SOWELL

Operated by KERN CO. (P-5 457510) in the BLACK (FLIPPEN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 27954District 7BField 08503332OilSaveExport
Value, all time
$581 k
Feb 1996 – Jul 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
186
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
oil

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 2 leases and 3 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1956-02-24
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
OilDisposition14,163 bbl$581,095
Total$581,095

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 32.2460, -99.9858. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.1 miles.

32.24601, -99.98578 · 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
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
4,155 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
7.8 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
2100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2100.0%
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 3,500 and 4,810 ft, median 4,155 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Dec 1999 – Mar 2005
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 2010
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.8 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.4 years and 9.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-4413165014,810 ftMar 2005Apr 2010Yes
42-4413380633,500 ftDec 1999Apr 2010Yes

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 (186)

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

186 months

Jul 2011094.144.52$0
Jun 2011092.904.64$0
May 2011098.134.40$0
Apr 20110105.964.33$0
Mar 2011096.364.06$0
Feb 2011085.644.18$0
Jan 2011086.504.59$0
Dec 2010085.734.35$0
Nov 2010080.843.80$0
Oct 2010078.103.51$0
Sep 2010072.633.98$0
Aug 2010073.684.42$0
Jul 2010072.554.74$0
Jun 2010070.364.91$0
May 201012171.124.24$8,606
Apr 2010081.694.12$0
Mar 2010078.394.39$0
Feb 2010073.585.44$0
Jan 2010074.365.96$0
Dec 2009071.445.48$0
Nov 20095374.593.75$3,953
Oct 2009072.544.11$0
Sep 2009065.543.06$0
Aug 2009067.423.22$0
Jul 2009061.133.46$0
Jun 20092166.163.90$1,389
May 2009054.743.93$0
Apr 200914146.773.59$6,595
Mar 2009042.144.06$0
Feb 200916832.814.63$5,512
Jan 2009035.865.37$0
Dec 20082637.105.98$965
Nov 200810755.496.86$5,937
Oct 20085775.246.92$4,289
Sep 2008144101.767.88$14,653
Aug 20080114.228.48$0
Jul 20080131.0811.39$0
Jun 200875131.3313.03$9,850
May 200879123.1711.57$9,730
Apr 200894110.3110.45$10,369
Mar 200844101.909.66$4,484
Feb 200810592.538.77$9,716
Jan 20086990.388.21$6,236
Dec 200727388.337.30$24,114
Nov 2007091.677.29$0
Oct 200716782.856.92$13,836
Sep 200710375.846.24$7,812
Aug 200716269.066.39$11,188
Jul 200710170.906.39$7,161
Jun 200715162.007.55$9,362
May 200717058.747.85$9,986
Apr 200729159.617.81$17,347
Mar 2007056.927.30$0
Feb 200717355.108.22$9,532
Jan 2007050.306.73$0
Dec 200627056.656.92$15,296
Nov 2006054.207.62$0
Oct 20066754.906.01$3,678
Sep 20069060.085.04$5,407
Aug 20068968.717.34$6,115
Jul 200610769.376.34$7,423
Jun 200612766.286.38$8,418
May 2006066.016.42$0
Apr 20068264.397.36$5,280
Mar 20068356.707.08$4,706
Feb 20065057.597.75$2,880
Jan 20065860.598.93$3,514
Dec 20056854.9413.42$3,736
Nov 20057954.6910.59$4,321
Oct 20056758.3413.80$3,909
Sep 20057761.4512.08$4,732
Aug 20057461.519.80$4,552
Jul 20059255.697.84$5,123
Jun 20057852.337.38$4,082
May 20056845.226.65$3,075
Apr 200510249.207.36$5,018
Mar 20058150.377.15$4,080
Feb 200511545.226.31$5,200
Jan 20058343.166.32$3,582
Dec 200412639.866.75$5,022
Nov 200418845.286.33$8,513
Oct 2004049.706.52$0
Sep 20049143.245.28$3,935
Aug 20048842.375.55$3,729
Jul 20049638.286.08$3,675
Jun 20047736.106.43$2,780
May 20048537.486.49$3,186
Apr 20043734.475.86$1,275
Mar 200411734.365.53$4,020
Feb 2004032.455.51$0
Jan 200414032.036.30$4,484
Dec 2003030.266.30$0
Nov 20039128.804.60$2,621
Oct 200310228.174.76$2,873
Sep 20038926.314.75$2,342
Aug 200314429.765.13$4,285
Jul 20035529.415.17$1,618
Jun 200310828.565.98$3,084
May 20038226.595.97$2,180
Apr 200312226.675.41$3,254
Mar 200317531.146.10$5,450
Feb 2003033.487.93$0
Jan 200313030.315.58$3,940
Dec 200218926.914.85$5,086
Nov 2002024.664.14$0
Oct 200212026.464.23$3,175
Sep 200213127.443.64$3,595
Aug 200211325.963.16$2,933
Jul 200214024.583.06$3,441
Jun 20028123.733.34$1,922
May 200215524.663.58$3,822
Apr 200215323.653.51$3,618
Mar 200215722.003.10$3,454
Feb 200216318.222.38$2,970
Jan 200232117.172.38$5,512
Dec 2001016.932.36$0
Nov 200115818.072.41$2,855
Oct 200116819.782.53$3,323
Sep 2001024.262.25$0
Aug 200127824.873.05$6,914
Jul 200113523.933.20$3,231
Jun 200116124.563.82$3,954
May 200116925.524.31$4,313
Apr 200116824.685.34$4,146
Mar 200116524.545.38$4,049
Feb 200116327.755.77$4,523
Jan 200133527.478.40$9,202
Dec 200032026.889.12$8,602
Nov 2000032.215.66$0
Oct 200031131.235.15$9,713
Sep 200016431.875.19$5,227
Aug 200032329.644.54$9,574
Jul 200015328.534.09$4,365
Jun 200034029.304.40$9,962
May 200013727.263.68$3,735
Apr 200029124.513.12$7,132
Mar 200032328.422.86$9,180
Feb 200033727.622.73$9,308
Jan 200036225.272.48$9,148
Dec 199936124.282.42$8,765
Nov 1999023.192.43$0
Oct 1999020.982.80$0
Sep 1999021.752.62$0
Aug 1999019.262.88$0
Jul 1999017.892.37$0
Jun 1999015.942.36$0
May 1999015.792.32$0
Apr 1999015.102.21$0
Mar 1999012.471.84$0
Feb 199909.981.82$0
Jan 1999010.381.90$0
Dec 199809.201.77$0
Nov 1998010.892.19$0
Oct 1998012.421.97$0
Sep 1998412.592.08$50
Aug 1998611.301.91$68
Jul 1998011.742.24$0
Jun 1998011.242.24$0
May 1998012.622.21$0
Apr 1998013.042.51$0
Mar 1998012.802.31$0
Feb 1998013.952.30$0
Jan 1998014.702.15$0
Dec 1997016.322.41$0
Nov 1997018.193.09$0
Oct 1997019.253.15$0
Sep 1997017.742.95$0
Aug 1997017.862.55$0
Jul 1997017.582.25$0
Jun 1997017.242.26$0
May 1997018.972.31$0
Apr 1997017.882.08$0
Mar 19975618.951.94$1,061
Feb 1997020.492.21$0
Jan 1997023.483.54$0
Dec 1996023.32$0
Nov 1996021.97$0
Oct 1996023.31$0
Sep 1996722.22$156
Aug 1996020.26$0
Jul 1996019.55$0
Jun 1996018.73$0
May 1996019.43$0
Apr 1996021.51$0
Mar 1996019.38$0
Feb 1996016.98$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 2010 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  121 bbl  × $ 71.12 =     $8,606

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Month total                                   $8,606

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/27954 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.