ABEL VELA-STATE GAS UNIT

Name: ABEL VELA-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 132354District 04Field 19920070CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$4.8 M

Jan 1993 – Jul 2010

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

211

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	103 bbl	$5,050
Gas	Production	3,547,168 Mcf	$4,746,868
Total			$4,751,918

2,258,512 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 26.8849, -99.0792. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.88486, -99.07924 · 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

8,150 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

2.9 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 8,150 ft.

Completions filed

Aug 2007

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Jul 2010

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 2.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 2.9 years and 2.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-50532584	A 2	8,150 ft	Aug 2007	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 (211)

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

211 months


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	0	46.77	3.59	$0
Mar 2009	0	944	42.14	4.06	$3,832
Feb 2009	0	996	32.81	4.63	$4,614
Jan 2009	0	1,238	35.86	5.37	$6,649
Dec 2008	0	1,142	37.10	5.98	$6,826
Nov 2008	0	1,042	55.49	6.86	$7,149
Oct 2008	0	1,149	75.24	6.92	$7,953
Sep 2008	2	986	101.76	7.88	$7,970
Aug 2008	1	1,154	114.22	8.48	$9,904
Jul 2008	0	1,135	131.08	11.39	$12,927
Jun 2008	2	1,177	131.33	13.03	$15,602
May 2008	0	1,315	123.17	11.57	$15,220
Apr 2008	0	494	110.31	10.45	$5,165
Mar 2008	0	974	101.90	9.66	$9,413
Feb 2008	0	1,121	92.53	8.77	$9,832
Jan 2008	0	1,136	90.38	8.21	$9,322
Dec 2007	1	1,796	88.33	7.30	$13,203
Nov 2007	0	2,099	91.67	7.29	$15,305
Oct 2007	5	1,544	82.85	6.92	$11,102
Sep 2007	11	3,106	75.84	6.24	$20,229
Aug 2007	9	6,103	69.06	6.39	$39,607
Jul 2007	5	4,820	70.90	6.39	$31,144
Jun 2007	2	4,996	62.00	7.55	$37,836
May 2007	2	5,825	58.74	7.85	$45,822
Apr 2007	4	4,719	59.61	7.81	$37,071
Mar 2007	0	2,838	56.92	7.30	$20,723
Feb 2007	0	2,298	55.10	8.22	$18,880
Jan 2007	0	1,869	50.30	6.73	$12,572
Dec 2006	0	2,918	56.65	6.92	$20,188
Nov 2006	0	3,624	54.20	7.62	$27,606
Oct 2006	0	4,489	54.90	6.01	$26,996
Sep 2006	1	4,241	60.08	5.04	$21,423
Aug 2006	2	4,305	68.71	7.34	$31,736
Jul 2006	0	4,312	69.37	6.34	$27,350
Jun 2006	0	3,999	66.28	6.38	$25,529
May 2006	1	4,137	66.01	6.42	$26,646
Apr 2006	1	3,919	64.39	7.36	$28,910
Mar 2006	0	3,831	56.70	7.08	$27,135
Feb 2006	0	3,363	57.59	7.75	$26,067
Jan 2006	1	2,506	60.59	8.93	$22,447
Dec 2005	1	1,907	54.94	13.42	$25,638
Nov 2005	0	2,969	54.69	10.59	$31,437
Oct 2005	0	3,073	58.34	13.80	$42,394
Sep 2005	0	2,059	61.45	12.08	$24,871
Aug 2005	0	3,059	61.51	9.80	$29,969
Jul 2005	0	3,338	55.69	7.84	$26,182
Jun 2005	1	3,455	52.33	7.38	$25,554
May 2005	0	3,528	45.22	6.65	$23,465
Apr 2005	0	3,981	49.20	7.36	$29,302
Mar 2005	0	2,904	50.37	7.15	$20,778
Feb 2005	0	4,112	45.22	6.31	$25,955
Jan 2005	0	3,618	43.16	6.32	$22,874
Dec 2004	1	4,672	39.86	6.75	$31,581
Nov 2004	0	5,132	45.28	6.33	$32,488
Oct 2004	1	6,208	49.70	6.52	$40,495
Sep 2004	1	5,197	43.24	5.28	$27,504
Aug 2004	0	5,059	42.37	5.55	$28,081
Jul 2004	0	7,969	38.28	6.08	$48,485
Jun 2004	1	5,527	36.10	6.43	$35,591
May 2004	0	5,499	37.48	6.49	$35,714
Apr 2004	1	5,841	34.47	5.86	$34,254
Mar 2004	0	5,873	34.36	5.53	$32,479
Feb 2004	0	6,354	32.45	5.51	$35,008
Jan 2004	0	5,582	32.03	6.30	$35,165
Dec 2003	0	5,900	30.26	6.30	$37,180
Nov 2003	0	6,422	28.80	4.60	$29,510
Oct 2003	4	4,808	28.17	4.76	$22,997
Sep 2003	5	6,306	26.31	4.75	$30,081
Aug 2003	1	6,116	29.76	5.13	$31,403
Jul 2003	3	7,639	29.41	5.17	$39,588
Jun 2003	0	7,279	28.56	5.98	$43,550
May 2003	1	6,447	26.59	5.97	$38,532
Apr 2003	2	6,985	26.67	5.41	$37,823
Mar 2003	3	7,824	31.14	6.10	$47,789
Feb 2003	0	6,572	33.48	7.93	$52,089
Jan 2003	0	6,689	30.31	5.58	$37,338
Dec 2002	0	3,288	26.91	4.85	$15,959
Nov 2002	2	4,479	24.66	4.14	$18,579
Oct 2002	1	8,694	26.46	4.23	$36,794
Sep 2002	0	5,967	27.44	3.64	$21,691
Aug 2002	0	1,062	25.96	3.16	$3,360
Jul 2002	0	7,799	24.58	3.06	$23,879
Jun 2002	0	7,585	23.73	3.34	$25,321
May 2002	0	9,280	24.66	3.58	$33,260
Apr 2002	0	9,196	23.65	3.51	$32,299
Mar 2002	0	10,144	22.00	3.10	$31,474
Feb 2002	0	8,367	18.22	2.38	$19,877
Jan 2002	0	9,642	17.17	2.38	$22,906
Dec 2001	0	9,181	16.93	2.36	$21,708
Nov 2001	0	8,140	18.07	2.41	$19,581
Oct 2001	0	8,533	19.78	2.53	$21,579
Sep 2001	0	9,623	24.26	2.25	$21,664
Aug 2001	0	10,341	24.87	3.05	$31,573
Jul 2001	0	8,881	23.93	3.20	$28,393
Jun 2001	0	10,963	24.56	3.82	$41,924
May 2001	0	10,932	25.52	4.31	$47,088
Apr 2001	0	10,104	24.68	5.34	$53,908
Mar 2001	0	8,405	24.54	5.38	$45,189
Feb 2001	0	8,382	27.75	5.77	$48,340
Jan 2001	0	8,319	27.47	8.40	$69,869
Dec 2000	0	9,445	26.88	9.12	$86,162
Nov 2000	0	829	32.21	5.66	$4,690
Oct 2000	0	379	31.23	5.15	$1,950
Sep 2000	0	9,110	31.87	5.19	$47,249
Aug 2000	0	11,119	29.64	4.54	$50,489
Jul 2000	0	7,164	28.53	4.09	$29,299
Jun 2000	0	9,234	29.30	4.40	$40,604
May 2000	0	12,862	27.26	3.68	$47,329
Apr 2000	0	10,733	24.51	3.12	$33,444
Mar 2000	0	12,861	28.42	2.86	$36,779
Feb 2000	0	12,254	27.62	2.73	$33,411
Jan 2000	0	12,929	25.27	2.48	$32,070
Dec 1999	0	12,452	24.28	2.42	$30,180
Nov 1999	0	13,598	23.19	2.43	$33,097
Oct 1999	0	15,019	20.98	2.80	$42,109
Sep 1999	0	13,346	21.75	2.62	$34,951
Aug 1999	0	11,618	19.26	2.88	$33,409
Jul 1999	0	13,359	17.89	2.37	$31,692
Jun 1999	0	12,801	15.94	2.36	$30,237
May 1999	0	14,363	15.79	2.32	$33,337
Apr 1999	0	17,126	15.10	2.21	$37,815
Mar 1999	0	16,583	12.47	1.84	$30,485
Feb 1999	0	14,905	9.98	1.82	$27,094
Jan 1999	0	17,142	10.38	1.90	$32,569
Dec 1998	0	16,971	9.20	1.77	$30,095
Nov 1998	0	19,108	10.89	2.19	$41,765
Oct 1998	0	20,609	12.42	1.97	$40,583
Sep 1998	0	18,814	12.59	2.08	$39,182
Aug 1998	0	20,946	11.30	1.91	$39,951
Jul 1998	0	19,964	11.74	2.24	$44,665
Jun 1998	0	20,450	11.24	2.24	$45,752
May 1998	0	20,393	12.62	2.21	$44,994
Apr 1998	0	19,175	13.04	2.51	$48,040
Mar 1998	0	20,708	12.80	2.31	$47,824
Feb 1998	0	20,500	13.95	2.30	$47,132
Jan 1998	0	21,572	14.70	2.15	$46,483
Dec 1997	0	18,615	16.32	2.41	$44,883
Nov 1997	0	19,604	18.19	3.09	$60,542
Oct 1997	0	21,626	19.25	3.15	$68,118
Sep 1997	0	18,697	17.74	2.95	$55,247
Aug 1997	0	23,222	17.86	2.55	$59,326
Jul 1997	0	26,778	17.58	2.25	$60,169
Jun 1997	0	25,234	17.24	2.26	$56,958
May 1997	0	21,724	18.97	2.31	$50,150
Apr 1997	0	25,753	17.88	2.08	$53,638
Mar 1997	0	26,358	18.95	1.94	$51,112
Feb 1997	0	24,723	20.49	2.21	$54,536
Jan 1997	0	29,011	23.48	3.54	$102,690
Dec 1996	0	31,065	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	29,539	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	31,796	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	33,103	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	26,993	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	1	33,739	19.55	—	$20
Jun 1996	0	34,256	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	36,919	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	1	39,750	21.51	—	$22
Mar 1996	0	32,852	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	25,039	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	34,876	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	0	28,930	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	1	25,921	16.00	—	$16
Oct 1995	0	23,744	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	31,762	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	35,019	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	36,094	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	38,989	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	43,982	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	0	45,564	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	0	46,642	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	0	44,961	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	0	52,459	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	0	11,075	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	0	19,977	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	0	25,310	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	0	23,473	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	0	27,588	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	0	38,140	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	2	38,699	17.09	—	$34
May 1994	3	48,859	15.88	—	$48
Apr 1994	4	53,969	14.14	—	$57
Mar 1994	0	55,706	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	2	49,257	12.50	—	$25
Jan 1994	3	57,409	12.66	—	$38
Dec 1993	3	62,792	12.33	—	$37
Nov 1993	0	64,736	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	0	70,507	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	0	71,712	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	0	79,171	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	0	80,469	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	0	81,189	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	0	91,984	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	0	88,923	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	0	91,585	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	3	87,493	17.90	—	$54
Jan 1993	1	94,495	16.93	—	$17

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.

Mar 2009 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 42.14 =         $0
Gas                  944 Mcf  × $  4.06 =     $3,832

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Month total                                   $3,832

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/132354 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.