WARRENTON AMARADO UNIT

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

Operated by UNION PACIFIC RESOURCES COMPANY (P-5 876645) in the GIDDINGS (AUSTIN CHALK, GAS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 147182District 03Field 347735502 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$562 k

Oct 1993 – Oct 1997

Value, last 12 filed months

$2 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The GIDDINGS (AUSTIN CHALK, GAS) 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 1,061 leases and 1,061 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1978-08-01

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

0 ft

minimum

From a lease line

330 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2018-10-16.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “AMENDED DRILLING PERMITS, NOTICE, OR HEARING.”

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
High Cost Gas	2	2	1993-12-17 – 1995-08-08	2 dockets
NGPA	2	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	36,164 bbl	$561,647
Gas	Production	1,036,196 Mcf	$0
Total			$561,647

1,036,196 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 37 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 30.0128, -96.7422. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.01283, -96.74225 · 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

11,868 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 11,868 ft.

Completions filed

Dec 1996

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-14932794	1	11,868 ft	Dec 1996	—	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 (49)

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

49 months


Oct 1997	0	0	19.25	3.15	$0
Sep 1997	0	0	17.74	2.95	$0
Aug 1997	0	0	17.86	2.55	$0
Jul 1997	0	0	17.58	2.25	$0
Jun 1997	0	0	17.24	2.26	$0
May 1997	0	0	18.97	2.31	$0
Apr 1997	0	0	17.88	2.08	$0
Mar 1997	0	0	18.95	1.94	$0
Feb 1997	0	0	20.49	2.21	$0
Jan 1997	105	0	23.48	3.54	$2,465
Dec 1996	0	0	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	0	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	365	9,395	23.31	—	$8,508
Sep 1996	185	9,817	22.22	—	$4,111
Aug 1996	509	11,407	20.26	—	$10,312
Jul 1996	364	8,069	19.55	—	$7,116
Jun 1996	360	10,875	18.73	—	$6,743
May 1996	369	11,268	19.43	—	$7,170
Apr 1996	363	10,211	21.51	—	$7,808
Mar 1996	182	11,594	19.38	—	$3,527
Feb 1996	373	11,034	16.98	—	$6,334
Jan 1996	381	13,223	17.07	—	$6,504
Dec 1995	742	14,305	17.19	—	$12,755
Nov 1995	364	14,216	16.00	—	$5,824
Oct 1995	189	15,891	15.43	—	$2,916
Sep 1995	369	17,289	16.18	—	$5,970
Aug 1995	557	22,062	15.92	—	$8,867
Jul 1995	381	18,759	15.24	—	$5,806
Jun 1995	555	5,989	16.41	—	$9,108
May 1995	1,095	19,181	17.56	—	$19,228
Apr 1995	757	16,242	17.73	—	$13,422
Mar 1995	731	18,192	16.44	—	$12,018
Feb 1995	2	19,843	16.58	—	$33
Jan 1995	758	20,301	15.92	—	$12,067
Dec 1994	569	21,204	15.03	—	$8,552
Nov 1994	906	22,139	15.90	—	$14,405
Oct 1994	765	24,806	15.58	—	$11,919
Sep 1994	1,143	26,321	15.29	—	$17,476
Aug 1994	1,133	27,813	16.13	—	$18,275
Jul 1994	569	30,143	17.56	—	$9,992
Jun 1994	953	30,738	17.09	—	$16,287
May 1994	1,284	33,341	15.88	—	$20,390
Apr 1994	1,141	34,849	14.14	—	$16,134
Mar 1994	954	36,695	12.46	—	$11,887
Feb 1994	1,372	42,208	12.50	—	$17,150
Jan 1994	1,915	56,588	12.66	—	$24,244
Dec 1993	2,860	69,322	12.33	—	$35,264
Nov 1993	4,458	101,298	14.49	—	$64,596
Oct 1993	6,086	169,568	15.85	—	$96,463

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 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate           105 bbl  × $ 23.48 =     $2,465
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  3.54 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,465

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/147182 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.