KUPKA, A. J.

Operated by WHITING OIL AND GAS CORPORATION (P-5 920478) in the SWEET HOME (EDWARDS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 185072District 02Field 87587300Hydrogen sulphide fieldCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.2 M
Feb 2001 – May 2012
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
136
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 12 leases and 12 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1978-08-10
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 register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ALLOCATION FORMULA SUSPENDED ADMINISTRATIVELY 3/1/93

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
CondensateDisposition2,425 bbl$100,411
GasProduction220,611 Mcf$1,149,252
Total$1,249,664

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 29.3590, -97.0519. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.35897, -97.05193 · 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
17,000 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 17,000 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 2001
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2012
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

42-285315001H17,000 ftFeb 2001May 2012Yes

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 (136)

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

136 months

May 20120091.612.49$0
Apr 201200101.652.00$0
Mar 201200105.052.22$0
Feb 201200101.102.57$0
Jan 20120098.092.73$0
Dec 20110096.873.24$0
Nov 20110095.723.31$0
Oct 20110084.983.65$0
Sep 20110083.623.99$0
Aug 20110083.404.15$0
Jul 20110094.144.52$0
Jun 20110092.904.64$0
May 20110098.134.40$0
Apr 201100105.964.33$0
Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20111186.504.59$91
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 2010010073.684.42$442
Jul 2010013972.554.74$658
Jun 2010017770.364.91$869
May 2010018071.124.24$762
Apr 2010016281.694.12$668
Mar 2010019378.394.39$847
Feb 2010013673.585.44$740
Jan 201012814574.365.96$10,383
Dec 2009016771.445.48$916
Nov 2009025674.593.75$960
Oct 2009018772.544.11$769
Sep 2009028365.543.06$867
Aug 2009030767.423.22$988
Jul 2009037261.133.46$1,289
Jun 2009031466.163.90$1,223
May 2009028654.743.93$1,123
Apr 2009031746.773.59$1,137
Mar 2009023742.144.06$962
Feb 2009035932.814.63$1,663
Jan 2009035135.865.37$1,885
Dec 2008044237.105.98$2,642
Nov 2008042255.496.86$2,895
Oct 2008053475.246.92$3,696
Sep 20080496101.767.88$3,907
Aug 2008159316114.228.48$20,842
Jul 20080395131.0811.39$4,499
Jun 20080416131.3313.03$5,422
May 20080285123.1711.57$3,299
Apr 20080329110.3110.45$3,440
Mar 20080450101.909.66$4,349
Feb 2008034092.538.77$2,982
Jan 2008043690.388.21$3,578
Dec 2007038188.337.30$2,782
Nov 2007048091.677.29$3,500
Oct 2007067982.856.92$4,700
Sep 2007066175.846.24$4,127
Aug 200718080569.066.39$17,573
Jul 2007043770.906.39$2,792
Jun 2007046062.007.55$3,472
May 2007059958.747.85$4,700
Apr 2007143759.617.81$3,470
Mar 2007036756.927.30$2,680
Feb 2007041855.108.22$3,434
Jan 2007065250.306.73$4,386
Dec 2006070456.656.92$4,871
Nov 2006059654.207.62$4,540
Oct 2006092554.906.01$5,563
Sep 2006062760.085.04$3,158
Aug 200601,21968.717.34$8,947
Jul 200601,22469.376.34$7,764
Jun 200601,16466.286.38$7,431
May 200601,28366.016.42$8,243
Apr 2006095464.397.36$7,022
Mar 200601,69656.707.08$12,013
Feb 200617551157.597.75$14,039
Jan 200601,19260.598.93$10,649
Dec 200501,35954.9413.42$18,232
Nov 200501,66054.6910.59$17,577
Oct 200501,49358.3413.80$20,597
Sep 200501,99561.4512.08$24,098
Aug 200522,24161.519.80$22,078
Jul 200502,22755.697.84$17,468
Jun 200504,41352.337.38$32,573
May 20051814,83145.226.65$40,317
Apr 200501,12349.207.36$8,266
Mar 2005095650.377.15$6,840
Feb 200501,53545.226.31$9,689
Jan 2005079043.166.32$4,995
Dec 2004078139.866.75$5,273
Nov 2004087045.286.33$5,507
Oct 2004075949.706.52$4,945
Sep 200417389743.245.28$12,220
Aug 2004080842.375.55$4,485
Jul 2004088238.286.08$5,366
Jun 200401,42336.106.43$9,154
May 200401,01137.486.49$6,566
Apr 2004097834.475.86$5,730
Mar 200403,10534.365.53$17,171
Feb 200402,10432.455.51$11,592
Jan 200403,24332.036.30$20,430
Dec 200303,38030.266.30$21,300
Nov 200304,23428.804.60$19,456
Oct 200303,18428.174.76$15,155
Sep 20031773,39926.314.75$20,800
Aug 200302,88129.765.13$14,779
Jul 200304,04429.415.17$20,911
Jun 200305,06628.565.98$30,310
May 200303,46726.595.97$20,707
Apr 200303,83826.675.41$20,753
Mar 200305,01631.146.10$30,578
Feb 20031183,75833.487.93$33,736
Jan 200304,71030.315.58$26,291
Dec 20021824,43326.914.85$26,414
Nov 200202,68224.664.14$11,095
Oct 200202,85526.464.23$12,074
Sep 200203,12927.443.64$11,375
Aug 200204,13125.963.16$13,071
Jul 200202,06724.583.06$6,329
Jun 200203,23123.733.34$10,786
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 200203,40223.653.51$11,949
Mar 200204,44122.003.10$13,779
Feb 200242,30718.222.38$5,554
Jan 20022014,02417.172.38$13,011
Dec 200133,96516.932.36$9,426
Nov 200104,97718.072.41$11,972
Oct 20011894,55519.782.53$15,257
Sep 200104,47024.262.25$10,063
Aug 200127,00124.873.05$21,425
Jul 20013718,67023.933.20$36,597
Jun 2001012,01124.563.82$45,932
May 20011786,17225.524.31$31,127
Apr 200104,23424.685.34$22,590
Mar 2001011,39224.545.38$61,248
Feb 20010027.755.77$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.

Jan 2011 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             1 bbl  × $ 86.50 =        $87
Gas                    1 Mcf  × $  4.59 =         $5

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Month total                                      $91

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/185072 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.