RUSSELL-WINCH

Operated by NORTH CENTRAL OIL CORP. (P-5 613760) in the VAQUILLAS RANCH (LOBO CONS.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 165987District 04Field 932154002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$591 k
Dec 1997 – May 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
66
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 909 leases and 909 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1998-02-24
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 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 2010-11-02.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: NO P-15 OR PLAT REQUIRED.

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 Gas111998-04-30138535
NGPA1none

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
CondensateDisposition6,072 bbl$89,294
GasProduction217,964 Mcf$501,313
Total$590,607

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 27.7461, -98.9946. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.74610, -98.99459 · 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
10,273 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
5 months
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 10,273 ft.

Completions filed
May 2003
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Oct 2003
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 5 months across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 5 months and 5 months. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-479367621510,273 ftMay 2003Oct 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 (66)

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

66 months

May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 200104724.685.34$251
Mar 200102824.545.38$151
Feb 2001011527.755.77$663
Jan 200103727.478.40$311
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 2000034932.215.66$1,975
Oct 2000071231.235.15$3,664
Sep 200001,40331.875.19$7,277
Aug 200001,46029.644.54$6,630
Jul 200001,67828.534.09$6,863
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20002024.513.12$49
Mar 20003927428.422.86$1,892
Feb 2000551,07027.622.73$4,436
Jan 20005565425.272.48$3,012
Dec 19994693524.282.42$3,383
Nov 19999946823.192.43$3,435
Oct 19992045,69420.982.80$20,244
Sep 19991615,92921.752.62$19,029
Aug 19991877,37019.262.88$24,795
Jul 19992105,54617.892.37$16,914
Jun 19992676,15115.942.36$18,785
May 19992477,69015.792.32$21,749
Apr 19992389,66315.102.21$24,930
Mar 19994609,75712.471.84$23,673
Feb 19992738,1939.981.82$17,618
Jan 19991388,33010.381.90$17,259
Dec 19981219,5039.201.77$17,965
Nov 19989811,46810.892.19$26,133
Oct 19981122,75712.421.97$6,820
Sep 19985822,57312.592.08$12,686
Aug 1998822,93511.301.91$6,525
Jul 1998976,03911.742.24$14,650
Jun 19981535,83611.242.24$14,776
May 19981946,63912.622.21$17,096
Apr 19982409,01413.042.51$25,713
Mar 199826512,29912.802.31$31,796
Feb 199835819,70513.952.30$50,298
Jan 199885736,16914.702.15$90,535
Dec 19972329,47416.322.41$26,629

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 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 24.68 =         $0
Gas                   47 Mcf  × $  5.34 =       $251

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Month total                                     $251

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/165987 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.