FOSTER, J.R. "82"

Operated by HIGHMOUNT EXPL & PROD TEXAS LLC (P-5 385842) in the SIMPSON-MANN (CANYON) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 168770District 01Field 837043002 tax incentive programmesGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$245 k
Aug 1997 – Mar 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
164
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
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 204 leases and 205 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1984-09-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1988-10-10.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: DOC.01-0219396 WELLS OP UNDER NET RATIO NOT EXCEED 550 MCF

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.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
High Cost Gas111999-03-31140070
NGPA1none

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.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
GasProduction43,301 Mcf$245,067
Total$245,067

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 30.2696, -101.7353. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.26958, -101.73533 · 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
6,222 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
12.8 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 6,222 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 1998
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 2011
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 12.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 12.8 years and 12.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4653055316,222 ftJul 1998Apr 2011Yes

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 (164)

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

164 months

Mar 2011096.364.06$0
Feb 2011085.644.18$0
Jan 2011086.504.59$0
Dec 2010085.734.35$0
Nov 2010080.843.80$0
Oct 2010078.103.51$0
Sep 2010072.633.98$0
Aug 2010073.684.42$0
Jul 2010072.554.74$0
Jun 2010070.364.91$0
May 2010071.124.24$0
Apr 2010081.694.12$0
Mar 2010078.394.39$0
Feb 2010073.585.44$0
Jan 2010074.365.96$0
Dec 2009071.445.48$0
Nov 2009074.593.75$0
Oct 2009072.544.11$0
Sep 2009065.543.06$0
Aug 2009067.423.22$0
Jul 2009061.133.46$0
Jun 2009066.163.90$0
May 2009054.743.93$0
Apr 2009046.773.59$0
Mar 200916442.144.06$666
Feb 200923932.814.63$1,107
Jan 200938935.865.37$2,089
Dec 200846837.105.98$2,797
Nov 200867355.496.86$4,617
Oct 200843175.246.92$2,983
Sep 2008295101.767.88$2,324
Aug 2008701114.228.48$5,947
Jul 2008339131.0811.39$3,861
Jun 2008444131.3313.03$5,786
May 2008606123.1711.57$7,014
Apr 2008439110.3110.45$4,590
Mar 2008320101.909.66$3,093
Feb 200823692.538.77$2,070
Jan 200818390.388.21$1,502
Dec 200722688.337.30$1,650
Nov 200728591.677.29$2,078
Oct 200730282.856.92$2,090
Sep 200760475.846.24$3,771
Aug 200777869.066.39$4,970
Jul 200751270.906.39$3,271
Jun 200740462.007.55$3,050
May 200734558.747.85$2,707
Apr 200734259.617.81$2,669
Mar 200730556.927.30$2,227
Feb 200730255.108.22$2,481
Jan 200731250.306.73$2,099
Dec 200617856.656.92$1,231
Nov 200625354.207.62$1,927
Oct 200630354.906.01$1,822
Sep 200627360.085.04$1,375
Aug 200630868.717.34$2,261
Jul 200633169.376.34$2,099
Jun 200635466.286.38$2,260
May 200633266.016.42$2,133
Apr 200631964.397.36$2,348
Mar 200632456.707.08$2,295
Feb 200632057.597.75$2,480
Jan 200640360.598.93$3,600
Dec 200534854.9413.42$4,669
Nov 200529854.6910.59$3,155
Oct 200531258.3413.80$4,304
Sep 200529261.4512.08$3,527
Aug 200531261.519.80$3,057
Jul 200531455.697.84$2,463
Jun 200529652.337.38$2,185
May 200530545.226.65$2,029
Apr 200530849.207.36$2,267
Mar 200532750.377.15$2,340
Feb 200530645.226.31$1,931
Jan 200534543.166.32$2,181
Dec 200434839.866.75$2,349
Nov 200433745.286.33$2,133
Oct 200432249.706.52$2,098
Sep 200432443.245.28$1,712
Aug 200433642.375.55$1,865
Jul 200434138.286.08$2,075
Jun 200433136.106.43$2,129
May 200434437.486.49$2,234
Apr 200432834.475.86$1,922
Mar 200434534.365.53$1,908
Feb 200433532.455.51$1,846
Jan 200436332.036.30$2,287
Dec 200333430.266.30$2,105
Nov 200331728.804.60$1,457
Oct 200334528.174.76$1,642
Sep 200333526.314.75$1,591
Aug 200331929.765.13$1,636
Jul 200332729.415.17$1,691
Jun 200327728.565.98$1,657
May 200335726.595.97$2,132
Apr 200331826.675.41$1,720
Mar 200332431.146.10$1,975
Feb 200331233.487.93$2,473
Jan 200336030.315.58$2,010
Dec 200235526.914.85$1,723
Nov 200240324.664.14$1,667
Oct 200235626.464.23$1,506
Sep 200232627.443.64$1,185
Aug 200233925.963.16$1,073
Jul 200235024.583.06$1,072
Jun 200237023.733.34$1,235
May 200233424.663.58$1,197
Apr 200228023.653.51$983
Mar 200227422.003.10$850
Feb 200224718.222.38$587
Jan 200224817.172.38$589
Dec 200127216.932.36$643
Nov 200127318.072.41$657
Oct 200128419.782.53$718
Sep 200120124.262.25$453
Aug 200123824.873.05$727
Jul 200127423.933.20$876
Jun 200124124.563.82$922
May 200125325.524.31$1,090
Apr 200123224.685.34$1,238
Mar 200125824.545.38$1,387
Feb 200123127.755.77$1,332
Jan 200123327.478.40$1,957
Dec 200027926.889.12$2,545
Nov 200024332.215.66$1,375
Oct 200027231.235.15$1,400
Sep 200023431.875.19$1,214
Aug 200027029.644.54$1,226
Jul 200025628.534.09$1,047
Jun 200023229.304.40$1,020
May 200019527.263.68$718
Apr 200025424.513.12$791
Mar 200026928.422.86$769
Feb 200024627.622.73$671
Jan 200027625.272.48$685
Dec 199926524.282.42$642
Nov 199924223.192.43$589
Oct 199922720.982.80$636
Sep 199925221.752.62$660
Aug 199926119.262.88$751
Jul 199928717.892.37$681
Jun 199931615.942.36$746
May 199933415.792.32$775
Apr 199933915.102.21$749
Mar 199934912.471.84$642
Feb 19993359.981.82$609
Jan 199937410.381.90$711
Dec 19984129.201.77$731
Nov 199842110.892.19$920
Oct 199860912.421.97$1,199
Sep 199863612.592.08$1,325
Aug 199870711.301.91$1,349
Jul 199895311.742.24$2,132
Jun 1998011.242.24$0
May 1998012.622.21$0
Apr 1998013.042.51$0
Mar 1998012.802.31$0
Feb 1998013.952.30$0
Jan 1998014.702.15$0
Dec 1997016.322.41$0
Nov 1997018.193.09$0
Oct 1997019.253.15$0
Sep 1997017.742.95$0
Aug 1997017.862.55$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.

Mar 2009 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  164 Mcf  × $  4.06 =       $666

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Month total                                     $666

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/168770 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.