ESPERSON MOORES BLUFF

Name: ESPERSON MOORES BLUFF lease production and value, Aug 1995 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by PHOENIX HYDROCARBONS OPERATING (P-5 664125) in the ESPERSON DOME field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 155212District 03Field 29375001CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$396 k

Aug 1995 – Oct 2004

Value, last 12 filed months

$72 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

111

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The ESPERSON DOME 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 other leases, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1938-12-31

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

0 ft

minimum

From a lease line

0 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 0 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “ALLOCATION FORMULA SUSPENDED PER OPERATOR REQUEST, EFF 12-1-94.”

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	5,078 bbl	$116,445
Gas	Production	115,282 Mcf	$279,167
Total			$395,612

32,995 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 17 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 29.9798, -94.9472. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.97983, -94.94725 · 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

9,024 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 9,024 ft.

Completions filed

Aug 1995

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-29103945	B 4	9,024 ft	Aug 1995	—	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 (111)

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

111 months


Oct 2004	37	20	49.70	6.52	$1,969
Sep 2004	56	330	43.24	5.28	$4,165
Aug 2004	99	569	42.37	5.55	$7,353
Jul 2004	127	535	38.28	6.08	$8,117
Jun 2004	63	652	36.10	6.43	$6,469
May 2004	65	621	37.48	6.49	$6,469
Apr 2004	63	687	34.47	5.86	$6,196
Mar 2004	121	530	34.36	5.53	$7,089
Feb 2004	53	9	32.45	5.51	$1,769
Jan 2004	84	222	32.03	6.30	$4,089
Dec 2003	16	989	30.26	6.30	$6,716
Nov 2003	100	1,882	28.80	4.60	$11,528
Oct 2003	52	1,552	28.17	4.76	$8,852
Sep 2003	42	748	26.31	4.75	$4,658
Aug 2003	70	627	29.76	5.13	$5,300
Jul 2003	69	646	29.41	5.17	$5,370
Jun 2003	49	570	28.56	5.98	$4,810
May 2003	57	538	26.59	5.97	$4,729
Apr 2003	94	974	26.67	5.41	$7,774
Mar 2003	69	1,051	31.14	6.10	$8,556
Feb 2003	67	1,134	33.48	7.93	$11,231
Jan 2003	69	1,252	30.31	5.58	$9,080
Dec 2002	56	1,261	26.91	4.85	$7,628
Nov 2002	65	26	24.66	4.14	$1,710
Oct 2002	109	906	26.46	4.23	$6,716
Sep 2002	50	1,374	27.44	3.64	$6,367
Aug 2002	36	1,183	25.96	3.16	$4,678
Jul 2002	18	110	24.58	3.06	$779
Jun 2002	21	145	23.73	3.34	$982
May 2002	38	21	24.66	3.58	$1,012
Apr 2002	47	578	23.65	3.51	$3,142
Mar 2002	0	543	22.00	3.10	$1,685
Feb 2002	1	0	18.22	2.38	$18
Jan 2002	0	0	17.17	2.38	$0
Dec 2001	0	0	16.93	2.36	$0
Nov 2001	1	0	18.07	2.41	$18
Oct 2001	0	0	19.78	2.53	$0
Sep 2001	4	0	24.26	2.25	$97
Aug 2001	0	96	24.87	3.05	$293
Jul 2001	1	105	23.93	3.20	$360
Jun 2001	2	34	24.56	3.82	$179
May 2001	10	24	25.52	4.31	$359
Apr 2001	4	5	24.68	5.34	$125
Mar 2001	9	8	24.54	5.38	$264
Feb 2001	9	225	27.75	5.77	$1,547
Jan 2001	25	325	27.47	8.40	$3,416
Dec 2000	41	370	26.88	9.12	$4,477
Nov 2000	14	347	32.21	5.66	$2,414
Oct 2000	28	400	31.23	5.15	$2,933
Sep 2000	15	480	31.87	5.19	$2,968
Aug 2000	10	890	29.64	4.54	$4,338
Jul 2000	20	1,396	28.53	4.09	$6,280
Jun 2000	15	2,027	29.30	4.40	$9,353
May 2000	24	1,671	27.26	3.68	$6,803
Apr 2000	7	1,005	24.51	3.12	$3,303
Mar 2000	14	1,000	28.42	2.86	$3,258
Feb 2000	10	864	27.62	2.73	$2,632
Jan 2000	11	1,039	25.27	2.48	$2,855
Dec 1999	28	866	24.28	2.42	$2,779
Nov 1999	29	895	23.19	2.43	$2,851
Oct 1999	23	1,163	20.98	2.80	$3,743
Sep 1999	36	1,148	21.75	2.62	$3,789
Aug 1999	19	411	19.26	2.88	$1,548
Jul 1999	32	1,239	17.89	2.37	$3,512
Jun 1999	17	1,022	15.94	2.36	$2,685
May 1999	25	712	15.79	2.32	$2,047
Apr 1999	21	544	15.10	2.21	$1,518
Mar 1999	7	936	12.47	1.84	$1,808
Feb 1999	17	283	9.98	1.82	$684
Jan 1999	16	294	10.38	1.90	$725
Dec 1998	32	693	9.20	1.77	$1,523
Nov 1998	62	967	10.89	2.19	$2,789
Oct 1998	71	945	12.42	1.97	$2,743
Sep 1998	54	1,171	12.59	2.08	$3,119
Aug 1998	54	1,548	11.30	1.91	$3,563
Jul 1998	94	503	11.74	2.24	$2,229
Jun 1998	113	2,031	11.24	2.24	$5,814
May 1998	63	1,821	12.62	2.21	$4,813
Apr 1998	157	1,640	13.04	2.51	$6,156
Mar 1998	47	248	12.80	2.31	$1,174
Feb 1998	85	2,405	13.95	2.30	$6,715
Jan 1998	133	2,976	14.70	2.15	$8,368
Dec 1997	83	2,312	16.32	2.41	$6,929
Nov 1997	93	1,790	18.19	3.09	$7,220
Oct 1997	54	1,747	19.25	3.15	$6,542
Sep 1997	67	2,004	17.74	2.95	$7,110
Aug 1997	113	2,240	17.86	2.55	$7,741
Jul 1997	89	2,318	17.58	2.25	$6,773
Jun 1997	102	2,909	17.24	2.26	$8,325
May 1997	82	2,136	18.97	2.31	$6,487
Apr 1997	41	1,189	17.88	2.08	$3,210
Mar 1997	31	1,055	18.95	1.94	$2,633
Feb 1997	29	689	20.49	2.21	$2,114
Jan 1997	37	841	23.48	3.54	$3,846
Dec 1996	33	1,094	23.32	—	$770
Nov 1996	48	1,168	21.97	—	$1,055
Oct 1996	40	1,000	23.31	—	$932
Sep 1996	30	1,158	22.22	—	$667
Aug 1996	29	1,128	20.26	—	$588
Jul 1996	82	1,457	19.55	—	$1,603
Jun 1996	32	921	18.73	—	$599
May 1996	38	1,127	19.43	—	$738
Apr 1996	30	1,134	21.51	—	$645
Mar 1996	54	2,263	19.38	—	$1,047
Feb 1996	37	1,323	16.98	—	$628
Jan 1996	65	2,006	17.07	—	$1,110
Dec 1995	63	2,133	17.19	—	$1,083
Nov 1995	76	2,051	16.00	—	$1,216
Oct 1995	51	3,821	15.43	—	$787
Sep 1995	77	5,304	16.18	—	$1,246
Aug 1995	0	3,907	15.92	—	$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.

Oct 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate            37 bbl  × $ 49.70 =     $1,839
Gas                   20 Mcf  × $  6.52 =       $130

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Month total                                   $1,969

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/155212 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.