SMITH, N. R.

Operated by ENERGEN RESOURCES CORPORATION (P-5 252002) in the ODEM (5000) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 162799District 04Field 66762304GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$69 k
Feb 1997 – May 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
76
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
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 13 leases and 13 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1956-09-13
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 03/01/2001.

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
GasProduction25,403 Mcf$69,286
Total$69,286

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 27.9435, -97.6272. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.94348, -97.62717 · 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
5,459 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
6.3 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 5,459 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 1997
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2003
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 6.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.3 years and 6.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4090381825,459 ftFeb 1997May 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 (76)

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

76 months

May 2003026.595.97$0
Apr 2003026.675.41$0
Mar 2003031.146.10$0
Feb 2003033.487.93$0
Jan 2003030.315.58$0
Dec 2002026.914.85$0
Nov 2002024.664.14$0
Oct 2002026.464.23$0
Sep 2002027.443.64$0
Aug 2002025.963.16$0
Jul 2002024.583.06$0
Jun 2002023.733.34$0
May 2002024.663.58$0
Apr 2002023.653.51$0
Mar 2002022.003.10$0
Feb 2002018.222.38$0
Jan 2002017.172.38$0
Dec 2001016.932.36$0
Nov 2001018.072.41$0
Oct 2001019.782.53$0
Sep 2001024.262.25$0
Aug 20014324.873.05$131
Jul 200111323.933.20$361
Jun 200116724.563.82$639
May 200114825.524.31$637
Apr 200117224.685.34$918
Mar 200122324.545.38$1,199
Feb 200116527.755.77$952
Jan 200125427.478.40$2,133
Dec 200025226.889.12$2,299
Nov 200024732.215.66$1,398
Oct 200025731.235.15$1,322
Sep 200025831.875.19$1,338
Aug 200027729.644.54$1,258
Jul 200028328.534.09$1,157
Jun 200027729.304.40$1,218
May 200029027.263.68$1,067
Apr 200029124.513.12$907
Mar 200038228.422.86$1,092
Feb 200040027.622.73$1,091
Jan 20001,09325.272.48$2,711
Dec 19991,21624.282.42$2,947
Nov 19991,04923.192.43$2,553
Oct 199970820.982.80$1,985
Sep 19998821.752.62$230
Aug 199922219.262.88$638
Jul 199926217.892.37$622
Jun 199927015.942.36$638
May 199927915.792.32$648
Apr 199921515.102.21$475
Mar 1999012.471.84$0
Feb 199909.981.82$0
Jan 199933710.381.90$640
Dec 19986509.201.77$1,153
Nov 1998010.892.19$0
Oct 1998012.421.97$0
Sep 199816212.592.08$337
Aug 1998011.301.91$0
Jul 19989411.742.24$210
Jun 199847611.242.24$1,065
May 19981,38912.622.21$3,065
Apr 199853713.042.51$1,345
Mar 19981,64712.802.31$3,804
Feb 19981,05213.952.30$2,419
Jan 199829414.702.15$634
Dec 1997016.322.41$0
Nov 1997018.193.09$0
Oct 1997019.253.15$0
Sep 19971,00617.742.95$2,973
Aug 19971,32817.862.55$3,393
Jul 199724917.582.25$559
Jun 19971,48317.242.26$3,347
May 199726518.972.31$612
Apr 19972,10017.882.08$4,374
Mar 19972,15418.951.94$4,177
Feb 199727920.492.21$615

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 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                   43 Mcf  × $  3.05 =       $131

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Month total                                     $131

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/162799 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.