COWDEN

Operated by CLEAR FORK, INCORPORATED (P-5 159500) 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 29577District 08Field 21292125Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$766 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$408
at the published price for each month
Months reported
138
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 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

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
OilDisposition34,145 bbl$644,188
Casinghead gasProduction81,069 Mcf$122,309
Total$766,497

43,540 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 31.7946, -102.4973. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.79462, -102.49728 · 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
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
8,830 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
18.8 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 8,830 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 1985
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 2003
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 18.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 18.8 years and 18.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-1353472318,830 ftFeb 1985Dec 2003Yes

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 (138)

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

138 months

Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20036030.266.30$182
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 200301028.174.76$48
Sep 200302826.314.75$133
Aug 20030929.765.13$46
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030228.565.98$12
May 200316331726.595.97$6,228
Apr 200317632226.675.41$6,435
Mar 200317630931.146.10$7,364
Feb 2003024033.487.93$1,902
Jan 2003012730.315.58$709
Dec 200252939126.914.85$16,133
Nov 2002040924.664.14$1,692
Oct 200217142526.464.23$6,322
Sep 200217344127.443.64$6,350
Aug 200235041625.963.16$10,402
Jul 200217547024.583.06$5,741
Jun 200217742023.733.34$5,602
May 200216140724.663.58$5,429
Apr 200216042623.653.51$5,280
Mar 200232745222.003.10$8,596
Feb 200217140718.222.38$4,083
Jan 200216338617.172.38$3,716
Dec 200134344216.932.36$6,852
Nov 2001043518.072.41$1,046
Oct 200116444319.782.53$4,364
Sep 200118040624.262.25$5,281
Aug 200116633224.873.05$5,142
Jul 200117434023.933.20$5,251
Jun 2001030624.563.82$1,170
May 200132430325.524.31$9,574
Apr 2001031924.685.34$1,702
Mar 200114352724.545.38$6,343
Feb 200133849727.755.77$12,246
Jan 200111555227.478.40$7,795
Dec 200029656126.889.12$13,074
Nov 200034353032.215.66$14,047
Oct 200035456731.235.15$13,973
Sep 200016855931.875.19$8,253
Aug 200017360029.644.54$7,852
Jul 200017656428.534.09$7,328
Jun 200034757029.304.40$12,674
May 200017137527.263.68$6,041
Apr 200035154524.513.12$10,301
Mar 200016756728.422.86$6,368
Feb 200034653127.622.73$11,004
Jan 200016755825.272.48$5,604
Dec 199934154124.282.42$9,591
Nov 199917152123.192.43$5,234
Oct 199934756120.982.80$8,853
Sep 199916954021.752.62$5,090
Aug 199917553619.262.88$4,912
Jul 199932446717.892.37$6,904
Jun 199916548315.942.36$3,771
May 199933857515.792.32$6,672
Apr 199916754115.102.21$3,716
Mar 199933849212.471.84$5,119
Feb 19991704629.981.82$2,536
Jan 199935053410.381.90$4,648
Dec 19981704989.201.77$2,447
Nov 199833152910.892.19$4,761
Oct 199816446512.421.97$2,953
Sep 199816144912.592.08$2,962
Aug 199815828011.301.91$2,319
Jul 199816524711.742.24$2,490
Jun 199833357411.242.24$5,027
May 199816455812.622.21$3,301
Apr 199833843513.042.51$5,497
Mar 199816146712.802.31$3,139
Feb 199832744313.952.30$5,580
Jan 199833449214.702.15$5,970
Dec 199716372316.322.41$4,403
Nov 199732474318.193.09$8,188
Oct 199732158519.253.15$8,022
Sep 199716852517.742.95$4,532
Aug 199733950717.862.55$7,350
Jul 199733456917.582.25$7,150
Jun 199733163517.242.26$7,140
May 199751170118.972.31$11,312
Apr 1997172917.882.08$1,536
Mar 199733577718.951.94$7,855
Feb 199750572920.492.21$11,956
Jan 199717077323.483.54$6,728
Dec 199632864323.32$7,649
Nov 199633373321.97$7,316
Oct 199633371623.31$7,762
Sep 199633065922.22$7,333
Aug 199616766020.26$3,383
Jul 199636958519.55$7,214
Jun 199654157618.73$10,133
May 1996077119.43$0
Apr 199652974121.51$11,379
Mar 1996166619.38$19
Feb 199637364616.98$6,334
Jan 199656568317.07$9,645
Dec 199519287617.19$3,300
Nov 199537480416.00$5,984
Oct 199520173315.43$3,101
Sep 199538077016.18$6,148
Aug 19955555015.92$8,836
Jul 1995054015.24$0
Jun 199537448116.41$6,137
May 199522270317.56$3,898
Apr 199519069417.73$3,369
Mar 199536164516.44$5,935
Feb 199555556516.58$9,202
Jan 199535090415.92$5,572
Dec 1994096215.03$0
Nov 19947681,40215.90$12,211
Oct 199401,59915.58$0
Sep 19943681,78015.29$5,627
Aug 19942941,72816.13$4,742
Jul 19943521,76717.56$6,181
Jun 19943381,55117.09$5,776
May 19943491,22615.88$5,542
Apr 19945081,41714.14$7,183
Mar 199417197312.46$2,131
Feb 199466281212.50$8,275
Jan 199435494612.66$4,482
Dec 199334895712.33$4,291
Nov 199356193414.49$8,129
Oct 199333299015.85$5,262
Sep 199326496915.03$3,968
Aug 19935351,03215.66$8,378
Jul 19935361,05015.46$8,287
Jun 19933621,04116.79$6,078
May 199333490917.68$5,905
Apr 199352898918.05$9,530
Mar 199317995918.14$3,247
Feb 199350573117.90$9,040
Jan 199342797216.93$7,229

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 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    6 bbl  × $ 30.26 =       $182
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.30 =         $0

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Month total                                     $182

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/29577 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.