BURLESON, A. S. -A-

Operated by BURLINGTON RESOURCES OIL&GAS CO. (P-5 109338) in the MCCAMEY field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 3172District 7CField 58840001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$77 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
49
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 198 leases and 1,864 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1925-12-31
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
660 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 acres. The field rule took effect on 1936-07-21.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: OIL RULES ADDED TO GAS FIELD 1/24/95

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
OilDisposition4,820 bbl$76,532
Casinghead gasProduction17 Mcf$0
Total$76,532

17 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 17 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 (9)

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 31.1864, -102.2131. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

31.18677, -102.21316 · 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
44.4%
4 of 9 wells
With a plug date
33.3%
3 of 9 wells
Median depth
2,295 ft
5 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
444.4%
A plug date is filed
333.3%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
333.3%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
555.6%

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

Total depth in feet, 5 of 9 wells. Median 2,295 ft, with the middle half between 2,291 and 2,300 ft; the shallowest is 2,273 ft and the deepest 2,301 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 2 of 9 wells, Jan 1998. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Jan 1998
2 of 9 wells; 7 filed none
Plug dates filed
Feb 1998 – Mar 1998
3 of 9 wells; 6 filed none

9 wells

42-4610304332,273 ftMar 1998Yes
42-4610304552,300 ftFeb 1998Yes
42-4610341562,295 ftMar 1998Yes
42-461030444
42-461034167
42-461034178
42-461034189
42-4610304222,291 ftJan 1998
42-4610304112,301 ftJan 1998Yes

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 (49)

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

49 months

Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 1995316016.18$5,113
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 1995170016.44$2,795
Feb 1995168016.58$2,785
Jan 1995168015.92$2,675
Dec 1994344015.03$5,170
Nov 1994169015.90$2,687
Oct 1994163015.58$2,540
Sep 1994167115.29$2,553
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 1994164117.56$2,880
Jun 1994347117.09$5,930
May 1994171115.88$2,715
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 1994166112.50$2,075
Jan 1994171012.66$2,165
Dec 1993167012.33$2,059
Nov 1993322014.49$4,666
Oct 19930015.85$0
Sep 1993206115.03$3,096
Aug 1993173115.66$2,709
Jul 1993181115.46$2,798
Jun 1993178116.79$2,989
May 1993195117.68$3,448
Apr 1993182118.05$3,285
Mar 1993170118.14$3,084
Feb 1993192117.90$3,437
Jan 1993170116.93$2,878

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 1995 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  316 bbl  × $ 16.18 =     $5,113
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $5,113

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/3172 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.