COLUMBUS FIELD UNIT

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

Operated by MITCHELL ENERGY COMPANY L.P. (P-5 570653) in the COLUMBUS field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 129021District 03Field 19837001CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$2.1 M

Jan 1993 – Aug 2001

Value, last 12 filed months

$467 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

104

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The COLUMBUS 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 11 leases and 45 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1944-03-18

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and 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: “INTO THE COLUMBUS (CONSOLIDATED) FIELD.”

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	20,554 bbl	$355,252
Gas	Production	1,802,527 Mcf	$1,775,554
Total			$2,130,806

1,199,748 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 29.7546, -96.5734. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.75457, -96.57343 · 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

0.0%

0 of 1 wells

Median depth

8,938 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

—

no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

1100.0%

A plug date is filed

00.0%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

00.0%

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 8,938 ft.

Completions filed

Oct 2002

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-08900808	1016 H	8,938 ft	Oct 2002	—	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 (104)

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

104 months


Aug 2001	34	4,552	24.87	3.05	$14,744
Jul 2001	32	5,534	23.93	3.20	$18,458
Jun 2001	30	5,164	24.56	3.82	$20,485
May 2001	30	6,371	25.52	4.31	$28,208
Apr 2001	17	6,505	24.68	5.34	$35,126
Mar 2001	3	7,088	24.54	5.38	$38,182
Feb 2001	3	6,271	27.75	5.77	$36,249
Jan 2001	5	7,997	27.47	8.40	$67,302
Dec 2000	8	7,952	26.88	9.12	$72,757
Nov 2000	7	8,084	32.21	5.66	$45,965
Oct 2000	7	8,820	31.23	5.15	$45,602
Sep 2000	6	8,447	31.87	5.19	$44,002
Aug 2000	9	9,204	29.64	4.54	$42,060
Jul 2000	7	10,519	28.53	4.09	$43,220
Jun 2000	12	10,801	29.30	4.40	$47,846
May 2000	73	11,035	27.26	3.68	$42,596
Apr 2000	72	11,460	24.51	3.12	$37,474
Mar 2000	38	11,829	28.42	2.86	$34,908
Feb 2000	27	10,795	27.62	2.73	$30,178
Jan 2000	29	11,467	25.27	2.48	$29,177
Dec 1999	41	11,070	24.28	2.42	$27,826
Nov 1999	28	1,545	23.19	2.43	$4,410
Oct 1999	34	5,755	20.98	2.80	$16,849
Sep 1999	32	7,920	21.75	2.62	$21,437
Aug 1999	39	13,079	19.26	2.88	$38,361
Jul 1999	38	13,709	17.89	2.37	$33,203
Jun 1999	37	9,442	15.94	2.36	$22,893
May 1999	14	15,090	15.79	2.32	$35,245
Apr 1999	0	11,474	15.10	2.21	$25,335
Mar 1999	2	13,461	12.47	1.84	$24,771
Feb 1999	6	12,758	9.98	1.82	$23,251
Jan 1999	3	15,551	10.38	1.90	$29,577
Dec 1998	3	10,770	9.20	1.77	$19,126
Nov 1998	1	13,819	10.89	2.19	$30,215
Oct 1998	0	14,675	12.42	1.97	$28,898
Sep 1998	18	14,170	12.59	2.08	$29,737
Aug 1998	76	13,965	11.30	1.91	$27,495
Jul 1998	165	9,746	11.74	2.24	$23,742
Jun 1998	124	7,405	11.24	2.24	$17,961
May 1998	175	10,113	12.62	2.21	$24,521
Apr 1998	433	10,377	13.04	2.51	$31,644
Mar 1998	436	11,359	12.80	2.31	$31,814
Feb 1998	387	12,356	13.95	2.30	$33,807
Jan 1998	339	11,643	14.70	2.15	$30,072
Dec 1997	287	10,836	16.32	2.41	$30,811
Nov 1997	241	11,776	18.19	3.09	$40,751
Oct 1997	143	12,196	19.25	3.15	$41,168
Sep 1997	41	13,714	17.74	2.95	$41,251
Aug 1997	46	14,334	17.86	2.55	$37,441
Jul 1997	32	14,463	17.58	2.25	$33,060
Jun 1997	77	11,429	17.24	2.26	$27,125
May 1997	293	14,507	18.97	2.31	$39,048
Apr 1997	320	13,867	17.88	2.08	$34,604
Mar 1997	295	14,891	18.95	1.94	$34,466
Feb 1997	184	13,582	20.49	2.21	$33,731
Jan 1997	195	16,037	23.48	3.54	$61,345
Dec 1996	200	6,070	23.32	—	$4,664
Nov 1996	389	13,651	21.97	—	$8,546
Oct 1996	437	15,123	23.31	—	$10,186
Sep 1996	406	16,128	22.22	—	$9,021
Aug 1996	378	16,799	20.26	—	$7,658
Jul 1996	361	15,468	19.55	—	$7,058
Jun 1996	364	16,443	18.73	—	$6,818
May 1996	463	19,574	19.43	—	$8,996
Apr 1996	526	19,947	21.51	—	$11,314
Mar 1996	543	19,925	19.38	—	$10,523
Feb 1996	384	18,728	16.98	—	$6,520
Jan 1996	590	21,865	17.07	—	$10,071
Dec 1995	473	22,646	17.19	—	$8,131
Nov 1995	335	21,982	16.00	—	$5,360
Oct 1995	239	22,663	15.43	—	$3,688
Sep 1995	214	24,935	16.18	—	$3,463
Aug 1995	220	25,668	15.92	—	$3,502
Jul 1995	187	25,735	15.24	—	$2,850
Jun 1995	207	23,321	16.41	—	$3,397
May 1995	250	21,720	17.56	—	$4,390
Apr 1995	305	19,267	17.73	—	$5,408
Mar 1995	341	18,583	16.44	—	$5,606
Feb 1995	263	16,554	16.58	—	$4,361
Jan 1995	344	20,449	15.92	—	$5,476
Dec 1994	226	21,752	15.03	—	$3,397
Nov 1994	191	20,645	15.90	—	$3,037
Oct 1994	129	22,522	15.58	—	$2,010
Sep 1994	135	21,634	15.29	—	$2,064
Aug 1994	163	19,006	16.13	—	$2,629
Jul 1994	198	35,366	17.56	—	$3,477
Jun 1994	241	35,811	17.09	—	$4,119
May 1994	230	33,969	15.88	—	$3,652
Apr 1994	181	26,358	14.14	—	$2,559
Mar 1994	195	25,769	12.46	—	$2,430
Feb 1994	217	37,392	12.50	—	$2,713
Jan 1994	248	30,848	12.66	—	$3,140
Dec 1993	244	25,578	12.33	—	$3,009
Nov 1993	354	29,203	14.49	—	$5,129
Oct 1993	476	29,653	15.85	—	$7,545
Sep 1993	522	32,939	15.03	—	$7,846
Aug 1993	532	35,074	15.66	—	$8,331
Jul 1993	454	36,677	15.46	—	$7,019
Jun 1993	372	37,373	16.79	—	$6,246
May 1993	267	40,796	17.68	—	$4,721
Apr 1993	371	35,584	18.05	—	$6,697
Mar 1993	442	39,786	18.14	—	$8,018
Feb 1993	429	37,409	17.90	—	$7,679
Jan 1993	284	25,360	16.93	—	$4,808

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 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate            34 bbl  × $ 24.87 =       $846
Gas                4,552 Mcf  × $  3.05 =    $13,898

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Month total                                  $14,744

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/129021 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.