BROWNING STATE

Operated by STEWARD ENERGY II, LLC (P-5 819609) in the PLATANG (SAN ANDRES) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 70444District 8AField 71823666Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$3.4 M
Mar 2016 – May 2022
Value, last 12 filed months
$19 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
75
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 277 leases and 646 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1955-05-15
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2026-06-02.

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: AND VERTICAL WELLS ARE INDEPENDENT AND MAY OVERLAP.

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
OilDisposition59,187 bbl$3,165,854
Casinghead gasProduction84,073 Mcf$246,814
Total$3,412,668

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 33.1399, -102.7602. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.13990, -102.76024 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
6,200 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
4.9 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
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

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 6,200 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 2016
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2021
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 4.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 4.9 years and 4.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-5013666750636,200 ftDec 2016Nov 2021Yes

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 (75)

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

75 months

May 202200109.378.43$0
Apr 202200104.226.84$0
Mar 202200108.885.08$0
Feb 20220091.054.86$0
Jan 20220081.844.54$0
Dec 20210071.323.90$0
Nov 20210077.435.24$0
Oct 202119079.795.71$1,516
Sep 20215936369.865.35$6,064
Aug 20214676166.024.22$6,249
Jul 20211762270.783.98$3,680
Jun 2021040369.493.38$1,362
May 2021023863.483.02$718
Apr 2021023260.362.76$640
Mar 2021013361.302.72$361
Feb 20210057.805.55$0
Jan 20210050.412.81$0
Dec 20200044.642.68$0
Nov 20200038.772.71$0
Oct 20200036.972.48$0
Sep 20200037.091.99$0
Aug 202015039.982.39$600
Jul 202066038.371.83$2,532
Jun 20200034.901.69$0
May 20200016.921.81$0
Apr 20201,0991,63014.751.80$19,151
Mar 20208312,07130.341.86$29,057
Feb 20209791,87449.881.98$52,544
Jan 20201,1272,02657.252.09$68,765
Dec 20191,1192,12759.012.30$70,934
Nov 20191,0202,20655.302.75$62,474
Oct 20191,1352,35153.472.42$66,374
Sep 20191,0302,14455.052.66$62,399
Aug 20191,1462,13053.112.30$65,772
Jul 20191,2872,23956.272.46$77,928
Jun 20191,2182,30452.782.49$70,026
May 20191,3952,46258.482.74$88,326
Apr 20191,2692,36562.632.75$85,983
Mar 20191,3542,30456.803.06$83,962
Feb 20191,1292,21850.852.79$63,603
Jan 20191,4542,55946.033.23$75,189
Dec 20181,6942,44646.594.19$89,161
Nov 20186432,21752.934.24$43,428
Oct 20181,38488061.443.40$88,023
Sep 20181,6001,86859.543.11$101,070
Aug 20181,5411,82359.403.07$97,126
Jul 20181,0011,39665.142.93$69,298
Jun 20181,6512,22560.183.08$106,203
May 20181,6582,61665.382.90$115,989
Apr 20182,4772,73863.842.90$166,074
Mar 20181,3332,82361.222.79$89,474
Feb 20182,3122,49661.782.77$149,740
Jan 20181,8952,41562.874.01$128,821
Dec 20172,0312,45057.272.92$123,473
Nov 20172,5182,70355.423.12$147,976
Oct 20172,7292,55049.292.98$142,121
Sep 20171,8292,23247.523.09$93,805
Aug 20172,5282,05045.373.00$120,854
Jul 20172,2031,92043.873.09$102,573
Jun 201735975442.493.09$17,582
May 20171,7431,27145.373.26$83,228
Apr 20178551,07147.933.21$44,420
Mar 20171,23357346.772.98$59,377
Feb 20171,30389550.452.95$68,379
Jan 20171,8531,18949.413.42$95,622
Dec 2016071048.763.72$2,643
Nov 20160042.492.64$0
Oct 20160046.193.09$0
Sep 20160041.553.10$0
Aug 20160041.442.92$0
Jul 20160041.622.92$0
Jun 20160045.352.69$0
May 20160042.521.99$0
Apr 20160036.561.99$0
Mar 20160033.011.79$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.

Oct 2021 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   19 bbl  × $ 79.79 =     $1,516
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.71 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,516

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/70444 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.