COWDEN

Operated by JM COX RESOURCES, L.P. (P-5 433075) 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 7869District 7CField 85279200NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$315 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$5 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
133
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
OilDisposition13,319 bbl$231,753
Casinghead gasProduction71,802 Mcf$83,707
Total$315,459

40,962 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 31.3309, -101.9938. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.33090, -101.99377 · 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
9,120 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
24.6 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 9,120 ft.

Completions filed
May 1979
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 2003
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 24.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 24.6 years and 24.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4613139419,120 ftMay 1979Dec 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 (133)

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

133 months

Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 2003178029.765.13$5,297
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 200208126.914.85$393
Nov 200208124.664.14$335
Oct 200208126.464.23$343
Sep 200208127.443.64$294
Aug 200208125.963.16$256
Jul 200208124.583.06$248
Jun 200208123.733.34$270
May 200208124.663.58$290
Apr 200208123.653.51$285
Mar 200208122.003.10$251
Feb 200208118.222.38$192
Jan 20021288117.172.38$2,390
Dec 200108116.932.36$192
Nov 200108118.072.41$195
Oct 200108119.782.53$205
Sep 200108124.262.25$182
Aug 2001021624.873.05$659
Jul 200135366323.933.20$10,567
Jun 200108124.563.82$310
May 200108125.524.31$349
Apr 2001010224.685.34$544
Mar 2001027524.545.38$1,479
Feb 200118311227.755.77$5,724
Jan 2001019327.478.40$1,621
Dec 200008826.889.12$803
Nov 200008132.215.66$458
Oct 200008131.235.15$417
Sep 2000018631.875.19$965
Aug 2000040729.644.54$1,848
Jul 200015552728.534.09$6,577
Jun 2000049929.304.40$2,194
May 2000052827.263.68$1,943
Apr 200018151024.513.12$6,025
Mar 2000051328.422.86$1,467
Feb 200018352627.622.73$6,489
Jan 2000055825.272.48$1,384
Dec 1999057224.282.42$1,386
Nov 1999056423.192.43$1,373
Oct 199918267820.982.80$5,719
Sep 1999027421.752.62$718
Aug 1999065419.262.88$1,881
Jul 1999064517.892.37$1,530
Jun 199918254715.942.36$4,193
May 1999151715.792.32$1,216
Apr 1999164115.102.21$1,430
Mar 1999160612.471.84$1,127
Feb 19991865629.981.82$2,878
Jan 199918656310.381.90$3,000
Dec 199801689.201.77$298
Nov 199809810.892.19$214
Oct 1998072412.421.97$1,426
Sep 199818176012.592.08$3,862
Aug 1998078511.301.91$1,497
Jul 1998078511.742.24$1,756
Jun 199818477011.242.24$3,791
May 1998079612.622.21$1,756
Apr 199818671613.042.51$4,219
Mar 1998072112.802.31$1,665
Feb 1998069713.952.30$1,602
Jan 199818671414.702.15$4,273
Dec 1997068516.322.41$1,652
Nov 1997075618.193.09$2,335
Oct 199718977319.253.15$6,073
Sep 199717760917.742.95$4,940
Aug 1997060317.862.55$1,541
Jul 1997078917.582.25$1,773
Jun 199718081517.242.26$4,943
May 1997080018.972.31$1,847
Apr 199718171917.882.08$4,734
Mar 1997168218.951.94$1,341
Feb 199718875720.492.21$5,522
Jan 1997077223.483.54$2,733
Dec 199618286423.32$4,244
Nov 1996086821.97$0
Oct 199619192223.31$4,452
Sep 1996090822.22$0
Aug 19961861,08920.26$3,768
Jul 19961841,10719.55$3,597
Jun 199601,10118.73$0
May 19961921,21919.43$3,731
Apr 199619186521.51$4,108
Mar 199618031019.38$3,488
Feb 19961881,15416.98$3,192
Jan 19961831,14617.07$3,124
Dec 19951931,12517.19$3,318
Nov 19951911,08916.00$3,056
Oct 19951871,21215.43$2,885
Sep 19951831,23816.18$2,961
Aug 19953681,27715.92$5,859
Jul 19951901,28315.24$2,896
Jun 19953791,33316.41$6,219
May 19953801,29017.56$6,673
Apr 19951871,18617.73$3,316
Mar 199536499516.44$5,984
Feb 199534393116.58$5,687
Jan 199518690715.92$2,961
Dec 19943671,00115.03$5,516
Nov 19943641,12815.90$5,788
Oct 19945521,33215.58$8,600
Sep 19945491,24715.29$8,394
Aug 19949001,24816.13$14,517
Jul 1994046217.56$0
Jun 199418349717.09$3,127
May 1994045815.88$0
Apr 199418149014.14$2,559
Mar 1994047712.46$0
Feb 199418145412.50$2,263
Jan 1994049712.66$0
Dec 199318549612.33$2,281
Nov 1993050114.49$0
Oct 199318348015.85$2,901
Sep 1993053115.03$0
Aug 199317955115.66$2,803
Jul 199317858715.46$2,752
Jun 199318156416.79$3,039
May 199318356617.68$3,235
Apr 1993044818.05$0
Mar 1993049718.14$0
Feb 199318749517.90$3,347
Jan 199318553616.93$3,132

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 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  178 bbl  × $ 29.76 =     $5,297
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.13 =         $0

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Month total                                   $5,297

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/7869 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.