B. SKELTON GAS UNIT

Operated by MUELLER EXPLORATION, INC. (P-5 592650) in the JOSEPH P. MUELLER (WOLVERINE) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 178085District 02Field 47295479GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$4.3 M
Nov 1999 – Mar 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$54 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
101
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 1 leases and 1 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1999-11-16
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

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
GasProduction785,202 Mcf$4,263,544
Total$4,263,544

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 29.4394, -96.7825. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.43938, -96.78250 · 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
2,319 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
8.3 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 2,319 ft.

Completions filed
Nov 1999
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2008
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 8.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.3 years and 8.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2853274912,319 ftNov 1999Mar 2008Yes

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 (101)

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

101 months

Mar 20080101.909.66$0
Feb 2008092.538.77$0
Jan 2008090.388.21$0
Dec 2007088.337.30$0
Nov 2007091.677.29$0
Oct 20071582.856.92$104
Sep 200748275.846.24$3,010
Aug 200773269.066.39$4,676
Jul 20071,34070.906.39$8,560
Jun 20071,37562.007.55$10,379
May 20071,81958.747.85$14,272
Apr 20071,69859.617.81$13,253
Mar 20072,83356.927.30$20,686
Feb 20073,79455.108.22$31,172
Jan 20076,37550.306.73$42,884
Dec 20066,94856.656.92$48,069
Nov 20067,17454.207.62$54,648
Oct 20068,07554.906.01$48,561
Sep 20068,64760.085.04$43,557
Aug 200610,28368.717.34$75,476
Jul 200610,23069.376.34$64,886
Jun 20069,06066.286.38$57,838
May 200610,73066.016.42$68,940
Apr 200610,01064.397.36$73,678
Mar 20066,26056.707.08$44,339
Feb 20066,65957.597.75$51,615
Jan 20069,23860.598.93$82,526
Dec 20059,09454.9413.42$122,000
Nov 20058,99554.6910.59$95,243
Oct 20058,23658.3413.80$113,622
Sep 20055,29861.4512.08$63,995
Aug 20054,49961.519.80$44,076
Jul 20056,56055.697.84$51,454
Jun 20059,39952.337.38$69,374
May 20057,38145.226.65$49,092
Apr 20057,22349.207.36$53,165
Mar 20056,59550.377.15$47,186
Feb 20057,30445.226.31$46,102
Jan 20058,32943.166.32$52,658
Dec 20047,27239.866.75$49,094
Nov 20046,27345.286.33$39,711
Oct 20046,14449.706.52$40,029
Sep 20047,06143.245.28$37,310
Aug 20047,59842.375.55$42,174
Jul 20047,83438.286.08$47,663
Jun 20046,72336.106.43$43,249
May 20047,92637.486.49$51,476
Apr 20047,65534.475.86$44,847
Mar 20047,51534.365.53$41,559
Feb 20047,20932.455.51$39,719
Jan 20048,66432.036.30$54,580
Dec 20038,57930.266.30$54,062
Nov 20037,78128.804.60$35,755
Oct 20037,29328.174.76$34,712
Sep 20035,81826.314.75$27,632
Aug 20036,43629.765.13$33,015
Jul 20038,57529.415.17$44,340
Jun 20037,91628.565.98$47,361
May 20038,41926.595.97$50,284
Apr 20037,49426.675.41$40,522
Mar 20038,68331.146.10$52,932
Feb 20036,10533.487.93$48,388
Jan 20038,36130.315.58$46,671
Dec 20028,75126.914.85$42,475
Nov 20029,10724.664.14$37,675
Oct 20029,33526.464.23$39,479
Sep 20029,78527.443.64$35,570
Aug 200210,20625.963.16$32,293
Jul 20028,19924.583.06$25,103
Jun 20028,30523.733.34$27,724
May 20029,89524.663.58$35,464
Apr 200210,21123.653.51$35,864
Mar 20029,74722.003.10$30,242
Feb 20029,89418.222.38$23,505
Jan 200211,11817.172.38$26,413
Dec 200111,05316.932.36$26,134
Nov 200110,21618.072.41$24,575
Oct 200111,09619.782.53$28,060
Sep 200110,19924.262.25$22,961
Aug 200110,42224.873.05$31,820
Jul 200111,69923.933.20$37,403
Jun 200111,21424.563.82$42,884
May 200111,60225.524.31$49,974
Apr 200112,51324.685.34$66,761
Mar 200112,05624.545.38$64,818
Feb 20019,78427.755.77$56,425
Jan 200110,40227.478.40$87,364
Dec 200010,06926.889.12$91,854
Nov 200010,63032.215.66$60,145
Oct 200011,65931.235.15$59,991
Sep 200010,99231.875.19$57,010
Aug 200011,74929.644.54$53,349
Jul 200011,61728.534.09$47,511
Jun 200010,87929.304.40$47,838
May 200011,48127.263.68$42,247
Apr 200010,34624.513.12$32,238
Mar 200010,73028.422.86$30,685
Feb 20009,99127.622.73$27,240
Jan 200011,78725.272.48$29,238
Dec 199911,16024.282.42$27,049
Nov 19993,27923.192.43$7,981

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 2007 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                   15 Mcf  × $  6.92 =       $104

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Month total                                     $104

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/178085 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.