LANE, J. F. -C- A/C #2

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 961District 7CField 58840001Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$93 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$26 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
OilDisposition5,439 bbl$93,134
Casinghead gasProduction14 Mcf$0
Total$93,134

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 (9)

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 31.1946, -102.1407. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

31.19485, -102.14061 · 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
44.4%
4 of 9 wells
With a plug date
44.4%
4 of 9 wells
Median depth
2,500 ft
9 wells filed one
Completion to plug
17 months
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
444.4%
A plug date is filed
444.4%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
444.4%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
555.6%

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, 9 of 9 wells. Median 2,500 ft, with the middle half between 2,487 and 2,502 ft; the shallowest is 2,050 ft and the deepest 2,600 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, 6 of 9 wells, Aug 1995 – 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
Aug 1995 – Feb 1999
6 of 9 wells; 3 filed none
Plug dates filed
Oct 1995 – Apr 2012
4 of 9 wells; 5 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 17 months across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 17 months and 17 months. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

9 wells

42-4610199222,412 ftOct 1995Yes
42-4610199662,600 ftAug 1996Yes
42-46103757122,050 ftApr 2012Yes
42-4610199752,502 ftFeb 1999Jul 2000Yes
42-461336816RW2,487 ftNov 1996
42-46102004162,519 ftNov 1996
42-46102000102,500 ftAug 1996
42-4610199442,500 ftAug 1996
42-46102003142,500 ftAug 1995

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 1996216023.32$5,037
Nov 1996169021.97$3,713
Oct 199670023.31$1,632
Sep 199639022.22$867
Aug 199630020.26$608
Jul 199658019.55$1,134
Jun 1996140018.73$2,622
May 1996113019.43$2,196
Apr 1996111021.51$2,388
Mar 1996125019.38$2,423
Feb 1996173016.98$2,938
Jan 1996118017.07$2,014
Dec 1995258017.19$4,435
Nov 1995114016.00$1,824
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 199548016.18$777
Aug 1995164015.92$2,611
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 1995164017.56$2,880
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 1995168016.58$2,785
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 1994180015.03$2,705
Nov 1994169015.90$2,687
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 1994161016.13$2,597
Jul 1994157017.56$2,757
Jun 1994150117.09$2,564
May 19940115.88$0
Apr 1994167114.14$2,361
Mar 19940012.46$0
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 1994159012.66$2,013
Dec 1993165012.33$2,034
Nov 1993167014.49$2,420
Oct 1993179015.85$2,837
Sep 1993175115.03$2,630
Aug 1993182115.66$2,850
Jul 1993171115.46$2,644
Jun 1993189116.79$3,173
May 1993170117.68$3,006
Apr 1993155118.05$2,798
Mar 1993177118.14$3,211
Feb 199392117.90$1,647
Jan 1993196116.93$3,318

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                  216 bbl  × $ 23.32 =     $5,037
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  ×  no price            —

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Month total                                   $5,037

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/961 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.