O'BRIEN, G. W. ETAL

Name: O'BRIEN, G. W. ETAL lease production and value, Aug 1995 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by WHITING OIL AND GAS CORPORATION (P-5 920478) in the H. S. A. (SAN ANDRES) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 156317District 08Field 37821900Hydrogen sulphide fieldCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$536 k

Aug 1995 – Dec 2007

Value, last 12 filed months

$1 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

149

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The H. S. A. (SAN ANDRES) 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 16 leases and 76 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1979-09-20

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

—

no field rule filed

From a lease line

—

no field rule filed

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 02/01/97.”

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
Condensate	Disposition	182 bbl	$3,105
Gas	Production	554,756 Mcf	$532,673
Total			$535,778

376,460 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 17 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 (1)

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 31.5756, -102.9904. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.57565, -102.99041 · 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%

1 of 1 wells

With a plug date

0.0%

0 of 1 wells

Median depth

5,205 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

—

no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

1100.0%

A plug date is filed

00.0%

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

00.0%

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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 5,205 ft.

Completions filed

Aug 2012

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-47530076	1105	5,205 ft	Aug 2012	—	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 (149)

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

149 months


Dec 2007	0	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	0	6	91.67	7.29	$44
Oct 2007	0	9	82.85	6.92	$62
Sep 2007	0	33	75.84	6.24	$206
Aug 2007	0	29	69.06	6.39	$185
Jul 2007	0	6	70.90	6.39	$38
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	0	1	58.74	7.85	$8
Apr 2007	0	33	59.61	7.81	$258
Mar 2007	0	33	56.92	7.30	$241
Feb 2007	0	26	55.10	8.22	$214
Jan 2007	0	10	50.30	6.73	$67
Dec 2006	0	14	56.65	6.92	$97
Nov 2006	0	12	54.20	7.62	$91
Oct 2006	0	18	54.90	6.01	$108
Sep 2006	0	35	60.08	5.04	$176
Aug 2006	0	44	68.71	7.34	$323
Jul 2006	0	51	69.37	6.34	$323
Jun 2006	0	50	66.28	6.38	$319
May 2006	0	117	66.01	6.42	$752
Apr 2006	0	472	64.39	7.36	$3,474
Mar 2006	0	560	56.70	7.08	$3,966
Feb 2006	0	477	57.59	7.75	$3,697
Jan 2006	0	97	60.59	8.93	$867
Dec 2005	0	109	54.94	13.42	$1,462
Nov 2005	0	133	54.69	10.59	$1,408
Oct 2005	0	167	58.34	13.80	$2,304
Sep 2005	0	185	61.45	12.08	$2,235
Aug 2005	0	206	61.51	9.80	$2,018
Jul 2005	0	185	55.69	7.84	$1,451
Jun 2005	0	179	52.33	7.38	$1,321
May 2005	0	193	45.22	6.65	$1,284
Apr 2005	0	208	49.20	7.36	$1,531
Mar 2005	0	218	50.37	7.15	$1,560
Feb 2005	0	199	45.22	6.31	$1,256
Jan 2005	0	232	43.16	6.32	$1,467
Dec 2004	0	145	39.86	6.75	$979
Nov 2004	0	171	45.28	6.33	$1,083
Oct 2004	0	213	49.70	6.52	$1,388
Sep 2004	0	282	43.24	5.28	$1,490
Aug 2004	0	931	42.37	5.55	$5,168
Jul 2004	0	217	38.28	6.08	$1,320
Jun 2004	0	13	36.10	6.43	$84
May 2004	0	98	37.48	6.49	$636
Apr 2004	0	274	34.47	5.86	$1,605
Mar 2004	0	572	34.36	5.53	$3,163
Feb 2004	0	366	32.45	5.51	$2,017
Jan 2004	0	351	32.03	6.30	$2,211
Dec 2003	0	379	30.26	6.30	$2,388
Nov 2003	0	633	28.80	4.60	$2,909
Oct 2003	0	782	28.17	4.76	$3,722
Sep 2003	0	909	26.31	4.75	$4,317
Aug 2003	0	439	29.76	5.13	$2,252
Jul 2003	0	677	29.41	5.17	$3,501
Jun 2003	0	672	28.56	5.98	$4,021
May 2003	0	733	26.59	5.97	$4,378
Apr 2003	0	880	26.67	5.41	$4,758
Mar 2003	0	881	31.14	6.10	$5,371
Feb 2003	0	742	33.48	7.93	$5,881
Jan 2003	0	563	30.31	5.58	$3,143
Dec 2002	0	515	26.91	4.85	$2,500
Nov 2002	0	681	24.66	4.14	$2,817
Oct 2002	0	537	26.46	4.23	$2,271
Sep 2002	0	619	27.44	3.64	$2,250
Aug 2002	0	384	25.96	3.16	$1,215
Jul 2002	0	1,127	24.58	3.06	$3,451
Jun 2002	0	1,238	23.73	3.34	$4,133
May 2002	0	1,226	24.66	3.58	$4,394
Apr 2002	0	1,365	23.65	3.51	$4,794
Mar 2002	0	1,059	22.00	3.10	$3,286
Feb 2002	0	1,053	18.22	2.38	$2,502
Jan 2002	0	958	17.17	2.38	$2,276
Dec 2001	0	431	16.93	2.36	$1,019
Nov 2001	0	635	18.07	2.41	$1,528
Oct 2001	0	706	19.78	2.53	$1,785
Sep 2001	0	746	24.26	2.25	$1,679
Aug 2001	0	603	24.87	3.05	$1,841
Jul 2001	0	801	23.93	3.20	$2,561
Jun 2001	0	704	24.56	3.82	$2,692
May 2001	0	926	25.52	4.31	$3,989
Apr 2001	0	763	24.68	5.34	$4,071
Mar 2001	0	606	24.54	5.38	$3,258
Feb 2001	0	895	27.75	5.77	$5,162
Jan 2001	0	645	27.47	8.40	$5,417
Dec 2000	0	715	26.88	9.12	$6,523
Nov 2000	0	783	32.21	5.66	$4,430
Oct 2000	0	890	31.23	5.15	$4,580
Sep 2000	0	1,025	31.87	5.19	$5,316
Aug 2000	0	1,157	29.64	4.54	$5,254
Jul 2000	0	1,142	28.53	4.09	$4,670
Jun 2000	0	1,122	29.30	4.40	$4,934
May 2000	0	1,162	27.26	3.68	$4,276
Apr 2000	0	1,119	24.51	3.12	$3,487
Mar 2000	0	1,130	28.42	2.86	$3,232
Feb 2000	0	1,116	27.62	2.73	$3,043
Jan 2000	0	1,250	25.27	2.48	$3,101
Dec 1999	0	1,263	24.28	2.42	$3,061
Nov 1999	0	0	23.19	2.43	$0
Oct 1999	0	1,314	20.98	2.80	$3,684
Sep 1999	0	1,299	21.75	2.62	$3,402
Aug 1999	0	1,423	19.26	2.88	$4,092
Jul 1999	0	1,449	17.89	2.37	$3,438
Jun 1999	0	1,500	15.94	2.36	$3,543
May 1999	0	1,871	15.79	2.32	$4,343
Apr 1999	0	3,520	15.10	2.21	$7,772
Mar 1999	0	4,546	12.47	1.84	$8,357
Feb 1999	0	2,461	9.98	1.82	$4,474
Jan 1999	0	2,252	10.38	1.90	$4,279
Dec 1998	0	2,944	9.20	1.77	$5,221
Nov 1998	0	3,869	10.89	2.19	$8,457
Oct 1998	0	3,392	12.42	1.97	$6,680
Sep 1998	0	2,780	12.59	2.08	$5,790
Aug 1998	0	3,702	11.30	1.91	$7,061
Jul 1998	0	3,963	11.74	2.24	$8,866
Jun 1998	0	3,577	11.24	2.24	$8,003
May 1998	0	5,324	12.62	2.21	$11,747
Apr 1998	0	2,550	13.04	2.51	$6,389
Mar 1998	0	3,766	12.80	2.31	$8,697
Feb 1998	0	2,909	13.95	2.30	$6,688
Jan 1998	0	3,777	14.70	2.15	$8,139
Dec 1997	0	3,767	16.32	2.41	$9,083
Nov 1997	0	3,947	18.19	3.09	$12,189
Oct 1997	0	4,345	19.25	3.15	$13,686
Sep 1997	0	4,365	17.74	2.95	$12,898
Aug 1997	0	4,618	17.86	2.55	$11,798
Jul 1997	0	4,877	17.58	2.25	$10,958
Jun 1997	0	4,969	17.24	2.26	$11,216
May 1997	0	5,171	18.97	2.31	$11,937
Apr 1997	0	4,771	17.88	2.08	$9,937
Mar 1997	0	10,158	18.95	1.94	$19,698
Feb 1997	0	5,938	20.49	2.21	$13,099
Jan 1997	0	7,815	23.48	3.54	$27,663
Dec 1996	0	17,077	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	16,236	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	16,317	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	17,752	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	13,079	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	24,284	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	8	22,527	18.73	—	$150
May 1996	4	21,320	19.43	—	$78
Apr 1996	0	26,504	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	2	28,725	19.38	—	$39
Feb 1996	33	35,428	16.98	—	$560
Jan 1996	54	32,528	17.07	—	$922
Dec 1995	54	28,207	17.19	—	$928
Nov 1995	14	32,513	16.00	—	$224
Oct 1995	8	30,941	15.43	—	$123
Sep 1995	5	12,422	16.18	—	$81
Aug 1995	0	600	15.92	—	$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.

Nov 2007 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 91.67 =         $0
Gas                    6 Mcf  × $  7.29 =        $44

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Month total                                      $44

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. 08/G/156317 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.