BURCH

Operated by STOVALL OPERATING CO. (P-5 824339) in the YOUNG COUNTY REGULAR field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 16107District 09Field 99480001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$43 k
Jan 1993 – Sep 1995
Value, last 12 filed months
$12 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
33
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 2,525 leases and 8,014 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1917-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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
OilDisposition2,697 bbl$42,650
Casinghead gasProduction8,309 Mcf$0
Total$42,650

8,309 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 30 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 (4)

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 33.1423, -98.6477. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.3 miles.

33.14136, -98.64662 · 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%
4 of 4 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
4 of 4 wells
Median depth
4,213 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
18.9 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
4100.0%
A plug date is filed
4100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
4100.0%
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 3,892 and 4,676 ft, median 4,213 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Sep 1969 – Jul 1977
4 of 4 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 1987 – Jun 1995
4 of 4 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 18.9 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16.3 years and 21.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-5033244153,892 ftJul 1977Jun 1995Yes
42-5033030743,992 ftSep 1976Nov 1987Yes
42-5033051324,433 ftJul 1975Jun 1995Yes
42-5033015014,676 ftSep 1969Jun 1995Yes

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 (33)

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

33 months

Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 199529015.24$442
Jun 1995643816.41$1,050
May 1995223917.56$35
Apr 199512526917.73$2,216
Mar 1995025316.44$0
Feb 1995025116.58$0
Jan 199510729715.92$1,703
Dec 199413026115.03$1,954
Nov 199413228115.90$2,099
Oct 199413226515.58$2,057
Sep 1994027315.29$0
Aug 199412727716.13$2,049
Jul 1994019917.56$0
Jun 199413027517.09$2,222
May 1994029415.88$0
Apr 199413127714.14$1,852
Mar 19942430412.46$299
Feb 199413523412.50$1,688
Jan 1994025112.66$0
Dec 199313231512.33$1,628
Nov 199312524814.49$1,811
Oct 199313031415.85$2,061
Sep 199313133815.03$1,969
Aug 199313034915.66$2,036
Jul 199312832515.46$1,979
Jun 199312638816.79$2,116
May 1993026717.68$0
Apr 199313539018.05$2,437
Mar 199325728618.14$4,662
Feb 1993229417.90$36
Jan 199313325716.93$2,252

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.

Jul 1995 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   29 bbl  × $ 15.24 =       $442
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                     $442

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. 09/O/16107 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.