VAQUILLAS RANCH E

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

Operated by CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY (P-5 172232) in the GATO CREEK, SE (WILCOX STRAY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 161172District 04Field 34242865CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$434 k

Aug 1996 – Jul 2009

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

156

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The GATO CREEK, SE (WILCOX STRAY) 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 3 leases and 3 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1996-08-22

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

—

no field rule filed

From a lease line

—

no field rule filed

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 11/01/1999.”

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	3,012 bbl	$68,338
Gas	Production	186,154 Mcf	$365,567
Total			$433,905

62,681 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 27.5824, -99.0397. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.58241, -99.03974 · 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

10,935 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

12.9 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 10,935 ft.

Completions filed

Aug 1996

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Jul 2009

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 12.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 12.9 years and 12.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-47933256	20	10,935 ft	Aug 1996	Jul 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 (156)

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

156 months


Jul 2009	0	0	61.13	3.46	$0
Jun 2009	0	0	66.16	3.90	$0
May 2009	0	0	54.74	3.93	$0
Apr 2009	0	0	46.77	3.59	$0
Mar 2009	0	0	42.14	4.06	$0
Feb 2009	0	0	32.81	4.63	$0
Jan 2009	0	0	35.86	5.37	$0
Dec 2008	0	0	37.10	5.98	$0
Nov 2008	0	0	55.49	6.86	$0
Oct 2008	0	0	75.24	6.92	$0
Sep 2008	0	0	101.76	7.88	$0
Aug 2008	0	0	114.22	8.48	$0
Jul 2008	0	0	131.08	11.39	$0
Jun 2008	0	0	131.33	13.03	$0
May 2008	0	0	123.17	11.57	$0
Apr 2008	0	0	110.31	10.45	$0
Mar 2008	0	0	101.90	9.66	$0
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	0	0	90.38	8.21	$0
Dec 2007	0	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	0	0	91.67	7.29	$0
Oct 2007	0	0	82.85	6.92	$0
Sep 2007	0	0	75.84	6.24	$0
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	0	0	70.90	6.39	$0
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	0	0	58.74	7.85	$0
Apr 2007	0	0	59.61	7.81	$0
Mar 2007	0	0	56.92	7.30	$0
Feb 2007	0	0	55.10	8.22	$0
Jan 2007	0	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	0	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	0	0	54.20	7.62	$0
Oct 2006	0	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	0	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	0	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	0	0	66.28	6.38	$0
May 2006	0	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	0	0	64.39	7.36	$0
Mar 2006	0	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	0	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	0	0	60.59	8.93	$0
Dec 2005	0	0	54.94	13.42	$0
Nov 2005	0	0	54.69	10.59	$0
Oct 2005	0	0	58.34	13.80	$0
Sep 2005	0	0	61.45	12.08	$0
Aug 2005	0	0	61.51	9.80	$0
Jul 2005	0	0	55.69	7.84	$0
Jun 2005	0	0	52.33	7.38	$0
May 2005	0	0	45.22	6.65	$0
Apr 2005	0	0	49.20	7.36	$0
Mar 2005	0	0	50.37	7.15	$0
Feb 2005	0	11	45.22	6.31	$69
Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	0	0	39.86	6.75	$0
Nov 2004	0	0	45.28	6.33	$0
Oct 2004	0	2	49.70	6.52	$13
Sep 2004	0	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	0	0	42.37	5.55	$0
Jul 2004	0	15	38.28	6.08	$91
Jun 2004	0	0	36.10	6.43	$0
May 2004	0	0	37.48	6.49	$0
Apr 2004	0	0	34.47	5.86	$0
Mar 2004	0	0	34.36	5.53	$0
Feb 2004	0	19	32.45	5.51	$105
Jan 2004	0	0	32.03	6.30	$0
Dec 2003	0	0	30.26	6.30	$0
Nov 2003	0	11	28.80	4.60	$51
Oct 2003	0	12	28.17	4.76	$57
Sep 2003	0	52	26.31	4.75	$247
Aug 2003	0	6	29.76	5.13	$31
Jul 2003	0	3	29.41	5.17	$16
Jun 2003	6	0	28.56	5.98	$171
May 2003	13	879	26.59	5.97	$5,596
Apr 2003	4	938	26.67	5.41	$5,179
Mar 2003	8	527	31.14	6.10	$3,462
Feb 2003	8	1,113	33.48	7.93	$9,089
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	19	27.44	3.64	$69
Aug 2002	0	1	25.96	3.16	$3
Jul 2002	1	69	24.58	3.06	$236
Jun 2002	3	510	23.73	3.34	$1,774
May 2002	3	913	24.66	3.58	$3,346
Apr 2002	2	486	23.65	3.51	$1,754
Mar 2002	2	0	22.00	3.10	$44
Feb 2002	4	774	18.22	2.38	$1,912
Jan 2002	15	983	17.17	2.38	$2,593
Dec 2001	21	2,415	16.93	2.36	$6,066
Nov 2001	18	1,680	18.07	2.41	$4,367
Oct 2001	15	1,918	19.78	2.53	$5,147
Sep 2001	7	1,339	24.26	2.25	$3,184
Aug 2001	11	977	24.87	3.05	$3,257
Jul 2001	20	2,407	23.93	3.20	$8,174
Jun 2001	21	2,565	24.56	3.82	$10,325
May 2001	13	773	25.52	4.31	$3,661
Apr 2001	29	763	24.68	5.34	$4,787
Mar 2001	39	3,122	24.54	5.38	$17,742
Feb 2001	22	910	27.75	5.77	$5,859
Jan 2001	57	3,590	27.47	8.40	$31,717
Dec 2000	8	574	26.88	9.12	$5,451
Nov 2000	0	8	32.21	5.66	$45
Oct 2000	0	6	31.23	5.15	$31
Sep 2000	0	15	31.87	5.19	$78
Aug 2000	0	7	29.64	4.54	$32
Jul 2000	1	9	28.53	4.09	$65
Jun 2000	10	214	29.30	4.40	$1,234
May 2000	40	2,550	27.26	3.68	$10,474
Apr 2000	2	83	24.51	3.12	$308
Mar 2000	0	1	28.42	2.86	$3
Feb 2000	2	11	27.62	2.73	$85
Jan 2000	12	523	25.27	2.48	$1,601
Dec 1999	23	968	24.28	2.42	$2,905
Nov 1999	26	1,410	23.19	2.43	$4,035
Oct 1999	5	212	20.98	2.80	$699
Sep 1999	0	1,747	21.75	2.62	$4,575
Aug 1999	0	2,470	19.26	2.88	$7,103
Jul 1999	0	2,664	17.89	2.37	$6,320
Jun 1999	0	4,394	15.94	2.36	$10,379
May 1999	0	1,800	15.79	2.32	$4,178
Apr 1999	0	2,108	15.10	2.21	$4,655
Mar 1999	0	3,252	12.47	1.84	$5,978
Feb 1999	0	3,140	9.98	1.82	$5,708
Jan 1999	0	3,764	10.38	1.90	$7,151
Dec 1998	0	3,918	9.20	1.77	$6,948
Nov 1998	0	5,964	10.89	2.19	$13,036
Oct 1998	0	7,740	12.42	1.97	$15,242
Sep 1998	0	4,239	12.59	2.08	$8,828
Aug 1998	0	7	11.30	1.91	$13
Jul 1998	0	470	11.74	2.24	$1,052
Jun 1998	0	0	11.24	2.24	$0
May 1998	0	212	12.62	2.21	$468
Apr 1998	0	188	13.04	2.51	$471
Mar 1998	0	510	12.80	2.31	$1,178
Feb 1998	0	487	13.95	2.30	$1,120
Jan 1998	0	133	14.70	2.15	$287
Dec 1997	0	1,458	16.32	2.41	$3,515
Nov 1997	2	5,079	18.19	3.09	$15,722
Oct 1997	0	3,274	19.25	3.15	$10,313
Sep 1997	1	4,810	17.74	2.95	$14,231
Aug 1997	0	2,614	17.86	2.55	$6,678
Jul 1997	0	93	17.58	2.25	$209
Jun 1997	0	108	17.24	2.26	$244
May 1997	0	1,097	18.97	2.31	$2,532
Apr 1997	0	2,435	17.88	2.08	$5,072
Mar 1997	1	3,259	18.95	1.94	$6,339
Feb 1997	1	5,857	20.49	2.21	$12,940
Jan 1997	14	7,789	23.48	3.54	$27,899
Dec 1996	223	4,405	23.32	—	$5,200
Nov 1996	477	9,069	21.97	—	$10,480
Oct 1996	698	16,020	23.31	—	$16,270
Sep 1996	798	22,694	22.22	—	$17,732
Aug 1996	326	10,493	20.26	—	$6,605

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.

Feb 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 45.22 =         $0
Gas                   11 Mcf  × $  6.31 =        $69

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Month total                                      $69

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/161172 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.