SL M-92805 UNIT

Operated by W & T OFFSHORE, INC. (P-5 888442) in the MATAGORDA ISL BLK 558-L (MARG A) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 157195District 03Field 58249250GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$2.1 M
Aug 1995 – Feb 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$1.3 M
at the published price for each month
Months reported
43
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
gas

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
1995-08-11
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

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.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
GasProduction1,479,924 Mcf$2,087,157
Total$2,087,157

562,900 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.

Every month this lease reported (43)

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

43 months

Feb 199909.981.82$0
Jan 1999010.381.90$0
Dec 19981499.201.77$264
Nov 19982,49410.892.19$5,451
Oct 199835,01612.421.97$68,954
Sep 199817,68712.592.08$36,835
Aug 19984,97711.301.91$9,493
Jul 199854,21611.742.24$121,296
Jun 199877,94411.242.24$174,382
May 1998134,71012.622.21$297,216
Apr 1998117,53313.042.51$294,459
Mar 1998122,09412.802.31$281,969
Feb 1998106,35513.952.30$244,524
Jan 1998135,26314.702.15$291,463
Dec 199713,71116.322.41$33,059
Nov 19973018.193.09$93
Oct 19972,96419.253.15$9,336
Sep 19973,69417.742.95$10,915
Aug 19973,58517.862.55$9,159
Jul 199710,04117.582.25$22,562
Jun 19979,45717.242.26$21,346
May 199715,29718.972.31$35,313
Apr 199711,73017.882.08$24,431
Mar 199713,94318.951.94$27,037
Feb 199713,36620.492.21$29,484
Jan 199710,76823.483.54$38,115
Dec 199614,63323.32$0
Nov 199610,28021.97$0
Oct 199632,00723.31$0
Sep 199629,04222.22$0
Aug 199630,95920.26$0
Jul 199627,52019.55$0
Jun 199628,30518.73$0
May 199630,04319.43$0
Apr 199629,39321.51$0
Mar 199628,19119.38$0
Feb 199625,94916.98$0
Jan 199633,06117.07$0
Dec 199533,28017.19$0
Nov 199543,37116.00$0
Oct 199534,18415.43$0
Sep 199563,59016.18$0
Aug 199569,09215.92$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.

Dec 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  149 Mcf  × $  1.77 =       $264

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Month total                                     $264

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/157195 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.