WEST, FRED D.

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

Operated by VIRTEX PETROLEUM COMPANY, INC. (P-5 886228) 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 53District 01Field 07856250NGPA filingGasSave Export

Value, all time

$80 k

Jan 1993 – Oct 2005

Value, last 12 filed months

$1 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

154

no gaps in the span

Streams

gas

The BIG FOOT, WEST (GAS) 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 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.”

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
Gas	Production	86,423 Mcf	$79,637
Total			$79,637

53,498 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 29.0097, -98.9087. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.00970, -98.90873 · 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

3,016 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

47.1 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 3,016 ft.

Completions filed

Sep 1958

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Oct 2005

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 47.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 47.1 years and 47.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-16300079	1	3,016 ft	Sep 1958	Oct 2005	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 (154)

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

154 months


Oct 2005	0	58.34	13.80	$0
Sep 2005	5	61.45	12.08	$60
Aug 2005	6	61.51	9.80	$59
Jul 2005	7	55.69	7.84	$55
Jun 2005	7	52.33	7.38	$52
May 2005	103	45.22	6.65	$685
Apr 2005	4	49.20	7.36	$29
Mar 2005	8	50.37	7.15	$57
Feb 2005	5	45.22	6.31	$32
Jan 2005	8	43.16	6.32	$51
Dec 2004	3	39.86	6.75	$20
Nov 2004	6	45.28	6.33	$38
Oct 2004	10	49.70	6.52	$65
Sep 2004	8	43.24	5.28	$42
Aug 2004	6	42.37	5.55	$33
Jul 2004	8	38.28	6.08	$49
Jun 2004	4	36.10	6.43	$26
May 2004	10	37.48	6.49	$65
Apr 2004	5	34.47	5.86	$29
Mar 2004	4	34.36	5.53	$22
Feb 2004	9	32.45	5.51	$50
Jan 2004	3	32.03	6.30	$19
Dec 2003	3	30.26	6.30	$19
Nov 2003	7	28.80	4.60	$32
Oct 2003	8	28.17	4.76	$38
Sep 2003	5	26.31	4.75	$24
Aug 2003	6	29.76	5.13	$31
Jul 2003	4	29.41	5.17	$21
Jun 2003	7	28.56	5.98	$42
May 2003	6	26.59	5.97	$36
Apr 2003	13	26.67	5.41	$70
Mar 2003	14	31.14	6.10	$85
Feb 2003	18	33.48	7.93	$143
Jan 2003	30	30.31	5.58	$167
Dec 2002	28	26.91	4.85	$136
Nov 2002	22	24.66	4.14	$91
Oct 2002	5	26.46	4.23	$21
Sep 2002	7	27.44	3.64	$25
Aug 2002	10	25.96	3.16	$32
Jul 2002	7	24.58	3.06	$21
Jun 2002	5	23.73	3.34	$17
May 2002	6	24.66	3.58	$22
Apr 2002	6	23.65	3.51	$21
Mar 2002	3	22.00	3.10	$9
Feb 2002	3	18.22	2.38	$7
Jan 2002	2	17.17	2.38	$5
Dec 2001	2	16.93	2.36	$5
Nov 2001	4	18.07	2.41	$10
Oct 2001	3	19.78	2.53	$8
Sep 2001	3	24.26	2.25	$7
Aug 2001	3	24.87	3.05	$9
Jul 2001	4	23.93	3.20	$13
Jun 2001	5	24.56	3.82	$19
May 2001	2	25.52	4.31	$9
Apr 2001	1	24.68	5.34	$5
Mar 2001	3	24.54	5.38	$16
Feb 2001	6	27.75	5.77	$35
Jan 2001	3	27.47	8.40	$25
Dec 2000	2	26.88	9.12	$18
Nov 2000	1	32.21	5.66	$6
Oct 2000	2	31.23	5.15	$10
Sep 2000	4	31.87	5.19	$21
Aug 2000	3	29.64	4.54	$14
Jul 2000	4	28.53	4.09	$16
Jun 2000	3	29.30	4.40	$13
May 2000	4	27.26	3.68	$15
Apr 2000	3	24.51	3.12	$9
Mar 2000	1	28.42	2.86	$3
Feb 2000	0	27.62	2.73	$0
Jan 2000	4	25.27	2.48	$10
Dec 1999	748	24.28	2.42	$1,813
Nov 1999	779	23.19	2.43	$1,896
Oct 1999	787	20.98	2.80	$2,207
Sep 1999	821	21.75	2.62	$2,150
Aug 1999	920	19.26	2.88	$2,646
Jul 1999	812	17.89	2.37	$1,926
Jun 1999	838	15.94	2.36	$1,979
May 1999	880	15.79	2.32	$2,043
Apr 1999	851	15.10	2.21	$1,879
Mar 1999	774	12.47	1.84	$1,423
Feb 1999	722	9.98	1.82	$1,312
Jan 1999	913	10.38	1.90	$1,735
Dec 1998	900	9.20	1.77	$1,596
Nov 1998	899	10.89	2.19	$1,965
Oct 1998	853	12.42	1.97	$1,680
Sep 1998	803	12.59	2.08	$1,672
Aug 1998	981	11.30	1.91	$1,871
Jul 1998	1,014	11.74	2.24	$2,269
Jun 1998	910	11.24	2.24	$2,036
May 1998	427	12.62	2.21	$942
Apr 1998	900	13.04	2.51	$2,255
Mar 1998	936	12.80	2.31	$2,162
Feb 1998	844	13.95	2.30	$1,940
Jan 1998	928	14.70	2.15	$2,000
Dec 1997	955	16.32	2.41	$2,303
Nov 1997	972	18.19	3.09	$3,002
Oct 1997	1,041	19.25	3.15	$3,279
Sep 1997	1,041	17.74	2.95	$3,076
Aug 1997	1,027	17.86	2.55	$2,624
Jul 1997	1,051	17.58	2.25	$2,362
Jun 1997	1,009	17.24	2.26	$2,278
May 1997	1,066	18.97	2.31	$2,461
Apr 1997	1,000	17.88	2.08	$2,083
Mar 1997	983	18.95	1.94	$1,906
Feb 1997	910	20.49	2.21	$2,007
Jan 1997	1,106	23.48	3.54	$3,915
Dec 1996	1,209	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	1,199	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	971	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	379	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	77	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	1,101	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	1,085	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	1,078	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	1,059	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	1,110	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	781	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	564	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	977	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	923	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	1,128	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	1,062	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	1,087	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	1,104	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	1,055	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	1,107	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	1,063	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	1,107	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	1,004	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	1,133	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	1,150	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	1,189	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	1,311	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	527	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	1,208	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	1,280	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	1,306	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	1,328	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	1,294	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	1,332	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	1,198	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	1,311	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	1,417	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	1,413	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	1,559	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	1,332	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	1,605	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	1,635	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	1,397	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	1,611	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	1,014	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	1,057	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	712	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	949	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.

Sep 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Gas                    5 Mcf  × $ 12.08 =        $60

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Month total                                      $60

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/53 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.