COPANO GAS UNIT

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

Operated by T - C OIL COMPANY (P-5 833850) in the TOM OCONNOR (4200) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 115944District 02Field 90534315GasSave Export

Value, all time

$660 k

Jan 1993 – Oct 2006

Value, last 12 filed months

$5 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

166

no gaps in the span

Streams

gas

The TOM OCONNOR (4200) 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 72 leases and 72 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1976-03-31

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

300 ft

minimum

From a lease line

150 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 10 acres. The field rule took effect on 2005-05-10.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “AND FIELD CLASSIFIED AS SALVAGE.”

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	330,118 Mcf	$660,150
Total			$660,150

142,686 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 28.3056, -97.1962. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.30563, -97.19623 · 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

5,860 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

22.4 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 5,860 ft.

Completions filed

May 1984

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Oct 2006

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 22.4 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 22.4 years and 22.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-39101670	13	5,860 ft	May 1984	Oct 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 (166)

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

166 months


Oct 2006	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	0	66.28	6.38	$0
May 2006	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	0	64.39	7.36	$0
Mar 2006	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	121	60.59	8.93	$1,081
Dec 2005	138	54.94	13.42	$1,851
Nov 2005	217	54.69	10.59	$2,298
Oct 2005	898	58.34	13.80	$12,389
Sep 2005	872	61.45	12.08	$10,533
Aug 2005	1,098	61.51	9.80	$10,757
Jul 2005	1,126	55.69	7.84	$8,832
Jun 2005	848	52.33	7.38	$6,259
May 2005	1,180	45.22	6.65	$7,848
Apr 2005	1,180	49.20	7.36	$8,685
Mar 2005	784	50.37	7.15	$5,609
Feb 2005	1,030	45.22	6.31	$6,501
Jan 2005	1,069	43.16	6.32	$6,758
Dec 2004	632	39.86	6.75	$4,267
Nov 2004	869	45.28	6.33	$5,501
Oct 2004	1,047	49.70	6.52	$6,821
Sep 2004	1,042	43.24	5.28	$5,506
Aug 2004	1,381	42.37	5.55	$7,665
Jul 2004	1,421	38.28	6.08	$8,646
Jun 2004	1,162	36.10	6.43	$7,475
May 2004	1,239	37.48	6.49	$8,047
Apr 2004	804	34.47	5.86	$4,710
Mar 2004	1,454	34.36	5.53	$8,041
Feb 2004	1,085	32.45	5.51	$5,978
Jan 2004	924	32.03	6.30	$5,821
Dec 2003	1,117	30.26	6.30	$7,039
Nov 2003	635	28.80	4.60	$2,918
Oct 2003	1,348	28.17	4.76	$6,416
Sep 2003	1,079	26.31	4.75	$5,125
Aug 2003	1,748	29.76	5.13	$8,967
Jul 2003	833	29.41	5.17	$4,307
Jun 2003	866	28.56	5.98	$5,181
May 2003	858	26.59	5.97	$5,125
Apr 2003	1,105	26.67	5.41	$5,975
Mar 2003	959	31.14	6.10	$5,846
Feb 2003	991	33.48	7.93	$7,855
Jan 2003	1,282	30.31	5.58	$7,156
Dec 2002	1,205	26.91	4.85	$5,849
Nov 2002	1,381	24.66	4.14	$5,713
Oct 2002	1,548	26.46	4.23	$6,547
Sep 2002	1,138	27.44	3.64	$4,137
Aug 2002	1,290	25.96	3.16	$4,082
Jul 2002	1,239	24.58	3.06	$3,794
Jun 2002	1,267	23.73	3.34	$4,230
May 2002	606	24.66	3.58	$2,172
Apr 2002	723	23.65	3.51	$2,539
Mar 2002	1,331	22.00	3.10	$4,130
Feb 2002	1,386	18.22	2.38	$3,293
Jan 2002	2,084	17.17	2.38	$4,951
Dec 2001	1,702	16.93	2.36	$4,024
Nov 2001	1,321	18.07	2.41	$3,178
Oct 2001	634	19.78	2.53	$1,603
Sep 2001	1,176	24.26	2.25	$2,648
Aug 2001	1,759	24.87	3.05	$5,371
Jul 2001	1,739	23.93	3.20	$5,560
Jun 2001	1,133	24.56	3.82	$4,333
May 2001	1,100	25.52	4.31	$4,738
Apr 2001	558	24.68	5.34	$2,977
Mar 2001	1,232	24.54	5.38	$6,624
Feb 2001	1,049	27.75	5.77	$6,050
Jan 2001	1,214	27.47	8.40	$10,196
Dec 2000	1,525	26.88	9.12	$13,912
Nov 2000	679	32.21	5.66	$3,842
Oct 2000	1,361	31.23	5.15	$7,003
Sep 2000	1,376	31.87	5.19	$7,137
Aug 2000	1,767	29.64	4.54	$8,024
Jul 2000	1,009	28.53	4.09	$4,127
Jun 2000	1,383	29.30	4.40	$6,081
May 2000	862	27.26	3.68	$3,172
Apr 2000	492	24.51	3.12	$1,533
Mar 2000	548	28.42	2.86	$1,567
Feb 2000	555	27.62	2.73	$1,513
Jan 2000	1,361	25.27	2.48	$3,376
Dec 1999	969	24.28	2.42	$2,349
Nov 1999	1,414	23.19	2.43	$3,442
Oct 1999	745	20.98	2.80	$2,089
Sep 1999	1,572	21.75	2.62	$4,117
Aug 1999	2,565	19.26	2.88	$7,376
Jul 1999	2,978	17.89	2.37	$7,065
Jun 1999	2,484	15.94	2.36	$5,867
May 1999	2,753	15.79	2.32	$6,390
Apr 1999	1,793	15.10	2.21	$3,959
Mar 1999	3,597	12.47	1.84	$6,612
Feb 1999	3,542	9.98	1.82	$6,439
Jan 1999	3,698	10.38	1.90	$7,026
Dec 1998	4,572	9.20	1.77	$8,108
Nov 1998	1,920	10.89	2.19	$4,197
Oct 1998	3,033	12.42	1.97	$5,973
Sep 1998	3,638	12.59	2.08	$7,577
Aug 1998	4,367	11.30	1.91	$8,329
Jul 1998	4,068	11.74	2.24	$9,101
Jun 1998	3,626	11.24	2.24	$8,112
May 1998	4,802	12.62	2.21	$10,595
Apr 1998	3,496	13.04	2.51	$8,759
Mar 1998	3,732	12.80	2.31	$8,619
Feb 1998	2,657	13.95	2.30	$6,109
Jan 1998	2,703	14.70	2.15	$5,824
Dec 1997	3,752	16.32	2.41	$9,046
Nov 1997	3,113	18.19	3.09	$9,614
Oct 1997	3,204	19.25	3.15	$10,092
Sep 1997	2,453	17.74	2.95	$7,248
Aug 1997	3,247	17.86	2.55	$8,295
Jul 1997	2,986	17.58	2.25	$6,709
Jun 1997	2,446	17.24	2.26	$5,521
May 1997	3,539	18.97	2.31	$8,170
Apr 1997	3,591	17.88	2.08	$7,479
Mar 1997	2,533	18.95	1.94	$4,912
Feb 1997	3,288	20.49	2.21	$7,253
Jan 1997	3,381	23.48	3.54	$11,968
Dec 1996	1,759	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	3,302	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	3,260	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	2,730	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	3,455	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	2,357	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	2,447	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	3,255	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	2,508	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	2,202	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	2,911	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	2,348	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	2,413	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	3,253	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	2,314	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	2,414	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	2,250	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	2,975	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	2,712	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	2,252	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	2,703	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	2,776	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	2,103	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	2,447	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	2,695	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	3,214	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	2,683	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	2,909	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	2,434	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	2,733	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	2,776	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	3,745	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	3,174	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	2,772	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	3,802	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	3,353	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	2,371	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	5,300	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	1,504	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	2,298	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	2,912	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	3,115	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	3,610	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	4,182	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	4,393	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	4,008	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	4,000	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	5,557	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.

Jan 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Gas                  121 Mcf  × $  8.93 =     $1,081

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Month total                                   $1,081

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. 02/G/115944 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.