VERNON WATERFLOOD UNIT

Operated by BURK ROYALTY CO., LTD. (P-5 108799) in the WILBARGER COUNTY REGULAR field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 28230District 09Field 97331001OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$464 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$12 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
133
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 583 leases and 3,789 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1915-12-31
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

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: THAN 5000FT BR ASSIGNED TO THIS FIELD

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
OilDisposition25,889 bbl$464,378
Casinghead gasProduction85,547 Mcf$0
Total$464,378

85,547 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 32 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 (21)

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 34.0892, -99.2469. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 2.3 miles.

34.08875, -99.24968 · 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%
21 of 21 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
21 of 21 wells
Median depth
6,248 ft
21 wells filed one
Completion to plug
14.5 years
median over 21 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
21100.0%
A plug date is filed
21100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
21100.0%
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

Total depth in feet, 21 of 21 wells. Median 6,248 ft, with the middle half between 6,150 and 6,415 ft; the shallowest is 5,875 ft and the deepest 6,990 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 21 of 21 wells, Mar 1980 – May 1997. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Mar 1980 – May 1997
21 of 21 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 1993 – Nov 2003
21 of 21 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.5 years across the 21 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.8 years and 15.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

21 wells

42-487315763016,415 ftMay 1997Aug 1998Yes
42-487315775016,397 ftOct 1996Aug 1998Yes
42-487319299016,155 ftAug 1994Aug 1996Yes
42-487312987026,248 ftNov 1991May 1994Yes
42-487320608036,100 ftOct 1987Aug 1996Yes
42-487320599026,100 ftSep 1987Aug 1996Yes
42-4873193412026,378 ftNov 1985Dec 1993Yes
42-4873190210026,150 ftJul 1985Aug 1996Yes
42-487317113036,450 ftFeb 1984Aug 1998Yes
42-487316584026,181 ftFeb 1984Aug 1998Yes
42-487317081016,400 ftJan 1984Jul 1996Yes
42-487316902026,239 ftNov 1983Aug 1998Yes
42-487316613026,300 ftOct 1983Aug 1998Yes
42-487316572016,617 ftJul 1983Aug 1998Yes
42-487315784016,868 ftOct 1982Aug 1998Yes
42-4873158313026,160 ftAug 1982Jul 1996Yes
42-487315358016,450 ftApr 1982Aug 1998Yes
42-4873142011026,083 ftJul 1981Aug 1996Yes
42-487312476016,058 ftAug 1980Aug 1996Yes
42-4873124610015,875 ftMay 1980Nov 2003Yes
42-487311577016,990 ftMar 1980Jul 1996Yes

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 (133)

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

133 months

Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 2003227028.804.60$6,538
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 2003167033.487.93$5,591
Jan 2003166030.315.58$5,031
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 2002162024.664.14$3,995
Oct 2002162026.464.23$4,287
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 2002158025.963.16$4,102
Jul 2002165024.583.06$4,056
Jun 2002160023.733.34$3,797
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 2002161023.653.51$3,808
Mar 2002157022.003.10$3,454
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 2002162017.172.38$2,782
Dec 2001171016.932.36$2,895
Nov 2001174018.072.41$3,144
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 2001333024.262.25$8,079
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 2001164025.524.31$4,185
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 2001183024.545.38$4,491
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 2001173027.478.40$4,752
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 2000168031.235.15$5,247
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 2000169029.644.54$5,009
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 2000176029.304.40$5,157
May 20003027.263.68$82
Apr 2000173024.513.12$4,240
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 2000167027.622.73$4,613
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 1999174023.192.43$4,035
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 1999171019.262.88$3,293
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 1999169015.942.36$2,694
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 199917109.981.82$1,707
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 1998170010.892.19$1,851
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 1998170011.301.91$1,921
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 1998176012.622.21$2,221
Apr 1998610013.042.51$7,954
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 1998170014.702.15$2,499
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 1997173018.193.09$3,147
Oct 1997176019.253.15$3,388
Sep 1997174017.742.95$3,087
Aug 1997176017.862.55$3,143
Jul 1997172017.582.25$3,024
Jun 1997352017.242.26$6,068
May 1997170018.972.31$3,225
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 1997182018.951.94$3,449
Feb 1997163020.492.21$3,340
Jan 1997183023.483.54$4,297
Dec 1996156023.32$3,638
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 1996327023.31$7,622
Sep 1996190022.22$4,222
Aug 1996185020.26$3,748
Jul 1996177019.55$3,460
Jun 19961,027018.73$19,236
May 1996172019.43$3,342
Apr 1996174021.51$3,743
Mar 1996287019.38$5,562
Feb 1996899016.98$15,265
Jan 1996325017.07$5,548
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 1995877016.00$14,032
Oct 1995180015.43$2,777
Sep 1995151016.18$2,443
Aug 199535427615.92$5,636
Jul 19953631,79615.24$5,532
Jun 19951851,72316.41$3,036
May 19955071,84717.56$8,903
Apr 19955695,60017.73$10,088
Mar 19951771,46116.44$2,910
Feb 19951881,58416.58$3,117
Jan 199518970215.92$3,009
Dec 199421,66315.03$30
Nov 19945541,59315.90$8,809
Oct 19943611,45515.58$5,624
Sep 19944092,27315.29$6,254
Aug 1994862,29616.13$1,387
Jul 199402,40617.56$0
Jun 19945712,29117.09$9,758
May 19943202,03515.88$5,082
Apr 199402,23214.14$0
Mar 19947102,01112.46$8,847
Feb 199401,27812.50$0
Jan 19947182,79912.66$9,090
Dec 19935843,06812.33$7,201
Nov 19935383,47714.49$7,796
Oct 19937693,14615.85$12,189
Sep 19933532,77315.03$5,306
Aug 19931823,90015.66$2,850
Jul 19936875,17415.46$10,621
Jun 19933364,23716.79$5,641
May 19935633,43717.68$9,954
Apr 19936604,70218.05$11,913
Mar 19935864,42018.14$10,630
Feb 19935233,65317.90$9,362
Jan 19939154,23916.93$15,491

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.

Nov 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  227 bbl  × $ 28.80 =     $6,538
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.60 =         $0

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Month total                                   $6,538

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/28230 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.