AMOCO-BROWN

Name: AMOCO-BROWN lease production and value, Aug 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by MERIT ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 561136) in the PRENTICE (6700) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 67121District 8AField 72995498Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$2.1 M

Aug 1993 – Dec 2004

Value, last 12 filed months

$95 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

137

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The PRENTICE (6700) field

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 64 leases and 1,041 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1950-06-13

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

600 ft

minimum

From a lease line

440 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres.

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: “20 AC. OPTION - MAX DIAG 1500”

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	117,381 bbl	$2,101,589
Casinghead gas	Production	37,066 Mcf	$38,218
Total			$2,139,807

25,838 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 41 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 (4)

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 33.2592, -102.5718. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

33.25953, -102.57216 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

0.0%

0 of 4 wells

With a plug date

0.0%

0 of 4 wells

Median depth

6,875 ft

4 wells filed one

Completion to plug

—

no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

00.0%

A plug date is filed

00.0%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

00.0%

NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.

4100.0%

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 6,862 and 7,480 ft, median 6,875 ft, over the 4 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Aug 2005 – Feb 2010

4 of 4 wells

4 wells


42-44531830	4	7,480 ft	Feb 2010	—	—
42-44531696	2	6,862 ft	Sep 2005	—	—
42-44531670	1	6,875 ft	Aug 2005	—	—
42-44531703	3	6,875 ft	Aug 2005	—	—

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 (137)

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

137 months


Dec 2004	0	0	39.86	6.75	$0
Nov 2004	0	0	45.28	6.33	$0
Oct 2004	0	0	49.70	6.52	$0
Sep 2004	0	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	593	4	42.37	5.55	$25,148
Jul 2004	171	4	38.28	6.08	$6,570
Jun 2004	346	26	36.10	6.43	$12,658
May 2004	177	52	37.48	6.49	$6,972
Apr 2004	352	141	34.47	5.86	$12,959
Mar 2004	342	105	34.36	5.53	$12,332
Feb 2004	178	135	32.45	5.51	$6,520
Jan 2004	349	136	32.03	6.30	$12,035
Dec 2003	347	122	30.26	6.30	$11,269
Nov 2003	175	0	28.80	4.60	$5,040
Oct 2003	352	116	28.17	4.76	$10,468
Sep 2003	177	135	26.31	4.75	$5,298
Aug 2003	352	141	29.76	5.13	$11,199
Jul 2003	353	172	29.41	5.17	$11,271
Jun 2003	342	145	28.56	5.98	$10,635
May 2003	174	151	26.59	5.97	$5,529
Apr 2003	268	135	26.67	5.41	$7,878
Mar 2003	116	93	31.14	6.10	$4,179
Feb 2003	215	76	33.48	7.93	$7,801
Jan 2003	305	84	30.31	5.58	$9,713
Dec 2002	228	194	26.91	4.85	$7,077
Nov 2002	211	67	24.66	4.14	$5,480
Oct 2002	114	65	26.46	4.23	$3,291
Sep 2002	256	52	27.44	3.64	$7,214
Aug 2002	130	91	25.96	3.16	$3,663
Jul 2002	133	65	24.58	3.06	$3,468
Jun 2002	153	116	23.73	3.34	$4,018
May 2002	172	68	24.66	3.58	$4,485
Apr 2002	351	112	23.65	3.51	$8,695
Mar 2002	174	175	22.00	3.10	$4,371
Feb 2002	172	68	18.22	2.38	$3,295
Jan 2002	173	77	17.17	2.38	$3,153
Dec 2001	351	90	16.93	2.36	$6,155
Nov 2001	172	110	18.07	2.41	$3,373
Oct 2001	173	115	19.78	2.53	$3,713
Sep 2001	174	131	24.26	2.25	$4,516
Aug 2001	170	141	24.87	3.05	$4,658
Jul 2001	318	155	23.93	3.20	$8,105
Jun 2001	172	135	24.56	3.82	$4,741
May 2001	517	43	25.52	4.31	$13,379
Apr 2001	345	121	24.68	5.34	$9,160
Mar 2001	524	132	24.54	5.38	$13,569
Feb 2001	523	124	27.75	5.77	$15,228
Jan 2001	166	53	27.47	8.40	$5,005
Dec 2000	530	15	26.88	9.12	$14,383
Nov 2000	345	25	32.21	5.66	$11,254
Oct 2000	679	52	31.23	5.15	$21,473
Sep 2000	345	87	31.87	5.19	$11,446
Aug 2000	546	101	29.64	4.54	$16,642
Jul 2000	507	112	28.53	4.09	$14,923
Jun 2000	341	103	29.30	4.40	$10,444
May 2000	511	115	27.26	3.68	$14,353
Apr 2000	521	74	24.51	3.12	$13,000
Mar 2000	519	74	28.42	2.86	$14,962
Feb 2000	523	43	27.62	2.73	$14,563
Jan 2000	529	27	25.27	2.48	$13,435
Dec 1999	525	5	24.28	2.42	$12,759
Nov 1999	719	76	23.19	2.43	$16,859
Oct 1999	349	65	20.98	2.80	$7,504
Sep 1999	502	83	21.75	2.62	$11,136
Aug 1999	523	93	19.26	2.88	$10,340
Jul 1999	524	115	17.89	2.37	$9,647
Jun 1999	681	112	15.94	2.36	$11,120
May 1999	659	80	15.79	2.32	$10,591
Apr 1999	685	63	15.10	2.21	$10,483
Mar 1999	1,052	44	12.47	1.84	$13,199
Feb 1999	530	39	9.98	1.82	$5,360
Jan 1999	522	42	10.38	1.90	$5,498
Dec 1998	891	31	9.20	1.77	$8,252
Nov 1998	717	49	10.89	2.19	$7,915
Oct 1998	879	80	12.42	1.97	$11,075
Sep 1998	879	124	12.59	2.08	$11,325
Aug 1998	994	171	11.30	1.91	$11,558
Jul 1998	851	383	11.74	2.24	$10,848
Jun 1998	1,016	371	11.24	2.24	$12,250
May 1998	1,031	321	12.62	2.21	$13,719
Apr 1998	1,047	246	13.04	2.51	$14,269
Mar 1998	1,065	100	12.80	2.31	$13,863
Feb 1998	851	276	13.95	2.30	$12,506
Jan 1998	1,051	258	14.70	2.15	$16,006
Dec 1997	1,399	207	16.32	2.41	$23,331
Nov 1997	1,548	206	18.19	3.09	$28,794
Oct 1997	1,562	245	19.25	3.15	$30,840
Sep 1997	529	203	17.74	2.95	$9,984
Aug 1997	519	240	17.86	2.55	$9,882
Jul 1997	692	233	17.58	2.25	$12,689
Jun 1997	695	233	17.24	2.26	$12,508
May 1997	695	274	18.97	2.31	$13,817
Apr 1997	852	224	17.88	2.08	$15,700
Mar 1997	509	216	18.95	1.94	$10,064
Feb 1997	706	167	20.49	2.21	$14,834
Jan 1997	685	252	23.48	3.54	$16,976
Dec 1996	876	219	23.32	—	$20,428
Nov 1996	673	178	21.97	—	$14,786
Oct 1996	865	170	23.31	—	$20,163
Sep 1996	1,013	187	22.22	—	$22,509
Aug 1996	835	182	20.26	—	$16,917
Jul 1996	686	247	19.55	—	$13,411
Jun 1996	969	319	18.73	—	$18,149
May 1996	963	337	19.43	—	$18,711
Apr 1996	1,035	306	21.51	—	$22,263
Mar 1996	1,034	326	19.38	—	$20,039
Feb 1996	1,047	248	16.98	—	$17,778
Jan 1996	1,396	306	17.07	—	$23,830
Dec 1995	1,219	331	17.19	—	$20,955
Nov 1995	1,045	325	16.00	—	$16,720
Oct 1995	1,390	462	15.43	—	$21,448
Sep 1995	1,048	502	16.18	—	$16,957
Aug 1995	1,030	532	15.92	—	$16,398
Jul 1995	1,743	538	15.24	—	$26,563
Jun 1995	1,560	780	16.41	—	$25,600
May 1995	1,555	831	17.56	—	$27,306
Apr 1995	1,906	591	17.73	—	$33,793
Mar 1995	1,889	597	16.44	—	$31,055
Feb 1995	2,900	980	16.58	—	$48,082
Jan 1995	1,873	534	15.92	—	$29,818
Dec 1994	2,387	797	15.03	—	$35,877
Nov 1994	2,589	1,190	15.90	—	$41,165
Oct 1994	2,203	721	15.58	—	$34,323
Sep 1994	2,258	887	15.29	—	$34,525
Aug 1994	2,961	1,314	16.13	—	$47,761
Jul 1994	3,550	1,320	17.56	—	$62,338
Jun 1994	3,458	1,378	17.09	—	$59,097
May 1994	3,118	947	15.88	—	$49,514
Apr 1994	1,705	756	14.14	—	$24,109
Mar 1994	1,880	965	12.46	—	$23,425
Feb 1994	1,925	436	12.50	—	$24,063
Jan 1994	2,803	762	12.66	—	$35,486
Dec 1993	1,924	745	12.33	—	$23,723
Nov 1993	1,922	745	14.49	—	$27,850
Oct 1993	1,568	770	15.85	—	$24,853
Sep 1993	2,101	961	15.03	—	$31,578
Aug 1993	2,093	1,116	15.66	—	$32,776

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.

Aug 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  593 bbl  × $ 42.37 =    $25,125
Casinghead gas         4 Mcf  × $  5.55 =        $22

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Month total                                  $25,148

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/67121 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.