PAINTER GAS UNIT

Name: PAINTER GAS UNIT lease production and value, Feb 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-L) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 144022District 04Field 60538240CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.6 M

Feb 1993 – Dec 2002

Value, last 12 filed months

$25

at the published price for each month

Months reported

119

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The MERCEDES ( 1-L) 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 3 leases and 3 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1964-06-25

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 2007-08-14.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “FIELD RULES RESCINDED 8-14-07 STATEWIDE RULES IN EFFECT.”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	7,388 bbl	$130,393
Gas	Production	1,293,966 Mcf	$1,511,840
Total			$1,642,233

742,257 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 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 26.2601, -97.9111. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.26006, -97.91114 · 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

8,100 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

15.2 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 8,100 ft.

Completions filed

Dec 2002

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Feb 2018

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.2 years and 15.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-21532109	12	8,100 ft	Dec 2002	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 (119)

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

119 months


Dec 2002	0	0	26.91	4.85	$0
Nov 2002	0	0	24.66	4.14	$0
Oct 2002	0	0	26.46	4.23	$0
Sep 2002	0	0	27.44	3.64	$0
Aug 2002	0	0	25.96	3.16	$0
Jul 2002	1	0	24.58	3.06	$25
Jun 2002	0	0	23.73	3.34	$0
May 2002	0	0	24.66	3.58	$0
Apr 2002	0	0	23.65	3.51	$0
Mar 2002	0	0	22.00	3.10	$0
Feb 2002	0	0	18.22	2.38	$0
Jan 2002	0	0	17.17	2.38	$0
Dec 2001	3	0	16.93	2.36	$51
Nov 2001	0	0	18.07	2.41	$0
Oct 2001	0	265	19.78	2.53	$670
Sep 2001	0	809	24.26	2.25	$1,821
Aug 2001	27	672	24.87	3.05	$2,723
Jul 2001	0	0	23.93	3.20	$0
Jun 2001	0	820	24.56	3.82	$3,136
May 2001	52	2,366	25.52	4.31	$11,518
Apr 2001	0	1,328	24.68	5.34	$7,085
Mar 2001	0	3,525	24.54	5.38	$18,952
Feb 2001	79	6,036	27.75	5.77	$37,002
Jan 2001	0	4,812	27.47	8.40	$40,415
Dec 2000	0	5,113	26.88	9.12	$46,643
Nov 2000	0	4,865	32.21	5.66	$27,526
Oct 2000	105	5,461	31.23	5.15	$31,379
Sep 2000	0	4,581	31.87	5.19	$23,759
Aug 2000	0	4,429	29.64	4.54	$20,111
Jul 2000	96	4,960	28.53	4.09	$23,024
Jun 2000	0	5,607	29.30	4.40	$24,655
May 2000	70	5,710	27.26	3.68	$22,920
Apr 2000	0	6,412	24.51	3.12	$19,980
Mar 2000	99	7,232	28.42	2.86	$23,495
Feb 2000	0	6,469	27.62	2.73	$17,638
Jan 2000	82	8,755	25.27	2.48	$23,789
Dec 1999	68	10,565	24.28	2.42	$27,258
Nov 1999	0	9,358	23.19	2.43	$22,777
Oct 1999	110	10,594	20.98	2.80	$32,010
Sep 1999	0	10,082	21.75	2.62	$26,403
Aug 1999	132	9,942	19.26	2.88	$31,132
Jul 1999	0	9,322	17.89	2.37	$22,115
Jun 1999	0	8,989	15.94	2.36	$21,233
May 1999	79	10,556	15.79	2.32	$25,748
Apr 1999	0	10,974	15.10	2.21	$24,231
Mar 1999	95	11,296	12.47	1.84	$21,950
Feb 1999	0	9,659	9.98	1.82	$17,558
Jan 1999	58	9,387	10.38	1.90	$18,437
Dec 1998	46	10,160	9.20	1.77	$18,440
Nov 1998	0	9,790	10.89	2.19	$21,398
Oct 1998	65	12,784	12.42	1.97	$25,982
Sep 1998	81	13,647	12.59	2.08	$29,441
Aug 1998	63	13,732	11.30	1.91	$26,904
Jul 1998	157	12,629	11.74	2.24	$30,098
Jun 1998	74	11,825	11.24	2.24	$27,287
May 1998	59	11,341	12.62	2.21	$25,767
Apr 1998	0	13,343	13.04	2.51	$33,429
Mar 1998	89	12,779	12.80	2.31	$30,652
Feb 1998	0	10,729	13.95	2.30	$24,667
Jan 1998	142	14,267	14.70	2.15	$32,830
Dec 1997	126	14,325	16.32	2.41	$36,595
Nov 1997	118	17,156	18.19	3.09	$55,129
Oct 1997	0	19,169	19.25	3.15	$60,379
Sep 1997	184	19,106	17.74	2.95	$59,720
Aug 1997	235	18,667	17.86	2.55	$51,886
Jul 1997	0	16,496	17.58	2.25	$37,066
Jun 1997	110	18,870	17.24	2.26	$44,490
May 1997	99	16,054	18.97	2.31	$38,939
Apr 1997	124	11,819	17.88	2.08	$26,834
Mar 1997	72	15,069	18.95	1.94	$30,585
Feb 1997	117	12,131	20.49	2.21	$29,157
Jan 1997	61	14,870	23.48	3.54	$54,068
Dec 1996	145	13,941	23.32	—	$3,381
Nov 1996	165	13,547	21.97	—	$3,625
Oct 1996	69	15,132	23.31	—	$1,608
Sep 1996	169	14,384	22.22	—	$3,755
Aug 1996	102	14,246	20.26	—	$2,067
Jul 1996	97	16,955	19.55	—	$1,896
Jun 1996	91	13,792	18.73	—	$1,704
May 1996	137	15,411	19.43	—	$2,662
Apr 1996	78	8,935	21.51	—	$1,678
Mar 1996	0	12,486	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	110	9,764	16.98	—	$1,868
Jan 1996	43	11,351	17.07	—	$734
Dec 1995	92	13,012	17.19	—	$1,581
Nov 1995	81	13,600	16.00	—	$1,296
Oct 1995	53	9,725	15.43	—	$818
Sep 1995	145	11,121	16.18	—	$2,346
Aug 1995	76	10,953	15.92	—	$1,210
Jul 1995	85	12,310	15.24	—	$1,295
Jun 1995	89	12,900	16.41	—	$1,460
May 1995	0	13,783	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	124	13,610	17.73	—	$2,199
Mar 1995	83	15,578	16.44	—	$1,365
Feb 1995	46	15,296	16.58	—	$763
Jan 1995	102	16,538	15.92	—	$1,624
Dec 1994	35	17,952	15.03	—	$526
Nov 1994	118	17,179	15.90	—	$1,876
Oct 1994	87	18,701	15.58	—	$1,355
Sep 1994	130	17,079	15.29	—	$1,988
Aug 1994	197	18,285	16.13	—	$3,178
Jul 1994	146	18,506	17.56	—	$2,564
Jun 1994	128	18,142	17.09	—	$2,188
May 1994	131	18,808	15.88	—	$2,080
Apr 1994	177	18,521	14.14	—	$2,503
Mar 1994	138	19,946	12.46	—	$1,719
Feb 1994	145	17,398	12.50	—	$1,813
Jan 1994	135	18,493	12.66	—	$1,709
Dec 1993	69	19,914	12.33	—	$851
Nov 1993	91	17,293	14.49	—	$1,319
Oct 1993	83	22,072	15.85	—	$1,316
Sep 1993	70	20,840	15.03	—	$1,052
Aug 1993	50	20,001	15.66	—	$783
Jul 1993	74	20,399	15.46	—	$1,144
Jun 1993	6	19,251	16.79	—	$101
May 1993	6	18,447	17.68	—	$106
Apr 1993	4	12,463	18.05	—	$72
Mar 1993	5	21,800	18.14	—	$91
Feb 1993	3	12,397	17.90	—	$54

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 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             1 bbl  × $ 24.58 =        $25
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  3.06 =         $0

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Month total                                      $25

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/144022 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.