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Operated by HENRY PETROLEUM CORP. (P-5 378635) in the COWDEN, NORTH field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 31404District 08Field 21289001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$770 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$49 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
84
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 193 leases and 3,124 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1930-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
880 ft
minimum
From a lease line
440 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 1974-03-03.

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: OPTIONAL 20ACRE UNITS PER #8-64059 6-3-74

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
OilDisposition46,783 bbl$768,683
Casinghead gasProduction5,095 Mcf$1,256
Total$769,939

4,572 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 46 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 32.1333, -102.5356. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

32.13334, -102.53561 · 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
0.0%
0 of 2 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 2 wells
Median depth
9,103 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
00.0%
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.
2100.0%

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

Between 9,100 and 9,105 ft, median 9,103 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Sep 1987 – Oct 1993
2 of 2 wells

2 wells

42-0033394829,105 ftOct 1993
42-0033412839,100 ftSep 1987

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 (84)

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

84 months

Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 1999441021.752.62$9,592
Aug 19994593519.262.88$8,941
Jul 199922310617.892.37$4,241
Jun 1999249015.942.36$3,969
May 1999366015.792.32$5,779
Apr 1999534015.102.21$8,063
Mar 1999350012.471.84$4,365
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 1999380010.381.90$3,944
Dec 199858709.201.77$5,400
Nov 1998379010.892.19$4,127
Oct 1998362012.421.97$4,496
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 1998375011.301.91$4,238
Jul 1998372011.742.24$4,367
Jun 1998379011.242.24$4,260
May 1998369012.622.21$4,657
Apr 1998378013.042.51$4,929
Mar 1998388012.802.31$4,966
Feb 1998381013.952.30$5,315
Jan 1998373014.702.15$5,483
Dec 1997744016.322.41$12,142
Nov 1997380018.193.09$6,912
Oct 1997747019.253.15$14,380
Sep 1997380017.742.95$6,741
Aug 1997751017.862.55$13,413
Jul 1997378017.582.25$6,645
Jun 1997382117.242.26$6,588
May 199738210018.972.31$7,477
Apr 19973837217.882.08$6,998
Mar 19973806518.951.94$7,327
Feb 19977418620.492.21$15,373
Jan 19973835823.483.54$9,198
Dec 19967668023.32$17,863
Nov 1996345021.97$7,580
Oct 1996746023.31$17,389
Sep 199634717222.22$7,710
Aug 199676117220.26$15,418
Jul 199654617419.55$10,674
Jun 19969418518.73$17,625
May 199638213219.43$7,422
Apr 19967765221.51$16,692
Mar 19967809419.38$15,116
Feb 19967698616.98$13,058
Jan 199657011417.07$9,730
Dec 19955139517.19$8,818
Nov 199576016216.00$12,160
Oct 199584718415.43$13,069
Sep 199587921816.18$14,222
Aug 199574911415.92$11,924
Jul 19951,13010215.24$17,221
Jun 199535213916.41$5,776
May 19959039417.56$15,857
Apr 199574016817.73$13,120
Mar 199589012616.44$14,632
Feb 199576013316.58$12,601
Jan 19956863515.92$10,921
Dec 19949108115.03$13,677
Nov 19941,28513015.90$20,432
Oct 199456020215.58$8,725
Sep 19941,06111415.29$16,223
Aug 19941,08511016.13$17,501
Jul 19941,2079917.56$21,195
Jun 19947126517.09$12,168
May 19941,02910815.88$16,341
Apr 19949598014.14$13,560
Mar 19941,0851212.46$13,519
Feb 19948651012.50$10,813
Jan 19941,0471412.66$13,255
Dec 19931,0379712.33$12,786
Nov 19931,01130614.49$14,649
Oct 19934259515.85$6,736
Sep 19932224615.03$3,337
Aug 19931448015.66$2,255
Jul 19931312615.46$2,025
Jun 19931591816.79$2,670
May 1993350617.68$6,188
Apr 19932574418.05$4,639
Mar 1993247618.14$4,481
Feb 19933196817.90$5,710
Jan 19933622416.93$6,129

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.

Sep 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  441 bbl  × $ 21.75 =     $9,592
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.62 =         $0

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Month total                                   $9,592

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/31404 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.