LANE, J. F. -D- (00889)

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 889District 7CField 58840001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$30 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$9 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
OilDisposition1,751 bbl$29,743
Casinghead gasProduction15 Mcf$0
Total$29,743

15 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 15 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 (7)

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 31.1731, -102.1492. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

31.17307, -102.14876 · 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
85.7%
6 of 7 wells
With a plug date
85.7%
6 of 7 wells
Median depth
2,211 ft
7 wells filed one
Completion to plug
35.0 years
median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
685.7%
A plug date is filed
685.7%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
685.7%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
114.3%

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

Between 2,050 and 2,325 ft, median 2,211 ft, over the 7 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Aug 1979 – Nov 1987
3 of 7 wells; 4 filed none
Plug dates filed
Jun 1987 – May 2015
6 of 7 wells; 1 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 35.0 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 23.1 years and 35.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

7 wells

42-4610101232,050 ftMar 2015Yes
42-4610101352,100 ftJun 1987Yes
42-4610101462,201 ftJun 1987Yes
42-4611023372,325 ft
42-4610101122,312 ftNov 1987Dec 1998Yes
42-4613148292,311 ftDec 1979May 2015Yes
42-4613146182,211 ftAug 1979Aug 2014Yes

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 199641023.32$956
Nov 199697021.97$2,131
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 1996113020.26$2,289
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 1996149021.51$3,205
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 1996102017.07$1,741
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 1995228015.43$3,518
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 1995125017.73$2,216
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 1995111015.92$1,767
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 199417015.90$270
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 199450115.29$765
Aug 19940016.13$0
Jul 19940017.56$0
Jun 19940017.09$0
May 19940015.88$0
Apr 19940014.14$0
Mar 1994183112.46$2,280
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 19940112.66$0
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 1993180114.49$2,608
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 19930115.03$0
Aug 1993173115.66$2,709
Jul 19930115.46$0
Jun 19930016.79$0
May 19930117.68$0
Apr 1993165118.05$2,978
Mar 199317118.14$308
Feb 19930117.90$0
Jan 19930116.93$0

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                   41 bbl  × $ 23.32 =       $956
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                     $956

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/889 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.