METZGER GAS UNIT

Name: METZGER GAS UNIT lease production and value, Apr 1995 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by EXPRO ENGINEERING, INC. (P-5 257082) in the BAY CITY, EAST (10,200 B) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 153828District 03Field 06288900CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$963 k

Apr 1995 – Feb 2010

Value, last 12 filed months

$9 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

179

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The BAY CITY, EAST (10,200 B) 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 12 leases and 12 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1960-11-26

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

2,640 ft

minimum

From a lease line

467 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 320 acres. The field rule took effect on 1963-04-24.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “PER DOCKET 3-51798 EFF 4-24-63, FIELD RULES ADOPTED.”

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	1,600 bbl	$95,202
Gas	Production	451,086 Mcf	$867,709
Total			$962,911

265,490 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 28.9738, -95.9549. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.97385, -95.95488 · 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

10,337 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 10,337 ft.

Completions filed

Oct 2009

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-32130159	4	10,337 ft	Oct 2009	—	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 (179)

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

179 months


Feb 2010	0	0	73.58	5.44	$0
Jan 2010	0	0	74.36	5.96	$0
Dec 2009	0	0	71.44	5.48	$0
Nov 2009	25	0	74.59	3.75	$1,865
Oct 2009	63	0	72.54	4.11	$4,570
Sep 2009	0	0	65.54	3.06	$0
Aug 2009	35	0	67.42	3.22	$2,360
Jul 2009	0	0	61.13	3.46	$0
Jun 2009	0	0	66.16	3.90	$0
May 2009	0	0	54.74	3.93	$0
Apr 2009	0	0	46.77	3.59	$0
Mar 2009	0	0	42.14	4.06	$0
Feb 2009	0	0	32.81	4.63	$0
Jan 2009	0	0	35.86	5.37	$0
Dec 2008	1	1	37.10	5.98	$43
Nov 2008	0	2,034	55.49	6.86	$13,954
Oct 2008	54	1,836	75.24	6.92	$16,772
Sep 2008	0	1,747	101.76	7.88	$13,761
Aug 2008	51	1,562	114.22	8.48	$19,076
Jul 2008	0	1,456	131.08	11.39	$16,583
Jun 2008	0	1,736	131.33	13.03	$22,625
May 2008	154	1,662	123.17	11.57	$38,205
Apr 2008	77	1,398	110.31	10.45	$23,110
Mar 2008	41	1,316	101.90	9.66	$16,896
Feb 2008	0	1,433	92.53	8.77	$12,568
Jan 2008	0	1,441	90.38	8.21	$11,824
Dec 2007	0	21	88.33	7.30	$153
Nov 2007	0	380	91.67	7.29	$2,771
Oct 2007	39	498	82.85	6.92	$6,678
Sep 2007	0	490	75.84	6.24	$3,060
Aug 2007	31	433	69.06	6.39	$4,907
Jul 2007	0	342	70.90	6.39	$2,185
Jun 2007	0	1,182	62.00	7.55	$8,922
May 2007	0	908	58.74	7.85	$7,124
Apr 2007	0	719	59.61	7.81	$5,612
Mar 2007	28	532	56.92	7.30	$5,478
Feb 2007	27	97	55.10	8.22	$2,285
Jan 2007	0	490	50.30	6.73	$3,296
Dec 2006	0	2,145	56.65	6.92	$14,840
Nov 2006	0	199	54.20	7.62	$1,516
Oct 2006	9	999	54.90	6.01	$6,502
Sep 2006	11	1,001	60.08	5.04	$5,703
Aug 2006	16	1,370	68.71	7.34	$11,155
Jul 2006	8	940	69.37	6.34	$6,517
Jun 2006	10	1,027	66.28	6.38	$7,219
May 2006	9	1,242	66.01	6.42	$8,574
Apr 2006	12	861	64.39	7.36	$7,110
Mar 2006	9	1,513	56.70	7.08	$11,227
Feb 2006	9	1,001	57.59	7.75	$8,277
Jan 2006	10	986	60.59	8.93	$9,414
Dec 2005	9	969	54.94	13.42	$13,494
Nov 2005	6	849	54.69	10.59	$9,318
Oct 2005	12	1,074	58.34	13.80	$15,517
Sep 2005	8	1,080	61.45	12.08	$13,537
Aug 2005	13	707	61.51	9.80	$7,726
Jul 2005	21	1,824	55.69	7.84	$15,476
Jun 2005	10	1,538	52.33	7.38	$11,875
May 2005	0	0	45.22	6.65	$0
Apr 2005	23	196	49.20	7.36	$2,574
Mar 2005	33	1,332	50.37	7.15	$11,193
Feb 2005	41	1,147	45.22	6.31	$9,094
Jan 2005	0	1,162	43.16	6.32	$7,346
Dec 2004	0	755	39.86	6.75	$5,097
Nov 2004	14	214	45.28	6.33	$1,989
Oct 2004	82	370	49.70	6.52	$6,486
Sep 2004	38	421	43.24	5.28	$3,868
Aug 2004	0	529	42.37	5.55	$2,936
Jul 2004	27	571	38.28	6.08	$4,508
Jun 2004	30	453	36.10	6.43	$3,997
May 2004	0	371	37.48	6.49	$2,409
Apr 2004	0	289	34.47	5.86	$1,693
Mar 2004	27	331	34.36	5.53	$2,758
Feb 2004	71	302	32.45	5.51	$3,968
Jan 2004	0	595	32.03	6.30	$3,748
Dec 2003	0	636	30.26	6.30	$4,008
Nov 2003	0	423	28.80	4.60	$1,944
Oct 2003	43	371	28.17	4.76	$2,977
Sep 2003	0	487	26.31	4.75	$2,313
Aug 2003	0	553	29.76	5.13	$2,837
Jul 2003	0	1,560	29.41	5.17	$8,067
Jun 2003	2	1,784	28.56	5.98	$10,731
May 2003	10	3,154	26.59	5.97	$19,104
Apr 2003	4	1,281	26.67	5.41	$7,033
Mar 2003	6	1,860	31.14	6.10	$11,525
Feb 2003	6	1,792	33.48	7.93	$14,404
Jan 2003	6	1,692	30.31	5.58	$9,627
Dec 2002	6	1,816	26.91	4.85	$8,976
Nov 2002	5	1,385	24.66	4.14	$5,853
Oct 2002	7	1,636	26.46	4.23	$7,104
Sep 2002	13	1,526	27.44	3.64	$5,904
Aug 2002	21	1,273	25.96	3.16	$4,573
Jul 2002	10	1,222	24.58	3.06	$3,987
Jun 2002	12	946	23.73	3.34	$3,443
May 2002	19	1,407	24.66	3.58	$5,511
Apr 2002	24	2,100	23.65	3.51	$7,943
Mar 2002	12	1,179	22.00	3.10	$3,922
Feb 2002	13	1,299	18.22	2.38	$3,323
Jan 2002	27	773	17.17	2.38	$2,300
Dec 2001	14	1,436	16.93	2.36	$3,632
Nov 2001	0	703	18.07	2.41	$1,691
Oct 2001	1	752	19.78	2.53	$1,922
Sep 2001	0	721	24.26	2.25	$1,623
Aug 2001	2	547	24.87	3.05	$1,720
Jul 2001	4	709	23.93	3.20	$2,362
Jun 2001	11	631	24.56	3.82	$2,683
May 2001	0	685	25.52	4.31	$2,951
Apr 2001	27	672	24.68	5.34	$4,252
Mar 2001	0	884	24.54	5.38	$4,753
Feb 2001	0	1,012	27.75	5.77	$5,836
Jan 2001	0	152	27.47	8.40	$1,277
Dec 2000	0	717	26.88	9.12	$6,541
Nov 2000	0	589	32.21	5.66	$3,333
Oct 2000	0	1,313	31.23	5.15	$6,756
Sep 2000	0	939	31.87	5.19	$4,870
Aug 2000	0	611	29.64	4.54	$2,774
Jul 2000	0	804	28.53	4.09	$3,288
Jun 2000	0	542	29.30	4.40	$2,383
May 2000	0	692	27.26	3.68	$2,546
Apr 2000	0	624	24.51	3.12	$1,944
Mar 2000	0	624	28.42	2.86	$1,784
Feb 2000	0	449	27.62	2.73	$1,224
Jan 2000	0	319	25.27	2.48	$791
Dec 1999	0	348	24.28	2.42	$843
Nov 1999	0	159	23.19	2.43	$387
Oct 1999	0	400	20.98	2.80	$1,121
Sep 1999	0	576	21.75	2.62	$1,508
Aug 1999	0	534	19.26	2.88	$1,536
Jul 1999	0	613	17.89	2.37	$1,454
Jun 1999	2	1,220	15.94	2.36	$2,914
May 1999	1	1,045	15.79	2.32	$2,441
Apr 1999	0	602	15.10	2.21	$1,329
Mar 1999	0	1,237	12.47	1.84	$2,274
Feb 1999	1	1,151	9.98	1.82	$2,102
Jan 1999	3	1,195	10.38	1.90	$2,302
Dec 1998	0	1,097	9.20	1.77	$1,945
Nov 1998	27	1,038	10.89	2.19	$2,563
Oct 1998	0	1,253	12.42	1.97	$2,467
Sep 1998	0	1,289	12.59	2.08	$2,685
Aug 1998	0	672	11.30	1.91	$1,282
Jul 1998	0	338	11.74	2.24	$756
Jun 1998	0	156	11.24	2.24	$349
May 1998	0	15	12.62	2.21	$33
Apr 1998	0	53	13.04	2.51	$133
Mar 1998	0	64	12.80	2.31	$148
Feb 1998	0	2,820	13.95	2.30	$6,484
Jan 1998	2	8,489	14.70	2.15	$18,321
Dec 1997	3	8,169	16.32	2.41	$19,745
Nov 1997	13	7,186	18.19	3.09	$22,429
Oct 1997	1	7,334	19.25	3.15	$23,120
Sep 1997	0	2,505	17.74	2.95	$7,402
Aug 1997	1	22	17.86	2.55	$74
Jul 1997	8	3,487	17.58	2.25	$7,976
Jun 1997	2	3,826	17.24	2.26	$8,671
May 1997	15	5,851	18.97	2.31	$13,792
Apr 1997	3	4,954	17.88	2.08	$10,372
Mar 1997	19	2,452	18.95	1.94	$5,115
Feb 1997	0	3,416	20.49	2.21	$7,535
Jan 1997	0	6,671	23.48	3.54	$23,613
Dec 1996	0	6,591	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	5,229	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	9,139	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	7,740	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	2,311	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	2,254	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	2,689	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	8,528	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	0	8,307	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	0	10,041	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	10,490	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	11,435	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	0	12,741	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	0	13,539	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	17,516	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	16,239	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	19,335	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	21,788	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	25,507	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	26,969	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	0	27,102	17.73	—	$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.

Nov 2009 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate            25 bbl  × $ 74.59 =     $1,865
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  3.75 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $1,865

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/153828 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.