LONGBOTHAM UNIT

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

Operated by FOREST OIL PERMIAN CORPORATION (P-5 275741) in the COWDEN, SOUTH (CANYON 8790) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 22684District 08Field 21292125Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$317 k

Jan 1993 – Nov 2005

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

155

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The COWDEN, SOUTH (CANYON 8790) 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 123 leases and 343 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1966-05-29

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

1,320 ft

minimum

From a lease line

660 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 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: “SEE DOCKET 8-58,042”

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
Oil	Disposition	14,158 bbl	$266,515
Casinghead gas	Production	28,824 Mcf	$50,145
Total			$316,660

13,320 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 31.8019, -102.4551. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.80189, -102.45509 · 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

9,050 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

32.8 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 9,050 ft.

Completions filed

Jan 1973

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Oct 2005

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 32.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 32.8 years and 32.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-13530925	1	9,050 ft	Jan 1973	Oct 2005	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 (155)

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

155 months


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	2	0	31.14	6.10	$62
Feb 2003	3	0	33.48	7.93	$100
Jan 2003	40	129	30.31	5.58	$1,932
Dec 2002	63	181	26.91	4.85	$2,574
Nov 2002	92	195	24.66	4.14	$3,075
Oct 2002	88	226	26.46	4.23	$3,284
Sep 2002	113	205	27.44	3.64	$3,846
Aug 2002	91	192	25.96	3.16	$2,970
Jul 2002	95	213	24.58	3.06	$2,987
Jun 2002	98	177	23.73	3.34	$2,916
May 2002	111	212	24.66	3.58	$3,497
Apr 2002	99	214	23.65	3.51	$3,093
Mar 2002	136	220	22.00	3.10	$3,675
Feb 2002	102	200	18.22	2.38	$2,334
Jan 2002	61	174	17.17	2.38	$1,461
Dec 2001	116	221	16.93	2.36	$2,486
Nov 2001	71	204	18.07	2.41	$1,774
Oct 2001	89	240	19.78	2.53	$2,367
Sep 2001	85	209	24.26	2.25	$2,533
Aug 2001	108	209	24.87	3.05	$3,324
Jul 2001	92	188	23.93	3.20	$2,803
Jun 2001	89	188	24.56	3.82	$2,905
May 2001	89	227	25.52	4.31	$3,249
Apr 2001	105	229	24.68	5.34	$3,813
Mar 2001	88	278	24.54	5.38	$3,654
Feb 2001	107	220	27.75	5.77	$4,238
Jan 2001	109	255	27.47	8.40	$5,136
Dec 2000	140	218	26.88	9.12	$5,752
Nov 2000	154	238	32.21	5.66	$6,307
Oct 2000	93	248	31.23	5.15	$4,180
Sep 2000	133	243	31.87	5.19	$5,499
Aug 2000	104	250	29.64	4.54	$4,218
Jul 2000	130	251	28.53	4.09	$4,735
Jun 2000	74	242	29.30	4.40	$3,232
May 2000	112	212	27.26	3.68	$3,833
Apr 2000	108	224	24.51	3.12	$3,345
Mar 2000	77	230	28.42	2.86	$2,846
Feb 2000	92	215	27.62	2.73	$3,127
Jan 2000	88	199	25.27	2.48	$2,717
Dec 1999	91	227	24.28	2.42	$2,760
Nov 1999	89	208	23.19	2.43	$2,570
Oct 1999	92	216	20.98	2.80	$2,536
Sep 1999	68	217	21.75	2.62	$2,047
Aug 1999	96	219	19.26	2.88	$2,479
Jul 1999	93	240	17.89	2.37	$2,233
Jun 1999	98	228	15.94	2.36	$2,101
May 1999	76	210	15.79	2.32	$1,687
Apr 1999	91	217	15.10	2.21	$1,853
Mar 1999	101	226	12.47	1.84	$1,675
Feb 1999	100	198	9.98	1.82	$1,358
Jan 1999	99	218	10.38	1.90	$1,442
Dec 1998	98	203	9.20	1.77	$1,262
Nov 1998	97	206	10.89	2.19	$1,507
Oct 1998	97	216	12.42	1.97	$1,630
Sep 1998	101	219	12.59	2.08	$1,728
Aug 1998	75	227	11.30	1.91	$1,280
Jul 1998	96	221	11.74	2.24	$1,621
Jun 1998	122	213	11.24	2.24	$1,848
May 1998	77	219	12.62	2.21	$1,455
Apr 1998	115	223	13.04	2.51	$2,058
Mar 1998	131	220	12.80	2.31	$2,185
Feb 1998	84	185	13.95	2.30	$1,597
Jan 1998	106	192	14.70	2.15	$1,972
Dec 1997	100	194	16.32	2.41	$2,100
Nov 1997	102	189	18.19	3.09	$2,439
Oct 1997	91	165	19.25	3.15	$2,271
Sep 1997	103	206	17.74	2.95	$2,436
Aug 1997	104	209	17.86	2.55	$2,391
Jul 1997	101	203	17.58	2.25	$2,232
Jun 1997	118	195	17.24	2.26	$2,474
May 1997	89	217	18.97	2.31	$2,189
Apr 1997	121	199	17.88	2.08	$2,578
Mar 1997	86	210	18.95	1.94	$2,037
Feb 1997	140	167	20.49	2.21	$3,237
Jan 1997	94	206	23.48	3.54	$2,936
Dec 1996	120	218	23.32	—	$2,798
Nov 1996	120	210	21.97	—	$2,636
Oct 1996	89	172	23.31	—	$2,075
Sep 1996	99	226	22.22	—	$2,200
Aug 1996	114	243	20.26	—	$2,310
Jul 1996	129	248	19.55	—	$2,522
Jun 1996	109	578	18.73	—	$2,042
May 1996	113	372	19.43	—	$2,196
Apr 1996	136	346	21.51	—	$2,925
Mar 1996	134	359	19.38	—	$2,597
Feb 1996	113	344	16.98	—	$1,919
Jan 1996	166	348	17.07	—	$2,834
Dec 1995	148	187	17.19	—	$2,544
Nov 1995	186	185	16.00	—	$2,976
Oct 1995	214	207	15.43	—	$3,302
Sep 1995	101	297	16.18	—	$1,634
Aug 1995	107	312	15.92	—	$1,703
Jul 1995	124	339	15.24	—	$1,890
Jun 1995	130	381	16.41	—	$2,133
May 1995	157	415	17.56	—	$2,757
Apr 1995	238	369	17.73	—	$4,220
Mar 1995	143	371	16.44	—	$2,351
Feb 1995	199	341	16.58	—	$3,299
Jan 1995	312	400	15.92	—	$4,967
Dec 1994	193	320	15.03	—	$2,901
Nov 1994	150	289	15.90	—	$2,385
Oct 1994	99	331	15.58	—	$1,542
Sep 1994	174	217	15.29	—	$2,660
Aug 1994	127	191	16.13	—	$2,049
Jul 1994	261	636	17.56	—	$4,583
Jun 1994	94	392	17.09	—	$1,606
May 1994	246	183	15.88	—	$3,906
Apr 1994	94	116	14.14	—	$1,329
Mar 1994	99	208	12.46	—	$1,234
Feb 1994	197	82	12.50	—	$2,463
Jan 1994	188	314	12.66	—	$2,380
Dec 1993	177	367	12.33	—	$2,182
Nov 1993	127	314	14.49	—	$1,840
Oct 1993	86	81	15.85	—	$1,363
Sep 1993	166	78	15.03	—	$2,495
Aug 1993	163	27	15.66	—	$2,553
Jul 1993	150	27	15.46	—	$2,319
Jun 1993	76	576	16.79	—	$1,276
May 1993	76	11	17.68	—	$1,344
Apr 1993	162	46	18.05	—	$2,924
Mar 1993	157	146	18.14	—	$2,848
Feb 1993	76	324	17.90	—	$1,360
Jan 1993	130	576	16.93	—	$2,201

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.

Mar 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                    2 bbl  × $ 31.14 =        $62
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.10 =         $0

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Month total                                      $62

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/22684 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.