KNOTTED ROPE 670-703
Operated by RILEY PERMIAN OPERATING CO, LLC (P-5 712217) in the PLATANG (SAN ANDRES) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.
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.
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.
| Stream | Basis | Volume | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oil | Disposition | 660,215 bbl | $46,965,706 |
| Casinghead gas | Production | 1,519,909 Mcf | $5,182,740 |
| Total | $52,148,446 | ||
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 33.0518, -102.8865. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.1 miles.
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.
What the state filed about each well
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 5,331 and 5,334 ft, median 5,333 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.
2 wells
| 42-50137394 | 7XH | 5,331 ft | Apr 2024 | — | — |
| 42-50137497 | 8XH | 5,334 ft | Apr 2024 | — | — |
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.
Leases whose centres are nearest (78)
Ranked by the distance between lease centres, within 5 miles. A lease has no coordinate the state files — each centre is the mean of that lease's own wells, so this measures how far apart two centres are and not whether the two leases touch.
| Lease | Operator | Centres apart |
|---|---|---|
| MISS KITTY 669-704 | RILEY PERMIAN OPERATING CO, LLC | 0.26 mi |
| KNOTTED ROPE ED 703 | RILEY PERMIAN OPERATING CO, LLC | 0.50 mi |
| KNOTTED ROPE EC 703 | RILEY PERMIAN OPERATING CO, LLC | 0.59 mi |
| SHEPHERD "703" | RILEY PERMIAN OPERATING CO, LLC | 0.69 mi |
| SHEPHERD "703" | RILEY PERMIAN OPERATING CO, LLC | 0.69 mi |
| SHEPHERD 703 | RILEY PERMIAN OPERATING CO, LLC | 0.69 mi |
| MF 732-733 | AMTEX ENERGY, INC. | 0.72 mi |
| MISS KITTY A 669-704 | RILEY PERMIAN OPERATING CO, LLC | 0.79 mi |
| MISS KITTY B 669 704 | RILEY PERMIAN OPERATING CO, LLC | 0.81 mi |
| FUTCH | AMTEX ENERGY, INC. | 1.19 mi |
The 10 nearest are listed. 78 leases in all have a centre within 5 miles of this one.
Operators who reported on those leases
Taken from the same 5-mile set above. This is who filed production, not who holds acreage — the state publishes no acreage register.
- RILEY PERMIAN OPERATING CO, LLC 40 leases, nearest 0.26 mi
- AMTEX ENERGY, INC. 4 leases, nearest 0.72 mi
- JAB OPERATING, LLC 1 lease, nearest 1.32 mi
- STAGHORN RESOURCES, LLC 1 lease, nearest 2.62 mi
- MW PETROLEUM CORPORATION 1 lease, nearest 2.79 mi
- SULPHUR RIVER EXPLORATION, INC. 1 lease, nearest 2.89 mi
Every month this lease reported (26)
Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.
26 months
| May 2026 | 16,047 | 54,183 | 106.41 | 3.05 | $1,872,594 |
| Apr 2026 | 13,909 | 52,041 | 98.93 | 2.87 | $1,525,360 |
| Mar 2026 | 18,114 | 62,838 | 89.75 | 3.15 | $1,823,636 |
| Feb 2026 | 15,971 | 56,935 | 63.50 | 3.75 | $1,227,683 |
| Jan 2026 | 18,526 | 66,157 | 59.13 | 8.00 | $1,624,561 |
| Dec 2025 | 19,011 | 67,430 | 56.66 | 4.41 | $1,374,756 |
| Nov 2025 | 19,135 | 67,003 | 58.59 | 3.93 | $1,384,203 |
| Oct 2025 | 21,108 | 69,875 | 59.38 | 3.30 | $1,484,319 |
| Sep 2025 | 21,423 | 63,364 | 62.74 | 3.08 | $1,539,045 |
| Aug 2025 | 22,561 | 60,707 | 63.93 | 3.01 | $1,625,342 |
| Jul 2025 | 23,617 | 58,838 | 66.74 | 3.32 | $1,771,258 |
| Jun 2025 | 22,181 | 53,400 | 66.48 | 3.13 | $1,641,667 |
| May 2025 | 22,795 | 69,076 | 60.55 | 3.23 | $1,603,513 |
| Apr 2025 | 23,144 | 64,500 | 62.36 | 3.54 | $1,671,791 |
| Mar 2025 | 29,118 | 75,407 | 67.70 | 4.27 | $2,293,150 |
| Feb 2025 | 27,779 | 66,652 | 70.88 | 4.34 | $2,258,301 |
| Jan 2025 | 30,310 | 63,515 | 74.32 | 4.28 | $2,524,400 |
| Dec 2024 | 32,076 | 59,131 | 68.99 | 3.12 | $2,397,493 |
| Nov 2024 | 33,890 | 63,993 | 69.05 | 2.20 | $2,480,789 |
| Oct 2024 | 37,821 | 68,087 | 71.37 | 2.28 | $2,854,618 |
| Sep 2024 | 42,546 | 74,304 | 69.61 | 2.36 | $3,137,308 |
| Aug 2024 | 45,913 | 72,330 | 75.63 | 2.06 | $3,621,663 |
| Jul 2024 | 45,516 | 59,643 | 79.93 | 2.15 | $3,766,123 |
| Jun 2024 | 41,867 | 38,486 | 78.08 | 2.63 | $3,370,347 |
| May 2024 | 15,837 | 12,014 | 78.81 | 2.20 | $1,274,526 |
| Apr 2024 | 0 | 0 | 84.45 | 1.66 | $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.
Oil 16,047 bbl × $106.41 = $1,707,561 Casinghead gas 54,183 Mcf × $ 3.05 = $165,033 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── Month total $1,872,594
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/71378 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.