MATULA FAMILY TRUST

Operated by FOREST OIL CORPORATION (P-5 275740) in the WHARTON, WEST (4450) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 200446District 03Field 96728610GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.6 M
Sep 2003 – Oct 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$10 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
62
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 2 leases and 2 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1979-11-21
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: FIELD ADMINISTRATIVELY BALANCED EFF 4/1/04 PER OPERATOR REQUEST

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
GasProduction208,163 Mcf$1,550,765
Total$1,550,765

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 29.2929, -96.1478. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.29287, -96.14780 · 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
6,000 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
15.7 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 6,000 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 2009
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2025
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.7 years and 15.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4813456116,000 ftSep 2009May 2025Yes

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 (62)

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

62 months

Oct 2008075.246.92$0
Sep 20080101.767.88$0
Aug 20085114.228.48$42
Jul 20082131.0811.39$23
Jun 2008661131.3313.03$8,615
May 20084123.1711.57$46
Apr 200812110.3110.45$125
Mar 200810101.909.66$97
Feb 20081092.538.77$88
Jan 2008990.388.21$74
Dec 20075588.337.30$402
Nov 2007991.677.29$66
Oct 200712582.856.92$865
Sep 20073,45075.846.24$21,542
Aug 20074,22469.066.39$26,983
Jul 20074,42370.906.39$28,254
Jun 20074,41462.007.55$33,319
May 20074,58658.747.85$35,983
Apr 20074,34059.617.81$33,875
Mar 20074,69956.927.30$34,312
Feb 20074,24755.108.22$34,893
Jan 20074,74950.306.73$31,946
Dec 20064,67956.656.92$32,371
Nov 20064,49954.207.62$34,271
Oct 20064,65154.906.01$27,970
Sep 20064,75460.085.04$23,947
Aug 20065,05668.717.34$37,111
Jul 20065,45769.376.34$34,612
Jun 20064,82266.286.38$30,783
May 20065,40966.016.42$34,753
Apr 20065,36064.397.36$39,452
Mar 20065,53656.707.08$39,211
Feb 20065,19257.597.75$40,244
Jan 20065,90760.598.93$52,769
Dec 20055,93354.9413.42$79,594
Nov 20055,86254.6910.59$62,069
Oct 20056,26758.3413.80$86,458
Sep 20055,67961.4512.08$68,597
Aug 20056,69161.519.80$65,551
Jul 20056,77155.697.84$53,109
Jun 20058,40152.337.38$62,008
May 20059,28045.226.65$61,723
Apr 20053,07649.207.36$22,641
Mar 200519950.377.15$1,424
Feb 20055445.226.31$341
Jan 20051343.166.32$82
Dec 20041,53139.866.75$10,336
Nov 20042,91545.286.33$18,453
Oct 20043,05449.706.52$19,897
Sep 200483243.245.28$4,396
Aug 20041,18142.375.55$6,555
Jul 20041,15338.286.08$7,015
Jun 200493936.106.43$6,041
May 20041,40737.486.49$9,138
Apr 20041,11434.475.86$6,526
Mar 20041,57434.365.53$8,704
Feb 20041,44332.455.51$7,950
Jan 20043,44632.036.30$21,709
Dec 20035,94130.266.30$37,438
Nov 20035,47328.804.60$25,149
Oct 20038,02028.174.76$38,172
Sep 20038,55826.314.75$40,645

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.

Aug 2008 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                    5 Mcf  × $  8.48 =        $42

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Month total                                      $42

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/200446 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.