BELLE FERGUSON GAS UNIT

Name: BELLE FERGUSON GAS UNIT lease production and value, Dec 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by TOTALFINAELF E&P USA INC (P-5 862791) in the BELLE FERGUSON (LO. FRIO CONS.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 147404District 04Field 069273002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.9 M

Dec 1993 – Jan 2003

Value, last 12 filed months

$50 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

110

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The BELLE FERGUSON (LO. FRIO CONS.) 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 15 leases and 15 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

2000-01-25

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

933 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 2000-01-25.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 04/01/2000.”

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	2003-01-10	150157
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	18,101 bbl	$325,219
Gas	Production	1,335,713 Mcf	$1,584,220
Total			$1,909,439

781,458 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 34 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 26.1658, -98.2065. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.16577, -98.20648 · 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

10,727 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

4.0 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 10,727 ft.

Completions filed

Jan 1999

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Jan 2003

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 4.0 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 4.0 years and 4.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-21531917	4	10,727 ft	Jan 1999	Jan 2003	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 (110)

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

110 months


Jan 2003	0	0	30.31	5.58	$0
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	0	0	24.58	3.06	$0
Jun 2002	13	0	23.73	3.34	$308
May 2002	14	1,878	24.66	3.58	$7,076
Apr 2002	14	4,861	23.65	3.51	$17,404
Mar 2002	0	4,538	22.00	3.10	$14,080
Feb 2002	14	4,473	18.22	2.38	$10,882
Jan 2002	29	4,193	17.17	2.38	$10,459
Dec 2001	10	3,733	16.93	2.36	$8,996
Nov 2001	17	3,215	18.07	2.41	$8,041
Oct 2001	27	4,993	19.78	2.53	$13,161
Sep 2001	18	4,850	24.26	2.25	$11,356
Aug 2001	23	4,376	24.87	3.05	$13,933
Jul 2001	38	6,411	23.93	3.20	$21,406
Jun 2001	34	5,593	24.56	3.82	$22,224
May 2001	21	4,004	25.52	4.31	$17,782
Apr 2001	34	5,338	24.68	5.34	$29,319
Mar 2001	14	9,340	24.54	5.38	$50,560
Feb 2001	140	4,468	27.75	5.77	$29,652
Jan 2001	207	7,615	27.47	8.40	$69,643
Dec 2000	231	6,366	26.88	9.12	$64,283
Nov 2000	353	5,409	32.21	5.66	$41,974
Oct 2000	236	6,462	31.23	5.15	$40,621
Sep 2000	216	9,162	31.87	5.19	$54,403
Aug 2000	310	10,576	29.64	4.54	$57,211
Jul 2000	202	8,884	28.53	4.09	$42,096
Jun 2000	354	9,793	29.30	4.40	$53,434
May 2000	318	10,073	27.26	3.68	$45,735
Apr 2000	525	10,469	24.51	3.12	$45,489
Mar 2000	570	10,969	28.42	2.86	$47,568
Feb 2000	128	9,869	27.62	2.73	$30,443
Jan 2000	267	9,980	25.27	2.48	$31,502
Dec 1999	214	10,766	24.28	2.42	$31,290
Nov 1999	421	6,717	23.19	2.43	$26,112
Oct 1999	392	10,018	20.98	2.80	$36,312
Sep 1999	139	11,718	21.75	2.62	$33,711
Aug 1999	82	7,754	19.26	2.88	$23,877
Jul 1999	74	10,571	17.89	2.37	$26,402
Jun 1999	87	11,217	15.94	2.36	$27,882
May 1999	43	12,450	15.79	2.32	$29,576
Apr 1999	0	9,092	15.10	2.21	$20,076
Mar 1999	41	17,846	12.47	1.84	$33,318
Feb 1999	206	19,982	9.98	1.82	$38,379
Jan 1999	591	61,076	10.38	1.90	$122,176
Dec 1998	520	44,727	9.20	1.77	$84,099
Nov 1998	18	4,998	10.89	2.19	$11,120
Oct 1998	18	5,798	12.42	1.97	$11,641
Sep 1998	44	18,391	12.59	2.08	$38,855
Aug 1998	20	5,198	11.30	1.91	$10,140
Jul 1998	20	3,319	11.74	2.24	$7,660
Jun 1998	21	4,478	11.24	2.24	$10,255
May 1998	43	4,589	12.62	2.21	$10,668
Apr 1998	21	4,493	13.04	2.51	$11,530
Mar 1998	18	4,903	12.80	2.31	$11,554
Feb 1998	35	4,766	13.95	2.30	$11,446
Jan 1998	18	5,609	14.70	2.15	$12,351
Dec 1997	18	3,914	16.32	2.41	$9,731
Nov 1997	19	5,561	18.19	3.09	$17,519
Oct 1997	40	7,245	19.25	3.15	$23,590
Sep 1997	15	5,830	17.74	2.95	$17,493
Aug 1997	14	5,816	17.86	2.55	$15,108
Jul 1997	14	6,546	17.58	2.25	$14,955
Jun 1997	27	4,243	17.24	2.26	$10,043
May 1997	26	4,580	18.97	2.31	$11,066
Apr 1997	24	4,170	17.88	2.08	$9,114
Mar 1997	35	3,504	18.95	1.94	$7,458
Feb 1997	47	4,574	20.49	2.21	$11,053
Jan 1997	21	5,905	23.48	3.54	$21,395
Dec 1996	49	7,981	23.32	—	$1,143
Nov 1996	40	9,193	21.97	—	$879
Oct 1996	55	10,845	23.31	—	$1,282
Sep 1996	41	5,876	22.22	—	$911
Aug 1996	42	6,894	20.26	—	$851
Jul 1996	43	7,318	19.55	—	$841
Jun 1996	122	9,287	18.73	—	$2,285
May 1996	143	15,629	19.43	—	$2,778
Apr 1996	489	14,839	21.51	—	$10,518
Mar 1996	37	18,034	19.38	—	$717
Feb 1996	113	5,300	16.98	—	$1,919
Jan 1996	209	13,783	17.07	—	$3,568
Dec 1995	378	19,862	17.19	—	$6,498
Nov 1995	413	25,454	16.00	—	$6,608
Oct 1995	344	25,752	15.43	—	$5,308
Sep 1995	87	4,425	16.18	—	$1,408
Aug 1995	7	6,787	15.92	—	$111
Jul 1995	12	21,830	15.24	—	$183
Jun 1995	0	1,384	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	127	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	0	0	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	0	0	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	0	0	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	187	24,383	15.92	—	$2,977
Dec 1994	268	20,681	15.03	—	$4,028
Nov 1994	468	13,653	15.90	—	$7,441
Oct 1994	264	14,166	15.58	—	$4,113
Sep 1994	285	33,588	15.29	—	$4,358
Aug 1994	176	33,140	16.13	—	$2,839
Jul 1994	8	41,681	17.56	—	$140
Jun 1994	4	26,875	17.09	—	$68
May 1994	9	53,420	15.88	—	$143
Apr 1994	8	53,715	14.14	—	$113
Mar 1994	618	58,814	12.46	—	$7,700
Feb 1994	1,090	47,190	12.50	—	$13,625
Jan 1994	2,159	61,427	12.66	—	$27,333
Dec 1993	2,170	68,125	12.33	—	$26,756

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.

Jun 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate            13 bbl  × $ 23.73 =       $308
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  3.34 =         $0

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Month total                                     $308

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/147404 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.