HEYNE, M. J. "B"

Operated by TRANSTEXAS GAS CORPORATION (P-5 864889) in the BONUS, S.E. (FRIO 4300) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 159605District 03Field 10518350GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$667 k
Aug 1996 – May 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$36 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
34
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 12 leases and 12 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1983-08-31
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

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 12/01/96.

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
GasProduction512,026 Mcf$666,725
Total$666,725

249,164 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 5 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 29.4146, -96.3354. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.41458, -96.33539 · centre of the wells drawn, derived

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
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
5,005 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
14 months
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
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 5,005 ft.

Completions filed
May 1999
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 2000
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 14 months across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14 months and 14 months. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4813388635,005 ftMay 1999Jul 2000Yes

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 (34)

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

34 months

May 199944515.792.32$1,033
Apr 1999015.102.21$0
Mar 199946912.471.84$862
Feb 19991,1309.981.82$2,054
Jan 19991,30010.381.90$2,470
Dec 19982,2289.201.77$3,951
Nov 19982,12810.892.19$4,651
Oct 19981,77812.421.97$3,501
Sep 19981,71212.592.08$3,565
Aug 19982,38111.301.91$4,541
Jul 19981,62411.742.24$3,633
Jun 19982,54911.242.24$5,703
May 19983,37512.622.21$7,446
Apr 19984,88813.042.51$12,246
Mar 19983,30112.802.31$7,623
Feb 19983,69213.952.30$8,488
Jan 19986,54114.702.15$14,094
Dec 19976,95216.322.41$16,762
Nov 19977,43518.193.09$22,961
Oct 19976,85819.253.15$21,601
Sep 19973,77917.742.95$11,166
Aug 19978,22617.862.55$21,015
Jul 19977,99117.582.25$17,955
Jun 199711,08017.242.26$25,010
May 199724,02018.972.31$55,450
Apr 199722,79917.882.08$47,485
Mar 199725,03718.951.94$48,550
Feb 199743,51220.492.21$95,983
Jan 199755,63223.483.54$196,921
Dec 199655,46523.32$0
Nov 199651,39321.97$0
Oct 199657,37123.31$0
Sep 199653,25322.22$0
Aug 199631,68220.26$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.

May 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  445 Mcf  × $  2.32 =     $1,033

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Month total                                   $1,033

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/159605 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.