COWDEN "41"

Name: COWDEN "41" lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by PRIME OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 677770) in the SPRABERRY (TREND AREA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 11887District 7CField 85279200NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$288 k

Jan 1993 – Dec 2001

Value, last 12 filed months

$3 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

108

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The SPRABERRY (TREND AREA) field

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 7,461 leases and 22,481 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1904-12-31

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

0 ft

minimum

From a lease line

330 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2016-03-08.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “AREA) 85279200.”

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	2	none	—	—

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	9,634 bbl	$164,875
Casinghead gas	Production	101,801 Mcf	$122,823
Total			$287,698

51,968 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 31.5441, -101.9771. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

31.54407, -101.97705 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

9,210 ft

2 wells filed one

Completion to plug

9.7 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 9,209 and 9,210 ft, median 9,210 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Jan 1986

2 of 2 wells

Plug dates filed

Aug 1989 – Sep 2001

2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 9.7 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.6 years and 12.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells


42-46132436	2	9,210 ft	Jan 1986	Sep 2001	Yes
42-46132440	1	9,209 ft	Jan 1986	Aug 1989	Yes

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 (108)

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

108 months


Dec 2001	0	0	16.93	2.36	$0
Nov 2001	0	0	18.07	2.41	$0
Oct 2001	0	0	19.78	2.53	$0
Sep 2001	26	0	24.26	2.25	$631
Aug 2001	0	0	24.87	3.05	$0
Jul 2001	0	0	23.93	3.20	$0
Jun 2001	0	0	24.56	3.82	$0
May 2001	0	292	25.52	4.31	$1,258
Apr 2001	0	159	24.68	5.34	$848
Mar 2001	1	74	24.54	5.38	$422
Feb 2001	0	10	27.75	5.77	$58
Jan 2001	0	0	27.47	8.40	$0
Dec 2000	0	0	26.88	9.12	$0
Nov 2000	0	0	32.21	5.66	$0
Oct 2000	0	0	31.23	5.15	$0
Sep 2000	0	0	31.87	5.19	$0
Aug 2000	85	0	29.64	4.54	$2,519
Jul 2000	0	7	28.53	4.09	$29
Jun 2000	0	349	29.30	4.40	$1,535
May 2000	84	1,254	27.26	3.68	$6,904
Apr 2000	61	1,227	24.51	3.12	$5,318
Mar 2000	93	1,038	28.42	2.86	$5,611
Feb 2000	91	1,135	27.62	2.73	$5,608
Jan 2000	91	1,189	25.27	2.48	$5,249
Dec 1999	88	1,183	24.28	2.42	$5,004
Nov 1999	103	1,179	23.19	2.43	$5,258
Oct 1999	54	1,242	20.98	2.80	$4,615
Sep 1999	110	1,066	21.75	2.62	$5,184
Aug 1999	79	1,233	19.26	2.88	$5,067
Jul 1999	101	1,244	17.89	2.37	$4,758
Jun 1999	53	1,231	15.94	2.36	$3,753
May 1999	121	1,027	15.79	2.32	$4,294
Apr 1999	83	1,215	15.10	2.21	$3,936
Mar 1999	128	1,250	12.47	1.84	$3,894
Feb 1999	58	1,080	9.98	1.82	$2,542
Jan 1999	83	1,065	10.38	1.90	$2,885
Dec 1998	57	1,000	9.20	1.77	$2,298
Nov 1998	81	1,199	10.89	2.19	$3,503
Oct 1998	170	1,263	12.42	1.97	$4,599
Sep 1998	0	1,262	12.59	2.08	$2,628
Aug 1998	115	1,294	11.30	1.91	$3,768
Jul 1998	171	1,348	11.74	2.24	$5,023
Jun 1998	0	1,296	11.24	2.24	$2,900
May 1998	91	1,354	12.62	2.21	$4,136
Apr 1998	99	1,278	13.04	2.51	$4,493
Mar 1998	84	1,305	12.80	2.31	$4,089
Feb 1998	129	1,130	13.95	2.30	$4,398
Jan 1998	99	1,152	14.70	2.15	$3,938
Dec 1997	108	1,083	16.32	2.41	$4,374
Nov 1997	187	1,197	18.19	3.09	$7,098
Oct 1997	0	1,261	19.25	3.15	$3,972
Sep 1997	139	1,239	17.74	2.95	$6,127
Aug 1997	54	1,439	17.86	2.55	$4,641
Jul 1997	124	1,268	17.58	2.25	$5,029
Jun 1997	194	1,184	17.24	2.26	$6,017
May 1997	0	1,217	18.97	2.31	$2,809
Apr 1997	91	1,152	17.88	2.08	$4,026
Mar 1997	187	1,215	18.95	1.94	$5,900
Feb 1997	0	970	20.49	2.21	$2,140
Jan 1997	149	978	23.48	3.54	$6,960
Dec 1996	183	1,183	23.32	—	$4,268
Nov 1996	0	974	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	115	910	23.31	—	$2,681
Sep 1996	180	1,129	22.22	—	$4,000
Aug 1996	0	1,267	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	81	1,378	19.55	—	$1,584
Jun 1996	103	1,215	18.73	—	$1,929
May 1996	91	1,241	19.43	—	$1,768
Apr 1996	106	1,157	21.51	—	$2,280
Mar 1996	114	1,165	19.38	—	$2,209
Feb 1996	123	1,088	16.98	—	$2,089
Jan 1996	94	1,134	17.07	—	$1,605
Dec 1995	134	1,117	17.19	—	$2,303
Nov 1995	110	1,089	16.00	—	$1,760
Oct 1995	127	1,189	15.43	—	$1,960
Sep 1995	45	1,018	16.18	—	$728
Aug 1995	108	1,184	15.92	—	$1,719
Jul 1995	104	1,198	15.24	—	$1,585
Jun 1995	103	1,169	16.41	—	$1,690
May 1995	160	1,279	17.56	—	$2,810
Apr 1995	69	1,065	17.73	—	$1,223
Mar 1995	141	1,233	16.44	—	$2,318
Feb 1995	171	1,120	16.58	—	$2,835
Jan 1995	63	1,228	15.92	—	$1,003
Dec 1994	129	1,243	15.03	—	$1,939
Nov 1994	136	1,212	15.90	—	$2,162
Oct 1994	152	1,241	15.58	—	$2,368
Sep 1994	150	1,202	15.29	—	$2,294
Aug 1994	127	1,152	16.13	—	$2,049
Jul 1994	82	1,092	17.56	—	$1,440
Jun 1994	108	1,178	17.09	—	$1,846
May 1994	133	1,203	15.88	—	$2,112
Apr 1994	123	1,134	14.14	—	$1,739
Mar 1994	129	1,155	12.46	—	$1,607
Feb 1994	178	1,049	12.50	—	$2,225
Jan 1994	192	1,145	12.66	—	$2,431
Dec 1993	188	1,154	12.33	—	$2,318
Nov 1993	0	1,107	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	142	1,155	15.85	—	$2,251
Sep 1993	148	1,074	15.03	—	$2,224
Aug 1993	147	1,115	15.66	—	$2,302
Jul 1993	108	782	15.46	—	$1,670
Jun 1993	125	559	16.79	—	$2,099
May 1993	153	683	17.68	—	$2,705
Apr 1993	92	554	18.05	—	$1,661
Mar 1993	168	547	18.14	—	$3,048
Feb 1993	133	636	17.90	—	$2,381
Jan 1993	144	866	16.93	—	$2,438

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.

Sep 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   26 bbl  × $ 24.26 =       $631
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.25 =         $0

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Month total                                     $631

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/11887 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.