WHATABURGER

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

Operated by BOTASCH OPERATING, LLC (P-5 83330) in the ED STUMBERG (OLMOS A) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 121308District 01Field 27508500NGPA filingCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$108 k

Jan 1993 – Jul 2012

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

235

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The ED STUMBERG (OLMOS A) 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 8 leases and 8 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1984-11-14

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

—

no field rule filed

From a lease line

—

no field rule filed

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “EXEMPT FIELD EFFECTIVE 6-1-97.”

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	2	none	—	—

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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
Condensate	Disposition	81 bbl	$1,010
Gas	Production	27,172 Mcf	$106,939
Total			$107,949

9,059 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 39 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 28.3636, -99.6460. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.36365, -99.64598 · 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

100.0%

1 of 1 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

1 of 1 wells

Median depth

4,800 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

26.3 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 4,800 ft.

Completions filed

Mar 1986

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Jul 2012

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 26.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 26.3 years and 26.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-12732742	1	4,800 ft	Mar 1986	Jul 2012	Yes

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 (235)

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

235 months


Jul 2012	0	0	85.13	3.02	$0
Jun 2012	0	0	79.82	2.52	$0
May 2012	0	0	91.61	2.49	$0
Apr 2012	0	0	101.65	2.00	$0
Mar 2012	0	0	105.05	2.22	$0
Feb 2012	0	0	101.10	2.57	$0
Jan 2012	0	0	98.09	2.73	$0
Dec 2011	0	0	96.87	3.24	$0
Nov 2011	0	0	95.72	3.31	$0
Oct 2011	0	0	84.98	3.65	$0
Sep 2011	0	0	83.62	3.99	$0
Aug 2011	0	0	83.40	4.15	$0
Jul 2011	0	0	94.14	4.52	$0
Jun 2011	0	0	92.90	4.64	$0
May 2011	0	0	98.13	4.40	$0
Apr 2011	0	0	105.96	4.33	$0
Mar 2011	0	0	96.36	4.06	$0
Feb 2011	0	0	85.64	4.18	$0
Jan 2011	0	0	86.50	4.59	$0
Dec 2010	0	0	85.73	4.35	$0
Nov 2010	0	0	80.84	3.80	$0
Oct 2010	0	0	78.10	3.51	$0
Sep 2010	0	0	72.63	3.98	$0
Aug 2010	0	0	73.68	4.42	$0
Jul 2010	0	275	72.55	4.74	$1,303
Jun 2010	0	241	70.36	4.91	$1,183
May 2010	0	170	71.12	4.24	$720
Apr 2010	0	114	81.69	4.12	$470
Mar 2010	0	155	78.39	4.39	$680
Feb 2010	0	89	73.58	5.44	$484
Jan 2010	0	35	74.36	5.96	$209
Dec 2009	0	59	71.44	5.48	$324
Nov 2009	0	118	74.59	3.75	$443
Oct 2009	0	173	72.54	4.11	$711
Sep 2009	0	173	65.54	3.06	$530
Aug 2009	0	173	67.42	3.22	$557
Jul 2009	0	168	61.13	3.46	$582
Jun 2009	0	166	66.16	3.90	$647
May 2009	0	150	54.74	3.93	$589
Apr 2009	0	164	46.77	3.59	$588
Mar 2009	0	172	42.14	4.06	$698
Feb 2009	0	150	32.81	4.63	$695
Jan 2009	0	151	35.86	5.37	$811
Dec 2008	0	178	37.10	5.98	$1,064
Nov 2008	0	90	55.49	6.86	$617
Oct 2008	0	148	75.24	6.92	$1,024
Sep 2008	0	151	101.76	7.88	$1,189
Aug 2008	0	147	114.22	8.48	$1,247
Jul 2008	0	137	131.08	11.39	$1,560
Jun 2008	0	143	131.33	13.03	$1,864
May 2008	0	147	123.17	11.57	$1,701
Apr 2008	0	147	110.31	10.45	$1,537
Mar 2008	0	153	101.90	9.66	$1,479
Feb 2008	0	155	92.53	8.77	$1,359
Jan 2008	0	208	90.38	8.21	$1,707
Dec 2007	0	167	88.33	7.30	$1,219
Nov 2007	0	170	91.67	7.29	$1,240
Oct 2007	0	171	82.85	6.92	$1,184
Sep 2007	0	127	75.84	6.24	$793
Aug 2007	0	129	69.06	6.39	$824
Jul 2007	0	193	70.90	6.39	$1,233
Jun 2007	0	201	62.00	7.55	$1,517
May 2007	0	95	58.74	7.85	$745
Apr 2007	0	113	59.61	7.81	$882
Mar 2007	0	122	56.92	7.30	$891
Feb 2007	0	127	55.10	8.22	$1,043
Jan 2007	0	173	50.30	6.73	$1,164
Dec 2006	0	151	56.65	6.92	$1,045
Nov 2006	0	174	54.20	7.62	$1,325
Oct 2006	0	172	54.90	6.01	$1,034
Sep 2006	0	164	60.08	5.04	$826
Aug 2006	0	167	68.71	7.34	$1,226
Jul 2006	0	167	69.37	6.34	$1,059
Jun 2006	0	145	66.28	6.38	$926
May 2006	0	162	66.01	6.42	$1,041
Apr 2006	0	0	64.39	7.36	$0
Mar 2006	0	146	56.70	7.08	$1,034
Feb 2006	0	164	57.59	7.75	$1,271
Jan 2006	0	198	60.59	8.93	$1,769
Dec 2005	0	233	54.94	13.42	$3,126
Nov 2005	0	215	54.69	10.59	$2,277
Oct 2005	0	211	58.34	13.80	$2,911
Sep 2005	0	199	61.45	12.08	$2,404
Aug 2005	0	193	61.51	9.80	$1,891
Jul 2005	0	193	55.69	7.84	$1,514
Jun 2005	0	186	52.33	7.38	$1,373
May 2005	0	193	45.22	6.65	$1,284
Apr 2005	0	166	49.20	7.36	$1,222
Mar 2005	0	179	50.37	7.15	$1,281
Feb 2005	0	129	45.22	6.31	$814
Jan 2005	0	84	43.16	6.32	$531
Dec 2004	0	14	39.86	6.75	$95
Nov 2004	0	82	45.28	6.33	$519
Oct 2004	0	179	49.70	6.52	$1,166
Sep 2004	0	105	43.24	5.28	$555
Aug 2004	0	92	42.37	5.55	$511
Jul 2004	0	185	38.28	6.08	$1,126
Jun 2004	0	132	36.10	6.43	$849
May 2004	0	215	37.48	6.49	$1,396
Apr 2004	0	193	34.47	5.86	$1,131
Mar 2004	0	197	34.36	5.53	$1,089
Feb 2004	0	166	32.45	5.51	$915
Jan 2004	0	174	32.03	6.30	$1,096
Dec 2003	0	125	30.26	6.30	$788
Nov 2003	0	128	28.80	4.60	$588
Oct 2003	0	88	28.17	4.76	$419
Sep 2003	0	203	26.31	4.75	$964
Aug 2003	0	147	29.76	5.13	$754
Jul 2003	0	161	29.41	5.17	$833
Jun 2003	0	72	28.56	5.98	$431
May 2003	0	82	26.59	5.97	$490
Apr 2003	0	88	26.67	5.41	$476
Mar 2003	0	118	31.14	6.10	$719
Feb 2003	0	78	33.48	7.93	$618
Jan 2003	0	112	30.31	5.58	$625
Dec 2002	0	77	26.91	4.85	$374
Nov 2002	0	51	24.66	4.14	$211
Oct 2002	0	73	26.46	4.23	$309
Sep 2002	0	63	27.44	3.64	$229
Aug 2002	0	66	25.96	3.16	$209
Jul 2002	0	66	24.58	3.06	$202
Jun 2002	0	36	23.73	3.34	$120
May 2002	0	94	24.66	3.58	$337
Apr 2002	0	77	23.65	3.51	$270
Mar 2002	0	76	22.00	3.10	$236
Feb 2002	0	95	18.22	2.38	$226
Jan 2002	0	88	17.17	2.38	$209
Dec 2001	0	52	16.93	2.36	$123
Nov 2001	0	28	18.07	2.41	$67
Oct 2001	0	47	19.78	2.53	$119
Sep 2001	0	35	24.26	2.25	$79
Aug 2001	0	36	24.87	3.05	$110
Jul 2001	0	52	23.93	3.20	$166
Jun 2001	0	69	24.56	3.82	$264
May 2001	0	65	25.52	4.31	$280
Apr 2001	0	70	24.68	5.34	$373
Mar 2001	0	96	24.54	5.38	$516
Feb 2001	0	57	27.75	5.77	$329
Jan 2001	0	78	27.47	8.40	$655
Dec 2000	0	46	26.88	9.12	$420
Nov 2000	0	50	32.21	5.66	$283
Oct 2000	0	61	31.23	5.15	$314
Sep 2000	0	58	31.87	5.19	$301
Aug 2000	0	59	29.64	4.54	$268
Jul 2000	0	63	28.53	4.09	$258
Jun 2000	0	56	29.30	4.40	$246
May 2000	0	60	27.26	3.68	$221
Apr 2000	0	72	24.51	3.12	$224
Mar 2000	0	78	28.42	2.86	$223
Feb 2000	0	56	27.62	2.73	$153
Jan 2000	0	59	25.27	2.48	$146
Dec 1999	0	35	24.28	2.42	$85
Nov 1999	0	47	23.19	2.43	$114
Oct 1999	0	57	20.98	2.80	$160
Sep 1999	0	57	21.75	2.62	$149
Aug 1999	0	46	19.26	2.88	$132
Jul 1999	0	46	17.89	2.37	$109
Jun 1999	0	52	15.94	2.36	$123
May 1999	0	54	15.79	2.32	$125
Apr 1999	0	64	15.10	2.21	$141
Mar 1999	78	71	12.47	1.84	$1,103
Feb 1999	0	48	9.98	1.82	$87
Jan 1999	0	46	10.38	1.90	$87
Dec 1998	0	56	9.20	1.77	$99
Nov 1998	0	55	10.89	2.19	$120
Oct 1998	0	58	12.42	1.97	$114
Sep 1998	0	55	12.59	2.08	$115
Aug 1998	0	73	11.30	1.91	$139
Jul 1998	0	64	11.74	2.24	$143
Jun 1998	0	63	11.24	2.24	$141
May 1998	0	59	12.62	2.21	$130
Apr 1998	0	93	13.04	2.51	$233
Mar 1998	0	94	12.80	2.31	$217
Feb 1998	0	77	13.95	2.30	$177
Jan 1998	0	46	14.70	2.15	$99
Dec 1997	0	68	16.32	2.41	$164
Nov 1997	0	60	18.19	3.09	$185
Oct 1997	0	73	19.25	3.15	$230
Sep 1997	0	76	17.74	2.95	$225
Aug 1997	0	88	17.86	2.55	$225
Jul 1997	0	91	17.58	2.25	$204
Jun 1997	0	119	17.24	2.26	$269
May 1997	0	160	18.97	2.31	$369
Apr 1997	0	37	17.88	2.08	$77
Mar 1997	0	24	18.95	1.94	$47
Feb 1997	0	10	20.49	2.21	$22
Jan 1997	0	11	23.48	3.54	$39
Dec 1996	0	0	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	0	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	14	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	0	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	4	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	0	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	0	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	0	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	0	0	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	0	0	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	0	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	99	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	0	147	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	0	185	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	211	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	190	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	198	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	201	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	188	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	172	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	0	160	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	0	225	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	0	235	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	0	217	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	0	192	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	0	176	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	0	209	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	0	185	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	0	178	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	0	101	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	0	204	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	0	234	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	0	684	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	0	235	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	0	180	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	0	213	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	3	153	12.33	—	$37
Nov 1993	0	171	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	0	222	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	0	280	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	0	201	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	0	257	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	0	309	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	0	431	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	0	154	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	0	394	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	0	410	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	0	840	16.93	—	$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.

Jul 2010 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 72.55 =         $0
Gas                  275 Mcf  × $  4.74 =     $1,303

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $1,303

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. 01/G/121308 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.