AMOCO - BROWN "A"

Name: AMOCO - BROWN "A" lease production and value, Jan 1996 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 67505District 8AField 72995498Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$2.8 M

Jan 1996 – Dec 2004

Value, last 12 filed months

$251 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

108

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	122,746 bbl	$2,710,699
Casinghead gas	Production	32,625 Mcf	$96,245
Total			$2,806,944

6,156 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 12 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 (1)

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 33.2560, -102.5756. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.25598, -102.57555 · 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 1 wells

With a plug date

0.0%

0 of 1 wells

Median depth

6,875 ft

1 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.

1100.0%

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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 6,875 ft.

Completions filed

Jan 1996

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-44531731	1	6,875 ft	Jan 1996	—	—

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 (108)

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

108 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	877	197	42.37	5.55	$38,252
Jul 2004	1,022	241	38.28	6.08	$40,588
Jun 2004	677	253	36.10	6.43	$26,067
May 2004	665	193	37.48	6.49	$26,178
Apr 2004	1,019	226	34.47	5.86	$36,449
Mar 2004	682	293	34.36	5.53	$25,054
Feb 2004	1,004	260	32.45	5.51	$34,012
Jan 2004	705	264	32.03	6.30	$24,244
Dec 2003	700	184	30.26	6.30	$22,342
Nov 2003	1,024	230	28.80	4.60	$30,548
Oct 2003	874	264	28.17	4.76	$25,877
Sep 2003	665	280	26.31	4.75	$18,826
Aug 2003	1,006	260	29.76	5.13	$31,272
Jul 2003	686	260	29.41	5.17	$21,520
Jun 2003	1,041	320	28.56	5.98	$31,646
May 2003	992	278	26.59	5.97	$28,038
Apr 2003	683	236	26.67	5.41	$19,492
Mar 2003	1,029	315	31.14	6.10	$33,963
Feb 2003	987	277	33.48	7.93	$35,240
Jan 2003	704	324	30.31	5.58	$23,147
Dec 2002	1,344	306	26.91	4.85	$37,652
Nov 2002	1,176	268	24.66	4.14	$30,109
Oct 2002	497	328	26.46	4.23	$14,538
Sep 2002	982	274	27.44	3.64	$27,942
Aug 2002	1,344	242	25.96	3.16	$35,656
Jul 2002	976	264	24.58	3.06	$24,798
Jun 2002	698	298	23.73	3.34	$17,558
May 2002	1,044	248	24.66	3.58	$26,634
Apr 2002	1,044	278	23.65	3.51	$25,667
Mar 2002	1,040	257	22.00	3.10	$23,677
Feb 2002	692	248	18.22	2.38	$13,197
Jan 2002	1,021	293	17.17	2.38	$18,227
Dec 2001	1,069	355	16.93	2.36	$18,938
Nov 2001	852	267	18.07	2.41	$16,038
Oct 2001	1,011	192	19.78	2.53	$20,483
Sep 2001	1,077	159	24.26	2.25	$26,486
Aug 2001	876	281	24.87	3.05	$22,644
Jul 2001	851	220	23.93	3.20	$21,068
Jun 2001	1,043	477	24.56	3.82	$27,440
May 2001	1,092	228	25.52	4.31	$28,850
Apr 2001	1,015	251	24.68	5.34	$26,389
Mar 2001	1,177	305	24.54	5.38	$30,523
Feb 2001	865	380	27.75	5.77	$26,195
Jan 2001	693	294	27.47	8.40	$21,506
Dec 2000	1,341	239	26.88	9.12	$38,226
Nov 2000	1,249	171	32.21	5.66	$41,198
Oct 2000	1,037	232	31.23	5.15	$33,579
Sep 2000	1,223	283	31.87	5.19	$40,445
Aug 2000	1,218	246	29.64	4.54	$37,219
Jul 2000	1,213	231	28.53	4.09	$35,552
Jun 2000	1,023	274	29.30	4.40	$31,179
May 2000	1,033	244	27.26	3.68	$29,057
Apr 2000	1,227	197	24.51	3.12	$30,688
Mar 2000	1,223	299	28.42	2.86	$35,613
Feb 2000	1,055	292	27.62	2.73	$29,935
Jan 2000	1,051	241	25.27	2.48	$27,157
Dec 1999	1,048	222	24.28	2.42	$25,984
Nov 1999	1,224	191	23.19	2.43	$28,849
Oct 1999	1,057	232	20.98	2.80	$22,826
Sep 1999	1,395	336	21.75	2.62	$31,221
Aug 1999	1,026	261	19.26	2.88	$20,511
Jul 1999	1,374	269	17.89	2.37	$25,219
Jun 1999	687	270	15.94	2.36	$11,589
May 1999	1,040	272	15.79	2.32	$17,053
Apr 1999	1,031	242	15.10	2.21	$16,102
Mar 1999	1,045	201	12.47	1.84	$13,401
Feb 1999	1,031	269	9.98	1.82	$10,778
Jan 1999	1,031	0	10.38	1.90	$10,702
Dec 1998	1,398	181	9.20	1.77	$13,183
Nov 1998	1,027	181	10.89	2.19	$11,580
Oct 1998	1,041	169	12.42	1.97	$13,262
Sep 1998	1,039	221	12.59	2.08	$13,541
Aug 1998	1,032	143	11.30	1.91	$11,934
Jul 1998	1,312	677	11.74	2.24	$16,918
Jun 1998	1,015	615	11.24	2.24	$12,785
May 1998	1,349	555	12.62	2.21	$18,249
Apr 1998	1,010	458	13.04	2.51	$14,318
Mar 1998	1,320	0	12.80	2.31	$16,896
Feb 1998	981	271	13.95	2.30	$14,308
Jan 1998	1,021	360	14.70	2.15	$15,784
Dec 1997	1,370	246	16.32	2.41	$22,952
Nov 1997	1,364	212	18.19	3.09	$25,466
Oct 1997	1,352	258	19.25	3.15	$26,839
Sep 1997	1,391	401	17.74	2.95	$25,861
Aug 1997	1,385	417	17.86	2.55	$25,801
Jul 1997	1,393	399	17.58	2.25	$25,385
Jun 1997	1,398	389	17.24	2.26	$24,980
May 1997	1,708	439	18.97	2.31	$33,414
Apr 1997	1,362	450	17.88	2.08	$25,290
Mar 1997	2,073	637	18.95	1.94	$40,519
Feb 1997	1,366	547	20.49	2.21	$29,196
Jan 1997	1,719	661	23.48	3.54	$42,702
Dec 1996	1,882	717	23.32	—	$43,888
Nov 1996	1,721	487	21.97	—	$37,810
Oct 1996	1,725	423	23.31	—	$40,210
Sep 1996	2,035	496	22.22	—	$45,218
Aug 1996	2,072	611	20.26	—	$41,979
Jul 1996	1,991	635	19.55	—	$38,924
Jun 1996	1,952	538	18.73	—	$36,561
May 1996	2,253	626	19.43	—	$43,776
Apr 1996	2,431	483	21.51	—	$52,291
Mar 1996	2,773	596	19.38	—	$53,741
Feb 1996	3,082	493	16.98	—	$52,332
Jan 1996	0	51	17.07	—	$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.

Aug 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  877 bbl  × $ 42.37 =    $37,158
Casinghead gas       197 Mcf  × $  5.55 =     $1,093

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Month total                                  $38,252

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/67505 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.