	20	27.75	5.77	$1,420
Jan 2001	33	24	27.47	8.40	$1,108
Dec 2000	37	31	26.88	9.12	$1,277
Nov 2000	42	35	32.21	5.66	$1,551
Oct 2000	130	26	31.23	5.15	$4,194
Sep 2000	57	1	31.87	5.19	$1,822
Aug 2000	56	1	29.64	4.54	$1,664
Jul 2000	65	1	28.53	4.09	$1,859
Jun 2000	30	1	29.30	4.40	$883
May 2000	59	1	27.26	3.68	$1,612
Apr 2000	60	1	24.51	3.12	$1,474
Mar 2000	47	1	28.42	2.86	$1,339
Feb 2000	55	1	27.62	2.73	$1,522
Jan 2000	0	0	25.27	2.48	$0
Dec 1999	26	20	24.28	2.42	$680
Nov 1999	42	17	23.19	2.43	$1,015
Oct 1999	90	17	20.98	2.80	$1,936
Sep 1999	9	61	21.75	2.62	$356
Aug 1999	14	95	19.26	2.88	$543
Jul 1999	54	254	17.89	2.37	$1,569
Jun 1999	75	379	15.94	2.36	$2,091
May 1999	102	376	15.79	2.32	$2,483
Apr 1999	57	333	15.10	2.21	$1,596
Mar 1999	88	355	12.47	1.84	$1,750
Feb 1999	25	381	9.98	1.82	$942
Jan 1999	94	282	10.38	1.90	$1,512
Dec 1998	3	327	9.20	1.77	$607
Nov 1998	3	423	10.89	2.19	$957
Oct 1998	6	371	12.42	1.97	$805
Sep 1998	48	277	12.59	2.08	$1,181
Aug 1998	50	383	11.30	1.91	$1,296
Jul 1998	50	350	11.74	2.24	$1,370
Jun 1998	42	462	11.24	2.24	$1,506
May 1998	90	556	12.62	2.21	$2,363
Apr 1998	87	793	13.04	2.51	$3,121
Mar 1998	90	492	12.80	2.31	$2,288
Feb 1998	80	507	13.95	2.30	$2,282
Jan 1998	101	413	14.70	2.15	$2,375
Dec 1997	124	540	16.32	2.41	$3,326
Nov 1997	120	484	18.19	3.09	$3,678
Oct 1997	124	533	19.25	3.15	$4,066
Sep 1997	123	957	17.74	2.95	$5,010
Aug 1997	127	2,235	17.86	2.55	$7,978
Jul 1997	115	633	17.58	2.25	$3,444
Jun 1997	135	529	17.24	2.26	$3,521
May 1997	143	530	18.97	2.31	$3,936
Apr 1997	150	484	17.88	2.08	$3,690
Mar 1997	149	537	18.95	1.94	$3,865
Feb 1997	126	597	20.49	2.21	$3,899
Jan 1997	171	576	23.48	3.54	$6,054
Dec 1996	118	507	23.32	—	$2,752
Nov 1996	0	0	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	130	147	23.31	—	$3,030
Sep 1996	144	1	22.22	—	$3,200
Aug 1996	124	28	20.26	—	$2,512
Jul 1996	78	29	19.55	—	$1,525
Jun 1996	129	71	18.73	—	$2,416
May 1996	136	26	19.43	—	$2,642
Apr 1996	153	19	21.51	—	$3,291
Mar 1996	183	31	19.38	—	$3,547
Feb 1996	154	27	16.98	—	$2,615
Jan 1996	186	28	17.07	—	$3,175
Dec 1995	180	29	17.19	—	$3,094
Nov 1995	171	28	16.00	—	$2,736
Oct 1995	167	30	15.43	—	$2,577
Sep 1995	165	29	16.18	—	$2,670
Aug 1995	155	25	15.92	—	$2,468
Jul 1995	171	28	15.24	—	$2,606
Jun 1995	183	27	16.41	—	$3,003
May 1995	183	27	17.56	—	$3,213
Apr 1995	183	28	17.73	—	$3,245
Mar 1995	202	27	16.44	—	$3,321
Feb 1995	233	29	16.58	—	$3,863
Jan 1995	247	32	15.92	—	$3,932
Dec 1994	227	1	15.03	—	$3,412
Nov 1994	239	1	15.90	—	$3,800
Oct 1994	217	26	15.58	—	$3,381
Sep 1994	225	19	15.29	—	$3,440
Aug 1994	189	20	16.13	—	$3,049
Jul 1994	233	27	17.56	—	$4,091
Jun 1994	309	28	17.09	—	$5,281
May 1994	390	48	15.88	—	$6,193
Apr 1994	230	28	14.14	—	$3,252
Mar 1994	218	55	12.46	—	$2,716
Feb 1994	137	28	12.50	—	$1,713
Jan 1994	184	39	12.66	—	$2,329
Dec 1993	126	41	12.33	—	$1,554
Nov 1993	191	27	14.49	—	$2,768
Oct 1993	218	31	15.85	—	$3,455
Sep 1993	311	52	15.03	—	$4,674
Aug 1993	287	62	15.66	—	$4,494
Jul 1993	245	357	15.46	—	$3,788
Jun 1993	298	203	16.79	—	$5,003
May 1993	347	326	17.68	—	$6,135
Apr 1993	149	304	18.05	—	$2,689
Mar 1993	187	563	18.14	—	$3,392
Feb 1993	291	180	17.90	—	$5,209
Jan 1993	218	20	16.93	—	$3,691

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.

Apr 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   20 bbl  × $ 23.65 =       $473
Casinghead gas        42 Mcf  × $  3.51 =       $148

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Month total                                     $621

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/6304 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.