WEST, T. W.

Name: WEST, T. W. lease production and value, Jun 1995 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by SMITH PRODUCTION INC. (P-5 789662) in the TABASCO (O SEG 1) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 154695District 04Field 88103525CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$768 k

Jun 1995 – Mar 2000

Value, last 12 filed months

$51 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The TABASCO (O SEG 1) 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 14 leases and 14 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1952-10-16

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

2,640 ft

minimum

From a lease line

330 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 160 acres.

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Condensate	Disposition	11,879 bbl	$203,854
Gas	Production	532,300 Mcf	$563,667
Total			$767,521

292,804 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 19 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 26.2532, -98.4605. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.25323, -98.46050 · 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

7,003 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

9.4 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 7,003 ft.

Completions filed

Jan 2000

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Jun 2009

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 9.4 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.4 years and 9.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-21530894	27	7,003 ft	Jan 2000	Jun 2009	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 (58)

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

58 months


Mar 2000	0	0	28.42	2.86	$0
Feb 2000	0	0	27.62	2.73	$0
Jan 2000	11	0	25.27	2.48	$278
Dec 1999	0	0	24.28	2.42	$0
Nov 1999	23	1,019	23.19	2.43	$3,014
Oct 1999	34	2,718	20.98	2.80	$8,334
Sep 1999	51	2,631	21.75	2.62	$7,999
Aug 1999	2	63	19.26	2.88	$220
Jul 1999	43	1,547	17.89	2.37	$4,439
Jun 1999	71	2,719	15.94	2.36	$7,554
May 1999	112	3,740	15.79	2.32	$10,449
Apr 1999	118	3,232	15.10	2.21	$8,918
Mar 1999	170	3,949	12.47	1.84	$9,379
Feb 1999	82	3,918	9.98	1.82	$7,940
Jan 1999	88	4,093	10.38	1.90	$8,690
Dec 1998	112	4,651	9.20	1.77	$9,278
Nov 1998	96	5,327	10.89	2.19	$12,689
Oct 1998	85	5,686	12.42	1.97	$12,253
Sep 1998	67	5,333	12.59	2.08	$11,950
Aug 1998	121	6,408	11.30	1.91	$13,590
Jul 1998	71	6,912	11.74	2.24	$16,298
Jun 1998	58	6,581	11.24	2.24	$15,375
May 1998	60	7,391	12.62	2.21	$17,064
Apr 1998	61	7,505	13.04	2.51	$19,598
Mar 1998	60	8,447	12.80	2.31	$20,276
Feb 1998	70	7,792	13.95	2.30	$18,891
Jan 1998	65	9,450	14.70	2.15	$21,318
Dec 1997	138	10,117	16.32	2.41	$26,645
Nov 1997	183	9,210	18.19	3.09	$31,772
Oct 1997	211	10,899	19.25	3.15	$38,392
Sep 1997	185	11,235	17.74	2.95	$36,480
Aug 1997	204	11,809	17.86	2.55	$33,812
Jul 1997	195	12,274	17.58	2.25	$31,007
Jun 1997	191	9,364	17.24	2.26	$24,429
May 1997	269	12,358	18.97	2.31	$33,631
Apr 1997	338	12,156	17.88	2.08	$31,362
Mar 1997	366	12,964	18.95	1.94	$32,075
Feb 1997	225	10,447	20.49	2.21	$27,655
Jan 1997	100	5,551	23.48	3.54	$21,997
Dec 1996	165	8,112	23.32	—	$3,848
Nov 1996	146	7,835	21.97	—	$3,208
Oct 1996	135	8,134	23.31	—	$3,147
Sep 1996	140	9,056	22.22	—	$3,111
Aug 1996	149	9,887	20.26	—	$3,019
Jul 1996	204	10,583	19.55	—	$3,988
Jun 1996	218	11,221	18.73	—	$4,083
May 1996	368	13,977	19.43	—	$7,150
Apr 1996	379	15,121	21.51	—	$8,152
Mar 1996	470	17,462	19.38	—	$9,109
Feb 1996	380	14,802	16.98	—	$6,452
Jan 1996	467	17,107	17.07	—	$7,972
Dec 1995	564	19,214	17.19	—	$9,695
Nov 1995	678	19,625	16.00	—	$10,848
Oct 1995	664	22,522	15.43	—	$10,246
Sep 1995	638	22,557	16.18	—	$10,323
Aug 1995	644	19,297	15.92	—	$10,252
Jul 1995	635	23,657	15.24	—	$9,677
Jun 1995	499	22,635	16.41	—	$8,189

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.

Jan 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate            11 bbl  × $ 25.27 =       $278
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  2.48 =         $0

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Month total                                     $278

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/154695 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.