LANE, J. F. -C- A/C #1

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 960District 7CField 58840001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$97 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$22 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
OilDisposition5,743 bbl$97,499
Casinghead gasProduction17 Mcf$0
Total$97,499

17 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 17 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 31.2022, -102.1490. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

31.20236, -102.14905 · 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
25.0%
2 of 8 wells
With a plug date
25.0%
2 of 8 wells
Median depth
2,381 ft
8 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
225.0%
A plug date is filed
225.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
225.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
675.0%

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, 8 of 8 wells. Median 2,381 ft, with the middle half between 2,369 and 2,424 ft; the shallowest is 2,348 ft and the deepest 2,515 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, 3 of 8 wells, Mar 1987 – Feb 1999. 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 1987 – Feb 1999
3 of 8 wells; 5 filed none
Plug dates filed
Oct 1995 – May 1999
2 of 8 wells; 6 filed none

8 wells

42-4610199112,423 ftOct 1995Yes
42-46103758152,360 ftMay 1999Yes
42-4610199572,390 ft
42-46102001112,372 ft
42-46102002132,348 ft
42-4610199882,425 ftFeb 1999
42-4610199332,515 ftJan 1999
42-4610199992,372 ftMar 1987

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 1996189023.32$4,407
Nov 1996179021.97$3,933
Oct 199677023.31$1,795
Sep 199645022.22$1,000
Aug 199642020.26$851
Jul 199678019.55$1,525
Jun 1996105018.73$1,967
May 199664019.43$1,244
Apr 199670021.51$1,506
Mar 199681019.38$1,570
Feb 1996113016.98$1,919
Jan 199679017.07$1,349
Dec 1995170017.19$2,922
Nov 199578016.00$1,248
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 1995134016.18$2,168
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 1995162015.24$2,469
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 1995166017.73$2,943
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 1995167016.58$2,769
Jan 1995170015.92$2,706
Dec 1994170015.03$2,555
Nov 1994167015.90$2,655
Oct 1994174015.58$2,711
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 1994319116.13$5,145
Jul 1994330117.56$5,795
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 1994166115.88$2,636
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 19940012.46$0
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 1994166012.66$2,102
Dec 1993165012.33$2,034
Nov 1993168114.49$2,434
Oct 1993175015.85$2,774
Sep 1993216115.03$3,246
Aug 1993182115.66$2,850
Jul 1993181115.46$2,798
Jun 1993178116.79$2,989
May 1993182117.68$3,218
Apr 1993178118.05$3,213
Mar 1993162118.14$2,939
Feb 1993124117.90$2,220
Jan 1993171116.93$2,895

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                  189 bbl  × $ 23.32 =     $4,407
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $4,407

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/960 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.