JESSIE -B-

Operated by BURLESON, LEWIS B. INC. (P-5 109295) in the GOLDSMITH (GRAYBURG) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 38819District 08Field 35652496Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$39 k
Jan 1993 – Sep 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$10 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
69
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 43 leases and 49 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1950-05-22
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
2,640 ft
minimum
From a lease line
1,320 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 320 acres.

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: GAS RULES

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
CondensateDisposition932 bbl$15,398
GasProduction27,782 Mcf$23,163
Total$38,561

18,311 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 (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 31.9253, -102.5812. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.92528, -102.58119 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
3,968 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 3,968 ft.

Completions filed
Mar 1966
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-1351109823,968 ftMar 1966Yes

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 (69)

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

69 months

Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 1998143011.742.24$1,679
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 1998075214.702.15$1,620
Dec 1997078716.322.41$1,898
Nov 1997280218.193.09$2,513
Oct 1997065519.253.15$2,063
Sep 1997977717.742.95$2,456
Aug 19972261,02517.862.55$6,655
Jul 1997094317.582.25$2,119
Jun 1997090417.242.26$2,041
May 19974566718.972.31$2,393
Apr 1997075717.882.08$1,577
Mar 1997085818.951.94$1,664
Feb 19973750620.492.21$1,874
Jan 199703823.483.54$135
Dec 199607023.32$0
Nov 19963726021.97$813
Oct 19965032923.31$1,166
Sep 1996031622.22$0
Aug 1996031220.26$0
Jul 1996030619.55$0
Jun 1996029718.73$0
May 1996031119.43$0
Apr 1996031121.51$0
Mar 19962030819.38$388
Feb 1996027916.98$0
Jan 1996028817.07$0
Dec 1995018417.19$0
Nov 19956030016.00$960
Oct 1995034415.43$0
Sep 1995029916.18$0
Aug 1995026515.92$0
Jul 1995017315.24$0
Jun 1995019216.41$0
May 1995015317.56$0
Apr 199508117.73$0
Mar 1995048216.44$0
Feb 1995035616.58$0
Jan 1995038915.92$0
Dec 1994053015.03$0
Nov 1994053215.90$0
Oct 19946658315.58$1,028
Sep 1994037215.29$0
Aug 1994060016.13$0
Jul 1994059117.56$0
Jun 1994053117.09$0
May 1994037215.88$0
Apr 1994057814.14$0
Mar 1994052112.46$0
Feb 1994050212.50$0
Jan 199413755112.66$1,734
Dec 1993058412.33$0
Nov 1993055614.49$0
Oct 1993059215.85$0
Sep 1993049015.03$0
Aug 19931148915.66$172
Jul 1993021115.46$0
Jun 1993026016.79$0
May 1993046117.68$0
Apr 1993053218.05$0
Mar 19938953518.14$1,614
Feb 1993038317.90$0
Jan 1993035016.93$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
Condensate           143 bbl  × $ 11.74 =     $1,679
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  2.24 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,679

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/38819 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.