USA

Name: USA lease production and value, Jun 1996 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by EL PASO E & P COMPANY, L. P. (P-5 250195) in the BOB WEST (L-12, 13, 14, 15) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 159485District 04Field 100411512 tax incentive programmesGasSave Export

Value, all time

$5.4 M

Jun 1996 – Oct 2006

Value, last 12 filed months

$77 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

125

no gaps in the span

Streams

gas

The BOB WEST (L-12, 13, 14, 15) 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 87 leases and 87 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1996-12-27

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

0 ft

minimum

From a lease line

467 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 2008-04-24.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “REMAIN SUSPENDED.”

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	2	2	1996-09-13 – 1996-09-27	2 dockets
NGPA	2	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
Gas	Production	3,417,851 Mcf	$5,362,666
Total			$5,362,666

1,455,204 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 7 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 26.5734, -99.1486. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.57343, -99.14861 · 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

0.0%

0 of 1 wells

Median depth

13,873 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

—

no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

1100.0%

A plug date is filed

00.0%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

00.0%

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 13,873 ft.

Completions filed

Oct 2006

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-42732811	207	13,873 ft	Oct 2006	—	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 (125)

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

125 months


Oct 2006	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	442	69.37	6.34	$2,804
Jun 2006	918	66.28	6.38	$5,860
May 2006	1,066	66.01	6.42	$6,849
Apr 2006	1,066	64.39	7.36	$7,846
Mar 2006	1,123	56.70	7.08	$7,954
Feb 2006	979	57.59	7.75	$7,588
Jan 2006	1,145	60.59	8.93	$10,229
Dec 2005	1,162	54.94	13.42	$15,589
Nov 2005	1,124	54.69	10.59	$11,901
Oct 2005	1,180	58.34	13.80	$16,279
Sep 2005	1,175	61.45	12.08	$14,193
Aug 2005	1,179	61.51	9.80	$11,550
Jul 2005	1,187	55.69	7.84	$9,310
Jun 2005	1,223	52.33	7.38	$9,027
May 2005	1,284	45.22	6.65	$8,540
Apr 2005	1,305	49.20	7.36	$9,605
Mar 2005	1,400	50.37	7.15	$10,017
Feb 2005	1,298	45.22	6.31	$8,193
Jan 2005	1,490	43.16	6.32	$9,420
Dec 2004	1,524	39.86	6.75	$10,289
Nov 2004	1,621	45.28	6.33	$10,262
Oct 2004	1,669	49.70	6.52	$10,874
Sep 2004	1,490	43.24	5.28	$7,873
Aug 2004	1,576	42.37	5.55	$8,748
Jul 2004	1,599	38.28	6.08	$9,729
Jun 2004	1,592	36.10	6.43	$10,241
May 2004	1,945	37.48	6.49	$12,632
Apr 2004	1,713	34.47	5.86	$10,036
Mar 2004	2,237	34.36	5.53	$12,371
Feb 2004	1,427	32.45	5.51	$7,862
Jan 2004	1,791	32.03	6.30	$11,283
Dec 2003	1,919	30.26	6.30	$12,093
Nov 2003	2,035	28.80	4.60	$9,351
Oct 2003	2,120	28.17	4.76	$10,090
Sep 2003	2,120	26.31	4.75	$10,069
Aug 2003	2,279	29.76	5.13	$11,691
Jul 2003	2,378	29.41	5.17	$12,296
Jun 2003	2,152	28.56	5.98	$12,875
May 2003	2,485	26.59	5.97	$14,842
Apr 2003	2,467	26.67	5.41	$13,340
Mar 2003	2,718	31.14	6.10	$16,569
Feb 2003	2,584	33.48	7.93	$20,480
Jan 2003	2,614	30.31	5.58	$14,591
Dec 2002	2,957	26.91	4.85	$14,353
Nov 2002	2,627	24.66	4.14	$10,868
Oct 2002	2,822	26.46	4.23	$11,935
Sep 2002	2,746	27.44	3.64	$9,982
Aug 2002	3,081	25.96	3.16	$9,749
Jul 2002	3,259	24.58	3.06	$9,978
Jun 2002	3,027	23.73	3.34	$10,105
May 2002	3,383	24.66	3.58	$12,125
Apr 2002	3,574	23.65	3.51	$12,553
Mar 2002	3,486	22.00	3.10	$10,816
Feb 2002	3,176	18.22	2.38	$7,545
Jan 2002	3,593	17.17	2.38	$8,536
Dec 2001	3,863	16.93	2.36	$9,134
Nov 2001	3,682	18.07	2.41	$8,857
Oct 2001	3,997	19.78	2.53	$10,108
Sep 2001	4,050	24.26	2.25	$9,118
Aug 2001	4,416	24.87	3.05	$13,483
Jul 2001	4,616	23.93	3.20	$14,758
Jun 2001	4,532	24.56	3.82	$17,331
May 2001	4,624	25.52	4.31	$19,917
Apr 2001	4,628	24.68	5.34	$24,692
Mar 2001	5,026	24.54	5.38	$27,022
Feb 2001	4,730	27.75	5.77	$27,278
Jan 2001	5,542	27.47	8.40	$46,546
Dec 2000	5,757	26.88	9.12	$52,518
Nov 2000	5,938	32.21	5.66	$33,597
Oct 2000	6,468	31.23	5.15	$33,281
Sep 2000	6,722	31.87	5.19	$34,864
Aug 2000	7,593	29.64	4.54	$34,478
Jul 2000	8,293	28.53	4.09	$33,916
Jun 2000	8,439	29.30	4.40	$37,108
May 2000	8,156	27.26	3.68	$30,012
Apr 2000	9,890	24.51	3.12	$30,817
Mar 2000	10,538	28.42	2.86	$30,136
Feb 2000	10,219	27.62	2.73	$27,862
Jan 2000	12,152	25.27	2.48	$30,143
Dec 1999	13,816	24.28	2.42	$33,486
Nov 1999	19,428	23.19	2.43	$47,288
Oct 1999	19,188	20.98	2.80	$53,798
Sep 1999	28,238	21.75	2.62	$73,951
Aug 1999	14,580	19.26	2.88	$41,926
Jul 1999	14,663	17.89	2.37	$34,786
Jun 1999	18,243	15.94	2.36	$43,092
May 1999	20,330	15.79	2.32	$47,186
Apr 1999	19,439	15.10	2.21	$42,922
Mar 1999	21,503	12.47	1.84	$39,530
Feb 1999	20,429	9.98	1.82	$37,136
Jan 1999	23,416	10.38	1.90	$44,489
Dec 1998	24,627	9.20	1.77	$43,672
Nov 1998	24,804	10.89	2.19	$54,215
Oct 1998	27,450	12.42	1.97	$54,055
Sep 1998	27,489	12.59	2.08	$57,249
Aug 1998	29,984	11.30	1.91	$57,190
Jul 1998	29,152	11.74	2.24	$65,221
Jun 1998	27,169	11.24	2.24	$60,784
May 1998	33,402	12.62	2.21	$73,696
Apr 1998	34,369	13.04	2.51	$86,106
Mar 1998	34,382	12.80	2.31	$79,403
Feb 1998	27,234	13.95	2.30	$62,615
Jan 1998	20,784	14.70	2.15	$44,785
Dec 1997	29,100	16.32	2.41	$70,163
Nov 1997	48,412	18.19	3.09	$149,509
Oct 1997	63,716	19.25	3.15	$200,694
Sep 1997	65,289	17.74	2.95	$192,921
Aug 1997	86,796	17.86	2.55	$221,741
Jul 1997	84,576	17.58	2.25	$190,037
Jun 1997	80,863	17.24	2.26	$182,524
May 1997	103,083	18.97	2.31	$237,967
Apr 1997	119,001	17.88	2.08	$247,853
Mar 1997	169,411	18.95	1.94	$328,512
Feb 1997	109,958	20.49	2.21	$242,556
Jan 1997	166,920	23.48	3.54	$590,847
Dec 1996	224,385	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	205,184	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	218,231	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	229,047	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	205,909	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	198,168	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	174,280	18.73	—	$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.

Jul 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Gas                  442 Mcf  × $  6.34 =     $2,804

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Month total                                   $2,804

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/159485 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.