COWAN & MCKINNEY -Q-

Operated by BRIGHAM OIL & GAS, L.P. (P-5 92800) in the FRARLEY (MISSISSIPPIAN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 17886District 09Field 32754500OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$347 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
144
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 6 leases and 7 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1957-04-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
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
OilDisposition19,426 bbl$343,692
Casinghead gasProduction1,206 Mcf$3,611
Total$347,303

312 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 (1)

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 33.4552, -98.6290. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.45521, -98.62895 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
5,207 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
28.1 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 5,207 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 1976
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2004
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 28.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 28.1 years and 28.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-0093167515,207 ftFeb 1976Mar 2004Yes

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 (144)

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

144 months

Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 2003176030.315.58$5,335
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20021713125.963.16$4,537
Jul 200203124.583.06$95
Jun 200203023.733.34$100
May 20021812224.663.58$4,542
Apr 200203023.653.51$105
Mar 20021713022.003.10$3,855
Feb 200203018.222.38$71
Jan 200203017.172.38$71
Dec 20011763016.932.36$3,051
Nov 200103018.072.41$72
Oct 20011743019.782.53$3,518
Sep 200103024.262.25$68
Aug 20011753024.873.05$4,444
Jul 20011633023.933.20$3,997
Jun 200103024.563.82$115
May 200103025.524.31$129
Apr 20011673024.685.34$4,282
Mar 200103024.545.38$161
Feb 20011813027.755.77$5,196
Jan 20011773027.478.40$5,114
Dec 200003026.889.12$274
Nov 20001823032.215.66$6,032
Oct 200003031.235.15$154
Sep 20001803031.875.19$5,892
Aug 200003029.644.54$136
Jul 200003028.534.09$123
Jun 20001763029.304.40$5,289
May 200003027.263.68$110
Apr 20001823024.513.12$4,554
Mar 200003028.422.86$86
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 1999186015.942.36$2,965
May 1999172015.792.32$2,716
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 1999174010.381.90$1,806
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 1998178012.421.97$2,211
Sep 1998355012.592.08$4,469
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 1998177013.042.51$2,308
Mar 1998178012.802.31$2,278
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 1998176014.702.15$2,587
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 1997177019.253.15$3,407
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 1997177017.862.55$3,161
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 1997180017.242.26$3,103
May 1997173018.972.31$3,282
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 1997182018.951.94$3,449
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 1997174023.483.54$4,086
Dec 1996183023.32$4,268
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 1996181023.31$4,219
Sep 1996175022.22$3,889
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 1996176019.55$3,441
Jun 1996178018.73$3,334
May 1996176019.43$3,420
Apr 1996183021.51$3,936
Mar 1996186019.38$3,605
Feb 1996172016.98$2,921
Jan 1996356017.07$6,077
Dec 1995189017.19$3,249
Nov 1995356016.00$5,696
Oct 1995186015.43$2,870
Sep 1995364016.18$5,890
Aug 1995361015.92$5,747
Jul 1995538015.24$8,199
Jun 1995547016.41$8,976
May 1995546017.56$9,588
Apr 1995546017.73$9,681
Mar 1995901016.44$14,812
Feb 1995905016.58$15,005
Jan 19951,470015.92$23,402
Dec 1994352015.03$5,291
Nov 1994181015.90$2,878
Oct 1994360015.58$5,609
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 1994354116.13$5,710
Jul 1994182117.56$3,196
Jun 19941859817.09$3,162
May 199409815.88$0
Apr 19941799814.14$2,531
Mar 1994359112.46$4,473
Feb 1994176112.50$2,200
Jan 1994192112.66$2,431
Dec 1993188112.33$2,318
Nov 1993359114.49$5,202
Oct 1993183115.85$2,901
Sep 1993182115.03$2,735
Aug 1993185115.66$2,897
Jul 1993364115.46$5,627
Jun 1993183116.79$3,073
May 1993185117.68$3,271
Apr 1993173118.05$3,123
Mar 1993365118.14$6,621
Feb 1993187117.90$3,347
Jan 1993186116.93$3,149

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.

Jan 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  176 bbl  × $ 30.31 =     $5,335
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.58 =         $0

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Month total                                   $5,335

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/17886 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.