FAULT BLOCK -A- UNIT

Operated by EXXON CORP. (P-5 257097) in the CORDONA LAKE field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 15310District 08Field 20607001OilCasinghead gasSave
Value, all time
$2.8 M
Jan 1993 – Apr 1996
Value, last 12 filed months
$672 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
40
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead gas

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
OilDisposition178,097 bbl$2,825,200
Casinghead gasProduction161,527 Mcf$0
Total$2,825,200

161,527 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 36 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 (23)

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 31.3095, -102.5342. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.3 miles. 2 wells have no surveyed location and are left out of it.

31.31075, -102.53500 · centre of 21 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
47.8%
11 of 23 wells
With a plug date
47.8%
11 of 23 wells
Median depth
5,544 ft
22 wells filed one
Completion to plug
13.8 years
median over 6 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1147.8%
A plug date is filed
1147.8%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1147.8%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
1252.2%

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

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Total depth in feet, 22 of 23 wells. Median 5,544 ft, with the middle half between 5,513 and 5,672 ft; the shallowest is 60 ft and the deepest 5,850 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

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Last completion by decade, 16 of 23 wells, Feb 1963 – Dec 2019. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Feb 1963 – Dec 2019
16 of 23 wells; 7 filed none
Plug dates filed
Jan 1990 – Feb 2026
11 of 23 wells; 12 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.8 years across the 6 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 5.5 years and 17.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

23 wells

42-103026542WS60 ftNov 1996Yes
42-103026561WS62 ftNov 1996Yes
42-1030274224W5,691 ftJan 1990Yes
42-10310151255,600 ftJun 2014Yes
42-1031017431W5,512 ftFeb 1990Yes
42-1030265851
42-10310441625,840 ft
42-10330869265,676 ftDec 2019Sep 2023Yes
42-10310026565,575 ftJun 2015
42-1030266021W5,603 ftMar 2014
42-1033077157W5,560 ftJun 2013
42-10302653535,501 ftJan 2013
42-10332986275,490 ftOct 2012
42-10302575425,377 ftSep 2012May 2023Yes
42-1030257441W5,525 ftNov 2010
42-10302681115,528 ftJan 2009Feb 2026Yes
42-10310440615,850 ftFeb 2008Nov 2009Yes
42-10302659225,525 ftSep 2007Sep 2024Yes
42-1030267912W5,525 ftSep 2007
42-10302657235,515 ftAug 2007
42-1030265552W5,750 ftJan 1999
42-1030272354W5,660 ftApr 1995
42-10310068555,760 ftFeb 1963Feb 2015Yes

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 (40)

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

40 months

Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19956,1983,89817.19$106,544
Nov 19954,7663,15316.00$76,256
Oct 19955,3324,06715.43$82,273
Sep 19954,7423,69716.18$76,726
Aug 19955,0986,45415.92$81,160
Jul 19954,8874,06015.24$74,478
Jun 19955,1574,00816.41$84,626
May 19955,0953,17717.56$89,468
Apr 19955,3082,27417.73$94,111
Mar 19955,7854,24616.44$95,105
Feb 19955,8883,30916.58$97,623
Jan 19956,1783,36815.92$98,354
Dec 19945,4143,33415.03$81,372
Nov 19945,0803,36715.90$80,772
Oct 19944,2273,49415.58$65,857
Sep 19945,2373,52315.29$80,074
Aug 19945,4273,84416.13$87,538
Jul 19945,4243,62517.56$95,245
Jun 19945,2423,14217.09$89,586
May 19945,1624,65815.88$81,973
Apr 19945,1174,09314.14$72,354
Mar 19945,3865,02712.46$67,110
Feb 19944,9264,35612.50$61,575
Jan 19944,4818,10012.66$56,729
Dec 19934,7966,45712.33$59,135
Nov 19934,4442,62514.49$64,394
Oct 19934,8103,75115.85$76,239
Sep 19934,1375,89415.03$62,179
Aug 19934,1646,55015.66$65,208
Jul 19934,5038,17915.46$69,616
Jun 19934,2187,13616.79$70,820
May 19934,4255,61617.68$78,234
Apr 19934,3465,06518.05$78,445
Mar 19934,0045,25018.14$72,633
Feb 19934,3474,73717.90$77,811
Jan 19934,3463,99316.93$73,578

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.

Dec 1995 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                6,198 bbl  × $ 17.19 =   $106,544
Casinghead gas     3,898 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                 $106,544

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/O/15310 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.