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 159430District 02Field 93777450GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$767 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
GasProduction327,065 Mcf$766,681
Total$766,681

65,040 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 29.3770, -96.7163. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.37702, -96.71626 · 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
3,561 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 3,561 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

42-285323401F3,561 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 200366128.174.76$3,146
Sep 20031,29626.314.75$6,155
Aug 20031,05529.765.13$5,412
Jul 200393629.415.17$4,840
Jun 20031,05928.565.98$6,336
May 20031,04826.595.97$6,259
Apr 20031,20226.675.41$6,500
Mar 20031,55531.146.10$9,479
Feb 20031,26633.487.93$10,034
Jan 20031,07630.315.58$6,006
Dec 200267926.914.85$3,296
Nov 200259024.664.14$2,441
Oct 20021,02626.464.23$4,339
Sep 20021,08927.443.64$3,959
Aug 20021,18625.963.16$3,753
Jul 20021,33324.583.06$4,081
Jun 200274723.733.34$2,494
May 200262324.663.58$2,233
Apr 200291823.653.51$3,224
Mar 200286122.003.10$2,671
Feb 200265618.222.38$1,558
Jan 20021,25517.172.38$2,981
Dec 20011,29016.932.36$3,050
Nov 20011,45418.072.41$3,498
Oct 20011,14819.782.53$2,903
Sep 20011,16124.262.25$2,614
Aug 20011,43824.873.05$4,390
Jul 20011,54323.933.20$4,933
Jun 20011,56524.563.82$5,985
May 20011,48425.524.31$6,392
Apr 20011,80124.685.34$9,609
Mar 20011,94524.545.38$10,457
Feb 20011,60127.755.77$9,233
Jan 20011,67627.478.40$14,076
Dec 20002,34926.889.12$21,429
Nov 20002,20532.215.66$12,476
Oct 20002,15131.235.15$11,068
Sep 20002,42631.875.19$12,582
Aug 20002,57429.644.54$11,688
Jul 20002,96028.534.09$12,106
Jun 20002,41429.304.40$10,615
May 20003,08627.263.68$11,356
Apr 20003,12224.513.12$9,728
Mar 20003,20028.422.86$9,151
Feb 20003,31327.622.73$9,033
Jan 20003,54725.272.48$8,798
Dec 19993,29424.282.42$7,984
Nov 19993,03023.192.43$7,375
Oct 19992,96420.982.80$8,310
Sep 19993,64221.752.62$9,538
Aug 19993,14119.262.88$9,032
Jul 19993,35417.892.37$7,957
Jun 19993,20015.942.36$7,559
May 19993,13015.792.32$7,265
Apr 19993,62915.102.21$8,013
Mar 19993,54312.471.84$6,513
Feb 19993,5769.981.82$6,500
Jan 19993,96510.381.90$7,533
Dec 19983,6759.201.77$6,517
Nov 19984,12610.892.19$9,018
Oct 19984,31812.421.97$8,503
Sep 19984,23412.592.08$8,818
Aug 19984,52211.301.91$8,625
Jul 19984,55011.742.24$10,180
Jun 19985,35011.242.24$11,969
May 19986,01312.622.21$13,267
Apr 19985,87713.042.51$14,724
Mar 19984,76012.802.31$10,993
Feb 19985,43313.952.30$12,491
Jan 19986,26114.702.15$13,491
Dec 19976,75916.322.41$16,297
Nov 19976,55518.193.09$20,244
Oct 19976,62119.253.15$20,855
Sep 19976,63717.742.95$19,612
Aug 19977,58117.862.55$19,367
Jul 19977,23417.582.25$16,254
Jun 19977,39217.242.26$16,685
May 19978,09318.972.31$18,683
Apr 19977,92417.882.08$16,504
Mar 19978,38018.951.94$16,250
Feb 19977,61620.492.21$16,800
Jan 19978,07623.483.54$28,587
Dec 19968,38723.32$0
Nov 19968,16921.97$0
Oct 19969,28923.31$0
Sep 19969,79022.22$0
Aug 199610,28020.26$0
Jul 19969,00019.55$0
Jun 199610,07418.73$0
May 19965119.43$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.

Oct 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  661 Mcf  × $  4.76 =     $3,146

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Month total                                   $3,146

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/159430 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.