FROST, P. M. "F"

Operated by CONOCO INC. (P-5 172230) in the VAQUILLAS RANCH (LOBO CONS.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 137887District 04Field 932154002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$211 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$222
at the published price for each month
Months reported
116
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 909 leases and 909 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1998-02-24
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and 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 2010-11-02.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: NO P-15 OR PLAT REQUIRED.

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.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
High Cost Gas111992-02-20124027
NGPA1none

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.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
CondensateDisposition418 bbl$7,024
GasProduction260,709 Mcf$203,865
Total$210,889

183,024 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 27.5918, -98.9934. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.59180, -98.99335 · 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
11,600 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
11.0 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 11,600 ft.

Completions filed
Mar 1991
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2002
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 11.0 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 11.0 years and 11.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-47935134111,600 ftMar 1991Mar 2002Yes

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 (116)

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

116 months

Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20029024.663.58$222
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 2000092931.235.15$4,780
Sep 200001,46431.875.19$7,593
Aug 200001,20229.644.54$5,458
Jul 200001,59528.534.09$6,523
Jun 200031,24529.304.40$5,562
May 200001,46427.263.68$5,387
Apr 200001,66824.513.12$5,197
Mar 200001,98728.422.86$5,682
Feb 200001,16327.622.73$3,171
Jan 2000089725.272.48$2,225
Dec 1999093024.282.42$2,254
Nov 1999098623.192.43$2,400
Oct 199921,08020.982.80$3,070
Sep 199931,39521.752.62$3,719
Aug 199931,10419.262.88$3,232
Jul 199921,27217.892.37$3,053
Jun 199921,18615.942.36$2,833
May 199901,57215.792.32$3,649
Apr 199931,24215.102.21$2,788
Mar 199901,67512.471.84$3,079
Feb 199901,0449.981.82$1,898
Jan 199901,24810.381.90$2,371
Dec 199811,6239.201.77$2,887
Nov 199801,71610.892.19$3,751
Oct 199801,62712.421.97$3,204
Sep 199801,93712.592.08$4,034
Aug 199811,77311.301.91$3,393
Jul 199801,86611.742.24$4,175
Jun 199801,99511.242.24$4,463
May 199802,14112.622.21$4,724
Apr 199812,11013.042.51$5,299
Mar 199802,20012.802.31$5,081
Feb 199802,12813.952.30$4,893
Jan 199802,47514.702.15$5,333
Dec 199702,24916.322.41$5,423
Nov 199702,38518.193.09$7,366
Oct 199702,70119.253.15$8,508
Sep 199701,93317.742.95$5,712
Aug 1997111,56517.862.55$4,195
Jul 199701,77417.582.25$3,986
Jun 19971452,05917.242.26$7,147
May 199722,58618.972.31$6,008
Apr 199702,01317.882.08$4,193
Mar 199702,04818.951.94$3,971
Feb 199721,77120.492.21$3,948
Jan 199722,66223.483.54$9,470
Dec 199602,48523.32$0
Nov 199602,56421.97$0
Oct 199612,24723.31$23
Sep 199612,43022.22$22
Aug 199602,77520.26$0
Jul 199622,75619.55$39
Jun 199602,66218.73$0
May 199602,11419.43$0
Apr 199612,68621.51$22
Mar 199623,15119.38$39
Feb 199602,30716.98$0
Jan 199613,08917.07$17
Dec 199502,80517.19$0
Nov 199512,62516.00$16
Oct 199503,13715.43$0
Sep 199503,03316.18$0
Aug 1995962,99815.92$1,528
Jul 199503,15615.24$0
Jun 199502,81416.41$0
May 199513,24717.56$18
Apr 199503,39617.73$0
Mar 199512,91516.44$16
Feb 199522,85016.58$33
Jan 199513,53615.92$16
Dec 199413,76315.03$15
Nov 199403,91415.90$0
Oct 199403,86515.58$0
Sep 199403,99515.29$0
Aug 199414,27616.13$16
Jul 199404,25717.56$0
Jun 199404,10917.09$0
May 199414,26515.88$16
Apr 199404,28114.14$0
Mar 199414,25112.46$12
Feb 199404,08312.50$0
Jan 199404,79612.66$0
Dec 199305,05212.33$0
Nov 199305,67814.49$0
Oct 199304,72315.85$0
Sep 199305,10315.03$0
Aug 199305,07815.66$0
Jul 19931124,59415.46$1,732
Jun 199305,24516.79$0
May 199305,51117.68$0
Apr 199305,08918.05$0
Mar 199306,06218.14$0
Feb 199306,34017.90$0
Jan 199306,91616.93$0

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 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             9 bbl  × $ 24.66 =       $222
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  3.58 =         $0

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Month total                                     $222

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/137887 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.