ST. CHARLES RANCH

Operated by CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY (P-5 172232) in the ST. CHARLES (FRIO CONS., UPPER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 146907District 04Field 79609378CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.1 M
Sep 1993 – Sep 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$13 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
133
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 10 leases and 10 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1997-05-23
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 1997-04-29.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 09/01/98.

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
CondensateDisposition11,853 bbl$189,996
GasProduction576,156 Mcf$884,976
Total$1,074,972

240,032 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 11 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 28.2769, -96.9079. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.27688, -96.90795 · 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
9,317 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
7.3 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 9,317 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 1997
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2004
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 7.3 years and 7.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-00730809769,317 ftJun 1997Sep 2004Yes

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 (133)

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

133 months

Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 2004037737.486.49$2,448
Apr 2004066134.475.86$3,872
Mar 2004037334.365.53$2,063
Feb 2004041232.455.51$2,270
Jan 2004021032.036.30$1,323
Dec 2003018730.266.30$1,178
Nov 200302128.804.60$97
Oct 200303428.174.76$162
Sep 200303026.314.75$142
Aug 200306929.765.13$354
Jul 200306129.415.17$315
Jun 200306728.565.98$401
May 200304726.595.97$281
Apr 200304326.675.41$233
Mar 200305031.146.10$305
Feb 2003014833.487.93$1,173
Jan 2003012730.315.58$709
Dec 2002018326.914.85$888
Nov 200204424.664.14$182
Oct 2002011926.464.23$503
Sep 200207927.443.64$287
Aug 2002032225.963.16$1,019
Jul 2002024724.583.06$756
Jun 2002017723.733.34$591
May 2002016424.663.58$588
Apr 200207423.653.51$260
Mar 2002025122.003.10$779
Feb 200209318.222.38$221
Jan 200208517.172.38$202
Dec 2001019316.932.36$456
Nov 200103118.072.41$75
Oct 2001050619.782.53$1,280
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 200107924.873.05$241
Jul 2001023223.933.20$742
Jun 2001071224.563.82$2,723
May 200101,08425.524.31$4,669
Apr 2001080524.685.34$4,295
Mar 200101,58124.545.38$8,500
Feb 2001071927.755.77$4,147
Jan 2001063527.478.40$5,333
Dec 2000031326.889.12$2,855
Nov 2000020732.215.66$1,171
Oct 2000021931.235.15$1,127
Sep 2000012731.875.19$659
Aug 200006429.644.54$291
Jul 200003928.534.09$160
Jun 2000021029.304.40$923
May 200001827.263.68$66
Apr 20000724.513.12$22
Mar 2000039228.422.86$1,121
Feb 2000025327.622.73$690
Jan 2000048825.272.48$1,210
Dec 1999043824.282.42$1,062
Nov 1999040223.192.43$978
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 1999011521.752.62$301
Aug 199928719.262.88$289
Jul 1999265417.892.37$593
Jun 1999441,63115.942.36$4,554
May 1999301,55615.792.32$4,085
Apr 1999351,43615.102.21$3,699
Mar 1999321,41712.471.84$3,004
Feb 19999329.981.82$148
Jan 1999381,12810.381.90$2,538
Dec 19986699.201.77$178
Nov 1998631810.892.19$760
Oct 1998115012.421.97$308
Sep 1998482912.592.08$665
Aug 199818511.301.91$173
Jul 1998620311.742.24$525
Jun 1998428311.242.24$678
May 19982811312.622.21$603
Apr 19981235,12913.042.51$14,454
Mar 19981288,97912.802.31$22,375
Feb 1998011,61713.952.30$26,709
Jan 199825917,30214.702.15$41,089
Dec 19971,24420,92916.322.41$70,764
Nov 19971,00824,98018.193.09$95,480
Oct 199796124,84519.253.15$96,757
Sep 199774438,83317.742.95$127,945
Aug 19971,32061,82317.862.55$181,517
Jul 199736259,91417.582.25$140,987
Jun 199775338,55817.242.26$100,015
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 19950015.92$0
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 199443015.29$657
Aug 1994146,78816.13$226
Jul 1994893,71517.56$1,563
Jun 199438713,44617.09$6,614
May 199425610,28315.88$4,065
Apr 199452020,68514.14$7,353
Mar 199459424,87012.46$7,401
Feb 199459633,00112.50$7,450
Jan 199438918,37312.66$4,925
Dec 199346831,12712.33$5,770
Nov 199367234,56414.49$9,737
Oct 199360743,18015.85$9,621
Sep 19930015.03$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 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 37.48 =         $0
Gas                  377 Mcf  × $  6.49 =     $2,448

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Month total                                   $2,448

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/146907 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.