STAFFORD "A"

Operated by MARQUEE CORPORATION (P-5 526675) in the FENNER (FRIO 2700) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 183703District 02Field 30635666GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$732 k
May 2001 – Aug 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
40
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
1967-05-15
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: TO FENNER /CATAHOULA 2700/ EFF 3-1-71

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
GasProduction195,306 Mcf$732,255
Total$732,255

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 29.1847, -96.6624. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.18470, -96.66235 · 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
4,200 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
3.2 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 4,200 ft.

Completions filed
May 2001
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 2004
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 3.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3.2 years and 3.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2393309514,200 ftMay 2001Jul 2004Yes

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 (40)

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

40 months

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 20031,58529.765.13$8,131
Jul 20033,79129.415.17$19,603
Jun 20033,90928.565.98$23,387
May 20034,35226.595.97$25,993
Apr 20035,39926.675.41$29,194
Mar 20035,47231.146.10$33,358
Feb 20035,26533.487.93$41,730
Jan 20036,76330.315.58$37,751
Dec 20027,14026.914.85$34,656
Nov 20028,02224.664.14$33,187
Oct 20028,61926.464.23$36,451
Sep 20027,69727.443.64$27,980
Aug 20029,06725.963.16$28,689
Jul 20028,55224.583.06$26,184
Jun 20027,74523.733.34$25,855
May 20027,27724.663.58$26,081
Apr 200215,14023.653.51$53,177
Mar 20029,33422.003.10$28,961
Feb 20028,59318.222.38$20,414
Jan 20028,04817.172.38$19,119
Dec 20019,91416.932.36$23,441
Nov 20019,70018.072.41$23,334
Oct 20015,77319.782.53$14,599
Sep 20014,75124.262.25$10,696
Aug 20016,70124.873.05$20,459
Jul 20017,56223.933.20$24,176
Jun 20017,65124.563.82$29,259
May 20011,48425.524.31$6,392

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.

Aug 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                1,585 Mcf  × $  5.13 =     $8,131

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Month total                                   $8,131

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/183703 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.