MESTENA HOT WELLS

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

Operated by MESTENA OPERATING, LTD. (P-5 562072) in the COYOTE, WEST (QUEEN CITY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 117563District 04Field 21409800NGPA filingCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$426 k

Jan 1993 – Jan 2008

Value, last 12 filed months

$29 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

181

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The COYOTE, WEST (QUEEN CITY) 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 14 leases and 14 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1984-02-18

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 1985-03-29.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 08/01/2002.”

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	4,247 bbl	$89,101
Gas	Production	204,004 Mcf	$336,843
Total			$425,945

103,954 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 27.1992, -98.6038. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.19920, -98.60379 · 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

9,800 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

22.4 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 9,800 ft.

Completions filed

Jun 1985

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Nov 2007

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 22.4 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 22.4 years and 22.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-24731658	2	9,800 ft	Jun 1985	Nov 2007	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 (181)

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

181 months


Jan 2008	0	0	90.38	8.21	$0
Dec 2007	0	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	25	0	91.67	7.29	$2,292
Oct 2007	0	0	82.85	6.92	$0
Sep 2007	0	126	75.84	6.24	$787
Aug 2007	0	486	69.06	6.39	$3,105
Jul 2007	0	462	70.90	6.39	$2,951
Jun 2007	0	12	62.00	7.55	$91
May 2007	0	545	58.74	7.85	$4,276
Apr 2007	0	515	59.61	7.81	$4,020
Mar 2007	0	993	56.92	7.30	$7,251
Feb 2007	0	455	55.10	8.22	$3,738
Jan 2007	1	12	50.30	6.73	$131
Dec 2006	0	34	56.65	6.92	$235
Nov 2006	4	30	54.20	7.62	$445
Oct 2006	0	339	54.90	6.01	$2,039
Sep 2006	0	77	60.08	5.04	$388
Aug 2006	6	104	68.71	7.34	$1,176
Jul 2006	0	39	69.37	6.34	$247
Jun 2006	0	24	66.28	6.38	$153
May 2006	0	33	66.01	6.42	$212
Apr 2006	0	27	64.39	7.36	$199
Mar 2006	0	36	56.70	7.08	$255
Feb 2006	0	16	57.59	7.75	$124
Jan 2006	0	33	60.59	8.93	$295
Dec 2005	0	191	54.94	13.42	$2,562
Nov 2005	0	351	54.69	10.59	$3,717
Oct 2005	0	36	58.34	13.80	$497
Sep 2005	7	29	61.45	12.08	$780
Aug 2005	0	34	61.51	9.80	$333
Jul 2005	0	36	55.69	7.84	$282
Jun 2005	61	22	52.33	7.38	$3,355
May 2005	0	29	45.22	6.65	$193
Apr 2005	0	24	49.20	7.36	$177
Mar 2005	65	28	50.37	7.15	$3,474
Feb 2005	0	19	45.22	6.31	$120
Jan 2005	0	99	43.16	6.32	$626
Dec 2004	0	26	39.86	6.75	$176
Nov 2004	0	33	45.28	6.33	$209
Oct 2004	0	41	49.70	6.52	$267
Sep 2004	27	19	43.24	5.28	$1,268
Aug 2004	0	42	42.37	5.55	$233
Jul 2004	0	23	38.28	6.08	$140
Jun 2004	60	67	36.10	6.43	$2,597
May 2004	0	171	37.48	6.49	$1,111
Apr 2004	0	169	34.47	5.86	$990
Mar 2004	41	326	34.36	5.53	$3,212
Feb 2004	0	263	32.45	5.51	$1,449
Jan 2004	0	485	32.03	6.30	$3,055
Dec 2003	0	295	30.26	6.30	$1,859
Nov 2003	63	422	28.80	4.60	$3,754
Oct 2003	0	294	28.17	4.76	$1,399
Sep 2003	0	235	26.31	4.75	$1,116
Aug 2003	0	378	29.76	5.13	$1,939
Jul 2003	0	271	29.41	5.17	$1,401
Jun 2003	0	448	28.56	5.98	$2,680
May 2003	0	129	26.59	5.97	$770
Apr 2003	0	338	26.67	5.41	$1,828
Mar 2003	47	368	31.14	6.10	$3,707
Feb 2003	67	512	33.48	7.93	$6,301
Jan 2003	0	465	30.31	5.58	$2,596
Dec 2002	63	816	26.91	4.85	$5,656
Nov 2002	1	650	24.66	4.14	$2,714
Oct 2002	0	712	26.46	4.23	$3,011
Sep 2002	0	703	27.44	3.64	$2,556
Aug 2002	0	728	25.96	3.16	$2,304
Jul 2002	4	762	24.58	3.06	$2,431
Jun 2002	65	643	23.73	3.34	$3,689
May 2002	11	627	24.66	3.58	$2,518
Apr 2002	51	842	23.65	3.51	$4,164
Mar 2002	0	958	22.00	3.10	$2,972
Feb 2002	0	786	18.22	2.38	$1,867
Jan 2002	48	1,018	17.17	2.38	$3,243
Dec 2001	0	853	16.93	2.36	$2,017
Nov 2001	0	870	18.07	2.41	$2,093
Oct 2001	0	294	19.78	2.53	$743
Sep 2001	0	54	24.26	2.25	$122
Aug 2001	0	76	24.87	3.05	$232
Jul 2001	0	114	23.93	3.20	$364
Jun 2001	0	666	24.56	3.82	$2,547
May 2001	95	797	25.52	4.31	$5,857
Apr 2001	0	1,161	24.68	5.34	$6,194
Mar 2001	0	1,271	24.54	5.38	$6,833
Feb 2001	0	1,091	27.75	5.77	$6,292
Jan 2001	0	760	27.47	8.40	$6,383
Dec 2000	0	1,329	26.88	9.12	$12,124
Nov 2000	0	1,661	32.21	5.66	$9,398
Oct 2000	0	491	31.23	5.15	$2,526
Sep 2000	33	666	31.87	5.19	$4,506
Aug 2000	0	604	29.64	4.54	$2,743
Jul 2000	0	713	28.53	4.09	$2,916
Jun 2000	38	953	29.30	4.40	$5,304
May 2000	0	821	27.26	3.68	$3,021
Apr 2000	44	813	24.51	3.12	$3,612
Mar 2000	2	850	28.42	2.86	$2,488
Feb 2000	63	1,221	27.62	2.73	$5,069
Jan 2000	0	1,323	25.27	2.48	$3,282
Dec 1999	63	1,329	24.28	2.42	$4,751
Nov 1999	0	1,176	23.19	2.43	$2,862
Oct 1999	0	765	20.98	2.80	$2,145
Sep 1999	63	1,236	21.75	2.62	$4,607
Aug 1999	0	1,011	19.26	2.88	$2,907
Jul 1999	0	971	17.89	2.37	$2,304
Jun 1999	50	1,177	15.94	2.36	$3,577
May 1999	0	1,140	15.79	2.32	$2,646
Apr 1999	0	961	15.10	2.21	$2,122
Mar 1999	49	1,315	12.47	1.84	$3,028
Feb 1999	0	1,635	9.98	1.82	$2,972
Jan 1999	0	2,131	10.38	1.90	$4,049
Dec 1998	0	1,576	9.20	1.77	$2,795
Nov 1998	61	1,413	10.89	2.19	$3,753
Oct 1998	0	1,321	12.42	1.97	$2,601
Sep 1998	0	1,320	12.59	2.08	$2,749
Aug 1998	61	1,629	11.30	1.91	$3,796
Jul 1998	2	2,196	11.74	2.24	$4,937
Jun 1998	2	1,882	11.24	2.24	$4,233
May 1998	60	1,854	12.62	2.21	$4,848
Apr 1998	0	1,795	13.04	2.51	$4,497
Mar 1998	78	1,854	12.80	2.31	$5,280
Feb 1998	0	1,915	13.95	2.30	$4,403
Jan 1998	70	2,012	14.70	2.15	$5,364
Dec 1997	0	2,059	16.32	2.41	$4,964
Nov 1997	75	1,995	18.19	3.09	$7,525
Oct 1997	0	2,156	19.25	3.15	$6,791
Sep 1997	67	2,059	17.74	2.95	$7,273
Aug 1997	0	1,950	17.86	2.55	$4,982
Jul 1997	86	2,132	17.58	2.25	$6,302
Jun 1997	0	1,997	17.24	2.26	$4,508
May 1997	0	1,996	18.97	2.31	$4,608
Apr 1997	91	1,939	17.88	2.08	$5,666
Mar 1997	89	1,955	18.95	1.94	$5,478
Feb 1997	0	2,432	20.49	2.21	$5,365
Jan 1997	84	1,953	23.48	3.54	$8,885
Dec 1996	89	1,960	23.32	—	$2,075
Nov 1996	0	1,940	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	73	1,925	23.31	—	$1,702
Sep 1996	92	2,093	22.22	—	$2,044
Aug 1996	86	1,997	20.26	—	$1,742
Jul 1996	0	2,069	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	85	1,967	18.73	—	$1,592
May 1996	0	2,154	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	72	2,055	21.51	—	$1,549
Mar 1996	79	2,275	19.38	—	$1,531
Feb 1996	0	1,801	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	74	1,805	17.07	—	$1,263
Dec 1995	46	1,897	17.19	—	$791
Nov 1995	0	2,535	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	57	1,803	15.43	—	$880
Sep 1995	65	1,866	16.18	—	$1,052
Aug 1995	0	1,797	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	59	1,558	15.24	—	$899
Jun 1995	0	1,594	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	53	1,636	17.56	—	$931
Apr 1995	62	1,659	17.73	—	$1,099
Mar 1995	66	1,792	16.44	—	$1,085
Feb 1995	0	1,619	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	73	1,823	15.92	—	$1,162
Dec 1994	69	1,960	15.03	—	$1,037
Nov 1994	0	2,818	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	63	6,135	15.58	—	$982
Sep 1994	70	1,974	15.29	—	$1,070
Aug 1994	0	2,071	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	71	2,132	17.56	—	$1,247
Jun 1994	0	2,101	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	123	2,057	15.88	—	$1,953
Apr 1994	0	2,099	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	70	2,184	12.46	—	$872
Feb 1994	0	2,395	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	121	1,939	12.66	—	$1,532
Dec 1993	0	2,105	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	0	2,235	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	52	2,349	15.85	—	$824
Sep 1993	118	2,461	15.03	—	$1,774
Aug 1993	0	2,181	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	111	2,468	15.46	—	$1,716
Jun 1993	0	2,525	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	0	2,506	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	61	2,634	18.05	—	$1,101
Mar 1993	48	2,674	18.14	—	$871
Feb 1993	0	2,214	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	96	2,117	16.93	—	$1,625

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.

Nov 2007 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate            25 bbl  × $ 91.67 =     $2,292
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  7.29 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $2,292

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/117563 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.