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Operated by SQUARE MILE ENERGY, L.L.C. (P-5 810815) in the GUM ISLAND, N. (HACKBERRY 2) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 226396District 03Field 374565132 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$39.6 M
Jan 2007 – May 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$44 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
53
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 10 leases and 10 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1973-07-03
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 06/01/2008.

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
High Cost Gas112010-04-23197965
NGPA1none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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
CondensateDisposition265,330 bbl$20,376,710
GasProduction2,534,385 Mcf$19,190,830
Total$39,567,540

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 29.8512, -94.0917. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.85115, -94.09167 · 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
11,117 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
4.3 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 11,117 ft.

Completions filed
Jan 2007
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2011
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 4.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 4.3 years and 4.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-24532479111,117 ftJan 2007May 2011Yes

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 (53)

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

53 months

May 20110098.134.40$0
Apr 201100105.964.33$0
Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 201081072.633.98$5,883
Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 201022,39372.554.74$11,480
Jun 20101822,74370.364.91$26,275
May 201093,50971.124.24$15,501
Apr 20101492,13481.694.12$20,970
Mar 20103815,45578.394.39$53,807
Feb 20104407,03073.585.44$70,635
Jan 20103786,97474.365.96$69,702
Dec 20095858,29171.445.48$87,258
Nov 20095299,06274.593.75$73,454
Oct 20098799,04072.544.11$100,919
Sep 200967110,46765.543.06$76,056
Aug 20091,09013,55267.423.22$117,105
Jul 20091,19013,32061.133.46$118,892
Jun 20091,00411,72966.163.90$112,109
May 20091,43713,56254.743.93$131,902
Apr 20091,57314,32246.773.59$124,949
Mar 20091,79018,92342.144.06$152,239
Feb 20092,16621,66932.814.63$171,459
Jan 20092,42923,93235.865.37$215,643
Dec 20082,99728,74737.105.98$283,014
Nov 20082,18920,87855.496.86$264,698
Oct 20085717,06475.246.92$91,859
Sep 200887610,045101.767.88$168,267
Aug 20083,75537,302114.228.48$745,330
Jul 20084,05938,941131.0811.39$975,570
Jun 20084,07340,979131.3313.03$1,068,971
May 20086,58566,441123.1711.57$1,580,082
Apr 20088,84581,160110.3110.45$1,824,208
Mar 200811,675106,475101.909.66$2,218,664
Feb 20089,79189,86392.538.77$1,694,112
Jan 200815,108134,16490.388.21$2,466,375
Dec 200715,404145,06988.337.30$2,419,925
Nov 200714,413133,78591.677.29$2,296,760
Oct 200715,964141,14782.856.92$2,299,634
Sep 200715,459147,28975.846.24$2,092,107
Aug 200715,641143,35769.066.39$1,995,923
Jul 200714,025136,12470.906.39$1,863,924
Jun 200717,567165,42462.007.55$2,337,849
May 200718,713176,99258.747.85$2,487,930
Apr 200719,599181,44459.617.81$2,584,503
Mar 200721,685211,51856.927.30$2,778,808
Feb 20079,37192,07055.108.22$1,272,789
Jan 20070050.306.73$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.

Sep 2010 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            81 bbl  × $ 72.63 =     $5,883
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  3.98 =         $0

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Month total                                   $5,883

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/226396 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.