WESTERN COOPER

Name: WESTERN COOPER lease production and value, Jan 1997 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by LADD OIL & GAS CORPORATION (P-5 480956) in the COBRA (WOLFCAMP) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 35214District 08Field 19235700Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$841 k

Jan 1997 – Jul 2005

Value, last 12 filed months

$118 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

103

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The COBRA (WOLFCAMP) 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 78 leases and 89 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1984-06-20

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

1,200 ft

minimum

From a lease line

467 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1985-03-01.

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: “FIELD CHANGED FROM ONE WELL TO PRORATED 04/29/2017”

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	26,131 bbl	$696,348
Casinghead gas	Production	34,168 Mcf	$145,122
Total			$841,470

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 31.9678, -101.6600. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

31.96776, -101.65999 · 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

8,195 ft

2 wells filed one

Completion to plug

2.8 years

median over 1 well

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 8,189 and 8,200 ft, median 8,195 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Jul 2002

1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none

Plug dates filed

May 2005

2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 2.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 2.8 years and 2.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells


42-17332688	2	8,189 ft	—	May 2005	Yes
42-17333046	4	8,200 ft	Jul 2002	May 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 (103)

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

103 months


Jul 2005	0	0	55.69	7.84	$0
Jun 2005	0	0	52.33	7.38	$0
May 2005	0	58	45.22	6.65	$386
Apr 2005	0	45	49.20	7.36	$331
Mar 2005	123	33	50.37	7.15	$6,432
Feb 2005	357	616	45.22	6.31	$20,032
Jan 2005	182	671	43.16	6.32	$12,097
Dec 2004	342	589	39.86	6.75	$17,609
Nov 2004	185	790	45.28	6.33	$13,378
Oct 2004	181	738	49.70	6.52	$13,804
Sep 2004	318	672	43.24	5.28	$17,301
Aug 2004	323	587	42.37	5.55	$16,944
Jul 2004	178	548	38.28	6.08	$10,148
Jun 2004	163	501	36.10	6.43	$9,107
May 2004	452	658	37.48	6.49	$21,214
Apr 2004	359	623	34.47	5.86	$16,025
Mar 2004	313	638	34.36	5.53	$14,283
Feb 2004	333	474	32.45	5.51	$13,417
Jan 2004	349	473	32.03	6.30	$14,158
Dec 2003	356	459	30.26	6.30	$13,665
Nov 2003	176	475	28.80	4.60	$7,252
Oct 2003	430	615	28.17	4.76	$15,040
Sep 2003	467	606	26.31	4.75	$15,165
Aug 2003	501	635	29.76	5.13	$18,167
Jul 2003	511	506	29.41	5.17	$17,645
Jun 2003	180	382	28.56	5.98	$7,426
May 2003	354	289	26.59	5.97	$11,139
Apr 2003	336	262	26.67	5.41	$10,378
Mar 2003	667	409	31.14	6.10	$23,264
Feb 2003	359	371	33.48	7.93	$14,960
Jan 2003	713	505	30.31	5.58	$24,430
Dec 2002	671	429	26.91	4.85	$20,139
Nov 2002	512	423	24.66	4.14	$14,376
Oct 2002	547	380	26.46	4.23	$16,081
Sep 2002	542	286	27.44	3.64	$15,912
Aug 2002	360	215	25.96	3.16	$10,026
Jul 2002	178	156	24.58	3.06	$4,853
Jun 2002	179	137	23.73	3.34	$4,705
May 2002	541	196	24.66	3.58	$14,044
Apr 2002	531	291	23.65	3.51	$13,580
Mar 2002	0	0	22.00	3.10	$0
Feb 2002	0	56	18.22	2.38	$133
Jan 2002	0	61	17.17	2.38	$145
Dec 2001	0	37	16.93	2.36	$87
Nov 2001	366	170	18.07	2.41	$7,023
Oct 2001	178	465	19.78	2.53	$4,697
Sep 2001	183	213	24.26	2.25	$4,919
Aug 2001	1,065	850	24.87	3.05	$29,082
Jul 2001	0	124	23.93	3.20	$396
Jun 2001	361	276	24.56	3.82	$9,922
May 2001	0	1,231	25.52	4.31	$5,302
Apr 2001	359	112	24.68	5.34	$9,458
Mar 2001	368	78	24.54	5.38	$9,450
Feb 2001	0	78	27.75	5.77	$450
Jan 2001	376	17	27.47	8.40	$10,472
Dec 2000	0	93	26.88	9.12	$848
Nov 2000	361	117	32.21	5.66	$12,290
Oct 2000	0	192	31.23	5.15	$988
Sep 2000	344	256	31.87	5.19	$12,291
Aug 2000	0	8	29.64	4.54	$36
Jul 2000	180	158	28.53	4.09	$5,782
Jun 2000	359	269	29.30	4.40	$11,702
May 2000	368	673	27.26	3.68	$12,508
Apr 2000	184	406	24.51	3.12	$5,775
Mar 2000	368	222	28.42	2.86	$11,093
Feb 2000	366	143	27.62	2.73	$10,499
Jan 2000	377	209	25.27	2.48	$10,045
Dec 1999	0	79	24.28	2.42	$191
Nov 1999	741	149	23.19	2.43	$17,546
Oct 1999	0	168	20.98	2.80	$471
Sep 1999	710	246	21.75	2.62	$16,087
Aug 1999	1,048	221	19.26	2.88	$20,820
Jul 1999	0	45	17.89	2.37	$107
Jun 1999	0	162	15.94	2.36	$383
May 1999	0	254	15.79	2.32	$590
Apr 1999	0	46	15.10	2.21	$102
Mar 1999	0	14	12.47	1.84	$26
Feb 1999	0	15	9.98	1.82	$27
Jan 1999	0	125	10.38	1.90	$237
Dec 1998	0	8	9.20	1.77	$14
Nov 1998	170	18	10.89	2.19	$1,891
Oct 1998	724	256	12.42	1.97	$9,496
Sep 1998	354	241	12.59	2.08	$4,959
Aug 1998	0	188	11.30	1.91	$359
Jul 1998	0	2	11.74	2.24	$4
Jun 1998	0	167	11.24	2.24	$374
May 1998	0	87	12.62	2.21	$192
Apr 1998	0	0	13.04	2.51	$0
Mar 1998	352	348	12.80	2.31	$5,309
Feb 1998	0	248	13.95	2.30	$570
Jan 1998	0	503	14.70	2.15	$1,084
Dec 1997	175	374	16.32	2.41	$3,758
Nov 1997	176	919	18.19	3.09	$6,040
Oct 1997	0	1,044	19.25	3.15	$3,288
Sep 1997	357	970	17.74	2.95	$9,199
Aug 1997	521	504	17.86	2.55	$10,593
Jul 1997	0	250	17.58	2.25	$562
Jun 1997	0	1,909	17.24	2.26	$4,309
May 1997	343	50	18.97	2.31	$6,622
Apr 1997	334	951	17.88	2.08	$7,953
Mar 1997	694	144	18.95	1.94	$13,431
Feb 1997	0	121	20.49	2.21	$267
Jan 1997	0	87	23.48	3.54	$308

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.

May 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                    0 bbl  × $ 45.22 =         $0
Casinghead gas        58 Mcf  × $  6.65 =       $386

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Month total                                     $386

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/35214 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.