BUSENLEHNER

Operated by LECLAIR OPERATING CO., INC. (P-5 493400) in the JIM BURT, E. (GARDNER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 11551District 7CField 46392250OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$171 k
Jan 1993 – Apr 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$19 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
88
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 4 leases and 6 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1964-08-03
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

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
OilDisposition7,218 bbl$121,221
Casinghead gasProduction68,232 Mcf$49,563
Total$170,784

47,350 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 (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 31.8937, -99.8911. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

31.89364, -99.89111 · 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
4,038 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
13.8 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 4,027 and 4,049 ft, median 4,038 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Sep 1985 – Nov 1986
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 2000
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.8 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 13.5 years and 14.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-3993369134,049 ftNov 1986Jan 2000Yes
42-3993358424,027 ftSep 1985Jan 2000Yes

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 (88)

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

88 months

Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 199916824123.192.43$4,483
Oct 1999057120.982.80$1,601
Sep 199917155721.752.62$5,178
Aug 1999044019.262.88$1,265
Jul 1999079317.892.37$1,881
Jun 199916744315.942.36$3,708
May 1999034815.792.32$808
Apr 1999015115.102.21$333
Mar 1999027812.471.84$511
Feb 199903259.981.82$591
Jan 199917535710.381.90$2,495
Dec 199802389.201.77$422
Nov 1998027110.892.19$592
Oct 199817434912.421.97$2,848
Sep 1998051912.592.08$1,081
Aug 1998047911.301.91$914
Jul 199816863411.742.24$3,391
Jun 1998063711.242.24$1,425
May 199801,05112.622.21$2,319
Apr 199817785013.042.51$4,438
Mar 1998060912.802.31$1,406
Feb 1998070413.952.30$1,619
Jan 199816080714.702.15$4,091
Dec 1997052816.322.41$1,273
Nov 1997037318.193.09$1,152
Oct 199716670019.253.15$5,400
Sep 1997072117.742.95$2,130
Aug 1997094217.862.55$2,407
Jul 199716972617.582.25$4,602
Jun 1997084417.242.26$1,905
May 199701,00418.972.31$2,318
Apr 199717895517.882.08$5,172
Mar 1997092718.951.94$1,798
Feb 199716682620.492.21$5,223
Jan 1997268423.483.54$2,468
Dec 199617715023.32$4,128
Nov 1996085121.97$0
Oct 1996026723.31$0
Sep 199615697322.22$3,466
Aug 1996078120.26$0
Jul 19961641,03919.55$3,206
Jun 1996095018.73$0
May 19961681,05419.43$3,264
Apr 199617299621.51$3,700
Mar 1996091319.38$0
Feb 199616097916.98$2,717
Jan 199617993617.07$3,056
Dec 1995070317.19$0
Nov 1995092916.00$0
Oct 19951811,08615.43$2,793
Sep 19951791,05816.18$2,896
Aug 199501,12615.92$0
Jul 19951731,24615.24$2,637
Jun 19951791,11916.41$2,937
May 199501,12517.56$0
Apr 19951741,04717.73$3,085
Mar 199517876516.44$2,926
Feb 1995063816.58$0
Jan 199516686815.92$2,643
Dec 199401,03715.03$0
Nov 199417699615.90$2,798
Oct 19941761,24015.58$2,742
Sep 199401,13415.29$0
Aug 19941731,15116.13$2,790
Jul 19941671,17517.56$2,933
Jun 19941701,22417.09$2,905
May 1994391415.88$48
Apr 199418078014.14$2,545
Mar 1994096812.46$0
Feb 199417984312.50$2,238
Jan 199401,00412.66$0
Dec 199317999112.33$2,207
Nov 19931711,14214.49$2,478
Oct 199301,09715.85$0
Sep 19931681,20615.03$2,525
Aug 19931681,25415.66$2,631
Jul 199301,23915.46$0
Jun 19931761,31116.79$2,955
May 19931781,17417.68$3,147
Apr 19931621,18718.05$2,924
Mar 19931721,08418.14$3,120
Feb 199317362917.90$3,097
Jan 1993097116.93$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.

Nov 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  168 bbl  × $ 23.19 =     $3,896
Casinghead gas       241 Mcf  × $  2.43 =       $587

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Month total                                   $4,483

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. 7C/O/11551 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.