VELA, ABEL-STATE GAS UNIT

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

Operated by CHESAPEAKE OPERATING, INC. (P-5 147715) in the COMITAS, S. (WILCOX CONSOL.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 101244District 04Field 19920070CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$3.0 M

Jan 1993 – Nov 2010

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

215

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The COMITAS, S. (WILCOX CONSOL.) 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 8 leases and 8 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1994-09-26

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 1994-12-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “ALLOCATION FORMULA SUSPENDED ADMINISTRATIVELY EFFECTIVE 7/1/95.”

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	265 bbl	$10,691
Gas	Production	2,736,930 Mcf	$2,986,132
Total			$2,996,823

1,757,729 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 38 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 26.8864, -99.0794. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.88643, -99.07935 · 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

9,724 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

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 9,724 ft.

Plug dates filed

Jul 2010

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-50531512	A 1	9,724 ft	—	Jul 2010	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 (215)

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

215 months


Nov 2010	0	0	80.84	3.80	$0
Oct 2010	0	0	78.10	3.51	$0
Sep 2010	0	0	72.63	3.98	$0
Aug 2010	0	0	73.68	4.42	$0
Jul 2010	0	0	72.55	4.74	$0
Jun 2010	0	0	70.36	4.91	$0
May 2010	0	0	71.12	4.24	$0
Apr 2010	0	0	81.69	4.12	$0
Mar 2010	0	0	78.39	4.39	$0
Feb 2010	0	0	73.58	5.44	$0
Jan 2010	0	0	74.36	5.96	$0
Dec 2009	0	0	71.44	5.48	$0
Nov 2009	0	0	74.59	3.75	$0
Oct 2009	0	0	72.54	4.11	$0
Sep 2009	0	0	65.54	3.06	$0
Aug 2009	0	0	67.42	3.22	$0
Jul 2009	0	0	61.13	3.46	$0
Jun 2009	0	0	66.16	3.90	$0
May 2009	0	0	54.74	3.93	$0
Apr 2009	0	7	46.77	3.59	$25
Mar 2009	0	420	42.14	4.06	$1,705
Feb 2009	0	564	32.81	4.63	$2,613
Jan 2009	0	886	35.86	5.37	$4,759
Dec 2008	0	625	37.10	5.98	$3,736
Nov 2008	0	568	55.49	6.86	$3,897
Oct 2008	0	665	75.24	6.92	$4,603
Sep 2008	1	711	101.76	7.88	$5,702
Aug 2008	1	750	114.22	8.48	$6,476
Jul 2008	0	884	131.08	11.39	$10,068
Jun 2008	2	978	131.33	13.03	$13,009
May 2008	0	1,032	123.17	11.57	$11,945
Apr 2008	0	694	110.31	10.45	$7,256
Mar 2008	3	1,119	101.90	9.66	$11,120
Feb 2008	0	1,103	92.53	8.77	$9,674
Jan 2008	0	1,259	90.38	8.21	$10,331
Dec 2007	2	1,353	88.33	7.30	$10,056
Nov 2007	2	1,303	91.67	7.29	$9,684
Oct 2007	2	1,243	82.85	6.92	$8,770
Sep 2007	3	1,262	75.84	6.24	$8,108
Aug 2007	1	714	69.06	6.39	$4,630
Jul 2007	5	1,235	70.90	6.39	$8,244
Jun 2007	3	1,124	62.00	7.55	$8,670
May 2007	0	1,360	58.74	7.85	$10,671
Apr 2007	4	1,000	59.61	7.81	$8,044
Mar 2007	50	1,329	56.92	7.30	$12,550
Feb 2007	1	946	55.10	8.22	$7,827
Jan 2007	0	665	50.30	6.73	$4,473
Dec 2006	0	790	56.65	6.92	$5,466
Nov 2006	0	1,290	54.20	7.62	$9,827
Oct 2006	1	1,365	54.90	6.01	$8,264
Sep 2006	2	942	60.08	5.04	$4,865
Aug 2006	3	1,107	68.71	7.34	$8,331
Jul 2006	1	1,430	69.37	6.34	$9,140
Jun 2006	1	1,084	66.28	6.38	$6,986
May 2006	3	1,040	66.01	6.42	$6,880
Apr 2006	1	1,141	64.39	7.36	$8,463
Mar 2006	2	1,292	56.70	7.08	$9,265
Feb 2006	0	1,117	57.59	7.75	$8,658
Jan 2006	3	1,026	60.59	8.93	$9,347
Dec 2005	3	680	54.94	13.42	$9,287
Nov 2005	0	1,046	54.69	10.59	$11,075
Oct 2005	0	1,107	58.34	13.80	$15,272
Sep 2005	2	556	61.45	12.08	$6,839
Aug 2005	2	670	61.51	9.80	$6,687
Jul 2005	0	1,045	55.69	7.84	$8,197
Jun 2005	1	887	52.33	7.38	$6,599
May 2005	2	1,370	45.22	6.65	$9,203
Apr 2005	0	1,104	49.20	7.36	$8,126
Mar 2005	3	1,002	50.37	7.15	$7,320
Feb 2005	1	1,522	45.22	6.31	$9,652
Jan 2005	1	1,737	43.16	6.32	$11,025
Dec 2004	3	1,213	39.86	6.75	$8,309
Nov 2004	2	1,302	45.28	6.33	$8,333
Oct 2004	2	1,131	49.70	6.52	$7,468
Sep 2004	16	1,069	43.24	5.28	$6,340
Aug 2004	0	1,927	42.37	5.55	$10,696
Jul 2004	1	2,022	38.28	6.08	$12,340
Jun 2004	0	1,120	36.10	6.43	$7,205
May 2004	0	1,327	37.48	6.49	$8,618
Apr 2004	1	1,632	34.47	5.86	$9,595
Mar 2004	0	1,471	34.36	5.53	$8,135
Feb 2004	0	1,635	32.45	5.51	$9,008
Jan 2004	0	1,014	32.03	6.30	$6,388
Dec 2003	2	1,389	30.26	6.30	$8,814
Nov 2003	0	1,702	28.80	4.60	$7,821
Oct 2003	3	1,846	28.17	4.76	$8,871
Sep 2003	5	2,010	26.31	4.75	$9,678
Aug 2003	0	1,406	29.76	5.13	$7,212
Jul 2003	2	1,850	29.41	5.17	$9,625
Jun 2003	1	1,868	28.56	5.98	$11,205
May 2003	0	1,841	26.59	5.97	$10,996
Apr 2003	5	1,970	26.67	5.41	$10,786
Mar 2003	7	2,454	31.14	6.10	$15,178
Feb 2003	0	2,274	33.48	7.93	$18,023
Jan 2003	0	2,390	30.31	5.58	$13,341
Dec 2002	0	957	26.91	4.85	$4,645
Nov 2002	3	1,806	24.66	4.14	$7,545
Oct 2002	1	3,366	26.46	4.23	$14,262
Sep 2002	2	1,727	27.44	3.64	$6,333
Aug 2002	0	339	25.96	3.16	$1,073
Jul 2002	17	2,618	24.58	3.06	$8,434
Jun 2002	0	2,745	23.73	3.34	$9,163
May 2002	0	2,699	24.66	3.58	$9,673
Apr 2002	0	2,665	23.65	3.51	$9,360
Mar 2002	0	3,558	22.00	3.10	$11,039
Feb 2002	0	3,691	18.22	2.38	$8,769
Jan 2002	0	3,191	17.17	2.38	$7,581
Dec 2001	0	3,680	16.93	2.36	$8,701
Nov 2001	0	3,804	18.07	2.41	$9,151
Oct 2001	0	3,780	19.78	2.53	$9,559
Sep 2001	0	3,813	24.26	2.25	$8,584
Aug 2001	0	3,602	24.87	3.05	$10,997
Jul 2001	0	3,567	23.93	3.20	$11,404
Jun 2001	0	4,757	24.56	3.82	$18,192
May 2001	0	4,667	25.52	4.31	$20,102
Apr 2001	0	4,850	24.68	5.34	$25,876
Mar 2001	0	4,089	24.54	5.38	$21,984
Feb 2001	1	3,485	27.75	5.77	$20,126
Jan 2001	0	4,106	27.47	8.40	$34,485
Dec 2000	0	4,704	26.88	9.12	$42,912
Nov 2000	0	11,343	32.21	5.66	$64,179
Oct 2000	0	9,833	31.23	5.15	$50,596
Sep 2000	0	4,709	31.87	5.19	$24,423
Aug 2000	0	6,404	29.64	4.54	$29,079
Jul 2000	0	4,699	28.53	4.09	$19,218
Jun 2000	0	6,258	29.30	4.40	$27,518
May 2000	0	7,837	27.26	3.68	$28,838
Apr 2000	0	8,507	24.51	3.12	$26,508
Mar 2000	0	9,748	28.42	2.86	$27,877
Feb 2000	0	9,803	27.62	2.73	$26,728
Jan 2000	0	11,400	25.27	2.48	$28,278
Dec 1999	0	12,120	24.28	2.42	$29,375
Nov 1999	0	14,040	23.19	2.43	$34,173
Oct 1999	0	16,015	20.98	2.80	$44,901
Sep 1999	0	17,511	21.75	2.62	$45,859
Aug 1999	0	19,795	19.26	2.88	$56,923
Jul 1999	1	13,322	17.89	2.37	$31,623
Jun 1999	0	12,274	15.94	2.36	$28,992
May 1999	0	16,593	15.79	2.32	$38,513
Apr 1999	0	19,711	15.10	2.21	$43,523
Mar 1999	0	21,712	12.47	1.84	$39,914
Feb 1999	0	21,522	9.98	1.82	$39,122
Jan 1999	0	24,840	10.38	1.90	$47,195
Dec 1998	9	33,838	9.20	1.77	$60,088
Nov 1998	0	6,294	10.89	2.19	$13,757
Oct 1998	0	13,564	12.42	1.97	$26,710
Sep 1998	0	10,594	12.59	2.08	$22,063
Aug 1998	0	13,501	11.30	1.91	$25,751
Jul 1998	0	19,050	11.74	2.24	$42,620
Jun 1998	0	27,432	11.24	2.24	$61,373
May 1998	0	39,758	12.62	2.21	$87,720
Apr 1998	0	20,608	13.04	2.51	$51,630
Mar 1998	0	18,839	12.80	2.31	$43,508
Feb 1998	0	18,204	13.95	2.30	$41,853
Jan 1998	0	19,399	14.70	2.15	$41,801
Dec 1997	0	20,151	16.32	2.41	$48,586
Nov 1997	0	19,401	18.19	3.09	$59,915
Oct 1997	0	20,815	19.25	3.15	$65,564
Sep 1997	0	18,739	17.74	2.95	$55,372
Aug 1997	0	20,372	17.86	2.55	$52,045
Jul 1997	0	18,845	17.58	2.25	$42,344
Jun 1997	0	20,915	17.24	2.26	$47,209
May 1997	0	26,496	18.97	2.31	$61,166
Apr 1997	0	27,094	17.88	2.08	$56,431
Mar 1997	0	28,458	18.95	1.94	$55,184
Feb 1997	0	28,693	20.49	2.21	$63,294
Jan 1997	0	13,867	23.48	3.54	$49,085
Dec 1996	0	0	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	0	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	0	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	0	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	0	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	0	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	181	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	0	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	0	100	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	0	0	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	0	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	0	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	0	155	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	0	22	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	221	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	427	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	6,767	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	18,593	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	21,488	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	26,290	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	6	36,322	17.73	—	$106
Mar 1995	8	43,588	16.44	—	$132
Feb 1995	2	38,906	16.58	—	$33
Jan 1995	5	4,185	15.92	—	$80
Dec 1994	0	193	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	0	1,608	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	0	2,660	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	0	17,914	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	0	39,398	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	0	49,108	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	4	54,816	17.09	—	$68
May 1994	8	65,688	15.88	—	$127
Apr 1994	5	62,091	14.14	—	$71
Mar 1994	0	70,983	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	7	64,164	12.50	—	$88
Jan 1994	8	78,001	12.66	—	$101
Dec 1993	7	83,081	12.33	—	$86
Nov 1993	0	74,768	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	0	90,874	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	0	85,550	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	0	89,375	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	0	86,376	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	0	88,804	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	0	99,098	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	0	94,608	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	0	89,003	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	2	79,266	17.90	—	$36
Jan 1993	7	93,057	16.93	—	$119

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.

Apr 2009 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 46.77 =         $0
Gas                    7 Mcf  × $  3.59 =        $25

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Month total                                      $25

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. 04/G/101244 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.