MCGILL BROS.

Operated by EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION (P-5 257128) in the KELSEY, DEEP (ZONE 20-F & H, NE) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 7438District 04Field 48631488NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$196 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 4 leases and 10 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1945-02-28
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: VOIR COMPLETION THAT IS LOCATED ON THE SAME LEASE. LDP 12/29/94

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.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA1none

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.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
OilDisposition11,352 bbl$191,925
Casinghead gasProduction40,074 Mcf$3,714
Total$195,639

38,555 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 (3)

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 26.8292, -98.3861. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

26.82922, -98.38506 · 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%
3 of 3 wells
With a plug date
66.7%
2 of 3 wells
Median depth
6,729 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
31.7 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
3100.0%
A plug date is filed
266.7%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
266.7%
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

Between 6,728 and 6,730 ft, median 6,729 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Oct 1974
1 of 3 wells; 2 filed none
Plug dates filed
Sep 1991 – Jun 2006
2 of 3 wells; 1 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 31.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 31.7 years and 31.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-0470091688 T6,730 ftSep 1991Yes
42-04701010210 CYes
42-0470098689 T6,728 ftOct 1974Jun 2006Yes

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 19981011.742.24$12
Jun 199814011.242.24$157
May 1998955912.622.21$1,329
Apr 1998842013.042.51$1,145
Mar 19981112312.802.31$1,474
Feb 1998641413.952.30$925
Jan 1998931814.702.15$1,406
Dec 1997877016.322.41$1,589
Nov 19971232318.193.09$2,308
Oct 1997952219.253.15$1,898
Sep 1997971717.742.95$1,771
Aug 1997951817.862.55$1,743
Jul 19971212317.582.25$2,179
Jun 199711048017.242.26$2,980
May 19971002418.972.31$1,952
Apr 199715617617.882.08$3,156
Mar 19971224018.951.94$2,389
Feb 199711827920.492.21$3,033
Jan 199712621323.483.54$3,712
Dec 199614241523.32$3,311
Nov 199616731221.97$3,669
Oct 19969453323.31$2,191
Sep 199621248522.22$4,711
Aug 199612761720.26$2,573
Jul 199619639919.55$3,832
Jun 199611630718.73$2,173
May 1996706319.43$1,360
Apr 199614946021.51$3,205
Mar 199615951219.38$3,081
Feb 199610119916.98$1,715
Jan 19961324617.07$2,253
Dec 199512437417.19$2,132
Nov 19951131716.00$1,808
Oct 1995971715.43$1,497
Sep 199510538616.18$1,699
Aug 199512056415.92$1,910
Jul 199511018515.24$1,676
Jun 19959614016.41$1,575
May 199515219917.56$2,669
Apr 199516069717.73$2,837
Mar 199518491516.44$3,025
Feb 199511079016.58$1,824
Jan 19951921,08415.92$3,057
Dec 19941711,23615.03$2,570
Nov 19941881,27315.90$2,989
Oct 19941611,26715.58$2,508
Sep 199417977915.29$2,737
Aug 199420110716.13$3,242
Jul 199420368417.56$3,565
Jun 199420938317.09$3,572
May 19941542,59415.88$2,446
Apr 199419426414.14$2,743
Mar 199422813912.46$2,841
Feb 1994177112.50$2,213
Jan 1994206112.66$2,608
Dec 19932251,12612.33$2,774
Nov 19935272,68714.49$7,636
Oct 19932382,08515.85$3,772
Sep 199317290215.03$2,585
Aug 19932901,12915.66$4,541
Jul 19932781,75915.46$4,298
Jun 19933381,61016.79$5,675
May 19934212,25217.68$7,443
Apr 19934392,08818.05$7,924
Mar 19935492,56418.14$9,959
Feb 19935221,79417.90$9,344
Jan 19934211516.93$711

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.

Jul 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    1 bbl  × $ 11.74 =        $12
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.24 =         $0

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Month total                                      $12

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/7438 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.