GATES RANCH "A"

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

Operated by LEWIS PETRO PROPERTIES, INC. (P-5 499978) in the CATARINA, SW. (SAN MIGUEL-GAS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 88028District 01Field 16340900CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$24 k

Jan 1993 – Feb 2006

Value, last 12 filed months

$169

at the published price for each month

Months reported

158

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The CATARINA, SW. (SAN MIGUEL-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 120 leases and 120 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1978-05-01

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 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1979-05-21.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “KERNS O&G, INC. EFFECTIVE APRIL 1, 1997.”

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	39 bbl	$991
Gas	Production	9,307 Mcf	$22,965
Total			$23,956

2,788 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 28.2035, -99.8551. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.20353, -99.85505 · 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

5,550 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

25.8 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 5,550 ft.

Completions filed

Apr 1980

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Feb 2006

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 25.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 25.8 years and 25.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-12731996	1074	5,550 ft	Apr 1980	Feb 2006	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 (158)

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

158 months


Feb 2006	0	17	57.59	7.75	$132
Jan 2006	0	0	60.59	8.93	$0
Dec 2005	0	0	54.94	13.42	$0
Nov 2005	0	0	54.69	10.59	$0
Oct 2005	0	0	58.34	13.80	$0
Sep 2005	0	0	61.45	12.08	$0
Aug 2005	0	0	61.51	9.80	$0
Jul 2005	0	0	55.69	7.84	$0
Jun 2005	0	5	52.33	7.38	$37
May 2005	0	0	45.22	6.65	$0
Apr 2005	0	0	49.20	7.36	$0
Mar 2005	0	0	50.37	7.15	$0
Feb 2005	3	1	45.22	6.31	$142
Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	0	2	39.86	6.75	$14
Nov 2004	0	2	45.28	6.33	$13
Oct 2004	0	4	49.70	6.52	$26
Sep 2004	0	3	43.24	5.28	$16
Aug 2004	0	0	42.37	5.55	$0
Jul 2004	0	3	38.28	6.08	$18
Jun 2004	0	3	36.10	6.43	$19
May 2004	0	3	37.48	6.49	$19
Apr 2004	0	0	34.47	5.86	$0
Mar 2004	0	5	34.36	5.53	$28
Feb 2004	0	33	32.45	5.51	$182
Jan 2004	5	6	32.03	6.30	$198
Dec 2003	0	73	30.26	6.30	$460
Nov 2003	0	45	28.80	4.60	$207
Oct 2003	0	40	28.17	4.76	$190
Sep 2003	0	27	26.31	4.75	$128
Aug 2003	0	44	29.76	5.13	$226
Jul 2003	0	61	29.41	5.17	$315
Jun 2003	2	25	28.56	5.98	$207
May 2003	0	16	26.59	5.97	$96
Apr 2003	0	87	26.67	5.41	$470
Mar 2003	5	65	31.14	6.10	$552
Feb 2003	3	67	33.48	7.93	$631
Jan 2003	1	47	30.31	5.58	$293
Dec 2002	0	46	26.91	4.85	$223
Nov 2002	0	59	24.66	4.14	$244
Oct 2002	0	76	26.46	4.23	$321
Sep 2002	0	79	27.44	3.64	$287
Aug 2002	0	0	25.96	3.16	$0
Jul 2002	0	64	24.58	3.06	$196
Jun 2002	0	76	23.73	3.34	$254
May 2002	0	83	24.66	3.58	$297
Apr 2002	0	87	23.65	3.51	$306
Mar 2002	0	94	22.00	3.10	$292
Feb 2002	0	91	18.22	2.38	$216
Jan 2002	0	102	17.17	2.38	$242
Dec 2001	0	101	16.93	2.36	$239
Nov 2001	0	189	18.07	2.41	$455
Oct 2001	1	75	19.78	2.53	$209
Sep 2001	1	80	24.26	2.25	$204
Aug 2001	0	93	24.87	3.05	$284
Jul 2001	0	92	23.93	3.20	$294
Jun 2001	0	95	24.56	3.82	$363
May 2001	0	98	25.52	4.31	$422
Apr 2001	2	99	24.68	5.34	$578
Mar 2001	0	130	24.54	5.38	$699
Feb 2001	1	115	27.75	5.77	$691
Jan 2001	0	117	27.47	8.40	$983
Dec 2000	0	106	26.88	9.12	$967
Nov 2000	0	111	32.21	5.66	$628
Oct 2000	0	57	31.23	5.15	$293
Sep 2000	0	70	31.87	5.19	$363
Aug 2000	0	78	29.64	4.54	$354
Jul 2000	0	82	28.53	4.09	$335
Jun 2000	0	79	29.30	4.40	$347
May 2000	0	74	27.26	3.68	$272
Apr 2000	0	74	24.51	3.12	$231
Mar 2000	0	76	28.42	2.86	$217
Feb 2000	0	70	27.62	2.73	$191
Jan 2000	0	76	25.27	2.48	$189
Dec 1999	0	94	24.28	2.42	$228
Nov 1999	0	99	23.19	2.43	$241
Oct 1999	0	86	20.98	2.80	$241
Sep 1999	0	93	21.75	2.62	$244
Aug 1999	0	83	19.26	2.88	$239
Jul 1999	0	75	17.89	2.37	$178
Jun 1999	0	65	15.94	2.36	$154
May 1999	0	73	15.79	2.32	$169
Apr 1999	0	69	15.10	2.21	$152
Mar 1999	0	87	12.47	1.84	$160
Feb 1999	0	63	9.98	1.82	$115
Jan 1999	0	100	10.38	1.90	$190
Dec 1998	0	83	9.20	1.77	$147
Nov 1998	0	77	10.89	2.19	$168
Oct 1998	0	80	12.42	1.97	$158
Sep 1998	0	83	12.59	2.08	$173
Aug 1998	0	69	11.30	1.91	$132
Jul 1998	0	74	11.74	2.24	$166
Jun 1998	0	91	11.24	2.24	$204
May 1998	0	85	12.62	2.21	$188
Apr 1998	0	86	13.04	2.51	$215
Mar 1998	0	87	12.80	2.31	$201
Feb 1998	0	82	13.95	2.30	$189
Jan 1998	0	67	14.70	2.15	$144
Dec 1997	0	65	16.32	2.41	$157
Nov 1997	0	67	18.19	3.09	$207
Oct 1997	0	63	19.25	3.15	$198
Sep 1997	0	63	17.74	2.95	$186
Aug 1997	0	61	17.86	2.55	$156
Jul 1997	0	67	17.58	2.25	$151
Jun 1997	0	61	17.24	2.26	$138
May 1997	0	64	18.97	2.31	$148
Apr 1997	0	68	17.88	2.08	$142
Mar 1997	0	69	18.95	1.94	$134
Feb 1997	0	69	20.49	2.21	$152
Jan 1997	0	73	23.48	3.54	$258
Dec 1996	0	69	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	75	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	89	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	75	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	93	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	95	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	86	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	97	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	0	112	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	0	63	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	102	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	116	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	0	105	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	0	101	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	46	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	51	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	54	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	46	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	67	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	70	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	1	107	17.73	—	$18
Mar 1995	1	57	16.44	—	$16
Feb 1995	0	59	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	0	68	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	2	0	15.03	—	$30
Nov 1994	0	46	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	0	48	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	1	44	15.29	—	$15
Aug 1994	0	39	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	1	36	17.56	—	$18
Jun 1994	2	38	17.09	—	$34
May 1994	0	36	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	2	37	14.14	—	$28
Mar 1994	0	33	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	1	28	12.50	—	$13
Jan 1994	2	49	12.66	—	$25
Dec 1993	0	43	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	0	39	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	1	33	15.85	—	$16
Sep 1993	0	32	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	0	36	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	0	41	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	0	40	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	0	38	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	0	36	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	0	37	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	0	36	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	1	40	16.93	—	$17

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.

Feb 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 57.59 =         $0
Gas                   17 Mcf  × $  7.75 =       $132

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Month total                                     $132

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/88028 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.