MCGILL, A. B. "B"

Operated by SCYTHIAN, LTD. (P-5 760599) in the SPRABERRY (TREND AREA CL. FK.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 12370District 7CField 85279400OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$385 k
Jan 1993 – May 2006
Value, last 12 filed months
$19 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
161
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 161 leases and 210 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1955-05-11
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: SEE DIST. 8 FOR MORE INFORMATION

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
OilDisposition18,789 bbl$383,652
Casinghead gasProduction23,398 Mcf$1,732
Total$385,385

22,677 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 31.4304, -102.0336. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.6 miles.

31.43039, -102.03364 · 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
9,100 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
17.0 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 9,100 and 9,100 ft, median 9,100 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Mar 1988 – Mar 1989
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2005 – Feb 2006
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 17.0 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16.9 years and 17.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-4613208719,100 ftMar 1989Feb 2006Yes
42-4613208829,100 ftMar 1988Mar 2005Yes

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 (161)

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

161 months

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 2005152061.4512.08$9,340
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20051055.697.84$56
Jun 2005175052.337.38$9,158
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 2005183050.377.15$9,218
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 2004182039.866.75$7,255
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 2004182049.706.52$9,045
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 2004181038.286.08$6,929
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 2004178034.475.86$6,136
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 2004181032.036.30$5,797
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 2003183028.804.60$5,270
Oct 2003183028.174.76$5,155
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 2003181029.765.13$5,387
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 2003180028.565.98$5,141
May 2003188026.595.97$4,999
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 2003187031.146.10$5,823
Feb 2003185033.487.93$6,194
Jan 2003186030.315.58$5,638
Dec 2002354026.914.85$9,526
Nov 20021024.664.14$25
Oct 2002180026.464.23$4,763
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 2002181018.222.38$3,298
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 2001183024.873.05$4,551
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 2001184024.563.82$4,519
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20011024.685.34$25
Mar 2001184024.545.38$4,515
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 2001182027.478.40$5,000
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 2000171028.534.09$4,879
Jun 2000179029.304.40$5,245
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 2000182024.513.12$4,461
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 2000367027.622.73$10,137
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 1999166023.192.43$3,850
Oct 1999147020.982.80$3,084
Sep 1999141021.752.62$3,067
Aug 1999150019.262.88$2,889
Jul 1999142017.892.37$2,540
Jun 1999156015.942.36$2,487
May 1999170015.792.32$2,684
Apr 1999163015.102.21$2,461
Mar 1999742012.471.84$9,253
Feb 1999049.981.82$7
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 1998342010.892.19$3,724
Oct 19980512.421.97$10
Sep 19980512.592.08$10
Aug 19980611.301.91$11
Jul 19980711.742.24$16
Jun 1998688511.242.24$7,744
May 19980812.622.21$18
Apr 19982713.042.51$44
Mar 1998533512.802.31$6,834
Feb 19980913.952.30$21
Jan 19982814.702.15$47
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 1997365018.193.09$6,639
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19971778817.582.25$3,309
Jun 199708617.242.26$194
May 199705818.972.31$134
Apr 199707517.882.08$156
Mar 199717811418.951.94$3,594
Feb 1997010420.492.21$229
Jan 1997012723.483.54$450
Dec 199617914023.32$4,174
Nov 1996014321.97$0
Oct 199619018623.31$4,429
Sep 199606422.22$0
Aug 1996016720.26$0
Jul 1996021319.55$0
Jun 199617722418.73$3,315
May 1996023119.43$0
Apr 199619119921.51$4,108
Mar 19961882619.38$3,643
Feb 199618235116.98$3,090
Jan 199618536717.07$3,158
Dec 1995034217.19$0
Nov 199518838316.00$3,008
Oct 199518641415.43$2,870
Sep 199518042316.18$2,912
Aug 199518744415.92$2,977
Jul 199519447115.24$2,957
Jun 199519745816.41$3,233
May 199518443117.56$3,231
Apr 199518937617.73$3,351
Mar 199517943416.44$2,943
Feb 199537439716.58$6,201
Jan 1995049915.92$0
Dec 199418246615.03$2,735
Nov 199436146415.90$5,740
Oct 1994151715.58$16
Sep 199418144315.29$2,767
Aug 199417640716.13$2,839
Jul 199418262317.56$3,196
Jun 199435063217.09$5,982
May 199418248815.88$2,890
Apr 199418254914.14$2,573
Mar 199436158312.46$4,498
Feb 199418161912.50$2,263
Jan 199436271612.66$4,583
Dec 199318573212.33$2,281
Nov 199333772614.49$4,883
Oct 199336076215.85$5,706
Sep 199318076915.03$2,705
Aug 199318076915.66$2,819
Jul 199335878515.46$5,535
Jun 199318177016.79$3,039
May 199336081417.68$6,365
Apr 199318056718.05$3,249
Mar 199336970918.14$6,694
Feb 199318363917.90$3,276
Jan 199336474516.93$6,163

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 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  152 bbl  × $ 61.45 =     $9,340
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $ 12.08 =         $0

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Month total                                   $9,340

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/12370 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.