BURLESON, A.S. (00944)

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 944District 7CField 58840001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$154 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$66 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
OilDisposition8,475 bbl$154,131
Casinghead gasProduction16 Mcf$0
Total$154,131

16 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 16 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 (35)

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 31.1576, -102.1791. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 2.4 miles.

31.15843, -102.18930 · 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
54.3%
19 of 35 wells
With a plug date
28.6%
10 of 35 wells
Median depth
2,280 ft
19 wells filed one
Completion to plug
13.6 years
median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1954.3%
A plug date is filed
1028.6%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1028.6%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
1645.7%

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, 19 of 35 wells. Median 2,280 ft, with the middle half between 2,223 and 2,294 ft; the shallowest is 2,195 ft and the deepest 2,437 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, 12 of 35 wells, Mar 1986 – 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
Mar 1986 – Dec 2010
12 of 35 wells; 23 filed none
Plug dates filed
Jun 1973 – Aug 2014
10 of 35 wells; 25 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.6 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.3 years and 20.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

35 wells

42-4610005918Yes
42-4610008733Yes
42-46100105142,355 ftJul 2014Yes
42-46100175282,220 ftMar 1983Yes
42-4610021947Yes
42-4610118630Yes
42-4610137131Yes
42-4610137435Yes
42-46101375362,285 ftOct 1997Yes
42-46101376382,267 ftOct 1997Yes
42-4610137739Yes
42-46101378402,232 ftDec 1983Yes
42-4610137941Yes
42-46101381432,280 ftJun 1973Yes
42-4618015744Yes
42-4610001527
42-4610006829
42-4610023617
42-4610118734
42-4610136820
42-4610137022
42-4610138248
42-46100014192,305 ftDec 2010
42-46100038372,286 ftDec 2010
42-46100071262,437 ftDec 2010
42-46101372322,303 ftDec 2010
42-46100083152,285 ftJan 1999Jan 2002Yes
42-46101367112,288 ftApr 1997Nov 2010Yes
42-46101369212,240 ftApr 1997
42-46100023232,300 ftDec 1996
42-46132383542,210 ftMar 1995
42-46132571562,220 ftJun 1986Aug 2014Yes
42-46101193552,222 ftMar 1986
42-46132448512,224 ftMar 1986
42-46100074242,195 ft1927Aug 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 1996478023.32$11,147
Nov 1996324021.97$7,118
Oct 1996493023.31$11,492
Sep 1996165022.22$3,666
Aug 1996330020.26$6,686
Jul 1996330019.55$6,452
Jun 1996326018.73$6,106
May 1996336019.43$6,528
Apr 1996324021.51$6,969
Mar 1996164019.38$3,178
Feb 1996167016.98$2,836
Jan 1996316017.07$5,394
Dec 1995161017.19$2,768
Nov 1995327016.00$5,232
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 1995163015.92$2,595
Jul 1995160015.24$2,438
Jun 1995163016.41$2,675
May 1995339017.56$5,953
Apr 1995336017.73$5,957
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 1994338015.03$5,080
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19940015.29$0
Aug 19940016.13$0
Jul 19940017.56$0
Jun 19940017.09$0
May 19940015.88$0
Apr 1994176114.14$2,489
Mar 1994111112.46$1,383
Feb 1994158112.50$1,975
Jan 1994174112.66$2,203
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 1993130114.49$1,884
Oct 1993122115.85$1,934
Sep 1993132115.03$1,984
Aug 1993139115.66$2,177
Jul 1993165115.46$2,551
Jun 1993159116.79$2,670
May 1993153117.68$2,705
Apr 1993320118.05$5,776
Mar 1993155118.14$2,812
Feb 1993482117.90$8,628
Jan 1993159116.93$2,692

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                  478 bbl  × $ 23.32 =    $11,147
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                  $11,147

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/944 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.