COWAN & MCKINNEY "HH"

Operated by BURNS OPERATING (P-5 111013) in the LAKE KICKAPOO, E. (CADDO) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 20648District 09Field 51464500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$72 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$5 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
63
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 11 leases and 14 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1978-11-08
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
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 40 acres.

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
NGPA1none

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
OilDisposition3,919 bbl$66,091
Casinghead gasProduction39,099 Mcf$5,856
Total$71,947

36,874 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 (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 33.6365, -98.7648. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.63653, -98.76480 · 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
5,000 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
17.2 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 5,000 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 1980
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 1998
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 17.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 17.2 years and 17.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-0093462915,000 ftDec 1980Feb 1998Yes

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 (63)

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

63 months

Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970116.322.41$2
Nov 19970718.193.09$22
Oct 199706119.253.15$192
Sep 19971399817.742.95$2,755
Aug 1997016317.862.55$416
Jul 1997021417.582.25$481
Jun 1997032417.242.26$731
May 19970318.972.31$7
Apr 199701317.882.08$27
Mar 1997032918.951.94$638
Feb 1997039920.492.21$880
Jan 1997061323.483.54$2,170
Dec 199618158323.32$4,221
Nov 1996054421.97$0
Oct 1996053623.31$0
Sep 199618152522.22$4,022
Aug 1996054820.26$0
Jul 1996062219.55$0
Jun 1996062218.73$0
May 199618358719.43$3,556
Apr 1996062021.51$0
Mar 1996060719.38$0
Feb 199618648116.98$3,158
Jan 1996048517.07$0
Dec 199517353317.19$2,974
Nov 1995054716.00$0
Oct 199509815.43$0
Sep 1995066916.18$0
Aug 199517959815.92$2,850
Jul 1995060215.24$0
Jun 199518366116.41$3,003
May 1995075417.56$0
Apr 199501,07117.73$0
Mar 199518486016.44$3,025
Feb 1995073816.58$0
Jan 1995080415.92$0
Dec 19941811,23715.03$2,720
Nov 199401,16215.90$0
Oct 19941861,18615.58$2,898
Sep 199401,04915.29$0
Aug 199401,16916.13$0
Jul 19941851,13617.56$3,249
Jun 199409817.09$0
May 19941819815.88$2,874
Apr 199401,15514.14$0
Mar 1994089712.46$0
Feb 199415291812.50$1,900
Jan 1994066312.66$0
Dec 199319283612.33$2,367
Nov 19931841,03514.49$2,666
Oct 1993098715.85$0
Sep 199301,02015.03$0
Aug 19931681,02015.66$2,631
Jul 19931761,05915.46$2,721
Jun 1993098516.79$0
May 19931831,01817.68$3,235
Apr 199317893318.05$3,213
Mar 1993090118.14$0
Feb 199318582317.90$3,312
Jan 199317979416.93$3,030

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.

Dec 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    0 bbl  × $ 16.32 =         $0
Casinghead gas         1 Mcf  × $  2.41 =         $2

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Month total                                       $2

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/20648 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.