RANCH "A"

Operated by COURSON OIL & GAS, INC. (P-5 182785) in the PSHIGODA (DOUGLAS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 6887District 10Field 73334166OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$280 k
Feb 1993 – Aug 1994
Value, last 12 filed months
$188 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
19
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 15 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1957-06-29
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
OilDisposition19,665 bbl$280,185
Casinghead gasProduction2,532 Mcf$0
Total$280,185

2,532 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 14 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 (2)

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 36.2337, -100.7710. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

36.23367, -100.77097 · 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%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
50.0%
1 of 2 wells
Median depth
7,600 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
27.7 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
150.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
150.0%
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

Between 5,800 and 9,400 ft, median 7,600 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Feb 1993 – Dec 1993
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Oct 2020
1 of 2 wells; 1 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 27.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 27.7 years and 27.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-3573204525745,800 ftDec 1993Yes
42-3573201815749,400 ftFeb 1993Oct 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 (19)

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

19 months

Aug 19940016.13$0
Jul 19940017.56$0
Jun 19940017.09$0
May 1994576015.88$9,147
Apr 19942,73359714.14$38,645
Mar 19942,47285812.46$30,801
Feb 19942,40047112.50$30,000
Jan 19943,1456212.66$39,816
Dec 19932,3424412.33$28,877
Nov 19931874414.49$2,710
Oct 19931824415.85$2,885
Sep 19933606015.03$5,411
Aug 19931815415.66$2,834
Jul 19935466015.46$8,441
Jun 19939056016.79$15,195
May 19939066217.68$16,018
Apr 19931,2896018.05$23,266
Mar 19931,4415618.14$26,140
Feb 19930017.90$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.

May 1994 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  576 bbl  × $ 15.88 =     $9,147
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $9,147

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/6887 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.