ROACH

Operated by OXY USA INC. (P-5 630591) in the CODY BELL (CANYON) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 15178District 7CField 19303180OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$616 k
Sep 2001 – Mar 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$18 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
115
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 140 leases and 148 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1967-04-23
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2003-10-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: CONTINUED SUSPENSION OF ALLOCATION FORMULA.

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
OilDisposition3,323 bbl$142,439
Casinghead gasProduction93,988 Mcf$473,778
Total$616,217

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 31.0261, -100.6712. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.02608, -100.67120 · 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
6,725 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
8.9 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 6,725 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 2001
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Aug 2010
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 8.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.9 years and 8.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4133213276,725 ftSep 2001Aug 2010Yes

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 (115)

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

115 months

Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 201043073.684.42$3,168
Jul 20101659172.554.74$12,402
Jun 201005770.364.91$280
May 2010021671.124.24$915
Apr 2010035181.694.12$1,447
Mar 2010034278.394.39$1,501
Feb 2010038073.585.44$2,068
Jan 2010043874.365.96$2,612
Dec 2009041271.445.48$2,259
Nov 2009040174.593.75$1,504
Oct 2009044372.544.11$1,821
Sep 2009031565.543.06$965
Aug 2009029867.423.22$959
Jul 2009046161.133.46$1,597
Jun 2009043366.163.90$1,687
May 2009046654.743.93$1,829
Apr 2009042246.773.59$1,514
Mar 2009043342.144.06$1,758
Feb 2009047332.814.63$2,191
Jan 2009047335.865.37$2,540
Dec 2008046337.105.98$2,767
Nov 2008035155.496.86$2,408
Oct 2008044475.246.92$3,073
Sep 2008179341101.767.88$20,901
Aug 20080483114.228.48$4,097
Jul 20080514131.0811.39$5,854
Jun 20080482131.3313.03$6,282
May 20080524123.1711.57$6,065
Apr 20080489110.3110.45$5,112
Mar 20080497101.909.66$4,803
Feb 2008046592.538.77$4,078
Jan 2008054590.388.21$4,472
Dec 2007055688.337.30$4,060
Nov 2007034591.677.29$2,516
Oct 200717550982.856.92$18,022
Sep 2007052275.846.24$3,259
Aug 2007054769.066.39$3,494
Jul 2007052770.906.39$3,366
Jun 2007053062.007.55$4,001
May 2007055758.747.85$4,370
Apr 2007053959.617.81$4,207
Mar 2007056356.927.30$4,111
Feb 2007049255.108.22$4,042
Jan 200717856950.306.73$12,781
Dec 2006050656.656.92$3,501
Nov 2006056154.207.62$4,273
Oct 2006055354.906.01$3,326
Sep 2006056060.085.04$2,821
Aug 2006059068.717.34$4,331
Jul 2006056769.376.34$3,596
Jun 200617457366.286.38$15,191
May 2006060566.016.42$3,887
Apr 2006056664.397.36$4,166
Mar 2006059956.707.08$4,243
Feb 2006052857.597.75$4,093
Jan 2006259860.598.93$5,463
Dec 2005061354.9413.42$8,224
Nov 200517761754.6910.59$16,213
Oct 2005063258.3413.80$8,719
Sep 2005062661.4512.08$7,561
Aug 2005166361.519.80$6,557
Jul 2005069455.697.84$5,443
Jun 2005062552.337.38$4,613
May 200517668745.226.65$12,528
Apr 2005068849.207.36$5,064
Mar 2005069950.377.15$5,001
Feb 2005046845.226.31$2,954
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 2004075039.866.75$5,063
Nov 200417876545.286.33$12,903
Oct 2004082049.706.52$5,342
Sep 2004084943.245.28$4,486
Aug 2004032342.375.55$1,793
Jul 2004032338.286.08$1,965
Jun 2004065736.106.43$4,226
May 200417255837.486.49$10,071
Apr 2004074434.475.86$4,359
Mar 2004078334.365.53$4,330
Feb 2004074732.455.51$4,116
Jan 2004081732.036.30$5,147
Dec 200317783630.266.30$10,624
Nov 2003083528.804.60$3,837
Oct 2003088228.174.76$4,198
Sep 2003087326.314.75$4,146
Aug 200316392929.765.13$9,616
Jul 200301,03329.415.17$5,341
Jun 2003095628.565.98$5,720
May 200301,02326.595.97$6,110
Apr 200301,02326.675.41$5,532
Mar 20031691,10431.146.10$11,993
Feb 200301,01033.487.93$8,005
Jan 200301,15930.315.58$6,470
Dec 20021751,25126.914.85$10,781
Nov 200201,28624.664.14$5,320
Oct 200211,41926.464.23$6,028
Sep 200201,50827.443.64$5,482
Aug 200201,52625.963.16$4,829
Jul 20021661,74124.583.06$9,411
Jun 200201,77123.733.34$5,912
May 200202,09224.663.58$7,498
Apr 20021662,18823.653.51$11,611
Mar 200202,18622.003.10$6,783
Feb 20021692,60518.222.38$9,268
Jan 200203,39417.172.38$8,063
Dec 20011764,36016.932.36$13,288
Nov 200103,21818.072.41$7,741
Oct 20011725,27119.782.53$16,732
Sep 20011695,79624.262.25$17,149

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 2010 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   43 bbl  × $ 73.68 =     $3,168
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.42 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,168

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/15178 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.