CATALINA

Operated by FIRST AMERICAN OPERATING CO. (P-5 268946) in the STEPHENS COUNTY REGULAR field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 27705District 7BField 85948001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$94 k
Oct 1995 – Aug 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
83
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 1,255 leases and 4,008 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1916-12-31
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

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: CLASS 4 W/DAILY 150 = 6000 TO 8000'

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
OilDisposition4,601 bbl$83,217
Casinghead gasProduction9,131 Mcf$10,818
Total$94,035

4,743 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 13 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 32.7983, -99.0843. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.79831, -99.08428 · 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
4,306 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
25.6 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 4,306 ft.

Completions filed
Nov 1995
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 2021
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 25.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 25.6 years and 25.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4293553314,306 ftNov 1995Jun 2021Yes

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 (83)

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

83 months

Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 200211115023.653.51$3,152
Mar 200205022.003.10$155
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010318.072.41$7
Oct 200106519.782.53$164
Sep 200106724.262.25$151
Aug 2001170824.873.05$4,252
Jul 200104223.933.20$134
Jun 200118016324.563.82$5,044
May 200105025.524.31$215
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010824.545.38$43
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 200001527.263.68$55
Apr 20000824.513.12$25
Mar 200003328.422.86$94
Feb 200005627.622.73$153
Jan 200003525.272.48$87
Dec 1999894124.282.42$2,260
Nov 1999010723.192.43$260
Oct 199906920.982.80$193
Sep 199905421.752.62$141
Aug 199906419.262.88$184
Jul 199909217.892.37$218
Jun 199907115.942.36$168
May 199909815.792.32$227
Apr 199908415.102.21$185
Mar 1999010012.471.84$184
Feb 19990929.981.82$167
Jan 19996611710.381.90$907
Dec 19980549.201.77$96
Nov 199809610.892.19$210
Oct 1998010112.421.97$199
Sep 199808612.592.08$179
Aug 19988013311.301.91$1,158
Jul 199812513611.742.24$1,772
Jun 199842512811.242.24$5,063
May 1998011112.622.21$245
Apr 199808713.042.51$218
Mar 199814230812.802.31$2,529
Feb 19981134113.952.30$937
Jan 1998031914.702.15$687
Dec 1997038816.322.41$936
Nov 1997013618.193.09$420
Oct 199702719.253.15$85
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 199708817.862.55$225
Jul 199705917.582.25$133
Jun 199701417.242.26$32
May 19970818.972.31$18
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970420.492.21$9
Jan 19971552223.483.54$3,717
Dec 199607023.32$0
Nov 19960821.97$0
Oct 1996016923.31$0
Sep 199620116922.22$4,466
Aug 1996036420.26$0
Jul 199631459219.55$6,139
Jun 199616068918.73$2,997
May 199635678019.43$6,917
Apr 199617675321.51$3,786
Mar 199633862519.38$6,550
Feb 1996464016.98$7,879
Jan 19963554217.07$6,060
Dec 199551824117.19$8,904
Nov 199516524116.00$2,640
Oct 19950015.43$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.

Apr 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  111 bbl  × $ 23.65 =     $2,625
Casinghead gas       150 Mcf  × $  3.51 =       $527

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Month total                                   $3,152

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/27705 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.