VAQUILLAS RANCH "B"

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 114459District 04Field 93215400NGPA filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$32 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 2007
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
180
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 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.

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
CondensateDisposition12 bbl$226
GasProduction35,871 Mcf$31,498
Total$31,724

24,633 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 31 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 27.5519, -98.9642. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.55185, -98.96415 · 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
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
12,700 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
21.7 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 12,700 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 1984
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Aug 2006
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 21.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 21.7 years and 21.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-47933914112,700 ftDec 1984Aug 2006Yes

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 (180)

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

180 months

Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 2000030331.235.15$1,559
Sep 2000027631.875.19$1,431
Aug 2000033629.644.54$1,526
Jul 2000038928.534.09$1,591
Jun 2000032329.304.40$1,420
May 2000034327.263.68$1,262
Apr 2000037224.513.12$1,159
Mar 2000034528.422.86$987
Feb 200008027.622.73$218
Jan 2000031625.272.48$784
Dec 1999029524.282.42$715
Nov 1999030523.192.43$742
Oct 1999029320.982.80$821
Sep 1999026621.752.62$697
Aug 1999030619.262.88$880
Jul 1999030017.892.37$712
Jun 1999023515.942.36$555
May 1999021515.792.32$499
Apr 1999017615.102.21$389
Mar 1999030812.471.84$566
Feb 199902769.981.82$502
Jan 1999022510.381.90$427
Dec 199801029.201.77$181
Nov 199805310.892.19$116
Oct 1998017612.421.97$347
Sep 1998035512.592.08$739
Aug 1998013911.301.91$265
Jul 1998041711.742.24$933
Jun 1998036911.242.24$826
May 1998020912.622.21$461
Apr 1998056513.042.51$1,416
Mar 1998021012.802.31$485
Feb 1998033013.952.30$759
Jan 1998019314.702.15$416
Dec 1997011316.322.41$272
Nov 1997025218.193.09$778
Oct 1997033219.253.15$1,046
Sep 1997046817.742.95$1,383
Aug 199709417.862.55$240
Jul 1997018017.582.25$404
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 199701917.882.08$40
Mar 1997021418.951.94$415
Feb 199703720.492.21$82
Jan 1997212823.483.54$500
Dec 1996133623.32$23
Nov 1996140421.97$22
Oct 1996027123.31$0
Sep 1996035622.22$0
Aug 1996037420.26$0
Jul 1996038719.55$0
Jun 1996037818.73$0
May 1996040419.43$0
Apr 1996038921.51$0
Mar 1996041619.38$0
Feb 1996039116.98$0
Jan 1996042217.07$0
Dec 1995042917.19$0
Nov 1995046216.00$0
Oct 1995043315.43$0
Sep 1995044316.18$0
Aug 1995045515.92$0
Jul 1995038115.24$0
Jun 1995035816.41$0
May 1995046917.56$0
Apr 1995055517.73$0
Mar 199501,16016.44$0
Feb 1995080216.58$0
Jan 1995092515.92$0
Dec 1994069415.03$0
Nov 1994172115.90$16
Oct 1994098115.58$0
Sep 1994198115.29$15
Aug 1994298816.13$32
Jul 199447,83317.56$70
Jun 199401,03517.09$0
May 19940015.88$0
Apr 19940014.14$0
Mar 19940012.46$0
Feb 19940012.50$0
Jan 19940012.66$0
Dec 19930012.33$0
Nov 19930014.49$0
Oct 19930015.85$0
Sep 19930015.03$0
Aug 19930015.66$0
Jul 19930015.46$0
Jun 19930016.79$0
May 19930017.68$0
Apr 19930018.05$0
Mar 19930018.14$0
Feb 19930017.90$0
Jan 19930016.93$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.

Oct 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 31.23 =         $0
Gas                  303 Mcf  × $  5.15 =     $1,559

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Month total                                   $1,559

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/114459 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.