VORPHAL GAS UNIT

Name: VORPHAL GAS UNIT lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by ARRINGTON OIL&GAS OPERATING LLC (P-5 33149) in the TAVENER (COOK MTN. 7950) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 85532District 03Field 88470300NGPA filingCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.3 M

Jan 1993 – Sep 2014

Value, last 12 filed months

$7 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

261

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The TAVENER (COOK MTN. 7950) 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 11 leases and 11 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1979-03-13

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

1,320 ft

minimum

From a lease line

660 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 160 acres. The field rule took effect on 1985-04-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “ALLOC. EFF. 1-1-80 #3-72769”

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.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	1	none	—	—

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Condensate	Disposition	825 bbl	$19,673
Gas	Production	371,478 Mcf	$1,246,185
Total			$1,265,858

133,902 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 29.5194, -95.9669. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.51937, -95.96687 · 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

8,350 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

34.8 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 8,350 ft.

Completions filed

Nov 1979

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Sep 2014

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 34.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 34.8 years and 34.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-15731002	1	8,350 ft	Nov 1979	Sep 2014	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 (261)

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

261 months


Sep 2014	79	0	86.16	4.05	$6,807
Aug 2014	0	0	89.39	4.04	$0
Jul 2014	0	0	96.56	4.18	$0
Jun 2014	0	0	98.16	4.74	$0
May 2014	0	0	94.73	4.73	$0
Apr 2014	0	0	95.94	4.81	$0
Mar 2014	0	0	95.89	5.06	$0
Feb 2014	0	0	97.40	6.19	$0
Jan 2014	0	0	90.40	4.86	$0
Dec 2013	0	0	91.82	4.35	$0
Nov 2013	0	0	88.85	3.74	$0
Oct 2013	0	0	97.42	3.78	$0
Sep 2013	0	0	104.11	3.72	$0
Aug 2013	0	0	104.25	3.52	$0
Jul 2013	0	0	102.52	3.72	$0
Jun 2013	0	0	94.40	3.93	$0
May 2013	0	0	94.83	4.15	$0
Apr 2013	0	0	93.96	4.28	$0
Mar 2013	0	0	93.62	3.91	$0
Feb 2013	0	0	91.23	3.42	$0
Jan 2013	0	0	91.60	3.42	$0
Dec 2012	0	0	86.77	3.42	$0
Nov 2012	0	0	86.95	3.62	$0
Oct 2012	0	0	89.38	3.40	$0
Sep 2012	0	1	94.67	2.92	$3
Aug 2012	0	559	92.66	2.91	$1,626
Jul 2012	0	689	85.13	3.02	$2,081
Jun 2012	0	657	79.82	2.52	$1,655
May 2012	0	824	91.61	2.49	$2,050
Apr 2012	0	734	101.65	2.00	$1,466
Mar 2012	0	659	105.05	2.22	$1,464
Feb 2012	0	417	101.10	2.57	$1,072
Jan 2012	0	771	98.09	2.73	$2,108
Dec 2011	0	484	96.87	3.24	$1,568
Nov 2011	0	477	95.72	3.31	$1,579
Oct 2011	0	583	84.98	3.65	$2,127
Sep 2011	0	680	83.62	3.99	$2,710
Aug 2011	0	732	83.40	4.15	$3,037
Jul 2011	0	626	94.14	4.52	$2,828
Jun 2011	0	655	92.90	4.64	$3,039
May 2011	0	596	98.13	4.40	$2,625
Apr 2011	0	842	105.96	4.33	$3,649
Mar 2011	0	529	96.36	4.06	$2,146
Feb 2011	0	711	85.64	4.18	$2,972
Jan 2011	0	443	86.50	4.59	$2,033
Dec 2010	0	409	85.73	4.35	$1,778
Nov 2010	0	596	80.84	3.80	$2,262
Oct 2010	0	835	78.10	3.51	$2,930
Sep 2010	0	961	72.63	3.98	$3,824
Aug 2010	0	1,006	73.68	4.42	$4,446
Jul 2010	0	1,019	72.55	4.74	$4,826
Jun 2010	0	818	70.36	4.91	$4,017
May 2010	0	705	71.12	4.24	$2,986
Apr 2010	0	334	81.69	4.12	$1,377
Mar 2010	0	964	78.39	4.39	$4,231
Feb 2010	0	1,202	73.58	5.44	$6,542
Jan 2010	0	1,223	74.36	5.96	$7,294
Dec 2009	0	1,114	71.44	5.48	$6,109
Nov 2009	0	1,337	74.59	3.75	$5,016
Oct 2009	0	1,246	72.54	4.11	$5,121
Sep 2009	0	1,414	65.54	3.06	$4,334
Aug 2009	0	1,178	67.42	3.22	$3,791
Jul 2009	0	1,391	61.13	3.46	$4,819
Jun 2009	0	1,693	66.16	3.90	$6,594
May 2009	0	1,654	54.74	3.93	$6,493
Apr 2009	0	1,361	46.77	3.59	$4,883
Mar 2009	0	464	42.14	4.06	$1,883
Feb 2009	0	1,399	32.81	4.63	$6,482
Jan 2009	0	1,176	35.86	5.37	$6,316
Dec 2008	0	1,345	37.10	5.98	$8,039
Nov 2008	0	1,301	55.49	6.86	$8,925
Oct 2008	0	1,875	75.24	6.92	$12,979
Sep 2008	0	1,184	101.76	7.88	$9,326
Aug 2008	0	191	114.22	8.48	$1,620
Jul 2008	0	1,860	131.08	11.39	$21,184
Jun 2008	0	1,830	131.33	13.03	$23,850
May 2008	0	1,950	123.17	11.57	$22,570
Apr 2008	0	1,776	110.31	10.45	$18,568
Mar 2008	0	363	101.90	9.66	$3,508
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	0	1,030	90.38	8.21	$8,452
Dec 2007	0	1,486	88.33	7.30	$10,851
Nov 2007	0	1,650	91.67	7.29	$12,031
Oct 2007	0	434	82.85	6.92	$3,004
Sep 2007	0	448	75.84	6.24	$2,797
Aug 2007	0	233	69.06	6.39	$1,488
Jul 2007	0	1,522	70.90	6.39	$9,722
Jun 2007	0	1,250	62.00	7.55	$9,436
May 2007	0	1,470	58.74	7.85	$11,534
Apr 2007	0	535	59.61	7.81	$4,176
Mar 2007	0	238	56.92	7.30	$1,738
Feb 2007	0	1,411	55.10	8.22	$11,593
Jan 2007	0	1,446	50.30	6.73	$9,727
Dec 2006	0	1,579	56.65	6.92	$10,924
Nov 2006	0	88	54.20	7.62	$670
Oct 2006	0	1,723	54.90	6.01	$10,362
Sep 2006	0	1,610	60.08	5.04	$8,110
Aug 2006	0	1,968	68.71	7.34	$14,445
Jul 2006	0	1,865	69.37	6.34	$11,829
Jun 2006	0	1,953	66.28	6.38	$12,468
May 2006	0	2,246	66.01	6.42	$14,431
Apr 2006	0	1,973	64.39	7.36	$14,522
Mar 2006	0	1,827	56.70	7.08	$12,940
Feb 2006	0	399	57.59	7.75	$3,093
Jan 2006	0	1,706	60.59	8.93	$15,240
Dec 2005	0	2,062	54.94	13.42	$27,663
Nov 2005	0	2,131	54.69	10.59	$22,564
Oct 2005	0	1,726	58.34	13.80	$23,811
Sep 2005	0	858	61.45	12.08	$10,364
Aug 2005	0	1,287	61.51	9.80	$12,609
Jul 2005	0	2,040	55.69	7.84	$16,001
Jun 2005	0	2,611	52.33	7.38	$19,272
May 2005	0	2,328	45.22	6.65	$15,484
Apr 2005	0	2,686	49.20	7.36	$19,770
Mar 2005	0	2,230	50.37	7.15	$15,955
Feb 2005	0	2,306	45.22	6.31	$14,555
Jan 2005	0	2,687	43.16	6.32	$16,988
Dec 2004	0	1,845	39.86	6.75	$12,456
Nov 2004	0	497	45.28	6.33	$3,146
Oct 2004	0	2,038	49.70	6.52	$13,278
Sep 2004	0	2,441	43.24	5.28	$12,898
Aug 2004	0	2,080	42.37	5.55	$11,545
Jul 2004	0	1,154	38.28	6.08	$7,021
Jun 2004	0	2,439	36.10	6.43	$15,690
May 2004	0	1,707	37.48	6.49	$11,086
Apr 2004	10	2,256	34.47	5.86	$13,561
Mar 2004	0	1,279	34.36	5.53	$7,073
Feb 2004	0	1,134	32.45	5.51	$6,248
Jan 2004	0	2,518	32.03	6.30	$15,862
Dec 2003	0	1,797	30.26	6.30	$11,324
Nov 2003	0	898	28.80	4.60	$4,126
Oct 2003	0	2,441	28.17	4.76	$11,618
Sep 2003	0	2,198	26.31	4.75	$10,439
Aug 2003	0	1,916	29.76	5.13	$9,829
Jul 2003	0	1,544	29.41	5.17	$7,984
Jun 2003	0	1,692	28.56	5.98	$10,123
May 2003	0	1,402	26.59	5.97	$8,374
Apr 2003	0	2,058	26.67	5.41	$11,128
Mar 2003	0	1,708	31.14	6.10	$10,412
Feb 2003	0	1,017	33.48	7.93	$8,061
Jan 2003	0	1,437	30.31	5.58	$8,021
Dec 2002	0	1,427	26.91	4.85	$6,926
Nov 2002	0	1,681	24.66	4.14	$6,954
Oct 2002	0	1,932	26.46	4.23	$8,171
Sep 2002	0	1,672	27.44	3.64	$6,078
Aug 2002	0	913	25.96	3.16	$2,889
Jul 2002	0	405	24.58	3.06	$1,240
Jun 2002	0	1,499	23.73	3.34	$5,004
May 2002	0	1,359	24.66	3.58	$4,871
Apr 2002	0	950	23.65	3.51	$3,337
Mar 2002	0	1,432	22.00	3.10	$4,443
Feb 2002	0	754	18.22	2.38	$1,791
Jan 2002	0	1,329	17.17	2.38	$3,157
Dec 2001	0	1,458	16.93	2.36	$3,447
Nov 2001	0	1,774	18.07	2.41	$4,267
Oct 2001	0	1,537	19.78	2.53	$3,887
Sep 2001	0	0	24.26	2.25	$0
Aug 2001	0	936	24.87	3.05	$2,858
Jul 2001	0	1,255	23.93	3.20	$4,012
Jun 2001	0	1,056	24.56	3.82	$4,038
May 2001	0	796	25.52	4.31	$3,429
Apr 2001	0	1,121	24.68	5.34	$5,981
Mar 2001	0	1,079	24.54	5.38	$5,801
Feb 2001	0	964	27.75	5.77	$5,559
Jan 2001	0	1,615	27.47	8.40	$13,564
Dec 2000	0	780	26.88	9.12	$7,116
Nov 2000	0	1,375	32.21	5.66	$7,780
Oct 2000	0	1,421	31.23	5.15	$7,312
Sep 2000	0	1,348	31.87	5.19	$6,991
Aug 2000	0	1,465	29.64	4.54	$6,652
Jul 2000	0	1,408	28.53	4.09	$5,758
Jun 2000	0	1,808	29.30	4.40	$7,950
May 2000	0	865	27.26	3.68	$3,183
Apr 2000	0	1,286	24.51	3.12	$4,007
Mar 2000	0	2,228	28.42	2.86	$6,372
Feb 2000	0	1,868	27.62	2.73	$5,093
Jan 2000	0	1,397	25.27	2.48	$3,465
Dec 1999	0	1,760	24.28	2.42	$4,266
Nov 1999	0	2,010	23.19	2.43	$4,892
Oct 1999	0	1,534	20.98	2.80	$4,301
Sep 1999	0	1,438	21.75	2.62	$3,766
Aug 1999	0	1,464	19.26	2.88	$4,210
Jul 1999	0	1,462	17.89	2.37	$3,468
Jun 1999	0	1,558	15.94	2.36	$3,680
May 1999	0	1,399	15.79	2.32	$3,247
Apr 1999	0	630	15.10	2.21	$1,391
Mar 1999	0	1,300	12.47	1.84	$2,390
Feb 1999	0	874	9.98	1.82	$1,589
Jan 1999	0	75	10.38	1.90	$143
Dec 1998	0	85	9.20	1.77	$151
Nov 1998	0	0	10.89	2.19	$0
Oct 1998	0	1,028	12.42	1.97	$2,024
Sep 1998	0	992	12.59	2.08	$2,066
Aug 1998	0	1,482	11.30	1.91	$2,827
Jul 1998	0	982	11.74	2.24	$2,197
Jun 1998	0	1,275	11.24	2.24	$2,853
May 1998	0	1,641	12.62	2.21	$3,621
Apr 1998	0	1,627	13.04	2.51	$4,076
Mar 1998	0	1,012	12.80	2.31	$2,337
Feb 1998	0	743	13.95	2.30	$1,708
Jan 1998	0	417	14.70	2.15	$899
Dec 1997	0	1,287	16.32	2.41	$3,103
Nov 1997	0	577	18.19	3.09	$1,782
Oct 1997	0	1,657	19.25	3.15	$5,219
Sep 1997	0	1,062	17.74	2.95	$3,138
Aug 1997	0	1,562	17.86	2.55	$3,991
Jul 1997	0	955	17.58	2.25	$2,146
Jun 1997	0	791	17.24	2.26	$1,785
May 1997	0	1,193	18.97	2.31	$2,754
Apr 1997	0	1,409	17.88	2.08	$2,935
Mar 1997	0	1,846	18.95	1.94	$3,580
Feb 1997	0	534	20.49	2.21	$1,178
Jan 1997	0	1,341	23.48	3.54	$4,747
Dec 1996	125	2,087	23.32	—	$2,915
Nov 1996	0	1,433	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	1,465	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	1,943	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	2,114	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	1,900	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	2,183	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	2,287	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	0	2,123	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	0	2,129	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	909	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	980	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	0	1,689	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	0	1,930	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	2,852	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	2,962	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	3,048	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	3,201	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	3,123	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	2,978	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	0	3,287	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	0	3,502	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	0	2,940	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	0	3,120	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	188	2,970	15.03	—	$2,826
Nov 1994	0	3,311	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	0	2,420	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	0	1,825	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	0	3,259	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	0	3,659	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	172	3,241	17.09	—	$2,939
May 1994	0	3,434	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	0	3,406	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	0	4,036	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	0	3,070	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	0	3,821	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	0	4,614	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	167	4,158	14.49	—	$2,420
Oct 1993	0	4,161	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	0	5,084	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	0	3,465	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	0	4,584	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	0	754	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	0	2,330	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	0	2,142	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	0	2,963	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	0	1,702	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	84	3,308	16.93	—	$1,422

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 2014 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate            79 bbl  × $ 86.16 =     $6,807
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  4.05 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $6,807

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/85532 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.