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Operated by NOBLE ENERGY INC (P-5 611665) in the VIDOR AMES, S. (YEGUA DY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 164798District 03Field 93770495CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$5.2 M
Jan 1997 – Apr 2006
Value, last 12 filed months
$339
at the published price for each month
Months reported
112
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 2 leases and 2 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1996-08-12
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 12/01/2001.

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
CondensateDisposition34,208 bbl$614,729
GasProduction1,516,135 Mcf$4,579,909
Total$5,194,637

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 30.1318, -93.9959. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.13176, -93.99591 · 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
14,508 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
5.0 years
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 14,508 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 2001
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 2006
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 5.0 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 5.0 years and 5.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-36130726214,508 ftApr 2001Apr 2006Yes

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 (112)

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

112 months

Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 200603860.598.93$339
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 2003662529.415.17$3,408
Jun 200327214,09728.565.98$92,110
May 200347020,74126.595.97$136,377
Apr 200343119,40326.675.41$116,412
Mar 200346522,31131.146.10$150,489
Feb 200337018,20533.487.93$156,678
Jan 200344827,10730.315.58$164,891
Dec 200246325,02926.914.85$133,944
Nov 200240723,44124.664.14$107,011
Oct 200242525,15526.464.23$117,629
Sep 200241124,70627.443.64$101,089
Aug 200245928,57425.963.16$102,328
Jul 200242527,62724.583.06$95,034
Jun 200246227,46023.733.34$102,631
May 200253128,81024.663.58$116,350
Apr 200252728,38823.653.51$112,171
Mar 200254129,56622.003.10$103,637
Feb 200249131,52918.222.38$83,849
Jan 200257534,71417.172.38$92,342
Dec 200154533,51216.932.36$88,463
Nov 200161032,77318.072.41$89,859
Oct 200161433,04019.782.53$95,699
Sep 200161433,81524.262.25$91,024
Aug 200169136,60224.873.05$128,937
Jul 200179738,85223.933.20$143,285
Jun 200184537,35224.563.82$163,593
May 200189639,18225.524.31$191,635
Apr 200140217,25724.685.34$101,993
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19991023.192.43$23
Oct 19991020.982.80$21
Sep 19991,05553,48321.752.62$163,010
Aug 199958627,59119.262.88$90,627
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19991637,18415.102.21$18,324
Mar 1999291,62412.471.84$3,347
Feb 1999114849.981.82$990
Jan 1999520010.381.90$432
Dec 1998651,5749.201.77$3,389
Nov 1998863710.892.19$1,479
Oct 1998204,23312.421.97$8,584
Sep 199822012.592.08$277
Aug 19981,24946,93611.301.91$103,637
Jul 19981,77972,91111.742.24$184,007
Jun 19982,05980,95511.242.24$204,261
May 19982,56187,59112.622.21$225,575
Apr 19982,51086,43513.042.51$249,279
Mar 19982,78090,66812.802.31$244,976
Feb 19982,72683,82413.952.30$230,750
Jan 19982,20187,69614.702.15$221,321
Dec 199718421,67216.322.41$55,256
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 1997052623.483.54$1,862

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 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 60.59 =         $0
Gas                   38 Mcf  × $  8.93 =       $339

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Month total                                     $339

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/164798 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.