GARCIA 3

Operated by MESTENA OPERATING, L.L.C. (P-5 562071) in the ALTA MESA (1100) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 143178District 04Field 02000731GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$196 k
Jan 1993 – Apr 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
220
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
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 37 leases and 37 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1937-06-24
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: ALLOCATION FORMULA EFFECTIVE 10/01/91.

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
GasProduction157,259 Mcf$195,600
Total$195,600

111,928 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 26.9112, -98.3046. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.91123, -98.30464 · 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
2,526 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
18.5 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 2,526 ft.

Completions filed
Oct 1992
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 2011
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 18.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 18.5 years and 18.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-0470081652,526 ftOct 1992Apr 2011Yes

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 (220)

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

220 months

Apr 20110105.964.33$0
Mar 2011096.364.06$0
Feb 2011085.644.18$0
Jan 2011086.504.59$0
Dec 2010085.734.35$0
Nov 2010080.843.80$0
Oct 2010078.103.51$0
Sep 2010072.633.98$0
Aug 2010073.684.42$0
Jul 2010072.554.74$0
Jun 2010070.364.91$0
May 2010071.124.24$0
Apr 2010081.694.12$0
Mar 2010078.394.39$0
Feb 2010073.585.44$0
Jan 2010074.365.96$0
Dec 2009071.445.48$0
Nov 2009074.593.75$0
Oct 2009072.544.11$0
Sep 2009065.543.06$0
Aug 2009067.423.22$0
Jul 2009061.133.46$0
Jun 2009066.163.90$0
May 2009054.743.93$0
Apr 2009046.773.59$0
Mar 20098042.144.06$325
Feb 20098032.814.63$371
Jan 2009035.865.37$0
Dec 2008037.105.98$0
Nov 20082455.496.86$165
Oct 200821375.246.92$1,474
Sep 2008143101.767.88$1,126
Aug 2008239114.228.48$2,027
Jul 2008246131.0811.39$2,802
Jun 2008294131.3313.03$3,832
May 2008180123.1711.57$2,083
Apr 2008298110.3110.45$3,116
Mar 2008377101.909.66$3,643
Feb 200831192.538.77$2,728
Jan 200832390.388.21$2,650
Dec 2007088.337.30$0
Nov 200732491.677.29$2,363
Oct 200729382.856.92$2,028
Sep 200727375.846.24$1,705
Aug 200727769.066.39$1,769
Jul 200713270.906.39$843
Jun 200717462.007.55$1,313
May 200713358.747.85$1,044
Apr 200713259.617.81$1,030
Mar 200714456.927.30$1,051
Feb 200713755.108.22$1,126
Jan 200713350.306.73$895
Dec 200621856.656.92$1,508
Nov 200621454.207.62$1,630
Oct 200620254.906.01$1,215
Sep 200621560.085.04$1,083
Aug 200616268.717.34$1,189
Jul 200616569.376.34$1,047
Jun 200616866.286.38$1,072
May 200615766.016.42$1,009
Apr 200618964.397.36$1,391
Mar 200620256.707.08$1,431
Feb 20065757.597.75$442
Jan 2006060.598.93$0
Dec 20051354.9413.42$174
Nov 200511254.6910.59$1,186
Oct 200524658.3413.80$3,394
Sep 200525861.4512.08$3,116
Aug 200511861.519.80$1,156
Jul 200515555.697.84$1,216
Jun 20059452.337.38$694
May 200511445.226.65$758
Apr 20055949.207.36$434
Mar 20051050.377.15$72
Feb 200510445.226.31$656
Jan 200522743.166.32$1,435
Dec 200473439.866.75$4,955
Nov 200426645.286.33$1,684
Oct 20045649.706.52$365
Sep 20045843.245.28$306
Aug 200427042.375.55$1,499
Jul 200426838.286.08$1,631
Jun 200423736.106.43$1,525
May 200413837.486.49$896
Apr 200435834.475.86$2,097
Mar 200419534.365.53$1,078
Feb 200417632.455.51$970
Jan 200417232.036.30$1,084
Dec 200321130.266.30$1,330
Nov 200311228.804.60$515
Oct 200319028.174.76$904
Sep 200314326.314.75$679
Aug 200319529.765.13$1,000
Jul 200323929.415.17$1,236
Jun 200332928.565.98$1,968
May 200328526.595.97$1,702
Apr 200340726.675.41$2,201
Mar 200345331.146.10$2,762
Feb 200338633.487.93$3,059
Jan 20037630.315.58$424
Dec 2002026.914.85$0
Nov 200224724.664.14$1,022
Oct 200235926.464.23$1,518
Sep 200232127.443.64$1,167
Aug 200228225.963.16$892
Jul 200239324.583.06$1,203
Jun 200237023.733.34$1,235
May 200235224.663.58$1,262
Apr 200236423.653.51$1,278
Mar 200240122.003.10$1,244
Feb 200232618.222.38$774
Jan 200225617.172.38$608
Dec 200136816.932.36$870
Nov 200136218.072.41$871
Oct 200139819.782.53$1,006
Sep 200115924.262.25$358
Aug 200145324.873.05$1,383
Jul 200154423.933.20$1,739
Jun 200140424.563.82$1,545
May 200143225.524.31$1,861
Apr 200129524.685.34$1,574
Mar 200138324.545.38$2,059
Feb 200142727.755.77$2,463
Jan 20017527.478.40$630
Dec 200014726.889.12$1,341
Nov 200030932.215.66$1,748
Oct 200043931.235.15$2,259
Sep 200034731.875.19$1,800
Aug 200045529.644.54$2,066
Jul 200044428.534.09$1,816
Jun 200046029.304.40$2,023
May 200041527.263.68$1,527
Apr 200040324.513.12$1,256
Mar 200043928.422.86$1,255
Feb 200044027.622.73$1,200
Jan 200046425.272.48$1,151
Dec 199943724.282.42$1,059
Nov 199937123.192.43$903
Oct 199949220.982.80$1,379
Sep 199947621.752.62$1,247
Aug 199944219.262.88$1,271
Jul 199944617.892.37$1,058
Jun 199937615.942.36$888
May 199941715.792.32$968
Apr 199950615.102.21$1,117
Mar 199944412.471.84$816
Feb 19994089.981.82$742
Jan 199945510.381.90$864
Dec 19984709.201.77$833
Nov 199843010.892.19$940
Oct 199854412.421.97$1,071
Sep 199850812.592.08$1,058
Aug 199850411.301.91$961
Jul 199856411.742.24$1,262
Jun 199850211.242.24$1,123
May 199858312.622.21$1,286
Apr 199863513.042.51$1,591
Mar 199858012.802.31$1,339
Feb 199847813.952.30$1,099
Jan 199847114.702.15$1,015
Dec 199753516.322.41$1,290
Nov 199751318.193.09$1,584
Oct 199749319.253.15$1,553
Sep 199753617.742.95$1,584
Aug 199751917.862.55$1,326
Jul 199756017.582.25$1,258
Jun 199754517.242.26$1,230
May 199730518.972.31$704
Apr 199762017.882.08$1,291
Mar 199774518.951.94$1,445
Feb 199767820.492.21$1,496
Jan 199763723.483.54$2,255
Dec 199673923.32$0
Nov 199651321.97$0
Oct 199676623.31$0
Sep 199661822.22$0
Aug 199686320.26$0
Jul 199688919.55$0
Jun 199679718.73$0
May 199691219.43$0
Apr 199690621.51$0
Mar 199684119.38$0
Feb 199676716.98$0
Jan 199687417.07$0
Dec 199579717.19$0
Nov 199580416.00$0
Oct 199591715.43$0
Sep 199597316.18$0
Aug 19951,05515.92$0
Jul 19951,05415.24$0
Jun 19951,05616.41$0
May 19951,16217.56$0
Apr 19951,17417.73$0
Mar 19951,19816.44$0
Feb 19951,23216.58$0
Jan 19951,31515.92$0
Dec 19941,35015.03$0
Nov 19941,54615.90$0
Oct 19941,70715.58$0
Sep 19941,87415.29$0
Aug 19942,03616.13$0
Jul 19942,10317.56$0
Jun 19942,39017.09$0
May 19942,66715.88$0
Apr 19942,70114.14$0
Mar 19942,88712.46$0
Feb 19943,78312.50$0
Jan 19943,52912.66$0
Dec 19933,26712.33$0
Nov 19939,72214.49$0
Oct 19936,58415.85$0
Sep 19934,73315.03$0
Aug 19934,91015.66$0
Jul 19935,59215.46$0
Jun 19935,02016.79$0
May 19934,02417.68$0
Apr 19934,84318.05$0
Mar 19934,78418.14$0
Feb 19933,51117.90$0
Jan 19934,14316.93$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.

Mar 2009 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                   80 Mcf  × $  4.06 =       $325

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Month total                                     $325

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/143178 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.