KOCH-LITTLE

Operated by BP AMERICA PRODUCTION COMPANY (P-5 40798) in the BRADFORD (CLEVELAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 53894District 10Field 11226200NGPA filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$51 k
Jan 1993 – Sep 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
129
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 141 leases and 152 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1959-09-16
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
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. The field rule took effect on 2002-10-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: 53869 270 EFF 4/5/11.

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
CondensateDisposition985 bbl$15,812
GasProduction46,816 Mcf$34,748
Total$50,560

32,188 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 (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 36.3014, -100.2554. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

36.30144, -100.25538 · 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
7,800 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
30.8 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 7,800 ft.

Completions filed
Nov 1972
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2003
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 30.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 30.8 years and 30.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2953009117,800 ftNov 1972Sep 2003Yes

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 (129)

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

129 months

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 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 199927017.892.37$483
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 199908115.102.21$179
Mar 1999034412.471.84$632
Feb 19991373569.981.82$2,014
Jan 19991337810.381.90$853
Dec 199803909.201.77$692
Nov 1998038210.892.19$835
Oct 1998040912.421.97$805
Sep 1998017612.592.08$367
Aug 1998017811.301.91$340
Jul 1998019411.742.24$434
Jun 1998020911.242.24$468
May 1998043512.622.21$960
Apr 1998042513.042.51$1,065
Mar 1998043612.802.31$1,007
Feb 1998044413.952.30$1,021
Jan 1998039614.702.15$853
Dec 1997071616.322.41$1,726
Nov 1997076118.193.09$2,350
Oct 1997078719.253.15$2,479
Sep 199716855317.742.95$4,614
Aug 1997063117.862.55$1,612
Jul 1997066617.582.25$1,496
Jun 199701,13417.242.26$2,560
May 199715675318.972.31$4,698
Apr 1997095717.882.08$1,993
Mar 1997070018.951.94$1,357
Feb 199701,02620.492.21$2,263
Jan 1997071123.483.54$2,517
Dec 1996067423.32$0
Nov 1996057921.97$0
Oct 1996041923.31$0
Sep 1996013922.22$0
Aug 1996015620.26$0
Jul 1996015119.55$0
Jun 1996035818.73$0
May 1996069019.43$0
Apr 1996039121.51$0
Mar 1996034719.38$0
Feb 1996039716.98$0
Jan 199602,01917.07$0
Dec 1995054717.19$0
Nov 1995011216.00$0
Oct 199515858115.43$2,438
Sep 1995033916.18$0
Aug 1995059515.92$0
Jul 1995046815.24$0
Jun 1995042216.41$0
May 1995059017.56$0
Apr 1995049817.73$0
Mar 1995068616.44$0
Feb 1995036916.58$0
Jan 1995080215.92$0
Dec 1994062915.03$0
Nov 1994055915.90$0
Oct 1994056915.58$0
Sep 1994039715.29$0
Aug 1994050016.13$0
Jul 1994067517.56$0
Jun 1994078417.09$0
May 1994083715.88$0
Apr 1994091614.14$0
Mar 199401,01812.46$0
Feb 1994089212.50$0
Jan 199401,66812.66$0
Dec 199301,35312.33$0
Nov 199301,63714.49$0
Oct 199317296315.85$2,726
Sep 1993074815.03$0
Aug 199301,04015.66$0
Jul 199301,22815.46$0
Jun 199301,06316.79$0
May 199315464017.68$2,723
Apr 1993057918.05$0
Mar 1993064318.14$0
Feb 19930017.90$0
Jan 1993052116.93$0

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 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            27 bbl  × $ 17.89 =       $483
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  2.37 =         $0

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Month total                                     $483

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. 10/G/53894 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.