RATHMELL, J. G.

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

Gas lease lease 166979District 04Field 435935002 tax incentive programmesGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$674 k
Feb 1998 – Sep 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$860
at the published price for each month
Months reported
68
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 122 leases and 122 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1976-08-26
as the register files it
Field class
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 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1992-10-19.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ALLOCATION FORMULA ADMINISTRATIVELY SUSPENDED EFFECTIVE 8/1/94.

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 Gas111998-04-30138537
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
GasProduction238,474 Mcf$673,778
Total$673,778

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 27.1554, -99.2589. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.15543, -99.25894 · 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
10,800 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
3.1 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 10,800 ft.

Completions filed
Nov 2002
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 2005
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 3.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3.1 years and 3.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-505336801910,800 ftNov 2002Dec 2005Yes

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 (68)

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

68 months

Sep 2003026.314.75$0
Aug 2003029.765.13$0
Jul 2003029.415.17$0
Jun 2003028.565.98$0
May 200314426.595.97$860
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 2001024.873.05$0
Jul 2001023.933.20$0
Jun 200125124.563.82$960
May 20012,85025.524.31$12,276
Apr 20012,82024.685.34$15,046
Mar 20012,71424.545.38$14,592
Feb 20012,51127.755.77$14,481
Jan 20012,92127.478.40$24,533
Dec 20002,88426.889.12$26,309
Nov 20002,50932.215.66$14,196
Oct 20003,04431.235.15$15,663
Sep 20002,75331.875.19$14,278
Aug 20003,19529.644.54$14,508
Jul 20006,82428.534.09$27,908
Jun 20002,94729.304.40$12,959
May 20003,28727.263.68$12,095
Apr 20003,00324.513.12$9,357
Mar 20003,05928.422.86$8,748
Feb 20003,04627.622.73$8,305
Jan 20003,62925.272.48$9,002
Dec 19993,98324.282.42$9,654
Nov 19994,66023.192.43$11,342
Oct 19994,35520.982.80$12,210
Sep 19994,59421.752.62$12,031
Aug 19994,49419.262.88$12,923
Jul 19995,40517.892.37$12,823
Jun 19995,51415.942.36$13,025
May 19996,96615.792.32$16,168
Apr 199910,24615.102.21$22,624
Mar 19997,12212.471.84$13,093
Feb 19993,0999.981.82$5,633
Jan 19994,46110.381.90$8,476
Dec 19985,3629.201.77$9,509
Nov 19986,44510.892.19$14,087
Oct 19983,33112.421.97$6,559
Sep 19984,09112.592.08$8,520
Aug 19983,95811.301.91$7,549
Jul 19987,56811.742.24$16,932
Jun 199810,87011.242.24$24,319
May 199812,84912.622.21$28,349
Apr 199813,83913.042.51$34,671
Mar 199823,91312.802.31$55,226
Feb 199826,95813.952.30$61,980

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.

May 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  144 Mcf  × $  5.97 =       $860

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Month total                                     $860

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/166979 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.