HOUSTON GAS UNIT

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

Operated by BP AMERICA PRODUCTION COMPANY (P-5 40798) in the DONNA (KNAPP) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 162183District 04Field 25318405CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$5.2 M

Dec 1996 – Jun 2002

Value, last 12 filed months

$204 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The DONNA (KNAPP) 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 10 leases and 10 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1959-06-02

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 07/01/97.”

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	6,684 bbl	$124,799
Gas	Production	1,882,236 Mcf	$5,031,958
Total			$5,156,757

46,202 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 1 month, 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 26.1251, -98.1383. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.12507, -98.13826 · 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

11,000 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 11,000 ft.

Completions filed

Oct 2017

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-21532340	6	11,000 ft	Oct 2017	—	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 (67)

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

67 months


Jun 2002	0	0	23.73	3.34	$0
May 2002	0	0	24.66	3.58	$0
Apr 2002	0	2	23.65	3.51	$7
Mar 2002	0	0	22.00	3.10	$0
Feb 2002	0	160	18.22	2.38	$380
Jan 2002	0	7,858	17.17	2.38	$18,668
Dec 2001	0	9,572	16.93	2.36	$22,632
Nov 2001	0	9,490	18.07	2.41	$22,828
Oct 2001	0	11,517	19.78	2.53	$29,125
Sep 2001	0	12,486	24.26	2.25	$28,110
Aug 2001	0	13,049	24.87	3.05	$39,841
Jul 2001	7	13,217	23.93	3.20	$42,423
Jun 2001	12	12,897	24.56	3.82	$49,615
May 2001	7	13,999	25.52	4.31	$60,477
Apr 2001	8	13,551	24.68	5.34	$72,496
Mar 2001	5	14,808	24.54	5.38	$79,737
Feb 2001	2	14,111	27.75	5.77	$81,435
Jan 2001	3	16,258	27.47	8.40	$136,629
Dec 2000	18	16,847	26.88	9.12	$154,171
Nov 2000	67	16,233	32.21	5.66	$94,004
Oct 2000	75	17,869	31.23	5.15	$94,287
Sep 2000	69	17,544	31.87	5.19	$93,191
Aug 2000	60	20,030	29.64	4.54	$92,730
Jul 2000	48	20,170	28.53	4.09	$83,860
Jun 2000	24	19,648	29.30	4.40	$87,100
May 2000	25	19,353	27.26	3.68	$71,896
Apr 2000	13	16,953	24.51	3.12	$53,144
Mar 2000	18	17,196	28.42	2.86	$49,688
Feb 2000	27	17,782	27.62	2.73	$49,228
Jan 2000	36	18,480	25.27	2.48	$46,749
Dec 1999	39	18,582	24.28	2.42	$45,984
Nov 1999	35	17,061	23.19	2.43	$42,338
Oct 1999	48	18,364	20.98	2.80	$52,494
Sep 1999	18	16,420	21.75	2.62	$43,393
Aug 1999	56	18,976	19.26	2.88	$55,646
Jul 1999	64	22,231	17.89	2.37	$53,885
Jun 1999	67	25,166	15.94	2.36	$60,513
May 1999	72	25,002	15.79	2.32	$59,167
Apr 1999	78	22,473	15.10	2.21	$50,799
Mar 1999	87	24,303	12.47	1.84	$45,762
Feb 1999	70	26,464	9.98	1.82	$48,805
Jan 1999	70	31,132	10.38	1.90	$59,876
Dec 1998	98	36,633	9.20	1.77	$65,864
Nov 1998	78	37,595	10.89	2.19	$83,022
Oct 1998	85	32,468	12.42	1.97	$64,992
Sep 1998	86	39,536	12.59	2.08	$83,421
Aug 1998	123	35,885	11.30	1.91	$69,835
Jul 1998	113	35,729	11.74	2.24	$81,262
Jun 1998	102	27,198	11.24	2.24	$61,996
May 1998	78	23,397	12.62	2.21	$52,606
Apr 1998	59	15,410	13.04	2.51	$39,377
Mar 1998	110	21,697	12.80	2.31	$51,516
Feb 1998	109	19,006	13.95	2.30	$45,218
Jan 1998	75	27,300	14.70	2.15	$59,928
Dec 1997	129	43,537	16.32	2.41	$107,077
Nov 1997	83	40,878	18.19	3.09	$127,752
Oct 1997	127	44,175	19.25	3.15	$141,588
Sep 1997	148	32,744	17.74	2.95	$99,380
Aug 1997	213	49,066	17.86	2.55	$129,155
Jul 1997	276	65,144	17.58	2.25	$151,227
Jun 1997	287	71,789	17.24	2.26	$166,990
May 1997	373	84,786	18.97	2.31	$202,804
Apr 1997	420	95,633	17.88	2.08	$206,692
Mar 1997	780	114,271	18.95	1.94	$236,368
Feb 1997	749	125,474	20.49	2.21	$292,130
Jan 1997	491	69,429	23.48	3.54	$257,287
Dec 1996	264	46,202	23.32	—	$6,156

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.

Apr 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 23.65 =         $0
Gas                    2 Mcf  × $  3.51 =         $7

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Month total                                       $7

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/162183 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.