JAMES RODEN GAS UNIT

Operated by LAVACA RIVER OPERATING CO., LLC (P-5 489720) in the LAVACA RIVER (1700) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 239466District 02Field 52365600GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$844 k
Jul 2008 – May 2013
Value, last 12 filed months
$558
at the published price for each month
Months reported
59
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 14 leases and 14 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1978-06-10
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 Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ALLOCATION FORMULA EFFECTIVE 09/01/2007.

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
GasProduction185,602 Mcf$844,362
Total$844,362

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 29.1938, -96.8326. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.19382, -96.83259 · 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
2,000 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
4.8 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 2,000 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 2008
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2013
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 4.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 4.8 years and 4.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2853350122,000 ftJul 2008May 2013Yes

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 (59)

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

59 months

May 2013094.834.15$0
Apr 2013093.964.28$0
Mar 2013093.623.91$0
Feb 2013091.233.42$0
Jan 2013091.603.42$0
Dec 2012086.773.42$0
Nov 2012086.953.62$0
Oct 2012089.383.40$0
Sep 2012094.672.92$0
Aug 201214692.662.91$425
Jul 2012085.133.02$0
Jun 20125379.822.52$134
May 201277191.612.49$1,918
Apr 2012999101.652.00$1,995
Mar 20121,443105.052.22$3,206
Feb 20122,526101.102.57$6,492
Jan 20122,30698.092.73$6,305
Dec 20112,66496.873.24$8,631
Nov 20112,94595.723.31$9,752
Oct 20112,54384.983.65$9,278
Sep 20112,69583.623.99$10,742
Aug 20113,25983.404.15$13,523
Jul 20113,74494.144.52$16,913
Jun 20114,19692.904.64$19,469
May 20113,85298.134.40$16,967
Apr 20113,462105.964.33$15,002
Mar 20113,73696.364.06$15,158
Feb 20113,82985.644.18$16,005
Jan 20114,26886.504.59$19,585
Dec 20104,71685.734.35$20,504
Nov 20104,96980.843.80$18,859
Oct 20105,03678.103.51$17,671
Sep 20104,66372.633.98$18,556
Aug 20104,58673.684.42$20,267
Jul 20104,14372.554.74$19,623
Jun 20104,57870.364.91$22,480
May 20103,24771.124.24$13,752
Apr 20103,90581.694.12$16,099
Mar 20104,42778.394.39$19,429
Feb 20103,82973.585.44$20,839
Jan 20103,84474.365.96$22,926
Dec 20094,79171.445.48$26,273
Nov 20093,87674.593.75$14,541
Oct 20094,73072.544.11$19,441
Sep 20094,65565.543.06$14,266
Aug 20094,97867.423.22$16,022
Jul 20094,66961.133.46$16,176
Jun 20094,83066.163.90$18,813
May 20095,37154.743.93$21,085
Apr 20095,11346.773.59$18,343
Mar 20095,31042.144.06$21,553
Feb 20095,22132.814.63$24,189
Jan 20094,74035.865.37$25,459
Dec 20085,52237.105.98$33,006
Nov 20085,12655.496.86$35,166
Oct 20085,20675.246.92$36,036
Sep 20086,689101.767.88$52,690
Aug 20083,395114.228.48$28,800
Jul 20080131.0811.39$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.

Aug 2012 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  146 Mcf  × $  2.91 =       $425

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Month total                                     $425

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/239466 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.