ECKENROTH, ED. H.

Operated by VIRTEX OPERATING COMPANY, INC. (P-5 886261) in the BIG FOOT, WEST (GAS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 31District 01Field 07856250GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$555 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2009
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
195
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 92 leases and 92 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1952-11-13
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
2,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 213 acres. The field rule took effect on 1985-06-14.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 08/01/2002.

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
GasProduction202,312 Mcf$555,424
Total$555,424

73,500 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 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 28.9842, -99.0421. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.98423, -99.04207 · 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
3,320 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
50.3 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 3,320 ft.

Completions filed
Nov 1958
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2009
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 50.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 50.3 years and 50.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-1630111123,320 ftNov 1958Mar 2009Yes

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 (195)

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

195 months

Mar 2009042.144.06$0
Feb 2009032.814.63$0
Jan 2009035.865.37$0
Dec 2008037.105.98$0
Nov 2008055.496.86$0
Oct 2008075.246.92$0
Sep 20080101.767.88$0
Aug 20080114.228.48$0
Jul 20080131.0811.39$0
Jun 20080131.3313.03$0
May 20080123.1711.57$0
Apr 20080110.3110.45$0
Mar 20080101.909.66$0
Feb 2008092.538.77$0
Jan 2008090.388.21$0
Dec 2007088.337.30$0
Nov 2007091.677.29$0
Oct 2007082.856.92$0
Sep 2007075.846.24$0
Aug 2007069.066.39$0
Jul 2007070.906.39$0
Jun 200724462.007.55$1,842
May 20071058.747.85$78
Apr 200712859.617.81$999
Mar 200739556.927.30$2,884
Feb 200724355.108.22$1,996
Jan 2007050.306.73$0
Dec 2006056.656.92$0
Nov 200610054.207.62$762
Oct 2006054.906.01$0
Sep 2006060.085.04$0
Aug 2006068.717.34$0
Jul 20066869.376.34$431
Jun 2006066.286.38$0
May 2006066.016.42$0
Apr 2006064.397.36$0
Mar 2006056.707.08$0
Feb 20068657.597.75$667
Jan 200687360.598.93$7,799
Dec 20051,26054.9413.42$16,903
Nov 20051,27154.6910.59$13,458
Oct 20051,29758.3413.80$17,893
Sep 20051,30661.4512.08$15,775
Aug 20051,31161.519.80$12,844
Jul 20051,49555.697.84$11,726
Jun 20051,02352.337.38$7,551
May 20051,02745.226.65$6,831
Apr 200574249.207.36$5,461
Mar 200555450.377.15$3,964
Feb 200565145.226.31$4,109
Jan 200587343.166.32$5,519
Dec 200492239.866.75$6,225
Nov 20041,10645.286.33$7,001
Oct 2004049.706.52$0
Sep 200421343.245.28$1,125
Aug 200464242.375.55$3,564
Jul 200468138.286.08$4,143
Jun 200476236.106.43$4,902
May 200442437.486.49$2,754
Apr 200461034.475.86$3,574
Mar 20041,11634.365.53$6,172
Feb 20041,09732.455.51$6,044
Jan 20041,03532.036.30$6,520
Dec 20031,07230.266.30$6,755
Nov 20031,05228.804.60$4,834
Oct 20031,19328.174.76$5,678
Sep 20031,17026.314.75$5,557
Aug 20031,19129.765.13$6,110
Jul 20031,13229.415.17$5,853
Jun 20031,18828.565.98$7,108
May 20031,21026.595.97$7,227
Apr 20031,10526.675.41$5,975
Mar 20031,17031.146.10$7,132
Feb 20031,02833.487.93$8,148
Jan 20031,16930.315.58$6,525
Dec 20021,21826.914.85$5,912
Nov 20021,13224.664.14$4,683
Oct 20021,21426.464.23$5,134
Sep 20021,19427.443.64$4,340
Aug 20021,23225.963.16$3,898
Jul 20021,26824.583.06$3,882
Jun 20021,25023.733.34$4,173
May 20021,31924.663.58$4,727
Apr 20021,22923.653.51$4,317
Mar 20021,26522.003.10$3,925
Feb 20021,22418.222.38$2,908
Jan 200275117.172.38$1,784
Dec 20011,23616.932.36$2,922
Nov 20011,19218.072.41$2,867
Oct 20011,26019.782.53$3,186
Sep 20011,26624.262.25$2,850
Aug 20011,33024.873.05$4,061
Jul 20011,37823.933.20$4,406
Jun 20011,22224.563.82$4,673
May 20011,43825.524.31$6,194
Apr 200188024.685.34$4,695
Mar 20011,28524.545.38$6,909
Feb 20011,16227.755.77$6,701
Jan 20011,12327.478.40$9,432
Dec 20001,19026.889.12$10,856
Nov 20001,20032.215.66$6,790
Oct 20001,27431.235.15$6,555
Sep 20001,26031.875.19$6,535
Aug 20001,34729.644.54$6,116
Jul 20001,37928.534.09$5,640
Jun 20001,27029.304.40$5,585
May 20001,33227.263.68$4,901
Apr 20001,29124.513.12$4,023
Mar 20001,32328.422.86$3,783
Feb 20001,18227.622.73$3,223
Jan 20001,29325.272.48$3,207
Dec 19991,26424.282.42$3,064
Nov 19991,23323.192.43$3,001
Oct 19991,22320.982.80$3,429
Sep 19991,26321.752.62$3,308
Aug 19991,34819.262.88$3,876
Jul 19991,28417.892.37$3,046
Jun 19991,26215.942.36$2,981
May 19991,32815.792.32$3,082
Apr 19991,27415.102.21$2,813
Mar 19991,26712.471.84$2,329
Feb 19991,2129.981.82$2,203
Jan 19991,33710.381.90$2,540
Dec 19981,3199.201.77$2,339
Nov 19981,30610.892.19$2,855
Oct 19981,18312.421.97$2,330
Sep 19981,19412.592.08$2,487
Aug 19981,33911.301.91$2,554
Jul 19981,32111.742.24$2,955
Jun 19981,43311.242.24$3,206
May 199896112.622.21$2,120
Apr 19981,32013.042.51$3,307
Mar 19981,35712.802.31$3,134
Feb 19981,18013.952.30$2,713
Jan 19981,32214.702.15$2,849
Dec 19971,33316.322.41$3,214
Nov 19971,32818.193.09$4,101
Oct 19971,41619.253.15$4,460
Sep 19971,41617.742.95$4,184
Aug 19971,39117.862.55$3,554
Jul 19971,42217.582.25$3,195
Jun 19971,38617.242.26$3,128
May 19971,44818.972.31$3,343
Apr 19971,33317.882.08$2,776
Mar 19971,42418.951.94$2,761
Feb 19971,27020.492.21$2,801
Jan 19971,46123.483.54$5,172
Dec 19961,51323.32$0
Nov 19961,50721.97$0
Oct 19961,88223.31$0
Sep 1996022.22$0
Aug 199630720.26$0
Jul 19961,31219.55$0
Jun 19961,29318.73$0
May 19961,35519.43$0
Apr 19961,35621.51$0
Mar 19961,38219.38$0
Feb 19961,34616.98$0
Jan 19961,52217.07$0
Dec 19951,38517.19$0
Nov 19951,20116.00$0
Oct 19951,45015.43$0
Sep 19951,41916.18$0
Aug 19951,45015.92$0
Jul 19951,45715.24$0
Jun 19951,43916.41$0
May 19951,49217.56$0
Apr 19951,47117.73$0
Mar 19951,54116.44$0
Feb 19951,35016.58$0
Jan 19951,47815.92$0
Dec 19941,53315.03$0
Nov 19941,53715.90$0
Oct 19941,78015.58$0
Sep 199472315.29$0
Aug 19941,67016.13$0
Jul 19941,77817.56$0
Jun 19941,80617.09$0
May 19941,57615.88$0
Apr 19941,66714.14$0
Mar 19941,82212.46$0
Feb 19941,64612.50$0
Jan 19941,83912.66$0
Dec 19931,89312.33$0
Nov 19931,80914.49$0
Oct 19931,90815.85$0
Sep 19931,85315.03$0
Aug 19931,96315.66$0
Jul 19932,08115.46$0
Jun 19931,36316.79$0
May 19931,84917.68$0
Apr 19931,82718.05$0
Mar 19931,93018.14$0
Feb 19931,76617.90$0
Jan 19931,97316.93$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.

Jun 2007 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  244 Mcf  × $  7.55 =     $1,842

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Month total                                   $1,842

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/31 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.