MEANS "C"

Name: MEANS "C" lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by CHAPARRAL ENERGY, L.L.C. (P-5 144535) in the HUNGERFORD, N. (VICKSBURG) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 108771District 03Field 43617440NGPA filingCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$290 k

Jan 1993 – Aug 2004

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

140

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The HUNGERFORD, N. (VICKSBURG) field

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 3 leases and 3 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1983-05-19

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: “EXEMPT FIELD EFF 9/1/05”

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	1	none	—	—

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Condensate	Disposition	375 bbl	$6,573
Gas	Production	132,298 Mcf	$283,566
Total			$290,139

43,504 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 39 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 29.4829, -96.0446. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.48292, -96.04456 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

7,560 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

21.3 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 7,560 ft.

Completions filed

May 1983

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Aug 2004

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 21.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 21.3 years and 21.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-15731435	1	7,560 ft	May 1983	Aug 2004	Yes

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 (140)

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

140 months


Aug 2004	0	0	42.37	5.55	$0
Jul 2004	0	0	38.28	6.08	$0
Jun 2004	0	0	36.10	6.43	$0
May 2004	0	0	37.48	6.49	$0
Apr 2004	0	0	34.47	5.86	$0
Mar 2004	0	0	34.36	5.53	$0
Feb 2004	0	0	32.45	5.51	$0
Jan 2004	0	0	32.03	6.30	$0
Dec 2003	0	0	30.26	6.30	$0
Nov 2003	0	0	28.80	4.60	$0
Oct 2003	0	0	28.17	4.76	$0
Sep 2003	0	0	26.31	4.75	$0
Aug 2003	0	0	29.76	5.13	$0
Jul 2003	0	0	29.41	5.17	$0
Jun 2003	0	0	28.56	5.98	$0
May 2003	0	0	26.59	5.97	$0
Apr 2003	0	0	26.67	5.41	$0
Mar 2003	0	0	31.14	6.10	$0
Feb 2003	0	0	33.48	7.93	$0
Jan 2003	0	0	30.31	5.58	$0
Dec 2002	2	0	26.91	4.85	$54
Nov 2002	0	0	24.66	4.14	$0
Oct 2002	0	0	26.46	4.23	$0
Sep 2002	0	0	27.44	3.64	$0
Aug 2002	0	0	25.96	3.16	$0
Jul 2002	0	17	24.58	3.06	$52
Jun 2002	0	223	23.73	3.34	$744
May 2002	0	257	24.66	3.58	$921
Apr 2002	0	302	23.65	3.51	$1,061
Mar 2002	0	1,464	22.00	3.10	$4,542
Feb 2002	0	1,319	18.22	2.38	$3,134
Jan 2002	0	1,549	17.17	2.38	$3,680
Dec 2001	0	789	16.93	2.36	$1,866
Nov 2001	116	1,499	18.07	2.41	$5,702
Oct 2001	0	1,300	19.78	2.53	$3,288
Sep 2001	0	1,400	24.26	2.25	$3,152
Aug 2001	0	1,530	24.87	3.05	$4,671
Jul 2001	0	1,540	23.93	3.20	$4,924
Jun 2001	0	1,414	24.56	3.82	$5,407
May 2001	0	1,340	25.52	4.31	$5,772
Apr 2001	0	1,491	24.68	5.34	$7,955
Mar 2001	0	1,621	24.54	5.38	$8,715
Feb 2001	0	1,574	27.75	5.77	$9,077
Jan 2001	0	1,859	27.47	8.40	$15,613
Dec 2000	0	1,690	26.88	9.12	$15,417
Nov 2000	0	1,602	32.21	5.66	$9,064
Oct 2000	0	1,584	31.23	5.15	$8,150
Sep 2000	0	1,558	31.87	5.19	$8,081
Aug 2000	0	1,586	29.64	4.54	$7,202
Jul 2000	0	1,576	28.53	4.09	$6,445
Jun 2000	0	1,536	29.30	4.40	$6,754
May 2000	0	1,554	27.26	3.68	$5,718
Apr 2000	0	1,548	24.51	3.12	$4,824
Mar 2000	0	1,319	28.42	2.86	$3,772
Feb 2000	0	1,132	27.62	2.73	$3,086
Jan 2000	0	1,392	25.27	2.48	$3,453
Dec 1999	0	1,576	24.28	2.42	$3,820
Nov 1999	0	751	23.19	2.43	$1,828
Oct 1999	0	1,555	20.98	2.80	$4,360
Sep 1999	0	975	21.75	2.62	$2,553
Aug 1999	0	1,264	19.26	2.88	$3,635
Jul 1999	0	1,601	17.89	2.37	$3,798
Jun 1999	0	1,481	15.94	2.36	$3,498
May 1999	0	1,243	15.79	2.32	$2,885
Apr 1999	0	1,425	15.10	2.21	$3,146
Mar 1999	0	1,273	12.47	1.84	$2,340
Feb 1999	0	1,068	9.98	1.82	$1,941
Jan 1999	0	1,488	10.38	1.90	$2,827
Dec 1998	0	1,631	9.20	1.77	$2,892
Nov 1998	0	1,175	10.89	2.19	$2,568
Oct 1998	0	1,365	12.42	1.97	$2,688
Sep 1998	0	1,421	12.59	2.08	$2,959
Aug 1998	0	1,361	11.30	1.91	$2,596
Jul 1998	0	1,526	11.74	2.24	$3,414
Jun 1998	0	1,443	11.24	2.24	$3,228
May 1998	0	1,391	12.62	2.21	$3,069
Apr 1998	0	1,571	13.04	2.51	$3,936
Mar 1998	22	1,139	12.80	2.31	$2,912
Feb 1998	0	1,057	13.95	2.30	$2,430
Jan 1998	3	1,693	14.70	2.15	$3,692
Dec 1997	10	1,693	16.32	2.41	$4,245
Nov 1997	0	1,501	18.19	3.09	$4,635
Oct 1997	0	1,289	19.25	3.15	$4,060
Sep 1997	0	1,239	17.74	2.95	$3,661
Aug 1997	183	1,362	17.86	2.55	$6,748
Jul 1997	0	1,314	17.58	2.25	$2,952
Jun 1997	0	1,134	17.24	2.26	$2,560
May 1997	0	1,304	18.97	2.31	$3,010
Apr 1997	0	1,167	17.88	2.08	$2,431
Mar 1997	0	1,190	18.95	1.94	$2,308
Feb 1997	0	1,142	20.49	2.21	$2,519
Jan 1997	0	1,421	23.48	3.54	$5,030
Dec 1996	0	1,217	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	1,203	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	1,014	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	1,095	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	1,194	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	0	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	1,286	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	615	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	0	585	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	0	130	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	498	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	39	0	17.07	—	$666
Dec 1995	0	0	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	0	0	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	0	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	1,478	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	0	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	0	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	536	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	1,131	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	0	1,169	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	0	1,181	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	0	1,270	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	0	992	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	0	1,180	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	0	1,182	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	0	902	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	0	0	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	0	1,145	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	0	1,254	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	0	1,226	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	0	1,291	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	0	1,285	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	0	1,431	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	0	1,193	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	0	1,194	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	0	1,146	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	0	1,162	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	0	900	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	0	0	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	0	619	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	0	1,493	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	0	1,409	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	0	1,579	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	0	1,072	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	0	1,367	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	0	1,439	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	0	1,441	16.93	—	$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.

Dec 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             2 bbl  × $ 26.91 =        $54
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  4.85 =         $0

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Month total                                      $54

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. 03/G/108771 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.