ASCHBACHER

Operated by SWIFT ENERGY OPERATING, LLC (P-5 833348) in the VIENNA (MIOCENE 2000) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 159361District 02Field 93777450GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$739 k
May 1996 – Sep 2007
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
137
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
gas

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 8 leases and 8 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1980-04-02
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: FROM MOOSE OPERATING COMPANY, INC.

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.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
GasProduction336,962 Mcf$738,840
Total$738,840

69,762 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 8 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 29.3803, -96.7163. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.38034, -96.71630 · centre of the wells drawn, derived

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
3,861 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
11.3 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 3,861 ft.

Completions filed
May 1996
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2007
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 11.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 11.3 years and 11.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-285323041B3,861 ftMay 1996Sep 2007Yes

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 (137)

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

137 months

Sep 2007075.846.24$0
Aug 2007069.066.39$0
Jul 2007070.906.39$0
Jun 2007062.007.55$0
May 2007058.747.85$0
Apr 2007059.617.81$0
Mar 2007056.927.30$0
Feb 2007055.108.22$0
Jan 2007050.306.73$0
Dec 2006056.656.92$0
Nov 2006054.207.62$0
Oct 2006054.906.01$0
Sep 2006060.085.04$0
Aug 2006068.717.34$0
Jul 2006069.376.34$0
Jun 2006066.286.38$0
May 2006066.016.42$0
Apr 2006064.397.36$0
Mar 2006056.707.08$0
Feb 2006057.597.75$0
Jan 2006060.598.93$0
Dec 2005054.9413.42$0
Nov 2005054.6910.59$0
Oct 2005058.3413.80$0
Sep 2005061.4512.08$0
Aug 2005061.519.80$0
Jul 2005055.697.84$0
Jun 2005052.337.38$0
May 2005045.226.65$0
Apr 2005049.207.36$0
Mar 2005050.377.15$0
Feb 2005045.226.31$0
Jan 2005043.166.32$0
Dec 2004039.866.75$0
Nov 2004045.286.33$0
Oct 2004049.706.52$0
Sep 2004043.245.28$0
Aug 2004042.375.55$0
Jul 2004038.286.08$0
Jun 2004036.106.43$0
May 2004037.486.49$0
Apr 2004034.475.86$0
Mar 2004034.365.53$0
Feb 2004032.455.51$0
Jan 2004032.036.30$0
Dec 2003030.266.30$0
Nov 2003028.804.60$0
Oct 2003028.174.76$0
Sep 2003026.314.75$0
Aug 2003029.765.13$0
Jul 2003029.415.17$0
Jun 2003028.565.98$0
May 2003026.595.97$0
Apr 2003026.675.41$0
Mar 2003031.146.10$0
Feb 200336333.487.93$2,877
Jan 2003030.315.58$0
Dec 200239926.914.85$1,937
Nov 200279224.664.14$3,276
Oct 20021,39926.464.23$5,917
Sep 20021,34127.443.64$4,875
Aug 20021,23825.963.16$3,917
Jul 20021,19824.583.06$3,668
Jun 200280523.733.34$2,687
May 200260724.663.58$2,175
Apr 200298723.653.51$3,467
Mar 20021,24622.003.10$3,866
Feb 200283518.222.38$1,984
Jan 20021,04417.172.38$2,480
Dec 20011,19016.932.36$2,814
Nov 20011,20318.072.41$2,894
Oct 200199919.782.53$2,526
Sep 20011,00924.262.25$2,272
Aug 20011,32124.873.05$4,033
Jul 20011,48323.933.20$4,741
Jun 20011,42424.563.82$5,446
May 20011,47925.524.31$6,371
Apr 20011,51324.685.34$8,072
Mar 20011,60824.545.38$8,645
Feb 20011,58727.755.77$9,152
Jan 20011,55827.478.40$13,085
Dec 20002,38926.889.12$21,794
Nov 20002,32732.215.66$13,166
Oct 20001,98431.235.15$10,209
Sep 20002,12531.875.19$11,021
Aug 20002,43529.644.54$11,057
Jul 20002,53228.534.09$10,355
Jun 20002,21029.304.40$9,718
May 20002,52427.263.68$9,288
Apr 20002,68524.513.12$8,366
Mar 20003,00628.422.86$8,596
Feb 20002,94127.622.73$8,019
Jan 20003,52025.272.48$8,731
Dec 19994,01224.282.42$9,724
Nov 19993,66223.192.43$8,913
Oct 19994,01720.982.80$11,263
Sep 19994,96321.752.62$12,997
Aug 19994,49719.262.88$12,932
Jul 19994,53917.892.37$10,768
Jun 19994,92715.942.36$11,638
May 19994,75815.792.32$11,043
Apr 19994,48015.102.21$9,892
Mar 19994,65312.471.84$8,554
Feb 19994,3469.981.82$7,900
Jan 19994,67610.381.90$8,884
Dec 19984,0139.201.77$7,116
Nov 19984,77710.892.19$10,441
Oct 19985,19512.421.97$10,230
Sep 19984,46612.592.08$9,301
Aug 19984,49911.301.91$8,581
Jul 19984,68011.742.24$10,470
Jun 19984,85011.242.24$10,851
May 19985,44512.622.21$12,014
Apr 19985,83013.042.51$14,606
Mar 19985,99912.802.31$13,854
Feb 19986,13613.952.30$14,107
Jan 19987,13514.702.15$15,374
Dec 19977,52916.322.41$18,153
Nov 19977,19118.193.09$22,208
Oct 19977,28719.253.15$22,953
Sep 19977,32617.742.95$21,647
Aug 19977,92917.862.55$20,257
Jul 19977,05217.582.25$15,845
Jun 19977,07817.242.26$15,976
May 19977,81718.972.31$18,046
Apr 19977,60517.882.08$15,840
Mar 19978,50118.951.94$16,485
Feb 19977,67920.492.21$16,939
Jan 19978,34523.483.54$29,539
Dec 19969,72923.32$0
Nov 19968,97121.97$0
Oct 19969,57223.31$0
Sep 19969,62622.22$0
Aug 19969,72620.26$0
Jul 19967,51919.55$0
Jun 19966,51018.73$0
May 19968,10919.43$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.

Feb 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  363 Mcf  × $  7.93 =     $2,877

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Month total                                   $2,877

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/159361 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.