BROWNING, M.

Operated by ROCKER A OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 722932) in the CORAZON (SAN ANDRES) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 60960District 8AField 20553500Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$175 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 2005
Value, last 12 filed months
$1 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
150
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 26 leases and 234 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1953-08-08
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
467 ft
minimum
From a lease line
233 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 acres. The field rule took effect on 2001-02-22.

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.

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
OilDisposition9,684 bbl$174,723
Casinghead gasProduction18 Mcf$0
Total$174,723

18 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 18 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 (2)

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 32.9041, -101.0926. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.2 miles.

32.90409, -101.09261 · 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
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
2 of 2 wells
Median depth
2,827 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
31.8 years
median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
2100.0%
A plug date is filed
2100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
2100.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
00.0%

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

Between 2,827 and 2,827 ft, median 2,827 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Dec 1972 – Jan 1973
2 of 2 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 2004 – Apr 2005
2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 31.8 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 31.6 years and 32.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells

42-4153015022,827 ftJan 1973Apr 2005Yes
42-4153014112,827 ftDec 1972Apr 2004Yes

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 (150)

Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.

150 months

Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 200528049.207.36$1,378
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 2000136031.875.19$4,334
Aug 2000168029.644.54$4,980
Jul 2000340028.534.09$9,700
Jun 2000509029.304.40$14,914
May 2000345027.263.68$9,405
Apr 2000141024.513.12$3,456
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 2000171027.622.73$4,723
Jan 2000165025.272.48$4,170
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 1999141020.982.80$2,958
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 1999297019.262.88$5,720
Jul 1999180017.892.37$3,220
Jun 1999172015.942.36$2,742
May 1999251015.792.32$3,963
Apr 1999158015.102.21$2,386
Mar 1999157012.471.84$1,958
Feb 199913609.981.82$1,357
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 1998139010.892.19$1,514
Oct 1998162012.421.97$2,012
Sep 1998404012.592.08$5,086
Aug 1998306011.301.91$3,458
Jul 1998138011.742.24$1,620
Jun 1998401011.242.24$4,507
May 1998142012.622.21$1,792
Apr 1998160013.042.51$2,086
Mar 1998470012.802.31$6,016
Feb 1998461013.952.30$6,431
Jan 1998154014.702.15$2,264
Dec 1997159016.322.41$2,595
Nov 1997237018.193.09$4,311
Oct 1997303019.253.15$5,833
Sep 1997153017.742.95$2,714
Aug 1997327017.862.55$5,840
Jul 1997164017.582.25$2,883
Jun 1997159017.242.26$2,741
May 1997318018.972.31$6,032
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 1997149018.951.94$2,824
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 199785023.483.54$1,996
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 199657016.98$968
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 199460015.58$935
Sep 19940115.29$0
Aug 19940016.13$0
Jul 19940017.56$0
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 199484115.88$1,334
Apr 19940114.14$0
Mar 19940112.46$0
Feb 199495112.50$1,188
Jan 19940012.66$0
Dec 19930112.33$0
Nov 1993144114.49$2,087
Oct 19930115.85$0
Sep 1993100115.03$1,503
Aug 1993164115.66$2,568
Jul 1993166115.46$2,566
Jun 1993161116.79$2,703
May 1993167117.68$2,953
Apr 19930118.05$0
Mar 19930118.14$0
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.

Apr 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   28 bbl  × $ 49.20 =     $1,378
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  7.36 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,378

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. 8A/O/60960 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.