COWDEN, E. W.

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

Operated by SOUTHWEST ROYALTIES, INC. (P-5 806470) in the EMPEROR, DEEP (YATES) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 19702District 08Field 28962500Hydrogen sulphide fieldCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$75 k

Jan 1993 – Jul 2013

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

247

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The EMPEROR, DEEP (YATES) 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 39 leases and 39 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1937-03-03

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

933 ft

minimum

From a lease line

467 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 1988-12-01.

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: “ALLOCATION FORMULA SUSPENDED 5/1/91 PER OPERATOR LETTER 2/12/91”

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	1,132 bbl	$18,563
Gas	Production	81,428 Mcf	$56,100
Total			$74,663

59,875 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 42 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 31.7812, -103.0932. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.78121, -103.09316 · 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

100.0%

1 of 1 wells

Median depth

3,010 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

23.3 years

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

1100.0%

A plug date is filed

1100.0%

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

1100.0%

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 3,010 ft.

Completions filed

Apr 1990

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Jul 2013

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 23.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 23.3 years and 23.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-49500939	C 4	3,010 ft	Apr 1990	Jul 2013	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 (247)

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

247 months


Jul 2013	0	0	102.52	3.72	$0
Jun 2013	0	0	94.40	3.93	$0
May 2013	0	0	94.83	4.15	$0
Apr 2013	0	0	93.96	4.28	$0
Mar 2013	0	0	93.62	3.91	$0
Feb 2013	0	0	91.23	3.42	$0
Jan 2013	0	0	91.60	3.42	$0
Dec 2012	0	0	86.77	3.42	$0
Nov 2012	0	0	86.95	3.62	$0
Oct 2012	0	0	89.38	3.40	$0
Sep 2012	0	0	94.67	2.92	$0
Aug 2012	0	0	92.66	2.91	$0
Jul 2012	0	0	85.13	3.02	$0
Jun 2012	0	0	79.82	2.52	$0
May 2012	0	0	91.61	2.49	$0
Apr 2012	0	0	101.65	2.00	$0
Mar 2012	0	0	105.05	2.22	$0
Feb 2012	0	0	101.10	2.57	$0
Jan 2012	0	0	98.09	2.73	$0
Dec 2011	0	0	96.87	3.24	$0
Nov 2011	0	0	95.72	3.31	$0
Oct 2011	0	0	84.98	3.65	$0
Sep 2011	0	0	83.62	3.99	$0
Aug 2011	0	0	83.40	4.15	$0
Jul 2011	0	0	94.14	4.52	$0
Jun 2011	0	0	92.90	4.64	$0
May 2011	0	0	98.13	4.40	$0
Apr 2011	0	0	105.96	4.33	$0
Mar 2011	0	0	96.36	4.06	$0
Feb 2011	0	0	85.64	4.18	$0
Jan 2011	0	0	86.50	4.59	$0
Dec 2010	0	0	85.73	4.35	$0
Nov 2010	0	0	80.84	3.80	$0
Oct 2010	0	0	78.10	3.51	$0
Sep 2010	0	0	72.63	3.98	$0
Aug 2010	0	0	73.68	4.42	$0
Jul 2010	0	0	72.55	4.74	$0
Jun 2010	0	0	70.36	4.91	$0
May 2010	0	0	71.12	4.24	$0
Apr 2010	0	0	81.69	4.12	$0
Mar 2010	0	0	78.39	4.39	$0
Feb 2010	0	0	73.58	5.44	$0
Jan 2010	0	0	74.36	5.96	$0
Dec 2009	0	0	71.44	5.48	$0
Nov 2009	0	0	74.59	3.75	$0
Oct 2009	0	0	72.54	4.11	$0
Sep 2009	0	0	65.54	3.06	$0
Aug 2009	0	0	67.42	3.22	$0
Jul 2009	0	0	61.13	3.46	$0
Jun 2009	0	0	66.16	3.90	$0
May 2009	0	0	54.74	3.93	$0
Apr 2009	0	0	46.77	3.59	$0
Mar 2009	0	0	42.14	4.06	$0
Feb 2009	0	0	32.81	4.63	$0
Jan 2009	0	0	35.86	5.37	$0
Dec 2008	0	0	37.10	5.98	$0
Nov 2008	0	0	55.49	6.86	$0
Oct 2008	0	0	75.24	6.92	$0
Sep 2008	0	0	101.76	7.88	$0
Aug 2008	0	0	114.22	8.48	$0
Jul 2008	0	0	131.08	11.39	$0
Jun 2008	0	0	131.33	13.03	$0
May 2008	0	0	123.17	11.57	$0
Apr 2008	0	0	110.31	10.45	$0
Mar 2008	0	0	101.90	9.66	$0
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	0	0	90.38	8.21	$0
Dec 2007	0	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	0	0	91.67	7.29	$0
Oct 2007	0	0	82.85	6.92	$0
Sep 2007	0	0	75.84	6.24	$0
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	0	0	70.90	6.39	$0
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	0	0	58.74	7.85	$0
Apr 2007	0	0	59.61	7.81	$0
Mar 2007	0	0	56.92	7.30	$0
Feb 2007	0	0	55.10	8.22	$0
Jan 2007	0	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	0	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	0	0	54.20	7.62	$0
Oct 2006	0	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	0	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	0	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	0	0	66.28	6.38	$0
May 2006	0	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	0	0	64.39	7.36	$0
Mar 2006	0	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	0	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	0	0	60.59	8.93	$0
Dec 2005	0	0	54.94	13.42	$0
Nov 2005	0	0	54.69	10.59	$0
Oct 2005	0	0	58.34	13.80	$0
Sep 2005	0	0	61.45	12.08	$0
Aug 2005	0	0	61.51	9.80	$0
Jul 2005	0	0	55.69	7.84	$0
Jun 2005	0	0	52.33	7.38	$0
May 2005	0	0	45.22	6.65	$0
Apr 2005	0	0	49.20	7.36	$0
Mar 2005	0	0	50.37	7.15	$0
Feb 2005	0	0	45.22	6.31	$0
Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	0	0	39.86	6.75	$0
Nov 2004	0	0	45.28	6.33	$0
Oct 2004	0	0	49.70	6.52	$0
Sep 2004	0	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	0	0	42.37	5.55	$0
Jul 2004	0	0	38.28	6.08	$0
Jun 2004	0	0	36.10	6.43	$0
May 2004	0	0	37.48	6.49	$0
Apr 2004	0	0	34.47	5.86	$0
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	1	0	24.66	4.14	$25
Oct 2002	0	0	26.46	4.23	$0
Sep 2002	0	0	27.44	3.64	$0
Aug 2002	1	0	25.96	3.16	$26
Jul 2002	0	7	24.58	3.06	$21
Jun 2002	0	22	23.73	3.34	$73
May 2002	1	36	24.66	3.58	$154
Apr 2002	1	39	23.65	3.51	$161
Mar 2002	2	34	22.00	3.10	$149
Feb 2002	1	50	18.22	2.38	$137
Jan 2002	1	52	17.17	2.38	$141
Dec 2001	1	38	16.93	2.36	$107
Nov 2001	2	58	18.07	2.41	$176
Oct 2001	1	30	19.78	2.53	$96
Sep 2001	1	0	24.26	2.25	$24
Aug 2001	2	37	24.87	3.05	$163
Jul 2001	1	116	23.93	3.20	$395
Jun 2001	3	52	24.56	3.82	$273
May 2001	0	64	25.52	4.31	$276
Apr 2001	3	75	24.68	5.34	$474
Mar 2001	4	71	24.54	5.38	$480
Feb 2001	2	94	27.75	5.77	$598
Jan 2001	4	119	27.47	8.40	$1,109
Dec 2000	6	86	26.88	9.12	$946
Nov 2000	4	87	32.21	5.66	$621
Oct 2000	5	80	31.23	5.15	$568
Sep 2000	15	63	31.87	5.19	$805
Aug 2000	16	81	29.64	4.54	$842
Jul 2000	16	89	28.53	4.09	$820
Jun 2000	9	61	29.30	4.40	$532
May 2000	7	97	27.26	3.68	$548
Apr 2000	8	141	24.51	3.12	$635
Mar 2000	8	108	28.42	2.86	$536
Feb 2000	15	107	27.62	2.73	$706
Jan 2000	15	77	25.27	2.48	$570
Dec 1999	16	9	24.28	2.42	$410
Nov 1999	8	10	23.19	2.43	$210
Oct 1999	8	575	20.98	2.80	$1,780
Sep 1999	17	556	21.75	2.62	$1,826
Aug 1999	7	498	19.26	2.88	$1,567
Jul 1999	8	468	17.89	2.37	$1,253
Jun 1999	16	183	15.94	2.36	$687
May 1999	19	98	15.79	2.32	$527
Apr 1999	20	121	15.10	2.21	$569
Mar 1999	22	341	12.47	1.84	$901
Feb 1999	14	131	9.98	1.82	$378
Jan 1999	19	274	10.38	1.90	$718
Dec 1998	76	505	9.20	1.77	$1,595
Nov 1998	28	305	10.89	2.19	$972
Oct 1998	54	656	12.42	1.97	$1,962
Sep 1998	57	630	12.59	2.08	$2,030
Aug 1998	56	597	11.30	1.91	$1,771
Jul 1998	28	403	11.74	2.24	$1,230
Jun 1998	56	385	11.24	2.24	$1,491
May 1998	28	511	12.62	2.21	$1,481
Apr 1998	0	140	13.04	2.51	$351
Mar 1998	30	116	12.80	2.31	$652
Feb 1998	28	758	13.95	2.30	$2,133
Jan 1998	54	755	14.70	2.15	$2,421
Dec 1997	28	716	16.32	2.41	$2,183
Nov 1997	56	983	18.19	3.09	$4,054
Oct 1997	54	1,087	19.25	3.15	$4,463
Sep 1997	25	768	17.74	2.95	$2,713
Aug 1997	48	526	17.86	2.55	$2,201
Jul 1997	40	977	17.58	2.25	$2,898
Jun 1997	35	966	17.24	2.26	$2,784
May 1997	14	1,010	18.97	2.31	$2,597
Apr 1997	7	582	17.88	2.08	$1,337
Mar 1997	0	838	18.95	1.94	$1,625
Feb 1997	0	1,041	20.49	2.21	$2,296
Jan 1997	0	963	23.48	3.54	$3,409
Dec 1996	0	998	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	1,141	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	720	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	1,200	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	1,079	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	1,191	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	1,201	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	1,131	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	0	1,215	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	0	1,269	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	1,024	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	1,178	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	0	1,383	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	0	1,149	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	1,281	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	1,558	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	1,554	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	1,707	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	1,131	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	1,806	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	0	1,862	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	0	1,981	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	0	1,661	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	0	283	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	0	255	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	0	402	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	0	673	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	0	2,186	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	0	2,177	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	0	1,530	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	0	1,901	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	0	1,993	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	0	1,897	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	0	1,765	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	0	1,459	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	0	1,674	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	0	2,029	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	0	1,883	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	807	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	0	2,195	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	0	2,112	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	0	2,234	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.

Nov 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             1 bbl  × $ 24.66 =        $25
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  4.14 =         $0

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Month total                                      $25

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/19702 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.