MCCRAY, J.B. "A"

Operated by B-J OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 40708) in the PANHANDLE CARSON COUNTY FIELD field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 5561District 10Field 68845001NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$151 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 2006
Value, last 12 filed months
$9 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
157
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 580 leases and 3,796 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1921-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
467 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 1989-05-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: SPECIAL TESTING REQUIREMENTS FOR WELLS WITH GOR GREATER THAN 5000.

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
OilDisposition1,204 bbl$26,606
Casinghead gasProduction54,550 Mcf$124,827
Total$151,433

21,692 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 35.4414, -101.3221. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

35.44138, -101.32210 · 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
3,380 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
36.9 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 3,380 ft.

Completions filed
Oct 1983
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2020
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 36.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 36.9 years and 36.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-0653149213,380 ftOct 1983Sep 2020Yes

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 (157)

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

157 months

Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 2005024852.337.38$1,831
May 2005024645.226.65$1,636
Apr 2005028649.207.36$2,105
Mar 2005028050.377.15$2,003
Feb 2005025145.226.31$1,584
Jan 2005028643.166.32$1,808
Dec 2004029839.866.75$2,012
Nov 2004024845.286.33$1,570
Oct 2004025049.706.52$1,629
Sep 2004024843.245.28$1,310
Aug 2004027342.375.55$1,515
Jul 2004026938.286.08$1,637
Jun 2004025636.106.43$1,647
May 2004026737.486.49$1,734
Apr 2004023834.475.86$1,394
Mar 2004023434.365.53$1,294
Feb 2004022332.455.51$1,229
Jan 200417727832.036.30$7,421
Dec 2003030030.266.30$1,890
Nov 2003019528.804.60$896
Oct 2003029028.174.76$1,380
Sep 2003026826.314.75$1,273
Aug 2003025829.765.13$1,323
Jul 2003028329.415.17$1,463
Jun 2003027028.565.98$1,615
May 2003026926.595.97$1,607
Apr 2003023926.675.41$1,292
Mar 2003025731.146.10$1,567
Feb 2003025133.487.93$1,989
Jan 2003025730.315.58$1,435
Dec 2002029326.914.85$1,422
Nov 2002029424.664.14$1,216
Oct 2002031626.464.23$1,336
Sep 2002030127.443.64$1,094
Aug 2002029025.963.16$918
Jul 2002030824.583.06$943
Jun 2002031423.733.34$1,048
May 2002031724.663.58$1,136
Apr 2002023923.653.51$839
Mar 200218329422.003.10$4,938
Feb 2002027718.222.38$658
Jan 2002030617.172.38$727
Dec 2001030216.932.36$714
Nov 2001032118.072.41$772
Oct 2001029819.782.53$754
Sep 2001029824.262.25$671
Aug 2001032624.873.05$995
Jul 2001025123.933.20$802
Jun 2001032424.563.82$1,239
May 2001032725.524.31$1,408
Apr 2001032824.685.34$1,750
Mar 2001032524.545.38$1,747
Feb 2001028727.755.77$1,655
Jan 2001032927.478.40$2,763
Dec 2000027026.889.12$2,463
Nov 2000032432.215.66$1,833
Oct 2000035131.235.15$1,806
Sep 2000037731.875.19$1,955
Aug 2000031029.644.54$1,408
Jul 2000037028.534.09$1,513
Jun 2000036329.304.40$1,596
May 2000029727.263.68$1,093
Apr 200016838924.513.12$5,330
Mar 2000020728.422.86$592
Feb 2000028827.622.73$785
Jan 2000036625.272.48$908
Dec 1999033224.282.42$805
Nov 1999026023.192.43$633
Oct 1999041020.982.80$1,150
Sep 1999016221.752.62$424
Aug 1999038719.262.88$1,113
Jul 1999038717.892.37$918
Jun 1999036215.942.36$855
May 1999039215.792.32$910
Apr 1999039915.102.21$881
Mar 1999036912.471.84$678
Feb 199903149.981.82$571
Jan 1999032510.381.90$617
Dec 199803939.201.77$697
Nov 1998037210.892.19$813
Oct 1998041712.421.97$821
Sep 1998025912.592.08$539
Aug 1998042211.301.91$805
Jul 1998040211.742.24$899
Jun 1998035711.242.24$799
May 1998039312.622.21$867
Apr 1998041313.042.51$1,035
Mar 1998043312.802.31$1,000
Feb 1998038413.952.30$883
Jan 1998042514.702.15$916
Dec 1997039416.322.41$950
Nov 199712942218.193.09$3,650
Oct 1997043019.253.15$1,354
Sep 1997039617.742.95$1,170
Aug 1997045217.862.55$1,155
Jul 1997044617.582.25$1,002
Jun 1997037517.242.26$846
May 1997043518.972.31$1,004
Apr 1997044217.882.08$921
Mar 1997043318.951.94$840
Feb 1997040420.492.21$891
Jan 1997046723.483.54$1,653
Dec 1996043423.32$0
Nov 1996044221.97$0
Oct 199618247323.31$4,242
Sep 1996047422.22$0
Aug 1996050020.26$0
Jul 1996034319.55$0
Jun 1996043018.73$0
May 1996039919.43$0
Apr 1996047321.51$0
Mar 1996044619.38$0
Feb 1996045416.98$0
Jan 1996042417.07$0
Dec 1995051117.19$0
Nov 1995045516.00$0
Oct 1995041015.43$0
Sep 1995048916.18$0
Aug 1995035715.92$0
Jul 1995040615.24$0
Jun 1995031916.41$0
May 1995046917.56$0
Apr 1995044517.73$0
Mar 1995045416.44$0
Feb 1995042216.58$0
Jan 1995049215.92$0
Dec 1994041815.03$0
Nov 1994042615.90$0
Oct 1994053215.58$0
Sep 1994035615.29$0
Aug 1994043616.13$0
Jul 1994046317.56$0
Jun 1994048117.09$0
May 199417152215.88$2,715
Apr 1994041614.14$0
Mar 1994046112.46$0
Feb 1994041512.50$0
Jan 1994030412.66$0
Dec 1993040812.33$0
Nov 1993053514.49$0
Oct 1993058415.85$0
Sep 1993057415.03$0
Aug 1993045415.66$0
Jul 1993057015.46$0
Jun 1993054916.79$0
May 1993025017.68$0
Apr 1993046618.05$0
Mar 199316950418.14$3,066
Feb 1993046217.90$0
Jan 19932558516.93$423

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.

Jun 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    0 bbl  × $ 52.33 =         $0
Casinghead gas       248 Mcf  × $  7.38 =     $1,831

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Month total                                   $1,831

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/O/5561 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.