COWDEN

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

Operated by THOMPSON, J. CLEO (P-5 855610) in the SPRABERRY (TREND AREA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 33086District 08Field 85280300OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$792 k

Jan 1993 – Jun 2002

Value, last 12 filed months

$7 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

114

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The SPRABERRY (TREND AREA) 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 16,587 leases and 43,997 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1952-12-22

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

0 ft

minimum

From a lease line

330 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2018-02-13.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “SPRABERRY (TREND AREA) FIELD EFFECTIVE 10/1/2019.”

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	38,212 bbl	$662,201
Casinghead gas	Production	202,166 Mcf	$130,032
Total			$792,233

157,621 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 32.0666, -102.0790. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

32.06664, -102.07896 · 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%

2 of 2 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

2 of 2 wells

Median depth

9,463 ft

2 wells filed one

Completion to plug

8.3 years

median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

2100.0%

A plug date is filed

2100.0%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

2100.0%

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

Between 9,450 and 9,475 ft, median 9,463 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Feb 1991 – Aug 1991

2 of 2 wells

Plug dates filed

Jan 1997 – Apr 2002

2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 8.3 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.8 years and 9.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells


42-32932446	1A	9,450 ft	Aug 1991	Jan 1997	Yes
42-32932325	2	9,475 ft	Feb 1991	Apr 2002	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 (114)

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

114 months


Jun 2002	0	0	23.73	3.34	$0
May 2002	0	0	24.66	3.58	$0
Apr 2002	78	0	23.65	3.51	$1,845
Mar 2002	0	1	22.00	3.10	$3
Feb 2002	0	0	18.22	2.38	$0
Jan 2002	0	3	17.17	2.38	$7
Dec 2001	0	1	16.93	2.36	$2
Nov 2001	0	0	18.07	2.41	$0
Oct 2001	0	0	19.78	2.53	$0
Sep 2001	139	0	24.26	2.25	$3,372
Aug 2001	0	0	24.87	3.05	$0
Jul 2001	0	501	23.93	3.20	$1,602
Jun 2001	182	565	24.56	3.82	$6,631
May 2001	180	611	25.52	4.31	$7,225
Apr 2001	172	559	24.68	5.34	$7,227
Mar 2001	0	554	24.54	5.38	$2,979
Feb 2001	0	337	27.75	5.77	$1,944
Jan 2001	169	582	27.47	8.40	$9,531
Dec 2000	170	584	26.88	9.12	$9,897
Nov 2000	168	604	32.21	5.66	$8,829
Oct 2000	169	692	31.23	5.15	$8,839
Sep 2000	166	574	31.87	5.19	$8,267
Aug 2000	171	618	29.64	4.54	$7,875
Jul 2000	170	813	28.53	4.09	$8,175
Jun 2000	167	564	29.30	4.40	$7,373
May 2000	0	533	27.26	3.68	$1,961
Apr 2000	173	609	24.51	3.12	$6,138
Mar 2000	173	660	28.42	2.86	$6,804
Feb 2000	0	612	27.62	2.73	$1,669
Jan 2000	172	636	25.27	2.48	$5,924
Dec 1999	170	720	24.28	2.42	$5,873
Nov 1999	173	795	23.19	2.43	$5,947
Oct 1999	180	755	20.98	2.80	$5,893
Sep 1999	169	840	21.75	2.62	$5,876
Aug 1999	2	864	19.26	2.88	$2,523
Jul 1999	186	660	17.89	2.37	$4,893
Jun 1999	178	629	15.94	2.36	$4,323
May 1999	174	737	15.79	2.32	$4,458
Apr 1999	172	851	15.10	2.21	$4,476
Mar 1999	176	890	12.47	1.84	$3,831
Feb 1999	182	850	9.98	1.82	$3,361
Jan 1999	172	932	10.38	1.90	$3,556
Dec 1998	188	896	9.20	1.77	$3,318
Nov 1998	357	898	10.89	2.19	$5,851
Oct 1998	182	971	12.42	1.97	$4,173
Sep 1998	178	935	12.59	2.08	$4,188
Aug 1998	169	1,039	11.30	1.91	$3,891
Jul 1998	168	1,041	11.74	2.24	$4,301
Jun 1998	211	1,010	11.24	2.24	$4,631
May 1998	359	1,071	12.62	2.21	$6,894
Apr 1998	177	1,013	13.04	2.51	$4,846
Mar 1998	182	1,024	12.80	2.31	$4,694
Feb 1998	188	924	13.95	2.30	$4,747
Jan 1998	382	1,042	14.70	2.15	$7,861
Dec 1997	185	975	16.32	2.41	$5,370
Nov 1997	188	805	18.19	3.09	$5,906
Oct 1997	193	871	19.25	3.15	$6,459
Sep 1997	194	1,002	17.74	2.95	$6,402
Aug 1997	185	1,054	17.86	2.55	$5,997
Jul 1997	187	1,093	17.58	2.25	$5,743
Jun 1997	190	989	17.24	2.26	$5,508
May 1997	375	796	18.97	2.31	$8,951
Apr 1997	190	1,124	17.88	2.08	$5,738
Mar 1997	381	1,198	18.95	1.94	$9,543
Feb 1997	0	1,037	20.49	2.21	$2,288
Jan 1997	196	1,001	23.48	3.54	$8,145
Dec 1996	379	1,991	23.32	—	$8,838
Nov 1996	377	3,420	21.97	—	$8,283
Oct 1996	573	3,101	23.31	—	$13,357
Sep 1996	564	3,134	22.22	—	$12,532
Aug 1996	376	3,382	20.26	—	$7,618
Jul 1996	567	3,446	19.55	—	$11,085
Jun 1996	561	2,920	18.73	—	$10,508
May 1996	380	3,156	19.43	—	$7,383
Apr 1996	554	3,053	21.51	—	$11,917
Mar 1996	586	3,009	19.38	—	$11,357
Feb 1996	588	2,744	16.98	—	$9,984
Jan 1996	386	3,113	17.07	—	$6,589
Dec 1995	390	3,116	17.19	—	$6,704
Nov 1995	579	3,140	16.00	—	$9,264
Oct 1995	577	3,310	15.43	—	$8,903
Sep 1995	588	3,374	16.18	—	$9,514
Aug 1995	752	3,309	15.92	—	$11,972
Jul 1995	371	3,354	15.24	—	$5,654
Jun 1995	732	3,146	16.41	—	$12,012
May 1995	394	3,222	17.56	—	$6,919
Apr 1995	770	3,017	17.73	—	$13,652
Mar 1995	368	3,507	16.44	—	$6,050
Feb 1995	1,123	3,294	16.58	—	$18,619
Jan 1995	378	2,718	15.92	—	$6,018
Dec 1994	380	3,113	15.03	—	$5,711
Nov 1994	746	2,939	15.90	—	$11,861
Oct 1994	395	3,088	15.58	—	$6,154
Sep 1994	378	3,142	15.29	—	$5,780
Aug 1994	746	3,184	16.13	—	$12,033
Jul 1994	350	3,234	17.56	—	$6,146
Jun 1994	715	3,695	17.09	—	$12,219
May 1994	368	3,790	15.88	—	$5,844
Apr 1994	709	3,640	14.14	—	$10,025
Mar 1994	712	3,774	12.46	—	$8,872
Feb 1994	711	3,342	12.50	—	$8,888
Jan 1994	364	3,848	12.66	—	$4,608
Dec 1993	908	3,879	12.33	—	$11,196
Nov 1993	905	3,518	14.49	—	$13,113
Oct 1993	348	3,425	15.85	—	$5,516
Sep 1993	1,077	3,653	15.03	—	$16,187
Aug 1993	717	3,848	15.66	—	$11,228
Jul 1993	356	3,498	15.46	—	$5,504
Jun 1993	713	3,298	16.79	—	$11,971
May 1993	721	4,069	17.68	—	$12,747
Apr 1993	1,063	3,974	18.05	—	$19,187
Mar 1993	735	3,430	18.14	—	$13,333
Feb 1993	717	2,384	17.90	—	$12,834
Jan 1993	707	2,880	16.93	—	$11,970

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.

Apr 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   78 bbl  × $ 23.65 =     $1,845
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.51 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,845

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/33086 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.