COPELAND RANCH

Operated by BARA CORPORATION (P-5 48565) in the STRAWN, NW. (CONGLOMERATE) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 28400District 7BField 86577100OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$88 k
Jan 1998 – Dec 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$9 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
36
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 25 leases and 39 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1993-09-11
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 1998-02-10.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 03/01/2009.

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
OilDisposition758 bbl$12,587
Casinghead gasProduction33,244 Mcf$75,517
Total$88,104

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 32.5838, -98.5678. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

32.58378, -98.56776 · 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
3,664 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
6.2 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 3,652 and 3,675 ft, median 3,664 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Jan 1998
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 1998 – Aug 2009
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 6.2 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3.4 years and 8.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-3633449923,652 ftJan 1998Sep 1998Yes
42-3633452833,675 ftJan 1998Aug 2009Yes

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 (36)

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

36 months

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 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 200017139628.422.86$5,992
Feb 2000080527.622.73$2,195
Jan 2000050325.272.48$1,248
Dec 19991160624.282.42$1,736
Nov 1999081523.192.43$1,984
Oct 1999050020.982.80$1,402
Sep 1999051221.752.62$1,341
Aug 199901,62219.262.88$4,664
Jul 1999251,19117.892.37$3,273
Jun 199901,13915.942.36$2,690
May 199901,93215.792.32$4,484
Apr 199901,74115.102.21$3,844
Mar 1999097912.471.84$1,800
Feb 199904679.981.82$849
Jan 199917453510.381.90$2,823
Dec 199803989.201.77$706
Nov 19981069410.892.19$1,626
Oct 199802,06212.421.97$4,061
Sep 199802,04812.592.08$4,265
Aug 199802,19811.301.91$4,192
Jul 199801,65011.742.24$3,692
Jun 1998073711.242.24$1,649
May 1998051812.622.21$1,143
Apr 199801,45013.042.51$3,633
Mar 1998191,89212.802.31$4,613
Feb 19983485,07513.952.30$16,523
Jan 1998077914.702.15$1,679

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 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  171 bbl  × $ 28.42 =     $4,860
Casinghead gas       396 Mcf  × $  2.86 =     $1,132

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Month total                                   $5,992

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/28400 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.