KNIPLING GAS UNIT

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

Operated by SYNERGY OIL & GAS, INC. (A) (P-5 833590) in the SHERIFF, E. (8400 FRIO STRINGER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 124936District 02Field 83142555CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$178 k

Jan 1993 – Mar 1998

Value, last 12 filed months

$56 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The SHERIFF, E. (8400 FRIO STRINGER) 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 4 leases and 4 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1958-12-17

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

—

no field rule filed

From a lease line

—

no field rule filed

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “ALLOCATION FORMULA EFF. 020184 PER AMENDMENT TO SWR 28 & 29”

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	5,811 bbl	$97,057
Gas	Production	409,505 Mcf	$80,769
Total			$177,826

377,315 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 28.6320, -96.6832. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.63204, -96.68317 · 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

9,040 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

26.7 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 9,040 ft.

Completions filed

Mar 1998

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Nov 2024

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 26.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 26.7 years and 26.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-05730262	3	9,040 ft	Mar 1998	Nov 2024	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 (63)

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

63 months


Mar 1998	89	0	12.80	2.31	$1,139
Feb 1998	1	10	13.95	2.30	$37
Jan 1998	2	0	14.70	2.15	$29
Dec 1997	0	5	16.32	2.41	$12
Nov 1997	0	323	18.19	3.09	$998
Oct 1997	89	1,668	19.25	3.15	$6,967
Sep 1997	56	2,446	17.74	2.95	$8,221
Aug 1997	72	2,435	17.86	2.55	$7,507
Jul 1997	0	1,939	17.58	2.25	$4,357
Jun 1997	0	2,859	17.24	2.26	$6,453
May 1997	89	3,906	18.97	2.31	$10,705
Apr 1997	52	4,192	17.88	2.08	$9,661
Mar 1997	89	4,756	18.95	1.94	$10,909
Feb 1997	0	2,871	20.49	2.21	$6,333
Jan 1997	93	4,780	23.48	3.54	$19,103
Dec 1996	0	5,257	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	85	5,234	21.97	—	$1,867
Oct 1996	130	5,224	23.31	—	$3,030
Sep 1996	84	5,605	22.22	—	$1,866
Aug 1996	39	5,145	20.26	—	$790
Jul 1996	90	5,369	19.55	—	$1,760
Jun 1996	0	4,328	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	85	6,240	19.43	—	$1,652
Apr 1996	119	5,456	21.51	—	$2,560
Mar 1996	86	6,333	19.38	—	$1,667
Feb 1996	86	5,952	16.98	—	$1,460
Jan 1996	163	7,323	17.07	—	$2,782
Dec 1995	73	6,317	17.19	—	$1,255
Nov 1995	75	7,472	16.00	—	$1,200
Oct 1995	151	8,142	15.43	—	$2,330
Sep 1995	156	7,289	16.18	—	$2,524
Aug 1995	199	8,155	15.92	—	$3,168
Jul 1995	116	4,808	15.24	—	$1,768
Jun 1995	214	7,144	16.41	—	$3,512
May 1995	176	6,974	17.56	—	$3,091
Apr 1995	48	7,000	17.73	—	$851
Mar 1995	139	8,150	16.44	—	$2,285
Feb 1995	0	6,337	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	0	6,116	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	103	8,532	15.03	—	$1,548
Nov 1994	77	9,495	15.90	—	$1,224
Oct 1994	54	10,189	15.58	—	$841
Sep 1994	80	8,835	15.29	—	$1,223
Aug 1994	106	10,606	16.13	—	$1,710
Jul 1994	139	9,857	17.56	—	$2,441
Jun 1994	158	7,710	17.09	—	$2,700
May 1994	123	8,833	15.88	—	$1,953
Apr 1994	32	4,078	14.14	—	$452
Mar 1994	377	9,113	12.46	—	$4,697
Feb 1994	94	9,717	12.50	—	$1,175
Jan 1994	196	9,987	12.66	—	$2,481
Dec 1993	196	10,289	12.33	—	$2,417
Nov 1993	0	8,933	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	0	10,678	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	186	10,878	15.03	—	$2,796
Aug 1993	0	11,511	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	185	12,294	15.46	—	$2,860
Jun 1993	184	10,175	16.79	—	$3,089
May 1993	0	3,600	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	188	10,388	18.05	—	$3,393
Mar 1993	194	11,552	18.14	—	$3,519
Feb 1993	193	10,538	17.90	—	$3,455
Jan 1993	0	8,157	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.

Mar 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate            89 bbl  × $ 12.80 =     $1,139
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  2.31 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,139

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/124936 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.