LANE, J. F. -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 869District 7CField 58840001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$143 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$24 k
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
OilDisposition8,632 bbl$143,100
Casinghead gasProduction20 Mcf$0
Total$143,100

20 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 20 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 (8)

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 31.2024, -102.1449. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

31.20240, -102.14472 · 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
37.5%
3 of 8 wells
With a plug date
37.5%
3 of 8 wells
Median depth
2,417 ft
6 wells filed one
Completion to plug
5.2 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
337.5%
A plug date is filed
337.5%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
337.5%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
562.5%

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, 6 of 8 wells. Median 2,417 ft, with the middle half between 2,403 and 2,444 ft; the shallowest is 2,292 ft and the deepest 2,480 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, 4 of 8 wells, Aug 1995 – Nov 1996. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Aug 1995 – Nov 1996
4 of 8 wells; 4 filed none
Plug dates filed
Jun 1974 – Oct 2000
3 of 8 wells; 5 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 5.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 5.2 years and 5.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

8 wells

42-4610275632,424 ftJun 1974Yes
42-4610275742,292 ftAug 1996Yes
42-461027596
42-461027607
42-461336661R2,480 ftNov 1996
42-4610157382,400 ftAug 1996
42-461335693R2,450 ftOct 1995
42-4610275852,410 ftAug 1995Oct 2000Yes

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 1996177023.32$4,128
Nov 1996163021.97$3,581
Oct 199695023.31$2,214
Sep 199639022.22$867
Aug 199636020.26$729
Jul 199673019.55$1,427
Jun 1996146018.73$2,735
May 1996106019.43$2,060
Apr 1996105021.51$2,259
Mar 1996101019.38$1,957
Feb 1996129016.98$2,190
Jan 199697017.07$1,656
Dec 1995291017.19$5,002
Nov 1995150016.00$2,400
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 1995159016.18$2,573
Aug 1995162015.92$2,579
Jul 1995160015.24$2,438
Jun 1995161016.41$2,642
May 1995161017.56$2,827
Apr 1995160017.73$2,837
Mar 1995174016.44$2,861
Feb 1995335016.58$5,554
Jan 1995161015.92$2,563
Dec 1994174015.03$2,615
Nov 1994183015.90$2,910
Oct 1994147015.58$2,290
Sep 1994167015.29$2,553
Aug 1994356116.13$5,742
Jul 1994163117.56$2,862
Jun 1994159117.09$2,717
May 1994329115.88$5,225
Apr 1994163114.14$2,305
Mar 1994333112.46$4,149
Feb 1994164112.50$2,050
Jan 1994164112.66$2,076
Dec 1993164112.33$2,022
Nov 1993336114.49$4,869
Oct 1993171115.85$2,710
Sep 1993195115.03$2,931
Aug 1993171115.66$2,678
Jul 1993289115.46$4,468
Jun 1993173116.79$2,905
May 1993374117.68$6,612
Apr 1993186118.05$3,357
Mar 1993361118.14$6,549
Feb 1993184117.90$3,294
Jan 1993185116.93$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.

Dec 1996 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  177 bbl  × $ 23.32 =     $4,128
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $4,128

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/869 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.