GARCIA, CESAR

Operated by VINTAGE PETROLEUM, INC. (P-5 886200) in the FOUR SEVENS (8100 YEGUA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 127853District 04Field 32374600CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$112 k
Jan 1993 – May 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$29 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
53
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 11 leases and 11 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1985-08-31
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
2,640 ft
minimum
From a lease line
1,320 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 320 acres. The field rule took effect on 1989-05-15.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ALLOCATION FORMULA ADMINISTRATIVELY SUSPENDED EFFECTIVE 11/1/94.

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
CondensateDisposition5,482 bbl$89,357
GasProduction416,160 Mcf$23,100
Total$112,457

406,702 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 27.5691, -98.2546. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.56911, -98.25459 · 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
8,300 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
12.2 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 8,300 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 2003
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2015
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 12.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 12.2 years and 12.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-13137115B 18,300 ftSep 2003Nov 2015Yes

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 (53)

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

53 months

May 1997121018.972.31$2,295
Apr 199702,32417.882.08$4,840
Mar 199722,68318.951.94$5,241
Feb 199722,02320.492.21$4,504
Jan 199702,42823.483.54$8,594
Dec 1996112,69823.32$257
Nov 199602,67321.97$0
Oct 19961502,92423.31$3,497
Sep 199603,04322.22$0
Aug 199603,48220.26$0
Jul 199642,95619.55$78
Jun 199603,50818.73$0
May 199603,76019.43$0
Apr 199603,85521.51$0
Mar 1996924,00819.38$1,783
Feb 199604,41916.98$0
Jan 199604,44217.07$0
Dec 19951775,53717.19$3,043
Nov 199504,95416.00$0
Oct 199505,10215.43$0
Sep 19951355,93416.18$2,184
Aug 199507,29915.92$0
Jul 199505,21815.24$0
Jun 199506,78516.41$0
May 19951697,04617.56$2,968
Apr 199527,02117.73$35
Mar 19951797,49016.44$2,943
Feb 19951576,63916.58$2,603
Jan 199596,91115.92$143
Dec 19941777,15615.03$2,660
Nov 199406,73715.90$0
Oct 19941799,03015.58$2,789
Sep 19941759,05715.29$2,676
Aug 199419,80516.13$16
Jul 19941368,98417.56$2,388
Jun 19941808,90117.09$3,076
May 199417910,68015.88$2,843
Apr 199418510,95514.14$2,616
Mar 1994011,10212.46$0
Feb 199417710,36812.50$2,213
Jan 199418011,32012.66$2,279
Dec 199318013,53712.33$2,219
Nov 199336114,08114.49$5,231
Oct 199317715,13715.85$2,805
Sep 199317814,26515.03$2,675
Aug 199320115,79315.66$3,148
Jul 199317814,24215.46$2,752
Jun 199335714,29316.79$5,994
May 199317816,81817.68$3,147
Apr 199317816,30118.05$3,213
Mar 199336015,70518.14$6,530
Feb 199317412,61117.90$3,115
Jan 199318112,12016.93$3,064

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.

May 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate           121 bbl  × $ 18.97 =     $2,295
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  2.31 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,295

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/127853 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.