EL GATO "A"

Name: EL GATO "A" lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by MARWELL PETROLEUM LTD PARTNRSHIP (P-5 531085) in the BELLE PEPPER (LOBO 6) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 140384District 04Field 069301002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$394 k

Jan 1993 – Oct 2008

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

190

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The BELLE PEPPER (LOBO 6) 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 14 leases and 14 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1991-02-01

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: “AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 07/01/97.”

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	1992-03-13	125086
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	5,230 bbl	$86,303
Gas	Production	921,601 Mcf	$308,083
Total			$394,385

848,679 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 27.7851, -99.0673. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.78509, -99.06731 · 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

8,400 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

16.8 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 8,400 ft.

Completions filed

Dec 1991

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Oct 2008

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16.8 years and 16.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-47935330	1	8,400 ft	Dec 1991	Oct 2008	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 (190)

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

190 months


Oct 2008	0	0	75.24	6.92	$0
Sep 2008	0	0	101.76	7.88	$0
Aug 2008	0	0	114.22	8.48	$0
Jul 2008	0	0	131.08	11.39	$0
Jun 2008	0	0	131.33	13.03	$0
May 2008	0	0	123.17	11.57	$0
Apr 2008	0	0	110.31	10.45	$0
Mar 2008	0	0	101.90	9.66	$0
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	0	0	90.38	8.21	$0
Dec 2007	0	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	0	0	91.67	7.29	$0
Oct 2007	0	0	82.85	6.92	$0
Sep 2007	0	0	75.84	6.24	$0
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	0	0	70.90	6.39	$0
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	0	0	58.74	7.85	$0
Apr 2007	54	0	59.61	7.81	$3,219
Mar 2007	0	0	56.92	7.30	$0
Feb 2007	0	0	55.10	8.22	$0
Jan 2007	0	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	0	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	0	0	54.20	7.62	$0
Oct 2006	0	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	0	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	0	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	0	226	66.28	6.38	$1,443
May 2006	0	300	66.01	6.42	$1,928
Apr 2006	0	350	64.39	7.36	$2,576
Mar 2006	0	550	56.70	7.08	$3,896
Feb 2006	0	516	57.59	7.75	$4,000
Jan 2006	0	596	60.59	8.93	$5,324
Dec 2005	0	846	54.94	13.42	$11,349
Nov 2005	0	710	54.69	10.59	$7,518
Oct 2005	0	733	58.34	13.80	$10,112
Sep 2005	0	261	61.45	12.08	$3,153
Aug 2005	0	1,194	61.51	9.80	$11,697
Jul 2005	0	74	55.69	7.84	$580
Jun 2005	0	202	52.33	7.38	$1,491
May 2005	0	304	45.22	6.65	$2,022
Apr 2005	20	1,650	49.20	7.36	$13,129
Mar 2005	0	335	50.37	7.15	$2,397
Feb 2005	0	214	45.22	6.31	$1,351
Jan 2005	0	640	43.16	6.32	$4,046
Dec 2004	0	400	39.86	6.75	$2,700
Nov 2004	0	196	45.28	6.33	$1,241
Oct 2004	0	270	49.70	6.52	$1,759
Sep 2004	0	300	43.24	5.28	$1,585
Aug 2004	0	363	42.37	5.55	$2,015
Jul 2004	0	292	38.28	6.08	$1,777
Jun 2004	0	606	36.10	6.43	$3,898
May 2004	0	423	37.48	6.49	$2,747
Apr 2004	0	530	34.47	5.86	$3,105
Mar 2004	0	526	34.36	5.53	$2,909
Feb 2004	0	462	32.45	5.51	$2,545
Jan 2004	0	423	32.03	6.30	$2,665
Dec 2003	0	459	30.26	6.30	$2,892
Nov 2003	0	641	28.80	4.60	$2,946
Oct 2003	0	602	28.17	4.76	$2,865
Sep 2003	0	600	26.31	4.75	$2,850
Aug 2003	0	507	29.76	5.13	$2,601
Jul 2003	0	484	29.41	5.17	$2,503
Jun 2003	0	539	28.56	5.98	$3,225
May 2003	0	481	26.59	5.97	$2,873
Apr 2003	0	400	26.67	5.41	$2,163
Mar 2003	0	555	31.14	6.10	$3,383
Feb 2003	0	541	33.48	7.93	$4,288
Jan 2003	0	616	30.31	5.58	$3,439
Dec 2002	0	507	26.91	4.85	$2,461
Nov 2002	0	563	24.66	4.14	$2,329
Oct 2002	0	505	26.46	4.23	$2,136
Sep 2002	0	268	27.44	3.64	$974
Aug 2002	0	316	25.96	3.16	$1,000
Jul 2002	0	169	24.58	3.06	$517
Jun 2002	0	432	23.73	3.34	$1,442
May 2002	0	464	24.66	3.58	$1,663
Apr 2002	0	399	23.65	3.51	$1,401
Mar 2002	0	509	22.00	3.10	$1,579
Feb 2002	0	431	18.22	2.38	$1,024
Jan 2002	0	498	17.17	2.38	$1,183
Dec 2001	0	408	16.93	2.36	$965
Nov 2001	0	399	18.07	2.41	$960
Oct 2001	0	613	19.78	2.53	$1,550
Sep 2001	0	510	24.26	2.25	$1,148
Aug 2001	0	531	24.87	3.05	$1,621
Jul 2001	0	487	23.93	3.20	$1,557
Jun 2001	0	737	24.56	3.82	$2,818
May 2001	0	345	25.52	4.31	$1,486
Apr 2001	0	504	24.68	5.34	$2,689
Mar 2001	0	590	24.54	5.38	$3,172
Feb 2001	0	561	27.75	5.77	$3,235
Jan 2001	0	519	27.47	8.40	$4,359
Dec 2000	0	465	26.88	9.12	$4,242
Nov 2000	0	511	32.21	5.66	$2,891
Oct 2000	0	561	31.23	5.15	$2,887
Sep 2000	0	844	31.87	5.19	$4,377
Aug 2000	0	682	29.64	4.54	$3,097
Jul 2000	0	530	28.53	4.09	$2,168
Jun 2000	0	437	29.30	4.40	$1,922
May 2000	0	463	27.26	3.68	$1,704
Apr 2000	0	597	24.51	3.12	$1,860
Mar 2000	0	515	28.42	2.86	$1,473
Feb 2000	0	600	27.62	2.73	$1,636
Jan 2000	0	711	25.27	2.48	$1,764
Dec 1999	0	647	24.28	2.42	$1,568
Nov 1999	0	638	23.19	2.43	$1,553
Oct 1999	0	665	20.98	2.80	$1,864
Sep 1999	0	658	21.75	2.62	$1,723
Aug 1999	0	552	19.26	2.88	$1,587
Jul 1999	0	689	17.89	2.37	$1,635
Jun 1999	0	771	15.94	2.36	$1,821
May 1999	0	831	15.79	2.32	$1,929
Apr 1999	0	731	15.10	2.21	$1,614
Mar 1999	0	666	12.47	1.84	$1,224
Feb 1999	0	586	9.98	1.82	$1,065
Jan 1999	0	793	10.38	1.90	$1,507
Dec 1998	0	689	9.20	1.77	$1,222
Nov 1998	0	813	10.89	2.19	$1,777
Oct 1998	0	771	12.42	1.97	$1,518
Sep 1998	0	730	12.59	2.08	$1,520
Aug 1998	0	714	11.30	1.91	$1,362
Jul 1998	0	717	11.74	2.24	$1,604
Jun 1998	0	868	11.24	2.24	$1,942
May 1998	0	957	12.62	2.21	$2,111
Apr 1998	0	1,721	13.04	2.51	$4,312
Mar 1998	0	1,010	12.80	2.31	$2,333
Feb 1998	0	1,107	13.95	2.30	$2,545
Jan 1998	0	782	14.70	2.15	$1,685
Dec 1997	0	1,133	16.32	2.41	$2,732
Nov 1997	0	1,183	18.19	3.09	$3,653
Oct 1997	0	2,584	19.25	3.15	$8,139
Sep 1997	0	1,139	17.74	2.95	$3,366
Aug 1997	0	796	17.86	2.55	$2,034
Jul 1997	0	971	17.58	2.25	$2,182
Jun 1997	0	817	17.24	2.26	$1,844
May 1997	0	855	18.97	2.31	$1,974
Apr 1997	0	706	17.88	2.08	$1,470
Mar 1997	0	1,209	18.95	1.94	$2,344
Feb 1997	162	1,303	20.49	2.21	$6,194
Jan 1997	2	2,022	23.48	3.54	$7,204
Dec 1996	0	1,027	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	1,102	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	2	1,850	23.31	—	$47
Sep 1996	1	2,331	22.22	—	$22
Aug 1996	0	343	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	704	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	775	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	1	4,671	19.43	—	$19
Apr 1996	3	7,397	21.51	—	$65
Mar 1996	4	9,303	19.38	—	$78
Feb 1996	181	9,036	16.98	—	$3,073
Jan 1996	7	10,981	17.07	—	$119
Dec 1995	1	7,810	17.19	—	$17
Nov 1995	1	4,840	16.00	—	$16
Oct 1995	1	6,972	15.43	—	$15
Sep 1995	2	6,397	16.18	—	$32
Aug 1995	2	7,969	15.92	—	$32
Jul 1995	1	8,727	15.24	—	$15
Jun 1995	0	9,564	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	3	8,200	17.56	—	$53
Apr 1995	4	10,104	17.73	—	$71
Mar 1995	0	10,367	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	3	10,153	16.58	—	$50
Jan 1995	173	12,145	15.92	—	$2,754
Dec 1994	3	13,275	15.03	—	$45
Nov 1994	0	13,082	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	0	11,698	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	0	2,764	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	4	3,483	16.13	—	$65
Jul 1994	178	8,829	17.56	—	$3,126
Jun 1994	180	23,751	17.09	—	$3,076
May 1994	0	22,492	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	176	23,941	14.14	—	$2,489
Mar 1994	182	25,556	12.46	—	$2,268
Feb 1994	183	25,940	12.50	—	$2,288
Jan 1994	184	30,733	12.66	—	$2,329
Dec 1993	366	31,646	12.33	—	$4,513
Nov 1993	183	34,049	14.49	—	$2,652
Oct 1993	356	38,262	15.85	—	$5,643
Sep 1993	361	38,985	15.03	—	$5,426
Aug 1993	177	35,761	15.66	—	$2,772
Jul 1993	340	49,205	15.46	—	$5,256
Jun 1993	184	21,195	16.79	—	$3,089
May 1993	182	31,508	17.68	—	$3,218
Apr 1993	339	42,981	18.05	—	$6,119
Mar 1993	308	52,764	18.14	—	$5,587
Feb 1993	179	52,298	17.90	—	$3,204
Jan 1993	537	61,713	16.93	—	$9,091

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.

Apr 2007 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate            54 bbl  × $ 59.61 =     $3,219
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  7.81 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $3,219

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/140384 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.