COWDEN H

Operated by ANDECTOR EXPLORATION COMPANY (P-5 20783) in the GOLDSMITH (5600) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 8479District 08Field 35652868Hydrogen sulphide fieldNGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$132 k
Jan 1993 – Apr 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
220
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 157 leases and 1,575 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1947-10-26
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
850 ft
minimum
From a lease line
555 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 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: INTO THE GOLDSMITH (CLEAR FORK) FIELD.

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
NGPA4none

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
OilDisposition4,888 bbl$97,229
Casinghead gasProduction34,097 Mcf$34,503
Total$131,731

25,605 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 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 (5)

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 32.0622, -102.7686. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.5 miles.

32.06203, -102.76898 · 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%
5 of 5 wells
With a plug date
60.0%
3 of 5 wells
Median depth
5,796 ft
5 wells filed one
Completion to plug
33.8 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
5100.0%
A plug date is filed
360.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
360.0%
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 5,760 and 5,815 ft, median 5,796 ft, over the 5 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Mar 1959 – Aug 1997
2 of 5 wells; 3 filed none
Plug dates filed
Dec 1992 – Jan 1993
3 of 5 wells; 2 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 33.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 33.8 years and 33.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

5 wells

42-1350028725,781 ftJan 1993Yes
42-1350028835,760 ftJan 1993Yes
42-1350319015,815 ftYes
42-13508691105,800 ftAug 1997Yes
42-13500270115,796 ftMar 1959Dec 1992Yes

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 (220)

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

220 months

Apr 201100105.964.33$0
Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 20100072.554.74$0
Jun 20100070.364.91$0
May 20100071.124.24$0
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 20100078.394.39$0
Feb 20100073.585.44$0
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20090042.144.06$0
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 200604754.906.01$283
Sep 200604660.085.04$232
Aug 200604968.717.34$360
Jul 200605369.376.34$336
Jun 2006485366.286.38$3,520
May 200605766.016.42$366
Apr 200608464.397.36$618
Mar 200608956.707.08$630
Feb 200607657.597.75$589
Jan 2006478960.598.93$3,643
Dec 200509054.9413.42$1,207
Nov 2005478654.6910.59$3,481
Oct 200509158.3413.80$1,255
Sep 200507661.4512.08$918
Aug 2005483761.519.80$3,315
Jul 20050255.697.84$16
Jun 200504252.337.38$310
May 200504145.226.65$273
Apr 200503849.207.36$280
Mar 200503750.377.15$265
Feb 2005454045.226.31$2,287
Jan 200508643.166.32$544
Dec 200408739.866.75$587
Nov 2004458645.286.33$2,582
Oct 200407649.706.52$495
Sep 200408643.245.28$454
Aug 2004495442.375.55$2,376
Jul 200405238.286.08$316
Jun 200408636.106.43$553
May 200409737.486.49$630
Apr 2004429034.475.86$1,975
Mar 2004010034.365.53$553
Feb 2004468232.455.51$1,944
Jan 200409232.036.30$580
Dec 20034510130.266.30$1,998
Nov 200309828.804.60$450
Oct 20034911728.174.76$1,937
Sep 2003012426.314.75$589
Aug 20034914129.765.13$2,182
Jul 20034815129.415.17$2,192
Jun 200309928.565.98$592
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 1999358515.942.36$759
May 199908815.792.32$204
Apr 1999349715.102.21$728
Mar 19993612012.471.84$670
Feb 1999371409.981.82$624
Jan 1999389310.381.90$571
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980412.421.97$8
Sep 19981612.592.08$25
Aug 199812111.301.91$51
Jul 199808411.742.24$188
Jun 19983714811.242.24$747
May 19983914112.622.21$803
Apr 19983719313.042.51$966
Mar 19984020312.802.31$981
Feb 19983919213.952.30$985
Jan 19987821614.702.15$1,612
Dec 19977227916.322.41$1,848
Nov 19973723618.193.09$1,402
Oct 19977622119.253.15$2,159
Sep 199730328417.742.95$6,214
Aug 1997449717.862.55$1,341
Jul 1997423717.582.25$603
Jun 1997027817.242.26$628
May 199718730718.972.31$4,256
Apr 1997128617.882.08$614
Mar 1997029718.951.94$576
Feb 1997029220.492.21$644
Jan 199717431923.483.54$5,215
Dec 1996045623.32$0
Nov 1996080721.97$0
Oct 1996076523.31$0
Sep 199618377422.22$4,066
Aug 1996335820.26$61
Jul 1996029919.55$0
Jun 1996060518.73$0
May 199613382619.43$2,584
Apr 1996055921.51$0
Mar 1996042619.38$0
Feb 199617674416.98$2,988
Jan 199601,10517.07$0
Dec 1995139217.19$17
Nov 199517129716.00$2,736
Oct 1995129915.43$15
Sep 1995043916.18$0
Aug 1995062715.92$0
Jul 199517761815.24$2,697
Jun 1995044816.41$0
May 1995047117.56$0
Apr 199518439417.73$3,262
Mar 1995049116.44$0
Feb 1995057816.58$0
Jan 199519153915.92$3,041
Dec 1994080815.03$0
Nov 1994072615.90$0
Oct 1994073315.58$0
Sep 199416892015.29$2,569
Aug 1994095116.13$0
Jul 19945688017.56$983
Jun 199414270517.09$2,427
May 1994032915.88$0
Apr 199415971114.14$2,248
Mar 1994065512.46$0
Feb 1994035512.50$0
Jan 199419766412.66$2,494
Dec 1993056212.33$0
Nov 1993063814.49$0
Oct 199310138315.85$1,601
Sep 1993468015.03$7,034
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 19930115.46$0
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 19930117.68$0
Apr 1993028818.05$0
Mar 1993062918.14$0
Feb 1993054417.90$0
Jan 199345980316.93$7,771

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.

Oct 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    0 bbl  × $ 54.90 =         $0
Casinghead gas        47 Mcf  × $  6.01 =       $283

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Month total                                     $283

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/8479 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.