PAINTER GAS UNIT

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

Operated by PIONEER NATURAL RES. USA, INC. (P-5 665748) in the MERCEDES ( 1-H) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 136862District 04Field 60538192CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$881 k

Jan 1993 – Jul 2001

Value, last 12 filed months

$112 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

103

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The MERCEDES ( 1-H) 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

1960-03-29

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 2007-08-15.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “IN EFFECT.”

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	5,813 bbl	$103,460
Gas	Production	983,743 Mcf	$777,712
Total			$881,171

693,438 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 26.2529, -97.9097. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.25295, -97.90966 · 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

9,404 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

17.0 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 9,404 ft.

Completions filed

Feb 2001

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Feb 2018

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 17.0 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 17.0 years and 17.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-21531660	10	9,404 ft	Feb 2001	Feb 2018	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 (103)

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

103 months


Jul 2001	0	0	23.93	3.20	$0
Jun 2001	0	0	24.56	3.82	$0
May 2001	23	0	25.52	4.31	$587
Apr 2001	0	0	24.68	5.34	$0
Mar 2001	0	0	24.54	5.38	$0
Feb 2001	90	2,054	27.75	5.77	$14,343
Jan 2001	0	2,331	27.47	8.40	$19,578
Dec 2000	0	2,627	26.88	9.12	$23,965
Nov 2000	0	2,719	32.21	5.66	$15,384
Oct 2000	84	2,776	31.23	5.15	$16,907
Sep 2000	0	2,009	31.87	5.19	$10,420
Aug 2000	0	2,382	29.64	4.54	$10,816
Jul 2000	55	2,601	28.53	4.09	$12,207
Jun 2000	0	2,530	29.30	4.40	$11,125
May 2000	56	2,926	27.26	3.68	$12,294
Apr 2000	0	2,954	24.51	3.12	$9,205
Mar 2000	83	3,152	28.42	2.86	$11,373
Feb 2000	0	2,669	27.62	2.73	$7,277
Jan 2000	99	3,208	25.27	2.48	$10,459
Dec 1999	33	3,958	24.28	2.42	$10,394
Nov 1999	0	3,905	23.19	2.43	$9,505
Oct 1999	48	3,284	20.98	2.80	$10,214
Sep 1999	0	3,587	21.75	2.62	$9,394
Aug 1999	50	4,354	19.26	2.88	$13,483
Jul 1999	0	4,961	17.89	2.37	$11,769
Jun 1999	0	4,784	15.94	2.36	$11,300
May 1999	76	6,328	15.79	2.32	$15,887
Apr 1999	0	6,103	15.10	2.21	$13,476
Mar 1999	76	6,330	12.47	1.84	$12,584
Feb 1999	0	5,633	9.98	1.82	$10,240
Jan 1999	57	5,962	10.38	1.90	$11,919
Dec 1998	40	5,079	9.20	1.77	$9,375
Nov 1998	0	5,282	10.89	2.19	$11,545
Oct 1998	48	4,999	12.42	1.97	$10,440
Sep 1998	68	5,376	12.59	2.08	$12,052
Aug 1998	53	6,044	11.30	1.91	$12,127
Jul 1998	89	7,348	11.74	2.24	$17,484
Jun 1998	37	7,101	11.24	2.24	$16,303
May 1998	57	6,919	12.62	2.21	$15,985
Apr 1998	0	8,573	13.04	2.51	$21,478
Mar 1998	82	8,171	12.80	2.31	$19,920
Feb 1998	0	7,038	13.95	2.30	$16,181
Jan 1998	142	10,469	14.70	2.15	$24,646
Dec 1997	121	10,285	16.32	2.41	$26,773
Nov 1997	118	11,642	18.19	3.09	$38,100
Oct 1997	0	11,660	19.25	3.15	$36,727
Sep 1997	171	8,438	17.74	2.95	$27,967
Aug 1997	174	9,500	17.86	2.55	$27,378
Jul 1997	0	7,892	17.58	2.25	$17,733
Jun 1997	73	8,899	17.24	2.26	$21,345
May 1997	52	8,799	18.97	2.31	$21,299
Apr 1997	101	7,430	17.88	2.08	$17,281
Mar 1997	61	9,231	18.95	1.94	$19,056
Feb 1997	128	8,197	20.49	2.21	$20,704
Jan 1997	60	9,806	23.48	3.54	$36,119
Dec 1996	128	10,960	23.32	—	$2,985
Nov 1996	112	11,179	21.97	—	$2,461
Oct 1996	46	11,092	23.31	—	$1,072
Sep 1996	130	10,807	22.22	—	$2,889
Aug 1996	92	9,859	20.26	—	$1,864
Jul 1996	94	12,270	19.55	—	$1,838
Jun 1996	93	13,275	18.73	—	$1,742
May 1996	164	13,162	19.43	—	$3,187
Apr 1996	76	11,637	21.51	—	$1,635
Mar 1996	0	11,823	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	115	11,563	16.98	—	$1,953
Jan 1996	50	11,345	17.07	—	$854
Dec 1995	92	10,787	17.19	—	$1,581
Nov 1995	115	10,930	16.00	—	$1,840
Oct 1995	55	11,271	15.43	—	$849
Sep 1995	118	11,201	16.18	—	$1,909
Aug 1995	77	11,489	15.92	—	$1,226
Jul 1995	91	12,333	15.24	—	$1,387
Jun 1995	100	12,260	16.41	—	$1,641
May 1995	0	11,952	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	113	12,741	17.73	—	$2,003
Mar 1995	84	13,896	16.44	—	$1,381
Feb 1995	63	13,863	16.58	—	$1,045
Jan 1995	114	13,662	15.92	—	$1,815
Dec 1994	38	14,319	15.03	—	$571
Nov 1994	104	13,158	15.90	—	$1,654
Oct 1994	77	16,754	15.58	—	$1,200
Sep 1994	52	16,653	15.29	—	$795
Aug 1994	78	18,443	16.13	—	$1,258
Jul 1994	59	17,997	17.56	—	$1,036
Jun 1994	51	18,572	17.09	—	$872
May 1994	52	17,165	15.88	—	$826
Apr 1994	70	16,802	14.14	—	$990
Mar 1994	47	19,864	12.46	—	$586
Feb 1994	49	19,639	12.50	—	$613
Jan 1994	46	20,215	12.66	—	$582
Dec 1993	62	18,943	12.33	—	$764
Nov 1993	101	14,103	14.49	—	$1,463
Oct 1993	75	17,282	15.85	—	$1,189
Sep 1993	64	17,862	15.03	—	$962
Aug 1993	77	18,817	15.66	—	$1,206
Jul 1993	70	16,767	15.46	—	$1,082
Jun 1993	2	15,439	16.79	—	$34
May 1993	3	14,079	17.68	—	$53
Apr 1993	2	12,575	18.05	—	$36
Mar 1993	2	17,762	18.14	—	$36
Feb 1993	2	17,560	17.90	—	$36
Jan 1993	3	17,311	16.93	—	$51

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 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate            23 bbl  × $ 25.52 =       $587
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  4.31 =         $0

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Month total                                     $587

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/136862 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.