WHITEHEAD "A"

Name: WHITEHEAD "A" lease production and value, Jul 2001 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by NEWFIELD EXPLORATION COMPANY (P-5 606617) in the LANGTRY (CANYON) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 185112District 01Field 519892002 tax incentive programmesGasSave Export

Value, all time

$10.6 M

Jul 2001 – Oct 2010

Value, last 12 filed months

$251 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

112

no gaps in the span

Streams

gas

The LANGTRY (CANYON) 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 27 leases and 27 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

2000-01-04

as the register files it

Field class

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 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2001-03-06.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 07/01/2001.”

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
High Cost Gas	1	1	2002-09-23	148923
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
Gas	Production	2,170,607 Mcf	$10,633,518
Total			$10,633,518

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 30.0324, -100.7116. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.03235, -100.71160 · 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

11,878 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

9.3 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 11,878 ft.

Completions filed

Jul 2001

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Oct 2010

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 9.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.3 years and 9.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-46530659	8001	11,878 ft	Jul 2001	Oct 2010	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 (112)

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

112 months


Oct 2010	0	78.10	3.51	$0
Sep 2010	0	72.63	3.98	$0
Aug 2010	216	73.68	4.42	$955
Jul 2010	3,242	72.55	4.74	$15,356
Jun 2010	3,016	70.36	4.91	$14,810
May 2010	3,059	71.12	4.24	$12,956
Apr 2010	3,093	81.69	4.12	$12,751
Mar 2010	3,863	78.39	4.39	$16,953
Feb 2010	7,831	73.58	5.44	$42,619
Jan 2010	8,948	74.36	5.96	$53,367
Dec 2009	8,851	71.44	5.48	$48,537
Nov 2009	8,743	74.59	3.75	$32,799
Oct 2009	9,276	72.54	4.11	$38,127
Sep 2009	9,217	65.54	3.06	$28,248
Aug 2009	9,528	67.42	3.22	$30,666
Jul 2009	9,798	61.13	3.46	$33,945
Jun 2009	9,844	66.16	3.90	$38,342
May 2009	9,357	54.74	3.93	$36,733
Apr 2009	9,529	46.77	3.59	$34,185
Mar 2009	10,173	42.14	4.06	$41,292
Feb 2009	9,518	32.81	4.63	$44,097
Jan 2009	10,223	35.86	5.37	$54,908
Dec 2008	6,648	37.10	5.98	$39,736
Nov 2008	9,429	55.49	6.86	$64,686
Oct 2008	11,192	75.24	6.92	$77,471
Sep 2008	11,767	101.76	7.88	$92,690
Aug 2008	11,080	114.22	8.48	$93,992
Jul 2008	10,964	131.08	11.39	$124,874
Jun 2008	12,707	131.33	13.03	$165,606
May 2008	12,263	123.17	11.57	$141,936
Apr 2008	11,549	110.31	10.45	$120,743
Mar 2008	11,661	101.90	9.66	$112,693
Feb 2008	10,302	92.53	8.77	$90,355
Jan 2008	9,860	90.38	8.21	$80,909
Dec 2007	9,738	88.33	7.30	$71,107
Nov 2007	10,527	91.67	7.29	$76,760
Oct 2007	11,166	82.85	6.92	$77,291
Sep 2007	10,954	75.84	6.24	$68,399
Aug 2007	10,508	69.06	6.39	$67,124
Jul 2007	10,339	70.90	6.39	$66,045
Jun 2007	9,160	62.00	7.55	$69,144
May 2007	9,359	58.74	7.85	$73,433
Apr 2007	9,579	59.61	7.81	$74,766
Mar 2007	10,879	56.92	7.30	$79,438
Feb 2007	9,767	55.10	8.22	$80,246
Jan 2007	13,159	50.30	6.73	$88,519
Dec 2006	12,436	56.65	6.92	$86,038
Nov 2006	11,371	54.20	7.62	$86,618
Oct 2006	10,323	54.90	6.01	$62,080
Sep 2006	9,245	60.08	5.04	$46,569
Aug 2006	10,748	68.71	7.34	$78,889
Jul 2006	11,104	69.37	6.34	$70,430
Jun 2006	10,451	66.28	6.38	$66,718
May 2006	9,451	66.01	6.42	$60,723
Apr 2006	9,545	64.39	7.36	$70,256
Mar 2006	13,172	56.70	7.08	$93,296
Feb 2006	9,989	57.59	7.75	$77,426
Jan 2006	9,450	60.59	8.93	$84,420
Dec 2005	10,123	54.94	13.42	$135,804
Nov 2005	8,699	54.69	10.59	$92,108
Oct 2005	9,453	58.34	13.80	$130,411
Sep 2005	9,938	61.45	12.08	$120,041
Aug 2005	11,719	61.51	9.80	$114,809
Jul 2005	10,149	55.69	7.84	$79,605
Jun 2005	11,188	52.33	7.38	$82,579
May 2005	12,768	45.22	6.65	$84,922
Apr 2005	12,077	49.20	7.36	$88,893
Mar 2005	14,055	50.37	7.15	$100,562
Feb 2005	12,200	45.22	6.31	$77,005
Jan 2005	14,399	43.16	6.32	$91,033
Dec 2004	12,529	39.86	6.75	$84,584
Nov 2004	13,062	45.28	6.33	$82,688
Oct 2004	11,521	49.70	6.52	$75,060
Sep 2004	9,871	43.24	5.28	$52,157
Aug 2004	11,280	42.37	5.55	$62,611
Jul 2004	10,787	38.28	6.08	$65,630
Jun 2004	9,588	36.10	6.43	$61,680
May 2004	10,726	37.48	6.49	$69,661
Apr 2004	12,554	34.47	5.86	$73,547
Mar 2004	14,519	34.36	5.53	$80,292
Feb 2004	11,013	32.45	5.51	$60,677
Jan 2004	14,127	32.03	6.30	$88,995
Dec 2003	16,023	30.26	6.30	$100,971
Nov 2003	15,159	28.80	4.60	$69,658
Oct 2003	18,917	28.17	4.76	$90,038
Sep 2003	20,446	26.31	4.75	$97,105
Aug 2003	23,755	29.76	5.13	$121,857
Jul 2003	24,290	29.41	5.17	$125,600
Jun 2003	29,456	28.56	5.98	$176,234
May 2003	31,405	26.59	5.97	$187,572
Apr 2003	29,861	26.67	5.41	$161,467
Mar 2003	31,760	31.14	6.10	$193,610
Feb 2003	40,436	33.48	7.93	$320,491
Jan 2003	32,392	30.31	5.58	$180,813
Dec 2002	34,940	26.91	4.85	$169,590
Nov 2002	32,454	24.66	4.14	$134,261
Oct 2002	38,161	26.46	4.23	$161,387
Sep 2002	39,738	27.44	3.64	$144,456
Aug 2002	41,213	25.96	3.16	$130,405
Jul 2002	44,376	24.58	3.06	$135,869
Jun 2002	43,036	23.73	3.34	$143,665
May 2002	48,917	24.66	3.58	$175,319
Apr 2002	41,429	23.65	3.51	$145,512
Mar 2002	44,352	22.00	3.10	$137,612
Feb 2002	43,465	18.22	2.38	$103,259
Jan 2002	52,987	17.17	2.38	$125,880
Dec 2001	57,825	16.93	2.36	$136,721
Nov 2001	72,581	18.07	2.41	$174,595
Oct 2001	75,242	19.78	2.53	$190,278
Sep 2001	133,422	24.26	2.25	$300,376
Aug 2001	174,339	24.87	3.05	$532,285
Jul 2001	30,718	23.93	3.20	$98,208

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.

Aug 2010 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Gas                  216 Mcf  × $  4.42 =       $955

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Month total                                     $955

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/185112 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.