EVERETT BELL GAS UNIT I

Operated by VASTAR RESOURCES, INC. (P-5 883810) in the TABASCO (R) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 146576District 04Field 88103575CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$33 k
Sep 1993 – Oct 1997
Value, last 12 filed months
$17 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
50
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 13 leases and 13 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1956-02-05
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: TABASCO (CONSOLIDATED) 88103100

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
CondensateDisposition1,101 bbl$17,213
GasProduction210,078 Mcf$15,883
Total$33,096

203,558 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 40 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 26.2571, -98.4434. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.25715, -98.44345 · 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
8,202 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
13.3 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 8,202 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 1997
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2010
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 13.3 years and 13.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2153096348,202 ftJul 1997Nov 2010Yes

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 (50)

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

50 months

Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19973017.862.55$54
Jul 1997469117.582.25$1,623
Jun 1997678917.242.26$1,884
May 199761,11418.972.31$2,685
Apr 1997171,48017.882.08$3,386
Mar 1997473718.951.94$1,505
Feb 1997543720.492.21$1,066
Jan 1997121,27223.483.54$4,784
Dec 199651,31723.32$117
Nov 199681,32921.97$176
Oct 1996151,66223.31$350
Sep 199662,15522.22$133
Aug 1996025620.26$0
Jul 1996101,12119.55$196
Jun 1996121,64018.73$225
May 199691,29019.43$175
Apr 1996141,89021.51$301
Mar 199681,13219.38$155
Feb 1996131,57316.98$221
Jan 199661,22717.07$102
Dec 1995171,54417.19$292
Nov 1995121,93616.00$192
Oct 1995142,62615.43$216
Sep 1995101,07316.18$162
Aug 1995122,61815.92$191
Jul 199551,24915.24$76
Jun 1995162,73116.41$263
May 199562,10917.56$105
Apr 199521,52117.73$35
Mar 1995152,52616.44$247
Feb 199592,66716.58$149
Jan 1995193,72115.92$302
Dec 1994183,40415.03$271
Nov 1994193,83815.90$302
Oct 1994193,57815.58$296
Sep 1994224,21015.29$336
Aug 1994325,10616.13$516
Jul 1994255,84117.56$439
Jun 1994275,72717.09$461
May 1994316,54015.88$492
Apr 1994276,71714.14$382
Mar 1994418,45512.46$511
Feb 1994479,17012.50$588
Jan 19945512,37112.66$696
Dec 19937314,78912.33$900
Nov 199311818,19814.49$1,710
Oct 199313924,72515.85$2,203
Sep 199310827,97615.03$1,623

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.

Aug 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             3 bbl  × $ 17.86 =        $54
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  2.55 =         $0

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Month total                                      $54

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/146576 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.