CRAVENS 31

Operated by COX, JOHN L. (P-5 185980) 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 7456District 7CField 85279200NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$245 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$13 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
82
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.

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.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
NGPA1none

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.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
OilDisposition13,991 bbl$228,710
Casinghead gasProduction23,295 Mcf$16,353
Total$245,063

16,284 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 (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 31.3654, -101.9368. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.36537, -101.93682 · 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
8,460 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
21.1 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 8,460 ft.

Completions filed
May 1978
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 1999
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 21.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 21.1 years and 21.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4613128418,460 ftMay 1978Jun 1999Yes

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 (82)

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

82 months

Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 199921017.892.37$376
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 199917016815.792.32$3,074
Apr 1999107915.102.21$325
Mar 199918316412.471.84$2,584
Feb 19991842269.981.82$2,247
Jan 1999027210.381.90$517
Dec 19981841809.201.77$2,012
Nov 199818216110.892.19$2,334
Oct 199818716412.421.97$2,645
Sep 199818427412.592.08$2,887
Aug 1998023211.301.91$443
Jul 1998022111.742.24$494
Jun 199818520211.242.24$2,531
May 199836626612.622.21$5,206
Apr 199817524213.042.51$2,888
Mar 1998025312.802.31$584
Feb 199837427713.952.30$5,854
Jan 199818329014.702.15$3,315
Dec 199718627916.322.41$3,708
Nov 1997026518.193.09$818
Oct 199718229519.253.15$4,433
Sep 199718028417.742.95$4,032
Aug 199718031317.862.55$4,014
Jul 199718432117.582.25$3,956
Jun 199718030217.242.26$3,785
May 199718124418.972.31$3,997
Apr 199718025717.882.08$3,754
Mar 199718227018.951.94$3,972
Feb 199717924220.492.21$4,202
Jan 199718626823.483.54$5,316
Dec 199618428723.32$4,291
Nov 199618422021.97$4,042
Oct 199618128123.31$4,219
Sep 199619227222.22$4,266
Aug 199618342320.26$3,708
Jul 199612940319.55$2,522
Jun 199618738418.73$3,503
May 199618640419.43$3,614
Apr 199637430921.51$8,045
Mar 199618925319.38$3,663
Feb 199618241616.98$3,090
Jan 199619039217.07$3,243
Dec 199518940117.19$3,249
Nov 199537343216.00$5,968
Oct 1995022615.43$0
Sep 199518122916.18$2,929
Aug 1995023815.92$0
Jul 199518227515.24$2,774
Jun 1995026316.41$0
May 199535533317.56$6,234
Apr 1995028717.73$0
Mar 199516233716.44$2,663
Feb 199518327416.58$3,034
Jan 199518327115.92$2,913
Dec 199437428715.03$5,621
Nov 199418631115.90$2,957
Oct 199418236115.58$2,836
Sep 199418234615.29$2,783
Aug 199436038916.13$5,807
Jul 1994039017.56$0
Jun 199435642617.09$6,084
May 199417738015.88$2,811
Apr 199418336714.14$2,588
Mar 199434127012.46$4,249
Feb 199418225612.50$2,275
Jan 199418035712.66$2,279
Dec 199318135712.33$2,232
Nov 199318239314.49$2,637
Oct 199336243515.85$5,738
Sep 1993030515.03$0
Aug 199336137915.66$5,653
Jul 199335641615.46$5,504
Jun 199336140716.79$6,061
May 199318342417.68$3,235
Apr 1993040318.05$0
Mar 199317633818.14$3,193
Feb 1993029517.90$0
Jan 199336938216.93$6,247

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.

Jul 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   21 bbl  × $ 17.89 =       $376
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.37 =         $0

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Month total                                     $376

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/7456 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.