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CHICKEN ON A CHAIN

Operated by BURK ROYALTY CO., LTD. (P-5 108799) in the COCHRAN (SAN ANDRES) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 70947District 8AField 19261666Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$7.0 M
Apr 2019 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$583 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
86
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead gas

The COCHRAN (SAN ANDRES) 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 30 leases and 33 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1954-06-30
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 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2018-06-19.

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: “PER DOCKET 8A-0309921, TEMPORARY RULES EXPIRE ON 6/19/2020.”

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
OilDisposition91,564 bbl$6,042,517
Casinghead gasProduction233,078 Mcf$931,917
Total$6,974,433

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 33.5920, -102.9932. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.59202, -102.99320 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
5,011 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 5,011 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 2019
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-079334049H5,011 ftApr 2019——

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 (86)

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

86 months

May 20265012,502106.413.05$60,932
Apr 20266632,76398.932.87$73,520
Mar 20263321,82489.753.15$35,542
Feb 20266471,70563.503.75$47,479
Jan 20264762,53759.138.00$48,437
Dec 20256582,78056.664.41$49,551
Nov 20253441,93058.593.93$27,733
Oct 20256542,59559.383.30$47,411
Sep 20255242,39962.743.08$40,257
Aug 20256472,45063.933.01$48,749
Jul 20255012,50166.743.32$41,728
Jun 20258122,45566.483.13$61,663
May 20254762,39460.553.23$36,560
Apr 20256382,51162.363.54$48,682
Mar 20254791,48267.704.27$38,754
Feb 20256512,40470.884.34$56,578
Jan 20257002,50974.324.28$62,759
Dec 20246422,56068.993.12$52,282
Nov 20248232,48969.052.20$62,300
Oct 20246622,44671.372.28$52,827
Sep 20248122,48969.612.36$62,408
Aug 20246582,52775.632.06$54,979
Jul 20240079.932.15$0
Jun 20246922,30978.082.63$60,113
May 20248442,37778.812.20$71,741
Apr 20241,1922,45884.451.66$104,743
Mar 20246962,12580.301.55$59,172
Feb 20248152,78276.091.78$66,975
Jan 202406673.023.30$218
Dec 20237601,78371.262.61$58,813
Nov 20237882,42377.892.81$68,180
Oct 20239533,29985.443.09$91,609
Sep 202315855689.042.74$15,589
Aug 20233171,20380.522.67$28,740
Jul 20238032,88474.852.64$67,724
Jun 20237993,19968.962.26$62,324
May 20238323,45770.622.23$66,456
Apr 20239803,40978.122.24$84,186
Mar 20238013,69472.852.39$67,193
Feb 20239533,46575.112.47$80,123
Jan 20239544,21376.533.39$87,282
Dec 20229774,22376.415.73$98,846
Nov 20227784,28085.005.65$90,296
Oct 20221,1844,77087.185.86$131,191
Sep 20221,1734,68584.888.16$137,811
Aug 20221,0514,89094.529.13$143,972
Jul 20221,1244,686101.587.54$149,518
Jun 20221,1434,357115.097.98$166,305
May 20221,1684,969109.378.43$169,648
Apr 20221,2505,485104.226.84$167,779
Mar 20221,2714,618108.885.08$161,829
Feb 20221,1004,00491.054.86$119,610
Jan 20221,2454,55681.844.54$122,564
Dec 20211,7434,99771.323.90$143,795
Nov 20211,1225,54677.435.24$115,920
Oct 20211,6076,65379.795.71$166,237
Sep 20211,9166,67469.865.35$169,564
Aug 20219742,29166.024.22$73,973
Jul 20219811,31270.783.98$74,660
Jun 20211,12087569.493.38$80,787
May 202194583863.483.02$62,517
Apr 20211,29579860.362.76$80,367
Mar 20211,03176761.302.72$65,284
Feb 20211,36945857.805.55$81,669
Jan 20211,32876850.412.81$69,103
Dec 20201,1331,06944.642.68$53,437
Nov 20201,4811,11438.772.71$60,433
Oct 20201,3362,12536.972.48$54,659
Sep 20201,536037.091.99$56,970
Aug 20201,320039.982.39$52,774
Jul 20201,7532,04338.371.83$70,991
Jun 20201,34944334.901.69$47,829
May 20200016.921.81$0
Apr 202051411014.751.80$7,780
Mar 20201,2021,79330.341.86$39,797
Feb 20201,8861,96949.881.98$97,974
Jan 20201,3682,28057.252.09$83,094
Dec 20192,0302,97059.012.30$126,634
Nov 20192,2293,19555.302.75$132,052
Oct 20191,8772,48153.472.42$106,364
Sep 20192,5352,80055.052.66$146,992
Aug 20193,0845,60953.112.30$176,716
Jul 20193,4286,56856.272.46$209,051
Jun 20193,9336,96052.782.49$224,922
May 20192,0384,09558.482.74$130,404
Apr 20190062.632.75$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.

May 2026 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  501 bbl  × $106.41 =    $53,311
Casinghead gas     2,502 Mcf  × $  3.05 =     $7,621

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Month total                                  $60,932

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/70947 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.