CULPEPPER "A"

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

Operated by CHESAPEAKE OPERATING, INC. (P-5 147715) in the FIRST SHOT (AUSTIN CHALK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 13478District 01Field 30967100Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$5.1 M

Jan 1993 – Jun 2014

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

258

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The FIRST SHOT (AUSTIN CHALK) 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 106 leases and 119 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1990-08-20

as the register files it

Field class

Oil

the register's own label

Between wells

0 ft

minimum

From a lease line

330 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2017-01-24.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “6 MONTH EXCEPTION TO SWR 51 (A)”

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
Oil	Disposition	196,061 bbl	$4,682,655
Casinghead gas	Production	163,087 Mcf	$394,707
Total			$5,077,362

58,134 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 29.1942, -97.6387. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.19424, -97.63871 · 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

12,350 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

15.8 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 12,350 ft.

Completions filed

Jan 1998

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Oct 2013

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.8 years and 15.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-17731897	1	12,350 ft	Jan 1998	Oct 2013	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 (258)

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

258 months


Jun 2014	0	0	98.16	4.74	$0
May 2014	0	0	94.73	4.73	$0
Apr 2014	0	0	95.94	4.81	$0
Mar 2014	0	0	95.89	5.06	$0
Feb 2014	0	0	97.40	6.19	$0
Jan 2014	0	0	90.40	4.86	$0
Dec 2013	0	0	91.82	4.35	$0
Nov 2013	0	0	88.85	3.74	$0
Oct 2013	0	0	97.42	3.78	$0
Sep 2013	0	0	104.11	3.72	$0
Aug 2013	0	0	104.25	3.52	$0
Jul 2013	0	0	102.52	3.72	$0
Jun 2013	0	0	94.40	3.93	$0
May 2013	0	0	94.83	4.15	$0
Apr 2013	0	0	93.96	4.28	$0
Mar 2013	0	0	93.62	3.91	$0
Feb 2013	0	0	91.23	3.42	$0
Jan 2013	0	0	91.60	3.42	$0
Dec 2012	0	0	86.77	3.42	$0
Nov 2012	0	0	86.95	3.62	$0
Oct 2012	0	0	89.38	3.40	$0
Sep 2012	0	0	94.67	2.92	$0
Aug 2012	0	0	92.66	2.91	$0
Jul 2012	0	0	85.13	3.02	$0
Jun 2012	0	0	79.82	2.52	$0
May 2012	0	0	91.61	2.49	$0
Apr 2012	0	0	101.65	2.00	$0
Mar 2012	0	0	105.05	2.22	$0
Feb 2012	0	0	101.10	2.57	$0
Jan 2012	0	0	98.09	2.73	$0
Dec 2011	0	0	96.87	3.24	$0
Nov 2011	0	0	95.72	3.31	$0
Oct 2011	0	0	84.98	3.65	$0
Sep 2011	0	0	83.62	3.99	$0
Aug 2011	0	0	83.40	4.15	$0
Jul 2011	0	0	94.14	4.52	$0
Jun 2011	0	0	92.90	4.64	$0
May 2011	0	0	98.13	4.40	$0
Apr 2011	0	0	105.96	4.33	$0
Mar 2011	0	0	96.36	4.06	$0
Feb 2011	0	0	85.64	4.18	$0
Jan 2011	0	0	86.50	4.59	$0
Dec 2010	0	0	85.73	4.35	$0
Nov 2010	0	0	80.84	3.80	$0
Oct 2010	110	0	78.10	3.51	$8,591
Sep 2010	0	0	72.63	3.98	$0
Aug 2010	0	0	73.68	4.42	$0
Jul 2010	0	0	72.55	4.74	$0
Jun 2010	0	0	70.36	4.91	$0
May 2010	0	0	71.12	4.24	$0
Apr 2010	0	0	81.69	4.12	$0
Mar 2010	0	0	78.39	4.39	$0
Feb 2010	35	0	73.58	5.44	$2,575
Jan 2010	0	0	74.36	5.96	$0
Dec 2009	0	0	71.44	5.48	$0
Nov 2009	175	0	74.59	3.75	$13,053
Oct 2009	165	0	72.54	4.11	$11,969
Sep 2009	175	0	65.54	3.06	$11,470
Aug 2009	341	0	67.42	3.22	$22,990
Jul 2009	349	0	61.13	3.46	$21,334
Jun 2009	172	0	66.16	3.90	$11,380
May 2009	172	0	54.74	3.93	$9,415
Apr 2009	177	0	46.77	3.59	$8,278
Mar 2009	333	0	42.14	4.06	$14,033
Feb 2009	355	0	32.81	4.63	$11,648
Jan 2009	343	0	35.86	5.37	$12,300
Dec 2008	177	0	37.10	5.98	$6,567
Nov 2008	335	0	55.49	6.86	$18,589
Oct 2008	537	0	75.24	6.92	$40,404
Sep 2008	520	0	101.76	7.88	$52,915
Aug 2008	521	0	114.22	8.48	$59,509
Jul 2008	355	0	131.08	11.39	$46,533
Jun 2008	524	0	131.33	13.03	$68,817
May 2008	526	0	123.17	11.57	$64,787
Apr 2008	348	0	110.31	10.45	$38,388
Mar 2008	0	0	101.90	9.66	$0
Feb 2008	341	0	92.53	8.77	$31,553
Jan 2008	173	0	90.38	8.21	$15,636
Dec 2007	504	0	88.33	7.30	$44,518
Nov 2007	166	0	91.67	7.29	$15,217
Oct 2007	356	0	82.85	6.92	$29,495
Sep 2007	169	0	75.84	6.24	$12,817
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	510	0	70.90	6.39	$36,159
Jun 2007	354	0	62.00	7.55	$21,948
May 2007	515	0	58.74	7.85	$30,251
Apr 2007	359	0	59.61	7.81	$21,400
Mar 2007	354	0	56.92	7.30	$20,150
Feb 2007	175	0	55.10	8.22	$9,643
Jan 2007	173	0	50.30	6.73	$8,702
Dec 2006	179	0	56.65	6.92	$10,140
Nov 2006	153	0	54.20	7.62	$8,293
Oct 2006	167	0	54.90	6.01	$9,168
Sep 2006	346	0	60.08	5.04	$20,788
Aug 2006	0	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	179	0	69.37	6.34	$12,417
Jun 2006	328	0	66.28	6.38	$21,740
May 2006	354	0	66.01	6.42	$23,368
Apr 2006	183	0	64.39	7.36	$11,783
Mar 2006	518	0	56.70	7.08	$29,371
Feb 2006	176	0	57.59	7.75	$10,136
Jan 2006	351	0	60.59	8.93	$21,267
Dec 2005	179	0	54.94	13.42	$9,834
Nov 2005	356	52	54.69	10.59	$20,020
Oct 2005	352	76	58.34	13.80	$21,584
Sep 2005	172	138	61.45	12.08	$12,236
Aug 2005	311	72	61.51	9.80	$19,835
Jul 2005	342	137	55.69	7.84	$20,121
Jun 2005	338	272	52.33	7.38	$19,695
May 2005	351	292	45.22	6.65	$17,814
Apr 2005	169	86	49.20	7.36	$8,948
Mar 2005	358	206	50.37	7.15	$19,506
Feb 2005	356	405	45.22	6.31	$18,655
Jan 2005	531	667	43.16	6.32	$27,135
Dec 2004	362	167	39.86	6.75	$15,557
Nov 2004	360	389	45.28	6.33	$18,763
Oct 2004	689	283	49.70	6.52	$36,087
Sep 2004	176	81	43.24	5.28	$8,038
Aug 2004	353	148	42.37	5.55	$15,778
Jul 2004	321	246	38.28	6.08	$13,785
Jun 2004	334	254	36.10	6.43	$13,691
May 2004	493	419	37.48	6.49	$21,199
Apr 2004	366	450	34.47	5.86	$15,252
Mar 2004	534	508	34.36	5.53	$21,158
Feb 2004	338	180	32.45	5.51	$11,960
Jan 2004	536	42	32.03	6.30	$17,433
Dec 2003	681	258	30.26	6.30	$22,233
Nov 2003	688	370	28.80	4.60	$21,515
Oct 2003	502	689	28.17	4.76	$17,421
Sep 2003	706	1,012	26.31	4.75	$23,381
Aug 2003	879	1,261	29.76	5.13	$32,628
Jul 2003	1,038	1,229	29.41	5.17	$36,883
Jun 2003	1,052	1,775	28.56	5.98	$40,665
May 2003	1,236	1,840	26.59	5.97	$43,855
Apr 2003	1,071	1,724	26.67	5.41	$37,886
Mar 2003	1,018	1,656	31.14	6.10	$41,796
Feb 2003	358	519	33.48	7.93	$16,099
Jan 2003	888	1,041	30.31	5.58	$32,726
Dec 2002	902	1,695	26.91	4.85	$32,500
Nov 2002	802	1,550	24.66	4.14	$26,190
Oct 2002	1,006	1,079	26.46	4.23	$31,182
Sep 2002	688	1,361	27.44	3.64	$23,826
Aug 2002	721	1,002	25.96	3.16	$21,888
Jul 2002	1,031	1,473	24.58	3.06	$29,852
Jun 2002	1,018	1,020	23.73	3.34	$27,562
May 2002	876	1,386	24.66	3.58	$26,570
Apr 2002	873	1,013	23.65	3.51	$24,204
Mar 2002	842	519	22.00	3.10	$20,134
Feb 2002	703	398	18.22	2.38	$13,754
Jan 2002	881	629	17.17	2.38	$16,621
Dec 2001	1,067	1,165	16.93	2.36	$20,819
Nov 2001	1,056	1,156	18.07	2.41	$21,863
Oct 2001	1,389	1,391	19.78	2.53	$30,992
Sep 2001	1,223	881	24.26	2.25	$31,653
Aug 2001	881	701	24.87	3.05	$24,051
Jul 2001	1,223	1,057	23.93	3.20	$32,646
Jun 2001	1,353	898	24.56	3.82	$36,664
May 2001	1,057	593	25.52	4.31	$29,529
Apr 2001	1,561	1,845	24.68	5.34	$48,369
Mar 2001	1,228	1,492	24.54	5.38	$38,157
Feb 2001	1,417	1,917	27.75	5.77	$50,377
Jan 2001	539	393	27.47	8.40	$18,107
Dec 2000	1,060	1,258	26.88	9.12	$39,969
Nov 2000	1,415	1,655	32.21	5.66	$54,941
Oct 2000	1,937	2,322	31.23	5.15	$72,440
Sep 2000	1,895	2,290	31.87	5.19	$72,271
Aug 2000	1,800	2,288	29.64	4.54	$63,741
Jul 2000	1,379	909	28.53	4.09	$43,060
Jun 2000	1,392	1,105	29.30	4.40	$45,645
May 2000	1,377	1,228	27.26	3.68	$42,056
Apr 2000	1,380	1,371	24.51	3.12	$38,096
Mar 2000	1,754	1,386	28.42	2.86	$53,812
Feb 2000	1,399	1,375	27.62	2.73	$42,389
Jan 2000	2,088	2,090	25.27	2.48	$57,948
Dec 1999	1,917	2,117	24.28	2.42	$51,676
Nov 1999	1,950	2,119	23.19	2.43	$50,378
Oct 1999	2,643	2,456	20.98	2.80	$62,336
Sep 1999	1,724	2,319	21.75	2.62	$43,570
Aug 1999	2,236	2,285	19.26	2.88	$49,636
Jul 1999	2,336	2,205	17.89	2.37	$47,022
Jun 1999	2,229	2,409	15.94	2.36	$41,221
May 1999	2,553	1,796	15.79	2.32	$44,480
Apr 1999	2,304	1,240	15.10	2.21	$37,528
Mar 1999	2,254	1,038	12.47	1.84	$30,016
Feb 1999	2,456	908	9.98	1.82	$26,161
Jan 1999	3,314	806	10.38	1.90	$35,931
Dec 1998	2,386	910	9.20	1.77	$23,565
Nov 1998	2,077	791	10.89	2.19	$24,347
Oct 1998	3,164	708	12.42	1.97	$40,691
Sep 1998	2,689	725	12.59	2.08	$35,364
Aug 1998	2,630	494	11.30	1.91	$30,661
Jul 1998	2,429	608	11.74	2.24	$29,877
Jun 1998	2,937	541	11.24	2.24	$34,222
May 1998	2,963	807	12.62	2.21	$39,174
Apr 1998	2,851	1,589	13.04	2.51	$41,158
Mar 1998	3,365	1,100	12.80	2.31	$45,612
Feb 1998	6,504	4,185	13.95	2.30	$100,353
Jan 1998	1,741	1,295	14.70	2.15	$28,383
Dec 1997	0	0	16.32	2.41	$0
Nov 1997	340	163	18.19	3.09	$6,688
Oct 1997	351	82	19.25	3.15	$7,015
Sep 1997	361	39	17.74	2.95	$6,519
Aug 1997	350	160	17.86	2.55	$6,660
Jul 1997	345	21	17.58	2.25	$6,112
Jun 1997	345	613	17.24	2.26	$7,331
May 1997	347	640	18.97	2.31	$8,060
Apr 1997	272	794	17.88	2.08	$6,517
Mar 1997	337	782	18.95	1.94	$7,903
Feb 1997	345	691	20.49	2.21	$8,593
Jan 1997	334	682	23.48	3.54	$10,256
Dec 1996	527	226	23.32	—	$12,290
Nov 1996	513	250	21.97	—	$11,271
Oct 1996	864	306	23.31	—	$20,140
Sep 1996	353	509	22.22	—	$7,844
Aug 1996	839	921	20.26	—	$16,998
Jul 1996	725	928	19.55	—	$14,174
Jun 1996	716	964	18.73	—	$13,411
May 1996	720	1,081	19.43	—	$13,990
Apr 1996	917	948	21.51	—	$19,725
Mar 1996	904	999	19.38	—	$17,520
Feb 1996	530	761	16.98	—	$8,999
Jan 1996	814	766	17.07	—	$13,895
Dec 1995	842	820	17.19	—	$14,474
Nov 1995	844	838	16.00	—	$13,504
Oct 1995	1,030	1,003	15.43	—	$15,893
Sep 1995	712	1,058	16.18	—	$11,520
Aug 1995	714	1,060	15.92	—	$11,367
Jul 1995	864	1,092	15.24	—	$13,167
Jun 1995	886	993	16.41	—	$14,539
May 1995	1,046	1,003	17.56	—	$18,368
Apr 1995	879	971	17.73	—	$15,585
Mar 1995	883	1,090	16.44	—	$14,517
Feb 1995	721	1,447	16.58	—	$11,954
Jan 1995	1,068	1,116	15.92	—	$17,003
Dec 1994	886	1,486	15.03	—	$13,317
Nov 1994	1,056	1,412	15.90	—	$16,790
Oct 1994	860	1,514	15.58	—	$13,399
Sep 1994	1,082	807	15.29	—	$16,544
Aug 1994	1,242	1,505	16.13	—	$20,033
Jul 1994	1,045	1,513	17.56	—	$18,350
Jun 1994	1,026	1,351	17.09	—	$17,534
May 1994	1,413	1,682	15.88	—	$22,438
Apr 1994	1,243	1,409	14.14	—	$17,576
Mar 1994	1,415	2,218	12.46	—	$17,631
Feb 1994	1,631	1,536	12.50	—	$20,388
Jan 1994	1,262	1,559	12.66	—	$15,977
Dec 1993	1,060	1,608	12.33	—	$13,070
Nov 1993	1,598	2,098	14.49	—	$23,155
Oct 1993	1,851	2,439	15.85	—	$29,338
Sep 1993	839	268	15.03	—	$12,610
Aug 1993	1,903	950	15.66	—	$29,801
Jul 1993	2,079	1,717	15.46	—	$32,141
Jun 1993	1,565	1,894	16.79	—	$26,276
May 1993	1,763	2,005	17.68	—	$31,170
Apr 1993	2,141	1,732	18.05	—	$38,645
Mar 1993	1,523	874	18.14	—	$27,627
Feb 1993	1,419	1,303	17.90	—	$25,400
Jan 1993	2,034	2,104	16.93	—	$34,436

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.

Oct 2010 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  110 bbl  × $ 78.10 =     $8,591
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.51 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $8,591

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/O/13478 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.