WHELESS

Name: WHELESS lease production and value, Apr 2008 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by BALLARD EXPLORATION COMPANY,INC. (P-5 48169) in the ALCO-MAG (COOK MT. 2 8900) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 238402District 03Field 01279083CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$7.7 M

Apr 2008 – Oct 2015

Value, last 12 filed months

$9 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The ALCO-MAG (COOK MT. 2 8900) field

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 6 leases and 6 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1953-09-27

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 field rule took effect on 2008-05-29.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “FIELD RETURNED TO STATEWIDE RULES.”

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Condensate	Disposition	19,224 bbl	$1,624,850
Gas	Production	1,164,729 Mcf	$6,044,552
Total			$7,669,402

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 29.9386, -95.1782. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.93865, -95.17821 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

9,516 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

7.5 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 9,516 ft.

Completions filed

Apr 2008

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Oct 2015

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 7.5 years and 7.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-20132785	1	9,516 ft	Apr 2008	Oct 2015	Yes

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 (91)

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

91 months


Oct 2015	0	0	43.55	2.43	$0
Sep 2015	0	0	42.99	2.76	$0
Aug 2015	0	0	40.16	2.87	$0
Jul 2015	0	0	48.15	2.95	$0
Jun 2015	0	0	56.15	2.88	$0
May 2015	0	0	55.21	2.96	$0
Apr 2015	0	0	49.82	2.71	$0
Mar 2015	0	0	42.89	2.93	$0
Feb 2015	0	0	44.66	2.98	$0
Jan 2015	0	0	43.43	3.10	$0
Dec 2014	150	116	54.69	3.59	$8,620
Nov 2014	0	0	70.46	4.25	$0
Oct 2014	0	318	78.30	3.90	$1,241
Sep 2014	3	9,861	86.16	4.05	$40,151
Aug 2014	3	5,924	89.39	4.04	$24,172
Jul 2014	0	32	96.56	4.18	$134
Jun 2014	203	4,910	98.16	4.74	$43,185
May 2014	0	10,442	94.73	4.73	$49,355
Apr 2014	0	0	95.94	4.81	$0
Mar 2014	0	0	95.89	5.06	$0
Feb 2014	0	2,911	97.40	6.19	$18,025
Jan 2014	211	6,143	90.40	4.86	$48,934
Dec 2013	0	5,690	91.82	4.35	$24,777
Nov 2013	209	7,936	88.85	3.74	$48,237
Oct 2013	0	7,183	97.42	3.78	$27,147
Sep 2013	0	9,334	104.11	3.72	$34,701
Aug 2013	202	9,465	104.25	3.52	$54,400
Jul 2013	0	7,893	102.52	3.72	$29,344
Jun 2013	0	7,751	94.40	3.93	$30,488
May 2013	192	8,941	94.83	4.15	$55,304
Apr 2013	0	9,974	93.96	4.28	$42,715
Mar 2013	206	9,830	93.62	3.91	$57,749
Feb 2013	201	8,928	91.23	3.42	$48,870
Jan 2013	2	9,489	91.60	3.42	$32,635
Dec 2012	203	10,649	86.77	3.42	$54,036
Nov 2012	0	13,221	86.95	3.62	$47,926
Oct 2012	174	12,559	89.38	3.40	$58,249
Sep 2012	188	9,590	94.67	2.92	$45,785
Aug 2012	187	6,268	92.66	2.91	$35,556
Jul 2012	185	8,859	85.13	3.02	$42,510
Jun 2012	180	6,645	79.82	2.52	$31,107
May 2012	0	8,048	91.61	2.49	$20,026
Apr 2012	0	7,780	101.65	2.00	$15,535
Mar 2012	190	3,279	105.05	2.22	$27,246
Feb 2012	202	13,677	101.10	2.57	$55,575
Jan 2012	193	12,387	98.09	2.73	$52,798
Dec 2011	198	14,488	96.87	3.24	$66,118
Nov 2011	193	14,189	95.72	3.31	$65,458
Oct 2011	190	14,589	84.98	3.65	$69,375
Sep 2011	189	13,917	83.62	3.99	$71,275
Aug 2011	193	11,065	83.40	4.15	$62,008
Jul 2011	183	13,913	94.14	4.52	$80,076
Jun 2011	198	12,325	92.90	4.64	$75,581
May 2011	182	12,383	98.13	4.40	$72,405
Apr 2011	178	11,518	105.96	4.33	$68,772
Mar 2011	187	14,304	96.36	4.06	$76,056
Feb 2011	187	11,402	85.64	4.18	$63,675
Jan 2011	378	16,684	86.50	4.59	$109,256
Dec 2010	0	15,434	85.73	4.35	$67,103
Nov 2010	373	13,596	80.84	3.80	$81,755
Oct 2010	184	14,577	78.10	3.51	$65,519
Sep 2010	177	17,825	72.63	3.98	$83,790
Aug 2010	0	1,621	73.68	4.42	$7,164
Jul 2010	356	14,542	72.55	4.74	$94,706
Jun 2010	176	13,982	70.36	4.91	$81,041
May 2010	186	14,481	71.12	4.24	$74,559
Apr 2010	0	11,484	81.69	4.12	$47,345
Mar 2010	376	15,963	78.39	4.39	$99,531
Feb 2010	0	12,716	73.58	5.44	$69,205
Jan 2010	195	12,488	74.36	5.96	$88,980
Dec 2009	191	11,053	71.44	5.48	$74,257
Nov 2009	348	22,691	74.59	3.75	$111,083
Oct 2009	370	25,845	72.54	4.11	$133,069
Sep 2009	322	19,390	65.54	3.06	$80,529
Aug 2009	186	34,313	67.42	3.22	$122,977
Jul 2009	543	29,522	61.13	3.46	$135,473
Jun 2009	133	25,427	66.16	3.90	$107,837
May 2009	300	29,949	54.74	3.93	$133,994
Apr 2009	549	29,250	46.77	3.59	$130,611
Mar 2009	535	31,972	42.14	4.06	$152,319
Feb 2009	360	28,045	32.81	4.63	$141,744
Jan 2009	533	32,088	35.86	5.37	$191,458
Dec 2008	699	32,758	37.10	5.98	$221,732
Nov 2008	730	33,522	55.49	6.86	$270,481
Oct 2008	915	36,531	75.24	6.92	$321,711
Sep 2008	553	10,181	101.76	7.88	$136,470
Aug 2008	899	32,432	114.22	8.48	$377,805
Jul 2008	555	32,434	131.08	11.39	$442,154
Jun 2008	1,122	34,870	131.33	13.03	$601,800
May 2008	1,222	40,335	123.17	11.57	$617,363
Apr 2008	396	16,602	110.31	10.45	$217,254

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 2014 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate           150 bbl  × $ 54.69 =     $8,204
Gas                  116 Mcf  × $  3.59 =       $417

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Month total                                   $8,620

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/238402 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.