BOWEN, DELLA

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 939District 7CField 58840001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.3 M
Jan 1993 – Mar 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$301 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
OilDisposition77,354 bbl$1,310,271
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$1,310,271

21 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 (53)

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 31.1702, -102.1929. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.9 miles.

31.16958, -102.19355 · 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
52.8%
28 of 53 wells
With a plug date
49.1%
26 of 53 wells
Median depth
2,375 ft
40 wells filed one
Completion to plug
14 months
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2852.8%
A plug date is filed
2649.1%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2649.1%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
2547.2%

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, 40 of 53 wells. Median 2,375 ft, with the middle half between 2,303 and 2,411 ft; the shallowest is 2,045 ft and the deepest 7,187 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, 14 of 53 wells, Aug 1996 – Dec 2010. 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 1996 – Dec 2010
14 of 53 wells; 39 filed none
Plug dates filed
Jan 1979 – Aug 2014
26 of 53 wells; 27 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 14 months across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14 months and 14 months. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

53 wells

42-46100017382,410 ftAug 1997Yes
42-46100020292,396 ftSep 1984Yes
42-46100039212,278 ftSep 1984Yes
42-46100088432,380 ftSep 1984Yes
42-46100101222,329 ftJul 2001Yes
42-46100142462,388 ftAug 2014Yes
42-46100155422,380 ftAug 1984Yes
42-46100164452,045 ftJun 2012Yes
42-46100165362,432 ftAug 1984Yes
42-46100224302,176 ftSep 1984Yes
42-46100229402,375 ftAug 1984Yes
42-46100245442,230 ftNov 2011Yes
42-46102595172,375 ftJan 1979Yes
42-46102901502,150 ftJul 2014Yes
42-46102902512,485 ftAug 1984Yes
42-46102903527,187 ftYes
42-4610327642,314 ftFeb 1998Yes
42-4610327792,295 ftSep 1984Yes
42-46103280142,341 ftSep 1984Yes
42-46103894112,335 ftDec 2011Yes
42-46104093182,465 ftAug 1984Yes
42-4610427172,286 ftJan 1998Yes
42-46104272102,410 ftAug 1984Yes
42-46104273152,452 ftSep 1984Yes
42-46104274162,469 ftJan 1985Yes
42-46104364492,270 ftSep 1984Yes
42-4618014334Yes
42-4610001626
42-4610001932
42-4610008923
42-4610009225
42-4610022341
42-4610023039
42-461002316
42-461032753
42-461032788
42-4610409419
42-461042702
42-4610436048
42-46100201242,428 ftDec 2010
42-46103279132,340 ftDec 2010
42-46103895122,420 ftDec 2010
42-4613365843W2,378 ftSep 1999
42-46100154352,401 ftJan 1999
42-46104363472,303 ftAug 1997
42-4613365953W2,429 ftNov 1996
42-4613365710R2,387 ftNov 1996
42-4610023252,283 ftSep 1996
42-46100018282,414 ftSep 1996
42-46100021312,374 ftAug 1996Oct 1997Yes
42-46100220332,302 ftAug 1996
42-46100093202,308 ftAug 1996
42-4610327412,349 ftAug 1996

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 19961,632023.32$38,058
Nov 19961,090021.97$23,947
Oct 19961,563023.31$36,434
Sep 19961,793022.22$39,840
Aug 19961,474020.26$29,863
Jul 19961,770019.55$34,604
Jun 19961,113018.73$20,846
May 19961,921019.43$37,325
Apr 19961,881021.51$40,460
Mar 19961,537019.38$29,787
Feb 19961,507016.98$25,589
Jan 19961,552017.07$26,493
Dec 19951,540017.19$26,473
Nov 19951,519016.00$24,304
Oct 19951,602015.43$24,719
Sep 19951,775016.18$28,720
Aug 19951,311015.92$20,871
Jul 19951,640015.24$24,994
Jun 19951,583016.41$25,977
May 19951,643017.56$28,851
Apr 19951,358017.73$24,077
Mar 19951,697016.44$27,899
Feb 19951,363016.58$22,599
Jan 19951,704015.92$27,128
Dec 19941,863015.03$28,001
Nov 19941,691015.90$26,887
Oct 19941,671015.58$26,034
Sep 19941,827115.29$27,935
Aug 19941,282116.13$20,679
Jul 19941,878117.56$32,978
Jun 19941,444117.09$24,678
May 19941,781115.88$28,282
Apr 19941,755114.14$24,816
Mar 19941,824112.46$22,727
Feb 19941,642112.50$20,525
Jan 19941,763112.66$22,320
Dec 19931,333112.33$16,436
Nov 19931,973114.49$28,589
Oct 19931,614115.85$25,582
Sep 19931,347115.03$20,245
Aug 19931,769115.66$27,703
Jul 19931,430115.46$22,108
Jun 19931,673116.79$28,090
May 19931,520117.68$26,874
Apr 19931,613118.05$29,115
Mar 19931,779118.14$32,271
Feb 19931,481117.90$26,510
Jan 19931,833116.93$31,033

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                1,632 bbl  × $ 23.32 =    $38,058
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                  $38,058

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/939 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.