BROWN, E. H. -B-

Operated by PIONEER NATURAL RES. USA, INC. (P-5 665748) in the WESTBROOK field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 17593District 08Field 96563001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$85 k
Jan 1993 – Jul 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$7 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
79
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead 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 103 leases and 2,419 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1921-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 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: OF ALL NECESSARY FORMS AND FEES STILL REQUIRED,EFFECTIVE 6/27/11

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
OilDisposition5,223 bbl$83,393
Casinghead gasProduction757 Mcf$1,570
Total$84,964

48 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 (2)

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 32.3041, -101.1005. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

32.30410, -101.10054 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
50.0%
1 of 2 wells
Median depth
3,370 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
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
150.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
150.0%
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 3,370 ft.

Plug dates filed
Dec 1986
1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none

2 wells

42-335100372Yes
42-3351003813,370 ftDec 1986Yes

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 (79)

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

79 months

Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 199915199.981.82$1,523
Jan 1999701810.381.90$761
Dec 199869189.201.77$667
Nov 1998832510.892.19$959
Oct 1998863212.421.97$1,131
Sep 1998773712.592.08$1,046
Aug 1998693911.301.91$854
Jul 1998805211.742.24$1,056
Jun 1998784611.242.24$980
May 1998523312.622.21$729
Apr 1998732413.042.51$1,012
Mar 19981634312.802.31$2,186
Feb 1998031213.952.30$717
Jan 19981721014.702.15$2,550
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 1997156118.193.09$2,841
Oct 1997163119.253.15$3,141
Sep 19970117.742.95$3
Aug 19970117.862.55$3
Jul 1997158117.582.25$2,780
Jun 1997161117.242.26$2,778
May 19970118.972.31$2
Apr 1997160117.882.08$2,863
Mar 19970118.951.94$2
Feb 19970120.492.21$2
Jan 1997156123.483.54$3,666
Dec 19960123.32$0
Nov 19960121.97$0
Oct 1996159123.31$3,706
Sep 19960122.22$0
Aug 19960120.26$0
Jul 1996166119.55$3,245
Jun 19960118.73$0
May 1996158119.43$3,070
Apr 19960121.51$0
Mar 19960119.38$0
Feb 1996154116.98$2,615
Jan 19960117.07$0
Dec 19950117.19$0
Nov 1995153116.00$2,448
Oct 19950115.43$0
Sep 1995158116.18$2,556
Aug 19950115.92$0
Jul 1995159115.24$2,423
Jun 19950116.41$0
May 19950117.56$0
Apr 19950117.73$0
Mar 1995164116.44$2,696
Feb 19950116.58$0
Jan 1995151115.92$2,404
Dec 19940115.03$0
Nov 1994156115.90$2,480
Oct 19940115.58$0
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 1994155116.13$2,500
Jul 19940117.56$0
Jun 1994143117.09$2,444
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 1994158114.14$2,234
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 1994149112.66$1,886
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 1993157114.49$2,275
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 1993343115.66$5,371
Jul 19930115.46$0
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 19930117.68$0
Apr 1993189118.05$3,411
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 19930117.90$0
Jan 1993174116.93$2,946

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.

Feb 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  151 bbl  × $  9.98 =     $1,507
Casinghead gas         9 Mcf  × $  1.82 =        $16

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Month total                                   $1,523

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/17593 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.