BURLESON, A. S.

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 872District 7CField 58840001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$254 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$19 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
51
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
OilDisposition15,524 bbl$253,701
Casinghead gasProduction14 Mcf$0
Total$253,701

14 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 14 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 (41)

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 31.1783, -102.2105. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.0 miles.

31.17875, -102.21170 · 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
39.0%
16 of 41 wells
With a plug date
36.6%
15 of 41 wells
Median depth
2,314 ft
30 wells filed one
Completion to plug
16.4 years
median over 6 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1639.0%
A plug date is filed
1536.6%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1536.6%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
2561.0%

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

Total depth in feet, 30 of 41 wells. Median 2,314 ft, with the middle half between 2,285 and 2,353 ft; the shallowest is 2,145 ft and the deepest 4,610 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, 20 of 41 wells, Aug 1926 – May 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
Aug 1926 – May 1998
20 of 41 wells; 21 filed none
Plug dates filed
Aug 1927 – Sep 2015
15 of 41 wells; 26 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.4 years across the 6 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 7.7 years and 68.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

41 wells

42-4610267334,610 ftAug 1927Yes
42-4610267442,220 ftApr 1941Yes
42-46102679112,213 ftApr 1941Yes
42-46102686212,240 ftJul 2014Yes
42-46102693332,320 ftMar 1998Yes
42-46102695352,240 ftOct 2011Yes
42-46102702452,295 ftDec 1994Yes
42-46102703462,311 ftJan 1995Yes
42-46103995442,317 ftOct 1994Yes
42-4618004915Yes
42-461026755
42-461026767
42-461026779
42-4610268318
42-4610269029
42-4610269131
42-4610269232
42-461041196
42-4610412112
42-4610412316
42-46104124252,145 ft
42-46103859432,335 ftMay 1998
42-46102699402,277 ftMay 1998
42-46102684192,360 ftApr 1998Aug 2014Yes
42-46104122132,346 ftApr 1998
42-4610412082,353 ftMar 1998
42-46102698392,343 ftMar 1998
42-46102687222,300 ftMar 1998
42-46102697372,353 ftMar 1998Aug 2014Yes
42-46102689282,360 ftFeb 1998
42-46102700412,281 ftFeb 1998
42-46104125262,338 ftFeb 1998
42-46104126302,367 ftFeb 1998
42-46102701422,498 ftOct 1994Sep 1995Yes
42-46102688232,500 ftAug 1994
42-46103858382,400 ftMay 1980Feb 1985Yes
42-46102696362,240 ftFeb 1952
42-46103856242,299 ftSep 1926
42-46102680142,295 ftSep 1926Sep 2015Yes
42-46102682172,295 ftAug 1926
42-46102678102,303 ftAug 1926Oct 2011Yes

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 (51)

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

51 months

Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 1996267023.32$6,226
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 1996164023.31$3,823
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 1996137020.26$2,776
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 1996163018.73$3,053
May 1996160019.43$3,109
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 1996159017.07$2,714
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 1995162016.00$2,592
Oct 1995260015.43$4,012
Sep 1995163016.18$2,637
Aug 1995164015.92$2,611
Jul 1995174015.24$2,652
Jun 1995149016.41$2,445
May 1995159017.56$2,792
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 1995344016.44$5,655
Feb 1995172016.58$2,852
Jan 1995349015.92$5,556
Dec 1994340015.03$5,110
Nov 1994293015.90$4,659
Oct 1994480015.58$7,478
Sep 1994341015.29$5,214
Aug 1994347016.13$5,597
Jul 1994507017.56$8,903
Jun 1994511117.09$8,733
May 1994341115.88$5,415
Apr 1994680114.14$9,615
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 1994169112.50$2,113
Jan 1994488012.66$6,178
Dec 1993505012.33$6,227
Nov 1993679014.49$9,839
Oct 1993363015.85$5,754
Sep 1993559115.03$8,402
Aug 1993526115.66$8,237
Jul 1993715115.46$11,054
Jun 1993882116.79$14,809
May 1993551117.68$9,742
Apr 1993716118.05$12,924
Mar 1993896118.14$16,253
Feb 1993755117.90$13,515
Jan 1993734116.93$12,427

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                  267 bbl  × $ 23.32 =     $6,226
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $6,226

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/872 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.