BROOKS, BRUNO

Operated by SWEETWATER DRILLING CO., INC. (P-5 833285) in the MORAN, SE (DUFFER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 17159District 7BField 62821120NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$35 k
Jan 1993 – Jul 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$8 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
67
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 7 leases and 9 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1975-02-25
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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
OilDisposition1,315 bbl$21,549
Casinghead gasProduction34,170 Mcf$13,231
Total$34,780

28,854 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 46 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 32.5309, -99.1039. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.53087, -99.10389 · 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
3,944 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
17.3 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 3,944 ft.

Completions filed
Jan 1981
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 1998
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 17.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 17.3 years and 17.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4173339613,944 ftJan 1981May 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 (67)

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

67 months

Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 199852012.622.21$656
Apr 19981256113.042.51$1,783
Mar 1998025112.802.31$580
Feb 1998025313.952.30$582
Jan 1998029114.702.15$627
Dec 1997028616.322.41$690
Nov 1997032118.193.09$991
Oct 1997029519.253.15$929
Sep 1997021917.742.95$647
Aug 1997027617.862.55$705
Jul 1997044817.582.25$1,007
Jun 1997023417.242.26$528
May 1997043918.972.31$1,013
Apr 1997044617.882.08$929
Mar 1997050718.951.94$983
Feb 1997047520.492.21$1,048
Jan 1997051423.483.54$1,819
Dec 1996058523.32$0
Nov 1996065321.97$0
Oct 199619460123.31$4,522
Sep 1996062822.22$0
Aug 1996050120.26$0
Jul 1996053519.55$0
Jun 1996054918.73$0
May 1996077119.43$0
Apr 1996093721.51$0
Mar 19961971,10319.38$3,818
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19961891,60217.07$3,226
Dec 1995020517.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 199504415.43$0
Sep 1995016916.18$0
Aug 1995037415.92$0
Jul 1995049515.24$0
Jun 1995046416.41$0
May 1995049517.56$0
Apr 1995050217.73$0
Mar 1995052416.44$0
Feb 1995032916.58$0
Jan 1995031215.92$0
Dec 1994058715.03$0
Nov 1994058615.90$0
Oct 1994064415.58$0
Sep 1994067515.29$0
Aug 199419272016.13$3,097
Jul 1994074717.56$0
Jun 1994073017.09$0
May 1994061015.88$0
Apr 1994064114.14$0
Mar 199416872312.46$2,093
Feb 1994082512.50$0
Jan 19941981,13312.66$2,507
Dec 199301,29912.33$0
Nov 1993064414.49$0
Oct 1993057515.85$0
Sep 1993056015.03$0
Aug 1993055415.66$0
Jul 1993061515.46$0
Jun 1993058016.79$0
May 1993060917.68$0
Apr 1993057218.05$0
Mar 1993063118.14$0
Feb 1993057617.90$0
Jan 1993064016.93$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.

May 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   52 bbl  × $ 12.62 =       $656
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.21 =         $0

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Month total                                     $656

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. 7B/O/17159 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.