ORSBORN, E. J.

Operated by M-TEX RESOURCES, INC. (P-5 518935) in the BLAIR (TANNEHILL) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 4523District 7BField 08685750OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$119 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2006
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
164
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 3 leases and 4 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1951-07-28
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
OilDisposition6,692 bbl$118,628
Casinghead gasProduction19 Mcf$0
Total$118,628

19 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 19 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 32.4284, -100.0727. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.42845, -100.07266 · 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
2,877 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

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 2,877 ft.

Plug dates filed
May 2006
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-4410169522,877 ftMay 2006Yes

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 (164)

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

164 months

Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 2001182024.873.05$4,526
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
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 200098027.263.68$2,671
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 2000133028.422.86$3,780
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 2000126025.272.48$3,184
Dec 1999129024.282.42$3,132
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 1999122020.982.80$2,560
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 1999124019.262.88$2,388
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 1999225015.792.32$3,553
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 1999132012.471.84$1,646
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 199812609.201.77$1,159
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 1998128012.421.97$1,590
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 1998130011.301.91$1,469
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 1998128011.242.24$1,439
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 1998148013.042.51$1,930
Mar 1998128012.802.31$1,638
Feb 1998131013.952.30$1,827
Jan 1998129014.702.15$1,896
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 1997130018.193.09$2,365
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 1997129017.742.95$2,288
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 1997190017.582.25$3,340
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 1997137018.972.31$2,599
Apr 1997133017.882.08$2,378
Mar 1997132018.951.94$2,501
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 1997130023.483.54$3,052
Dec 1996130023.32$3,032
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 1996127023.31$2,960
Sep 1996122022.22$2,711
Aug 1996126020.26$2,553
Jul 1996123019.55$2,405
Jun 1996125018.73$2,341
May 1996126019.43$2,448
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 1996247019.38$4,787
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 1995131016.00$2,096
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 1995131017.56$2,300
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 1995130016.44$2,137
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 1995131015.92$2,086
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 1994132015.29$2,018
Aug 19940016.13$0
Jul 1994121117.56$2,125
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 1994127115.88$2,017
Apr 1994192114.14$2,715
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 1994132112.66$1,671
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 1993129114.49$1,869
Oct 1993128115.85$2,029
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 1993127115.66$1,989
Jul 1993131115.46$2,025
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 1993132117.68$2,334
Apr 1993129118.05$2,328
Mar 1993129118.14$2,340
Feb 1993134117.90$2,399
Jan 19930116.93$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.

Aug 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  182 bbl  × $ 24.87 =     $4,526
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.05 =         $0

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Month total                                   $4,526

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/4523 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.