SULLIVAN, D.J. -B-

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

Operated by COSTILLA ENERGY, INC. (P-5 180543) in the PITA (A-8) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 8229District 04Field 71703007OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$216 k

Jan 1993 – Mar 1999

Value, last 12 filed months

$13 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The PITA (A-8) 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 1 leases and 3 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1973-11-04

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

—

no field rule filed

From a lease line

—

no field rule filed

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	10,281 bbl	$180,380
Casinghead gas	Production	54,872 Mcf	$35,496
Total			$215,876

41,207 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 33 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 27.0743, -98.0220. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.6 miles.

27.07493, -98.02074 · centre of the 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%

3 of 3 wells

With a plug date

33.3%

1 of 3 wells

Median depth

8,150 ft

3 wells filed one

Completion to plug

15.8 years

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

3100.0%

A plug date is filed

133.3%

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

133.3%

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

Between 6,700 and 8,275 ft, median 8,150 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Aug 1974 – Aug 1987

3 of 3 wells

Plug dates filed

Jun 1990

1 of 3 wells; 2 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.8 years and 15.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells


42-04730866	50	8,275 ft	Aug 1987	—	Yes
42-04730124	32 F	8,150 ft	Oct 1984	—	Yes
42-04730172	36	6,700 ft	Aug 1974	Jun 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 (75)

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

75 months


Mar 1999	0	0	12.47	1.84	$0
Feb 1999	0	0	9.98	1.82	$0
Jan 1999	0	0	10.38	1.90	$0
Dec 1998	0	0	9.20	1.77	$0
Nov 1998	0	0	10.89	2.19	$0
Oct 1998	0	0	12.42	1.97	$0
Sep 1998	0	0	12.59	2.08	$0
Aug 1998	0	0	11.30	1.91	$0
Jul 1998	179	448	11.74	2.24	$3,104
Jun 1998	164	206	11.24	2.24	$2,304
May 1998	136	301	12.62	2.21	$2,380
Apr 1998	305	483	13.04	2.51	$5,187
Mar 1998	237	467	12.80	2.31	$4,112
Feb 1998	119	224	13.95	2.30	$2,175
Jan 1998	123	1,267	14.70	2.15	$4,538
Dec 1997	129	499	16.32	2.41	$3,308
Nov 1997	100	170	18.19	3.09	$2,344
Oct 1997	150	301	19.25	3.15	$3,836
Sep 1997	246	966	17.74	2.95	$7,218
Aug 1997	201	659	17.86	2.55	$5,273
Jul 1997	225	0	17.58	2.25	$3,956
Jun 1997	160	0	17.24	2.26	$2,758
May 1997	172	1,839	18.97	2.31	$7,508
Apr 1997	240	515	17.88	2.08	$5,364
Mar 1997	230	977	18.95	1.94	$6,253
Feb 1997	271	1,473	20.49	2.21	$8,802
Jan 1997	271	2,870	23.48	3.54	$16,522
Dec 1996	256	1,520	23.32	—	$5,970
Nov 1996	209	531	21.97	—	$4,592
Oct 1996	201	2,319	23.31	—	$4,685
Sep 1996	169	838	22.22	—	$3,755
Aug 1996	241	939	20.26	—	$4,883
Jul 1996	186	1,208	19.55	—	$3,636
Jun 1996	290	1,113	18.73	—	$5,432
May 1996	230	2,622	19.43	—	$4,469
Apr 1996	218	706	21.51	—	$4,689
Mar 1996	288	1,543	19.38	—	$5,581
Feb 1996	327	4,825	16.98	—	$5,552
Jan 1996	333	1,599	17.07	—	$5,684
Dec 1995	249	516	17.19	—	$4,280
Nov 1995	222	789	16.00	—	$3,552
Oct 1995	296	775	15.43	—	$4,567
Sep 1995	218	1,082	16.18	—	$3,527
Aug 1995	224	1,260	15.92	—	$3,566
Jul 1995	237	868	15.24	—	$3,612
Jun 1995	237	1,159	16.41	—	$3,889
May 1995	214	1,137	17.56	—	$3,758
Apr 1995	280	1,121	17.73	—	$4,964
Mar 1995	154	930	16.44	—	$2,532
Feb 1995	289	1,568	16.58	—	$4,792
Jan 1995	121	1,418	15.92	—	$1,926
Dec 1994	43	582	15.03	—	$646
Nov 1994	48	495	15.90	—	$763
Oct 1994	78	257	15.58	—	$1,215
Sep 1994	79	399	15.29	—	$1,208
Aug 1994	206	957	16.13	—	$3,323
Jul 1994	126	928	17.56	—	$2,213
Jun 1994	154	765	17.09	—	$2,632
May 1994	120	939	15.88	—	$1,906
Apr 1994	80	3,499	14.14	—	$1,131
Mar 1994	0	0	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	0	0	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	0	0	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	0	0	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	0	0	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	0	0	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	0	0	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	0	0	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	0	0	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	0	0	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	0	0	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	0	0	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	0	0	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	0	0	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	0	0	16.93	—	$0

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                  179 bbl  × $ 11.74 =     $2,101
Casinghead gas       448 Mcf  × $  2.24 =     $1,002

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Month total                                   $3,104

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/8229 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.