COOK, W. H. 42

Name: COOK, W. H. 42 lease production and value, Jan 2001 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA (P-5 876520) in the VAN (PECAN GAP) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 3715District 05Field 93042390OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$390 k

Jan 2001 – Jul 2008

Value, last 12 filed months

$34 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The VAN (PECAN GAP) 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 34 leases and 76 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1988-07-02

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

250 ft

minimum

From a lease line

200 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 5 acres. The field rule took effect on 1995-08-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “FIELD RULES EFFECTIVE 8-1-95 PER DOCKET #05-0209092.”

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	9,932 bbl	$321,933
Casinghead gas	Production	14,415 Mcf	$67,653
Total			$389,586

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 32.5260, -95.6577. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

32.52593, -95.65815 · 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

100.0%

3 of 3 wells

Median depth

2,943 ft

3 wells filed one

Completion to plug

7.2 years

median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

3100.0%

A plug date is filed

3100.0%

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

3100.0%

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

Between 2,555 and 3,300 ft, median 2,943 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Jan 2001 – Jun 2001

3 of 3 wells

Plug dates filed

May 2008 – Jun 2008

3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.2 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 7.1 years and 7.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells


42-46730688	9	2,555 ft	Jun 2001	Jun 2008	Yes
42-46700982	2	2,943 ft	Apr 2001	Jun 2008	Yes
42-46730747	10	3,300 ft	Jan 2001	May 2008	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 (91)

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

91 months


Jul 2008	0	0	131.08	11.39	$0
Jun 2008	0	0	131.33	13.03	$0
May 2008	2	15	123.17	11.57	$420
Apr 2008	46	42	110.31	10.45	$5,513
Mar 2008	30	45	101.90	9.66	$3,492
Feb 2008	34	54	92.53	8.77	$3,620
Jan 2008	37	72	90.38	8.21	$3,935
Dec 2007	39	63	88.33	7.30	$3,905
Nov 2007	30	27	91.67	7.29	$2,947
Oct 2007	46	33	82.85	6.92	$4,040
Sep 2007	59	57	75.84	6.24	$4,830
Aug 2007	14	58	69.06	6.39	$1,337
Jul 2007	24	46	70.90	6.39	$1,995
Jun 2007	13	47	62.00	7.55	$1,161
May 2007	27	47	58.74	7.85	$1,955
Apr 2007	36	52	59.61	7.81	$2,552
Mar 2007	39	36	56.92	7.30	$2,483
Feb 2007	60	19	55.10	8.22	$3,462
Jan 2007	65	34	50.30	6.73	$3,498
Dec 2006	31	28	56.65	6.92	$1,950
Nov 2006	27	23	54.20	7.62	$1,639
Oct 2006	15	75	54.90	6.01	$1,275
Sep 2006	39	0	60.08	5.04	$2,343
Aug 2006	43	148	68.71	7.34	$4,041
Jul 2006	44	78	69.37	6.34	$3,547
Jun 2006	45	78	66.28	6.38	$3,481
May 2006	29	69	66.01	6.42	$2,358
Apr 2006	27	45	64.39	7.36	$2,070
Mar 2006	27	93	56.70	7.08	$2,190
Feb 2006	22	72	57.59	7.75	$1,825
Jan 2006	36	48	60.59	8.93	$2,610
Dec 2005	34	51	54.94	13.42	$2,552
Nov 2005	34	51	54.69	10.59	$2,399
Oct 2005	61	54	58.34	13.80	$4,304
Sep 2005	39	51	61.45	12.08	$3,013
Aug 2005	32	66	61.51	9.80	$2,615
Jul 2005	33	54	55.69	7.84	$2,261
Jun 2005	50	54	52.33	7.38	$3,015
May 2005	42	60	45.22	6.65	$2,298
Apr 2005	49	51	49.20	7.36	$2,786
Mar 2005	49	45	50.37	7.15	$2,790
Feb 2005	41	45	45.22	6.31	$2,138
Jan 2005	47	51	43.16	6.32	$2,351
Dec 2004	54	49	39.86	6.75	$2,483
Nov 2004	57	50	45.28	6.33	$2,897
Oct 2004	60	51	49.70	6.52	$3,314
Sep 2004	67	51	43.24	5.28	$3,167
Aug 2004	58	51	42.37	5.55	$2,741
Jul 2004	69	60	38.28	6.08	$3,006
Jun 2004	64	41	36.10	6.43	$2,574
May 2004	65	69	37.48	6.49	$2,884
Apr 2004	65	50	34.47	5.86	$2,533
Mar 2004	81	105	34.36	5.53	$3,364
Feb 2004	68	94	32.45	5.51	$2,725
Jan 2004	46	142	32.03	6.30	$2,368
Dec 2003	72	83	30.26	6.30	$2,702
Nov 2003	75	32	28.80	4.60	$2,307
Oct 2003	69	89	28.17	4.76	$2,367
Sep 2003	73	109	26.31	4.75	$2,438
Aug 2003	78	131	29.76	5.13	$2,993
Jul 2003	65	143	29.41	5.17	$2,651
Jun 2003	68	131	28.56	5.98	$2,726
May 2003	80	135	26.59	5.97	$2,934
Apr 2003	71	138	26.67	5.41	$2,640
Mar 2003	72	44	31.14	6.10	$2,510
Feb 2003	72	181	33.48	7.93	$3,845
Jan 2003	78	181	30.31	5.58	$3,375
Dec 2002	66	181	26.91	4.85	$2,655
Nov 2002	90	216	24.66	4.14	$3,113
Oct 2002	128	279	26.46	4.23	$4,567
Sep 2002	107	345	27.44	3.64	$4,190
Aug 2002	106	326	25.96	3.16	$3,783
Jul 2002	77	346	24.58	3.06	$2,952
Jun 2002	153	278	23.73	3.34	$4,559
May 2002	164	352	24.66	3.58	$5,306
Apr 2002	189	403	23.65	3.51	$5,885
Mar 2002	155	392	22.00	3.10	$4,626
Feb 2002	50	428	18.22	2.38	$1,928
Jan 2002	45	471	17.17	2.38	$1,892
Dec 2001	97	494	16.93	2.36	$2,810
Nov 2001	137	475	18.07	2.41	$3,618
Oct 2001	105	332	19.78	2.53	$2,916
Sep 2001	163	322	24.26	2.25	$4,679
Aug 2001	185	369	24.87	3.05	$5,728
Jul 2001	294	509	23.93	3.20	$8,663
Jun 2001	352	544	24.56	3.82	$10,725
May 2001	526	763	25.52	4.31	$16,710
Apr 2001	723	984	24.68	5.34	$23,094
Mar 2001	884	697	24.54	5.38	$25,441
Feb 2001	1,323	438	27.75	5.77	$39,239
Jan 2001	689	124	27.47	8.40	$19,968

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.

May 2008 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                    2 bbl  × $123.17 =       $246
Casinghead gas        15 Mcf  × $ 11.57 =       $174

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Month total                                     $420

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. 05/O/3715 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.