ARCO DOUGHERTY/EIA UNIT #1

Name: ARCO DOUGHERTY/EIA UNIT #1 lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by WHITING PETROLEUM CORPORATION (P-5 920480) in the JICARILLA (I-2) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 136032District 04Field 463393002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.6 M

Jan 1993 – Oct 2001

Value, last 12 filed months

$342 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

106

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The JICARILLA (I-2) 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 5 leases and 5 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1990-03-17

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

—

no field rule filed

From a lease line

—

no field rule filed

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “ADMIN. APPROVAL OF SUSPENSION OF ALLOC. FORMULA EFFECTIVE 7-1-92”

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
High Cost Gas	1	1	1993-03-04	125324
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	15,496 bbl	$274,631
Gas	Production	1,219,426 Mcf	$1,352,144
Total			$1,626,775

775,936 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 26.3892, -98.4132. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.38923, -98.41319 · 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

0.0%

0 of 1 wells

Median depth

14,550 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

—

no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

1100.0%

A plug date is filed

00.0%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

00.0%

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 14,550 ft.

Completions filed

Oct 2001

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-21531927	1	14,550 ft	Oct 2001	—	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 (106)

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

106 months


Oct 2001	0	0	19.78	2.53	$0
Sep 2001	0	0	24.26	2.25	$0
Aug 2001	0	0	24.87	3.05	$0
Jul 2001	161	5,825	23.93	3.20	$22,476
Jun 2001	74	20	24.56	3.82	$1,894
May 2001	77	7,039	25.52	4.31	$32,284
Apr 2001	214	7,165	24.68	5.34	$43,509
Mar 2001	102	6,620	24.54	5.38	$38,095
Feb 2001	2	5,892	27.75	5.77	$34,035
Jan 2001	210	7,470	27.47	8.40	$68,507
Dec 2000	0	6,196	26.88	9.12	$56,523
Nov 2000	109	7,233	32.21	5.66	$44,435
Oct 2000	111	7,750	31.23	5.15	$43,344
Sep 2000	217	7,531	31.87	5.19	$45,975
Aug 2000	0	8,130	29.64	4.54	$36,916
Jul 2000	2	8,325	28.53	4.09	$34,104
Jun 2000	1	7,652	29.30	4.40	$33,677
May 2000	0	7,488	27.26	3.68	$27,554
Apr 2000	115	8,109	24.51	3.12	$28,086
Mar 2000	115	8,305	28.42	2.86	$27,019
Feb 2000	109	7,454	27.62	2.73	$23,334
Jan 2000	92	8,613	25.27	2.48	$23,689
Dec 1999	112	7,699	24.28	2.42	$21,380
Nov 1999	107	7,894	23.19	2.43	$21,695
Oct 1999	308	7,959	20.98	2.80	$28,777
Sep 1999	111	8,109	21.75	2.62	$23,651
Aug 1999	114	9,204	19.26	2.88	$28,663
Jul 1999	0	7,497	17.89	2.37	$17,786
Jun 1999	110	8,011	15.94	2.36	$20,676
May 1999	332	9,162	15.79	2.32	$26,507
Apr 1999	118	8,410	15.10	2.21	$20,352
Mar 1999	0	14,669	12.47	1.84	$26,966
Feb 1999	108	0	9.98	1.82	$1,078
Jan 1999	128	3,962	10.38	1.90	$8,856
Dec 1998	114	8,366	9.20	1.77	$15,884
Nov 1998	123	8,872	10.89	2.19	$20,731
Oct 1998	101	8,315	12.42	1.97	$17,628
Sep 1998	102	8,046	12.59	2.08	$18,041
Aug 1998	90	7,936	11.30	1.91	$16,154
Jul 1998	106	8,433	11.74	2.24	$20,111
Jun 1998	0	8,913	11.24	2.24	$19,941
May 1998	191	8,968	12.62	2.21	$22,197
Apr 1998	0	9,097	13.04	2.51	$22,791
Mar 1998	210	9,662	12.80	2.31	$25,002
Feb 1998	0	8,770	13.95	2.30	$20,163
Jan 1998	210	9,889	14.70	2.15	$24,396
Dec 1997	188	9,769	16.32	2.41	$26,622
Nov 1997	0	8,246	18.19	3.09	$25,466
Oct 1997	188	9,711	19.25	3.15	$34,207
Sep 1997	0	8,390	17.74	2.95	$24,791
Aug 1997	181	8,679	17.86	2.55	$25,405
Jul 1997	0	10,467	17.58	2.25	$23,519
Jun 1997	367	9,493	17.24	2.26	$27,755
May 1997	0	10,148	18.97	2.31	$23,427
Apr 1997	173	10,361	17.88	2.08	$24,673
Mar 1997	0	9,525	18.95	1.94	$18,470
Feb 1997	0	9,085	20.49	2.21	$20,041
Jan 1997	377	8,956	23.48	3.54	$40,554
Dec 1996	0	10,072	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	185	9,807	21.97	—	$4,064
Oct 1996	102	11,576	23.31	—	$2,378
Sep 1996	187	11,935	22.22	—	$4,155
Aug 1996	0	11,577	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	177	11,586	19.55	—	$3,460
Jun 1996	182	11,994	18.73	—	$3,409
May 1996	0	11,520	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	109	12,525	21.51	—	$2,345
Mar 1996	166	10,321	19.38	—	$3,217
Feb 1996	115	10,910	16.98	—	$1,953
Jan 1996	434	12,572	17.07	—	$7,408
Dec 1995	186	11,663	17.19	—	$3,197
Nov 1995	0	12,459	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	190	13,204	15.43	—	$2,932
Sep 1995	106	12,477	16.18	—	$1,715
Aug 1995	302	13,859	15.92	—	$4,808
Jul 1995	2	14,339	15.24	—	$30
Jun 1995	0	14,280	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	209	15,012	17.56	—	$3,670
Apr 1995	420	14,398	17.73	—	$7,447
Mar 1995	58	14,563	16.44	—	$954
Feb 1995	249	13,779	16.58	—	$4,128
Jan 1995	237	15,867	15.92	—	$3,773
Dec 1994	297	15,556	15.03	—	$4,464
Nov 1994	47	15,085	15.90	—	$747
Oct 1994	286	16,415	15.58	—	$4,456
Sep 1994	198	15,911	15.29	—	$3,027
Aug 1994	293	17,101	16.13	—	$4,726
Jul 1994	9	16,841	17.56	—	$158
Jun 1994	293	17,182	17.09	—	$5,007
May 1994	293	19,151	15.88	—	$4,653
Apr 1994	59	16,618	14.14	—	$834
Mar 1994	392	21,381	12.46	—	$4,884
Feb 1994	300	16,481	12.50	—	$3,750
Jan 1994	199	18,315	12.66	—	$2,519
Dec 1993	201	19,903	12.33	—	$2,478
Nov 1993	199	19,126	14.49	—	$2,884
Oct 1993	314	21,835	15.85	—	$4,977
Sep 1993	302	20,389	15.03	—	$4,539
Aug 1993	99	21,523	15.66	—	$1,550
Jul 1993	394	22,319	15.46	—	$6,091
Jun 1993	397	22,792	16.79	—	$6,666
May 1993	6	23,326	17.68	—	$106
Apr 1993	416	24,012	18.05	—	$7,509
Mar 1993	296	23,848	18.14	—	$5,369
Feb 1993	202	22,515	17.90	—	$3,616
Jan 1993	408	26,016	16.93	—	$6,907

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.

Jul 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate           161 bbl  × $ 23.93 =     $3,853
Gas                5,825 Mcf  × $  3.20 =    $18,623

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Month total                                  $22,476

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/136032 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.