FERGUSON, BELLE GAS UNIT

Name: FERGUSON, BELLE GAS UNIT lease production and value, Oct 1996 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by SHELL WESTERN E&P (P-5 774719) 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 161413District 04Field 06927300CondensateGasSave

Value, all time

$12.7 M

Oct 1996 – Jul 2007

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

130

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

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	39,261 bbl	$866,096
Gas	Production	4,397,502 Mcf	$11,784,689
Total			$12,650,785

625,131 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 3 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 26.1718, -98.2117. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.17184, -98.21172 · 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

10,600 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

16 months

median over 1 wells

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 10,600 ft.

Completions filed

Jul 2007

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Nov 2008

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 16 months across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16 months and 16 months. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-21532330	7	10,600 ft	Jul 2007	Nov 2008	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 (130)

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

130 months


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	38	61.51	9.80	$372
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	0	45.22	6.31	$0
Jan 2005	21	0	43.16	6.32	$906
Dec 2004	80	48	39.86	6.75	$3,513
Nov 2004	43	1,733	45.28	6.33	$12,918
Oct 2004	49	6,932	49.70	6.52	$47,598
Sep 2004	60	6,828	43.24	5.28	$38,673
Aug 2004	59	8,923	42.37	5.55	$52,028
Jul 2004	59	68	38.28	6.08	$2,672
Jun 2004	52	4,770	36.10	6.43	$32,563
May 2004	68	5,381	37.48	6.49	$37,496
Apr 2004	76	8,908	34.47	5.86	$54,807
Mar 2004	91	177	34.36	5.53	$4,106
Feb 2004	96	4,992	32.45	5.51	$30,619
Jan 2004	116	6,782	32.03	6.30	$46,440
Dec 2003	96	8,174	30.26	6.30	$54,415
Nov 2003	64	7,032	28.80	4.60	$34,156
Oct 2003	134	7,156	28.17	4.76	$37,835
Sep 2003	171	5,390	26.31	4.75	$30,098
Aug 2003	220	8,057	29.76	5.13	$47,877
Jul 2003	269	8,355	29.41	5.17	$51,114
Jun 2003	144	7,639	28.56	5.98	$49,816
May 2003	52	8,109	26.59	5.97	$49,815
Apr 2003	97	7,577	26.67	5.41	$43,558
Mar 2003	421	7,314	31.14	6.10	$57,696
Feb 2003	154	7,177	33.48	7.93	$62,040
Jan 2003	127	7,425	30.31	5.58	$45,296
Dec 2002	92	8,358	26.91	4.85	$43,043
Nov 2002	50	8,042	24.66	4.14	$34,502
Oct 2002	83	9,116	26.46	4.23	$40,749
Sep 2002	21	9,639	27.44	3.64	$35,616
Aug 2002	0	10,790	25.96	3.16	$34,141
Jul 2002	49	8,528	24.58	3.06	$27,315
Jun 2002	77	10,435	23.73	3.34	$36,662
May 2002	0	11,213	24.66	3.58	$40,187
Apr 2002	12	10,948	23.65	3.51	$38,737
Mar 2002	85	11,500	22.00	3.10	$37,551
Feb 2002	135	11,399	18.22	2.38	$29,540
Jan 2002	42	12,869	17.17	2.38	$31,294
Dec 2001	0	14,617	16.93	2.36	$34,560
Nov 2001	60	13,610	18.07	2.41	$33,823
Oct 2001	0	16,924	19.78	2.53	$42,799
Sep 2001	0	17,678	24.26	2.25	$39,799
Aug 2001	74	19,011	24.87	3.05	$59,884
Jul 2001	0	21,701	23.93	3.20	$69,380
Jun 2001	51	21,665	24.56	3.82	$84,103
May 2001	81	26,347	25.52	4.31	$115,552
Apr 2001	104	24,467	24.68	5.34	$133,106
Mar 2001	123	28,143	24.54	5.38	$154,328
Feb 2001	140	32,252	27.75	5.77	$189,885
Jan 2001	193	42,025	27.47	8.40	$358,260
Dec 2000	198	43,791	26.88	9.12	$404,806
Nov 2000	634	60,291	32.21	5.66	$361,548
Oct 2000	785	107,200	31.23	5.15	$576,113
Sep 2000	551	104,564	31.87	5.19	$559,882
Aug 2000	535	87,551	29.64	4.54	$413,405
Jul 2000	198	32,022	28.53	4.09	$136,611
Jun 2000	118	15,387	29.30	4.40	$71,118
May 2000	105	10,751	27.26	3.68	$42,423
Apr 2000	135	14,621	24.51	3.12	$48,868
Mar 2000	146	13,274	28.42	2.86	$42,110
Feb 2000	156	13,099	27.62	2.73	$40,023
Jan 2000	153	16,999	25.27	2.48	$46,032
Dec 1999	143	14,580	24.28	2.42	$38,810
Nov 1999	134	16,253	23.19	2.43	$42,667
Oct 1999	131	18,206	20.98	2.80	$53,793
Sep 1999	130	16,600	21.75	2.62	$46,300
Aug 1999	120	19,764	19.26	2.88	$59,145
Jul 1999	47	19,530	17.89	2.37	$47,173
Jun 1999	17	18,884	15.94	2.36	$44,877
May 1999	58	21,520	15.79	2.32	$50,864
Apr 1999	167	23,562	15.10	2.21	$54,548
Mar 1999	214	24,574	12.47	1.84	$47,844
Feb 1999	235	20,218	9.98	1.82	$39,097
Jan 1999	290	29,561	10.38	1.90	$59,175
Dec 1998	230	25,127	9.20	1.77	$46,674
Nov 1998	186	28,693	10.89	2.19	$64,740
Oct 1998	42	29,066	12.42	1.97	$57,759
Sep 1998	74	35,264	12.59	2.08	$74,373
Aug 1998	302	28,752	11.30	1.91	$58,253
Jul 1998	201	39,152	11.74	2.24	$89,953
Jun 1998	136	35,578	11.24	2.24	$81,126
May 1998	191	39,686	12.62	2.21	$89,971
Apr 1998	261	44,381	13.04	2.51	$114,592
Mar 1998	329	49,894	12.80	2.31	$119,438
Feb 1998	296	45,671	13.95	2.30	$109,133
Jan 1998	352	57,236	14.70	2.15	$128,506
Dec 1997	401	65,484	16.32	2.41	$164,433
Nov 1997	481	65,361	18.19	3.09	$210,601
Oct 1997	497	74,509	19.25	3.15	$244,257
Sep 1997	484	94,146	17.74	2.95	$286,776
Aug 1997	609	113,342	17.86	2.55	$300,436
Jul 1997	793	160,845	17.58	2.25	$375,350
Jun 1997	490	191,839	17.24	2.26	$441,467
May 1997	786	167,656	18.97	2.31	$401,944
Apr 1997	1,718	199,211	17.88	2.08	$445,631
Mar 1997	2,376	248,056	18.95	1.94	$526,041
Feb 1997	4,047	302,141	20.49	2.21	$749,416
Jan 1997	5,203	322,217	23.48	3.54	$1,262,718
Dec 1996	4,480	296,164	23.32	—	$104,474
Nov 1996	3,801	205,659	21.97	—	$83,508
Oct 1996	804	123,308	23.31	—	$18,741

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.

Aug 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 61.51 =         $0
Gas                   38 Mcf  × $  9.80 =       $372

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Month total                                     $372

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/161413 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.