GUERRA, A.E.

Operated by TEXACO E & P INC. (P-5 844118) in the MCALLEN RANCH (GUERRA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 159849District 04Field 587420352 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$10.7 M
Aug 1996 – May 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$462
at the published price for each month
Months reported
46
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 88 leases and 88 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1985-03-01
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 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2006-06-06.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: FIELD. STANDARD ACREAGE TO REMAIN 40 ACRES.

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.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
High Cost Gas111998-12-07139539
NGPA2none

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.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
CondensateDisposition51,335 bbl$904,014
GasProduction5,006,389 Mcf$9,775,811
Total$10,679,825

833,487 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 5 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 26.5913, -98.2081. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.59126, -98.20814 · 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
14,275 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
3.2 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 14,275 ft.

Completions filed
May 2000
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 2003
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 3.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3.2 years and 3.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2153230330R14,275 ftMay 2000Jul 2003Yes

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 (46)

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

46 months

May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19991020.982.80$21
Sep 1999111621.752.62$281
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 199910015.942.36$159
May 199944990,80215.792.32$217,843
Apr 19992,001104,55415.102.21$261,076
Mar 19991,888111,56612.471.84$228,638
Feb 19991,198103,9199.981.82$200,859
Jan 19991,194118,25410.381.90$237,070
Dec 1998890122,0019.201.77$224,535
Nov 19981,071117,31310.892.19$268,077
Oct 19981,154125,97412.421.97$262,402
Sep 1998922122,88812.592.08$267,537
Aug 19981,053128,10611.301.91$256,242
Jul 19981,128130,58011.742.24$305,385
Jun 19981,226126,53711.242.24$296,878
May 19981,043130,46212.622.21$301,006
Apr 19981,022131,37313.042.51$342,460
Mar 1998863135,08012.802.31$323,006
Feb 1998858123,81613.952.30$296,638
Jan 19981,303143,64914.702.15$328,688
Dec 19971,665149,56016.322.41$387,777
Nov 19971,614150,44018.193.09$493,956
Oct 19971,674163,06919.253.15$545,863
Sep 19971,894164,46017.742.95$519,559
Aug 19971,927171,26217.862.55$471,946
Jul 1997669174,57817.582.25$404,027
Jun 1997601176,02517.242.26$407,685
May 19971,114190,44318.972.31$460,770
Apr 1997957185,66817.882.08$403,817
Mar 19971,275175,58718.951.94$364,649
Feb 19971,535191,96620.492.21$454,910
Jan 19973,687212,95423.483.54$840,364
Dec 19963,896227,64423.32$90,855
Nov 19963,173210,52021.97$69,711
Oct 19963,471229,87323.31$80,909
Sep 19962,813161,30822.22$62,505
Aug 1996854,14220.26$1,722

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.

Oct 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             1 bbl  × $ 20.98 =        $21
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  2.80 =         $0

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Month total                                      $21

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/159849 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.