VINCE COURT UNIT

Operated by APACHE CORPORATION (P-5 27200) in the KURTEN (AUSTIN CHALK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 18972District 03Field 50424400NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$772 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 2007
Value, last 12 filed months
$33 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
178
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead 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 106 leases and 110 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1979-09-15
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
1,867 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: OPTIONAL: 80 ACRES DIAGONAL: 3250

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
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
OilDisposition33,933 bbl$731,932
Casinghead gasProduction22,450 Mcf$39,681
Total$771,613

7,981 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 45 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 30.6414, -96.5371. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.64144, -96.53710 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
7,954 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
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 7,954 ft.

Completions filed
Aug 2007
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-0413119817,954 ftAug 2007Yes

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 (178)

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

178 months

Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 200747069.066.39$3,246
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 2007164062.007.55$10,168
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 2007172055.108.22$9,477
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 2006177056.656.92$10,027
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 200694060.085.04$5,648
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 2006163069.376.34$11,307
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 2006167064.397.36$10,753
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 2006185057.597.75$10,654
Jan 2006179060.598.93$10,846
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 2005188061.519.80$11,564
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 2005188049.207.36$9,250
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 2005178043.166.32$7,682
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 2004166049.706.52$8,250
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 2004164042.375.55$6,949
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 2004163037.486.49$6,109
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 2004180034.365.53$6,185
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 2004164032.036.30$5,253
Dec 2003175030.266.30$5,296
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 2003183028.174.76$5,155
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 2003179029.765.13$5,327
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 2003163028.565.98$4,655
May 20031026.595.97$27
Apr 2003177026.675.41$4,721
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 2003175033.487.93$5,859
Jan 20031030.315.58$30
Dec 2002170026.914.85$4,575
Nov 2002171024.664.14$4,217
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 2002160027.443.64$4,390
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 2002162024.583.06$3,982
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20021748924.663.58$4,610
Apr 2002216123.653.51$613
Mar 200217213522.003.10$4,203
Feb 200218411318.222.38$3,621
Jan 2002013117.172.38$311
Dec 200116611016.932.36$3,070
Nov 200117616318.072.41$3,572
Oct 2001016419.782.53$415
Sep 200117918924.262.25$4,768
Aug 200118016024.873.05$4,965
Jul 200119723.933.20$334
Jun 200118817424.563.82$5,283
May 200109625.524.31$414
Apr 200117812424.685.34$5,055
Mar 20011814224.545.38$1,205
Feb 200116610727.755.77$5,224
Jan 200115127.478.40$456
Dec 200018112826.889.12$6,033
Nov 200016416232.215.66$6,199
Oct 2000112831.235.15$690
Sep 20001798631.875.19$6,151
Aug 200017910729.644.54$5,791
Jul 2000111928.534.09$515
Jun 20001684229.304.40$5,107
May 200017027.263.68$285
Apr 200036113524.513.12$9,269
Mar 200016813728.422.86$5,166
Feb 20001831427.622.73$5,093
Jan 200017511325.272.48$4,703
Dec 199917820624.282.42$4,821
Nov 199935320723.192.43$8,690
Oct 199936122520.982.80$8,205
Sep 199935621321.752.62$8,301
Aug 199917422819.262.88$4,007
Jul 199917527817.892.37$3,790
Jun 199935429215.942.36$6,332
May 199935322215.792.32$6,089
Apr 199919025715.102.21$3,436
Mar 199936929012.471.84$5,135
Feb 19993771969.981.82$4,119
Jan 199919119210.381.90$2,347
Dec 19983492499.201.77$3,652
Nov 199836926710.892.19$4,602
Oct 199818926512.421.97$2,869
Sep 199836427412.592.08$5,153
Aug 199834922111.301.91$4,365
Jul 199836222211.742.24$4,747
Jun 199835430811.242.24$4,668
May 199832327712.622.21$4,687
Apr 199834025913.042.51$5,082
Mar 199836332112.802.31$5,388
Feb 199835832313.952.30$5,737
Jan 199850534414.702.15$8,165
Dec 199769135916.322.41$12,143
Nov 199733037618.193.09$7,164
Oct 1997037019.253.15$1,165
Sep 199717429717.742.95$3,964
Aug 199751135417.862.55$10,031
Jul 199751337517.582.25$9,861
Jun 199735741317.242.26$7,087
May 199749737518.972.31$10,294
Apr 199751449117.882.08$10,213
Mar 199735253218.951.94$7,702
Feb 199754439820.492.21$12,025
Jan 199751454623.483.54$14,001
Dec 199670935023.32$16,534
Nov 199668619021.97$15,071
Oct 199685174723.31$19,837
Sep 19961676122.22$3,711
Aug 199648831920.26$9,887
Jul 199651961719.55$10,146
Jun 199669963518.73$13,092
May 19961,04684319.43$20,324
Apr 199687059921.51$18,714
Mar 199666636119.38$12,907
Feb 199669734616.98$11,835
Jan 19961,35929517.07$23,198
Dec 199509717.19$0
Nov 199569030016.00$11,040
Oct 199552932715.43$8,162
Sep 199537019216.18$5,987
Aug 19951744015.92$2,770
Jul 19951015.24$15
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 199504217.56$0
Apr 199502117.73$0
Mar 1995181016.44$2,976
Feb 19951814116.58$3,001
Jan 19951721915.92$2,738
Dec 199412515.03$15
Nov 199414115.90$16
Oct 199425115.58$31
Sep 199401215.29$0
Aug 19945191716.13$8,371
Jul 199406217.56$0
Jun 199407617.09$0
May 19941616315.88$2,557
Apr 19941766314.14$2,489
Mar 199415912.46$12
Feb 19940112.50$0
Jan 199409512.66$0
Dec 199332411712.33$3,995
Nov 199304914.49$0
Oct 1993114815.85$16
Sep 199309915.03$0
Aug 199309115.66$0
Jul 199334713215.46$5,365
Jun 199302316.79$0
May 199309617.68$0
Apr 19931682218.05$3,032
Mar 199305918.14$0
Feb 19931785517.90$3,186
Jan 19933448316.93$5,824

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 2007 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   47 bbl  × $ 69.06 =     $3,246
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.39 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,246

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/O/18972 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.