CANNON, JOE

Operated by BRIDWELL OIL CO. (P-5 92480) in the RULE WEST (STRAWN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 25771District 7BField 78887450OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.1 M
Jan 1993 – Jul 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$70 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 11 leases and 34 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1990-02-27
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
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 1990-07-26.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: FLD. RULES PER DKT#7B-95008 EFF. 7/26/90.

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
OilDisposition61,096 bbl$1,052,864
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$1,052,864

21 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 (4)

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 33.1727, -99.9847. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

33.17291, -99.98516 · 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%
4 of 4 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
4 of 4 wells
Median depth
5,030 ft
4 wells filed one
Completion to plug
21.4 years
median over 4 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
4100.0%
A plug date is filed
4100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
4100.0%
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 4,990 and 5,901 ft, median 5,030 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Oct 1990 – Apr 1998
4 of 4 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2003 – May 2014
4 of 4 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 21.4 years across the 4 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16.9 years and 22.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

4 wells

42-2073204925,064 ftApr 1998Nov 2003Yes
42-2073217944,996 ftMar 1992Nov 2012Yes
42-2073208134,990 ftOct 1990Nov 2012Yes
42-2073190015,901 ftOct 1990May 2014Yes

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 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 1998586012.802.31$7,501
Feb 1998538013.952.30$7,505
Jan 1998357014.702.15$5,248
Dec 1997525016.322.41$8,568
Nov 1997523018.193.09$9,513
Oct 1997530019.253.15$10,203
Sep 1997524017.742.95$9,296
Aug 1997704017.862.55$12,573
Jul 1997708017.582.25$12,447
Jun 1997526017.242.26$9,068
May 1997706018.972.31$13,393
Apr 1997875017.882.08$15,645
Mar 1997710018.951.94$13,455
Feb 1997681020.492.21$13,954
Jan 19971,022023.483.54$23,997
Dec 1996691023.32$16,114
Nov 1996893021.97$19,619
Oct 19961,240023.31$28,904
Sep 1996898022.22$19,954
Aug 19961,042020.26$21,111
Jul 1996860019.55$16,813
Jun 19961,090018.73$20,416
May 19961,268019.43$24,637
Apr 19961,435021.51$30,867
Mar 19961,636019.38$31,706
Feb 19961,420016.98$24,112
Jan 19961,827017.07$31,187
Dec 19951,982017.19$34,071
Nov 19951,976016.00$31,616
Oct 19952,176015.43$33,576
Sep 19951,819016.18$29,431
Aug 1995713015.92$11,351
Jul 1995537015.24$8,184
Jun 1995716016.41$11,750
May 1995902017.56$15,839
Apr 1995703017.73$12,464
Mar 1995728016.44$11,968
Feb 1995722016.58$11,971
Jan 1995896015.92$14,264
Dec 1994717015.03$10,777
Nov 1994897015.90$14,262
Oct 1994898015.58$13,991
Sep 1994892115.29$13,639
Aug 1994713116.13$11,501
Jul 1994884117.56$15,523
Jun 1994715117.09$12,219
May 1994714115.88$11,338
Apr 1994715114.14$10,110
Mar 1994896112.46$11,164
Feb 1994894112.50$11,175
Jan 1994897112.66$11,356
Dec 19931,054112.33$12,996
Nov 1993897114.49$12,998
Oct 19931,077115.85$17,070
Sep 19931,067115.03$16,037
Aug 19931,038115.66$16,255
Jul 19931,067115.46$16,496
Jun 19931,074116.79$18,032
May 19931,250117.68$22,100
Apr 19931,070118.05$19,314
Mar 19931,260118.14$22,856
Feb 19931,271117.90$22,751
Jan 19931,454116.93$24,616

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.

Mar 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  586 bbl  × $ 12.80 =     $7,501
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.31 =         $0

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Month total                                   $7,501

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/25771 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.