VERGARA

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

Operated by CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY (P-5 172232) in the VAQUILLAS RANCH (LOBO CONS.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 107422District 04Field 93215400NGPA filingCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$205 k

Jan 1993 – Aug 2003

Value, last 12 filed months

$23 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

128

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The VAQUILLAS RANCH (LOBO CONS.) 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 909 leases and 909 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1998-02-24

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and 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 2010-11-02.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “NO P-15 OR PLAT REQUIRED.”

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	629 bbl	$10,696
Gas	Production	133,364 Mcf	$194,160
Total			$204,855

71,945 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 27.5381, -99.0948. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.53809, -99.09477 · 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

10,230 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

20.2 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 10,230 ft.

Completions filed

Jun 1983

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Aug 2003

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 20.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 20.2 years and 20.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-47933570	1	10,230 ft	Jun 1983	Aug 2003	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 (128)

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

128 months


Aug 2003	0	237	29.76	5.13	$1,216
Jul 2003	0	0	29.41	5.17	$0
Jun 2003	0	237	28.56	5.98	$1,418
May 2003	0	450	26.59	5.97	$2,688
Apr 2003	0	309	26.67	5.41	$1,671
Mar 2003	0	467	31.14	6.10	$2,847
Feb 2003	0	399	33.48	7.93	$3,162
Jan 2003	0	333	30.31	5.58	$1,859
Dec 2002	0	379	26.91	4.85	$1,840
Nov 2002	0	439	24.66	4.14	$1,816
Oct 2002	0	578	26.46	4.23	$2,444
Sep 2002	0	515	27.44	3.64	$1,872
Aug 2002	0	617	25.96	3.16	$1,952
Jul 2002	0	708	24.58	3.06	$2,168
Jun 2002	0	878	23.73	3.34	$2,931
May 2002	0	303	24.66	3.58	$1,086
Apr 2002	0	332	23.65	3.51	$1,166
Mar 2002	0	728	22.00	3.10	$2,259
Feb 2002	0	593	18.22	2.38	$1,409
Jan 2002	0	723	17.17	2.38	$1,718
Dec 2001	0	633	16.93	2.36	$1,497
Nov 2001	0	431	18.07	2.41	$1,037
Oct 2001	0	593	19.78	2.53	$1,500
Sep 2001	0	594	24.26	2.25	$1,337
Aug 2001	0	653	24.87	3.05	$1,994
Jul 2001	0	754	23.93	3.20	$2,411
Jun 2001	0	672	24.56	3.82	$2,570
May 2001	0	839	25.52	4.31	$3,614
Apr 2001	0	231	24.68	5.34	$1,232
Mar 2001	0	596	24.54	5.38	$3,204
Feb 2001	0	620	27.75	5.77	$3,576
Jan 2001	0	734	27.47	8.40	$6,165
Dec 2000	0	722	26.88	9.12	$6,586
Nov 2000	0	816	32.21	5.66	$4,617
Oct 2000	0	865	31.23	5.15	$4,451
Sep 2000	0	864	31.87	5.19	$4,481
Aug 2000	0	973	29.64	4.54	$4,418
Jul 2000	0	876	28.53	4.09	$3,583
Jun 2000	0	886	29.30	4.40	$3,896
May 2000	0	902	27.26	3.68	$3,319
Apr 2000	0	761	24.51	3.12	$2,371
Mar 2000	0	957	28.42	2.86	$2,737
Feb 2000	0	883	27.62	2.73	$2,408
Jan 2000	0	875	25.27	2.48	$2,170
Dec 1999	0	877	24.28	2.42	$2,126
Nov 1999	0	855	23.19	2.43	$2,081
Oct 1999	0	812	20.98	2.80	$2,277
Sep 1999	0	926	21.75	2.62	$2,425
Aug 1999	0	1,049	19.26	2.88	$3,017
Jul 1999	0	1,036	17.89	2.37	$2,458
Jun 1999	0	1,017	15.94	2.36	$2,402
May 1999	0	861	15.79	2.32	$1,998
Apr 1999	0	764	15.10	2.21	$1,687
Mar 1999	0	867	12.47	1.84	$1,594
Feb 1999	0	767	9.98	1.82	$1,394
Jan 1999	0	859	10.38	1.90	$1,632
Dec 1998	0	813	9.20	1.77	$1,442
Nov 1998	0	748	10.89	2.19	$1,635
Oct 1998	0	793	12.42	1.97	$1,562
Sep 1998	0	653	12.59	2.08	$1,360
Aug 1998	0	1,215	11.30	1.91	$2,317
Jul 1998	0	841	11.74	2.24	$1,882
Jun 1998	0	874	11.24	2.24	$1,955
May 1998	0	905	12.62	2.21	$1,997
Apr 1998	0	791	13.04	2.51	$1,982
Mar 1998	0	696	12.80	2.31	$1,607
Feb 1998	0	1,117	13.95	2.30	$2,568
Jan 1998	0	730	14.70	2.15	$1,573
Dec 1997	0	639	16.32	2.41	$1,541
Nov 1997	0	758	18.19	3.09	$2,341
Oct 1997	0	950	19.25	3.15	$2,992
Sep 1997	0	858	17.74	2.95	$2,535
Aug 1997	0	1,035	17.86	2.55	$2,644
Jul 1997	0	1,127	17.58	2.25	$2,532
Jun 1997	0	1,135	17.24	2.26	$2,562
May 1997	1	1,442	18.97	2.31	$3,348
Apr 1997	0	1,327	17.88	2.08	$2,764
Mar 1997	0	1,450	18.95	1.94	$2,812
Feb 1997	2	1,304	20.49	2.21	$2,917
Jan 1997	2	1,573	23.48	3.54	$5,615
Dec 1996	57	1,247	23.32	—	$1,329
Nov 1996	0	1,187	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	1,174	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	5	1,225	22.22	—	$111
Aug 1996	0	1,274	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	1,217	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	1,163	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	1,230	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	2	1,211	21.51	—	$43
Mar 1996	3	1,293	19.38	—	$58
Feb 1996	76	1,246	16.98	—	$1,290
Jan 1996	0	1,485	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	0	1,359	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	1	1,233	16.00	—	$16
Oct 1995	0	1,261	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	1,246	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	1,521	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	1	1,547	15.24	—	$15
Jun 1995	0	1,437	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	1	1,484	17.56	—	$18
Apr 1995	96	1,292	17.73	—	$1,702
Mar 1995	0	1,444	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	1	1,367	16.58	—	$17
Jan 1995	1	1,514	15.92	—	$16
Dec 1994	1	1,564	15.03	—	$15
Nov 1994	1	1,537	15.90	—	$16
Oct 1994	1	1,580	15.58	—	$16
Sep 1994	0	1,630	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	1	1,461	16.13	—	$16
Jul 1994	46	1,728	17.56	—	$808
Jun 1994	1	1,680	17.09	—	$17
May 1994	1	1,815	15.88	—	$16
Apr 1994	44	1,662	14.14	—	$622
Mar 1994	2	1,649	12.46	—	$25
Feb 1994	5	1,324	12.50	—	$63
Jan 1994	0	1,481	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	108	1,516	12.33	—	$1,332
Nov 1993	0	1,523	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	0	1,568	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	0	1,780	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	0	1,788	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	0	1,886	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	0	1,751	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	0	2,028	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	0	1,975	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	15	1,779	18.14	—	$272
Feb 1993	154	1,636	17.90	—	$2,757
Jan 1993	0	1,947	16.93	—	$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.

Aug 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 29.76 =         $0
Gas                  237 Mcf  × $  5.13 =     $1,216

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Month total                                   $1,216

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/107422 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.