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Operated by PATTERSON PETROLEUM LP (P-5 643435) in the SALEM (3950) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 159797District 02Field 79782955CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$3.2 M
May 1996 – Jan 2005
Value, last 12 filed months
$147 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
105
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 7 leases and 7 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1979-06-18
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 160 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 02/01/97.

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
CondensateDisposition19 bbl$410
GasProduction1,146,269 Mcf$3,203,228
Total$3,203,639

107,775 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 5 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 29.0026, -96.8717. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.00259, -96.87174 · 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
4,710 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
8.7 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 4,710 ft.

Completions filed
May 1996
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 2005
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 8.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.7 years and 8.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4693314014,710 ftMay 1996Jan 2005Yes

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 (105)

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

105 months

Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 2004053943.245.28$2,848
Aug 2004075942.375.55$4,213
Jul 2004083038.286.08$5,050
Jun 200402,06436.106.43$13,278
May 200404,52237.486.49$29,368
Apr 200404,87334.475.86$28,548
Mar 200407,00434.365.53$38,733
Feb 200404,46932.455.51$24,622
Jan 200405,73932.036.30$36,154
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 2003020730.315.58$1,155
Dec 200201,89326.914.85$9,188
Nov 200206,38124.664.14$26,398
Oct 200204,85526.464.23$20,532
Sep 200204,73827.443.64$17,224
Aug 200204,48325.963.16$14,185
Jul 200206,00024.583.06$18,371
Jun 200203,09123.733.34$10,319
May 200203,02224.663.58$10,831
Apr 200201,73423.653.51$6,090
Mar 2002172,37622.003.10$7,746
Feb 200222,87218.222.38$6,859
Jan 200206,00217.172.38$14,259
Dec 2001011,50116.932.36$27,193
Nov 2001011,85618.072.41$28,520
Oct 2001012,35319.782.53$31,239
Sep 2001011,60224.262.25$26,120
Aug 2001012,06824.873.05$36,846
Jul 2001012,81323.933.20$40,964
Jun 2001011,53824.563.82$44,123
May 2001012,39025.524.31$53,368
Apr 2001012,80024.685.34$68,292
Mar 2001013,08324.545.38$70,340
Feb 2001012,32327.755.77$71,068
Jan 2001013,61327.478.40$114,332
Dec 2000013,18026.889.12$120,235
Nov 2000013,46032.215.66$76,157
Oct 2000013,96931.235.15$71,877
Sep 2000013,27431.875.19$68,846
Aug 2000013,69329.644.54$62,176
Jul 2000011,71928.534.09$47,928
Jun 2000013,99429.304.40$61,535
May 2000011,85927.263.68$43,638
Apr 2000014,27124.513.12$44,468
Mar 2000014,96528.422.86$42,796
Feb 2000012,26027.622.73$33,427
Jan 2000014,07925.272.48$34,923
Dec 1999014,12924.282.42$34,245
Nov 1999015,29923.192.43$37,238
Oct 1999015,44420.982.80$43,301
Sep 1999015,28721.752.62$40,034
Aug 1999015,16219.262.88$43,600
Jul 1999016,70917.892.37$39,640
Jun 1999016,39915.942.36$38,736
May 1999016,76015.792.32$38,900
Apr 1999016,19815.102.21$35,766
Mar 1999017,45412.471.84$32,086
Feb 1999015,5159.981.82$28,203
Jan 1999017,73110.381.90$33,688
Dec 1998016,4489.201.77$29,168
Nov 1998017,63810.892.19$38,552
Oct 1998018,33512.421.97$36,105
Sep 1998021,85912.592.08$45,524
Aug 1998011,03811.301.91$21,053
Jul 1998017,28611.742.24$38,673
Jun 1998016,41711.242.24$36,729
May 1998018,43212.622.21$40,667
Apr 1998018,60713.042.51$46,617
Mar 1998018,73512.802.31$43,267
Feb 1998017,30113.952.30$39,777
Jan 1998019,71714.702.15$42,486
Dec 1997019,73416.322.41$47,581
Nov 1997019,91518.193.09$61,503
Oct 1997020,25619.253.15$63,803
Sep 1997018,97017.742.95$56,054
Aug 1997019,49917.862.55$49,815
Jul 1997019,87317.582.25$44,653
Jun 1997020,13517.242.26$45,449
May 1997022,07718.972.31$50,965
Apr 1997021,74617.882.08$45,292
Mar 1997021,99018.951.94$42,642
Feb 1997020,81620.492.21$45,918
Jan 1997022,46723.483.54$79,526
Dec 1996023,47823.32$0
Nov 1996024,87321.97$0
Oct 1996024,98623.31$0
Sep 1996018,54122.22$0
Aug 1996015,89720.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$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.

Sep 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 43.24 =         $0
Gas                  539 Mcf  × $  5.28 =     $2,848

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Month total                                   $2,848

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/159797 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.