BRADEN "A"

Operated by HENRY PETROLEUM LP (P-5 378642) 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 13998District 7CField 85279200OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$295 k
Nov 1995 – Nov 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$23 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
97
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 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.

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
OilDisposition9,571 bbl$199,245
Casinghead gasProduction35,564 Mcf$96,037
Total$295,282

5,223 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 14 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 31.6488, -101.7943. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.64883, -101.79435 · 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
9,050 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
23.1 years
median over 1 well

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 9,050 ft.

Completions filed
Aug 1980
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2003
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 23.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 23.1 years and 23.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4610399919,050 ftAug 1980Sep 2003Yes

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 (97)

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

97 months

Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 200389026.314.75$2,342
Aug 2003153029.765.13$4,553
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 2003015726.595.97$938
Apr 2003017026.675.41$919
Mar 200316915431.146.10$6,201
Feb 2003012333.487.93$975
Jan 200316526030.315.58$6,452
Dec 2002021026.914.85$1,019
Nov 200217622824.664.14$5,283
Oct 2002095026.464.23$4,018
Sep 20021751,44227.443.64$10,044
Aug 200202,55025.963.16$8,069
Jul 20021671,92324.583.06$9,993
Jun 200201,03123.733.34$3,442
May 200217235924.663.58$5,528
Apr 2002017723.653.51$622
Mar 200217924722.003.10$4,704
Feb 2002021918.222.38$520
Jan 200215225117.172.38$3,206
Dec 200117442016.932.36$3,939
Nov 2001035218.072.41$847
Oct 2001021219.782.53$536
Sep 200115524324.262.25$4,307
Aug 200117416824.873.05$4,840
Jul 2001024523.933.20$783
Jun 200117130124.563.82$5,351
May 2001028725.524.31$1,236
Apr 200118118424.685.34$5,449
Mar 2001014824.545.38$796
Feb 200115719327.755.77$5,470
Jan 200116815627.478.40$5,925
Dec 2000016926.889.12$1,542
Nov 200017112532.215.66$6,215
Oct 2000015031.235.15$772
Sep 200017216831.875.19$6,353
Aug 2000023829.644.54$1,081
Jul 200016292928.534.09$8,421
Jun 2000047129.304.40$2,071
May 200017457827.263.68$6,870
Apr 200017247724.513.12$5,702
Mar 2000054928.422.86$1,570
Feb 200017436627.622.73$5,804
Jan 2000063025.272.48$1,563
Dec 199917223424.282.42$4,743
Nov 1999063723.192.43$1,550
Oct 199917067220.982.80$5,451
Sep 199917238321.752.62$4,744
Aug 1999049719.262.88$1,429
Jul 199917430917.892.37$3,846
Jun 199917636315.942.36$3,663
May 1999046015.792.32$1,068
Apr 199917132515.102.21$3,300
Mar 1999026712.471.84$491
Feb 19991652269.981.82$2,058
Jan 1999020810.381.90$395
Dec 19981782239.201.77$2,033
Nov 199817823810.892.19$2,459
Oct 1998023912.421.97$471
Sep 199835127112.592.08$4,983
Aug 1998061311.301.91$1,169
Jul 199817440511.742.24$2,949
Jun 1998029811.242.24$667
May 1998015012.622.21$331
Apr 199817128613.042.51$2,946
Mar 1998026012.802.31$600
Feb 199816915613.952.30$2,716
Jan 199817317414.702.15$2,918
Dec 1997032016.322.41$772
Nov 199717231818.193.09$4,111
Oct 199717020519.253.15$3,918
Sep 1997029817.742.95$881
Aug 199717122417.862.55$3,626
Jul 199717922417.582.25$3,650
Jun 1997030617.242.26$691
May 199717127818.972.31$3,886
Apr 199716553217.882.08$4,058
Mar 199717065718.951.94$4,496
Feb 1997025420.492.21$560
Jan 199716962123.483.54$6,166
Dec 1996063723.32$0
Nov 199618348921.97$4,021
Oct 199617645823.31$4,103
Sep 199617460022.22$3,866
Aug 1996048520.26$0
Jul 199617746519.55$3,460
Jun 199617237118.73$3,222
May 199617626519.43$3,420
Apr 1996026821.51$0
Mar 199616728219.38$3,236
Feb 199617121216.98$2,904
Jan 199617826717.07$3,038
Dec 199517119417.19$2,939
Nov 19956323016.00$1,008

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 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   89 bbl  × $ 26.31 =     $2,342
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.75 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,342

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/13998 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.