ALEXANDER, M. M.

Operated by CHESAPEAKE OPERATING, INC. (P-5 147715) in the ROLETA (WILCOX CONSOLIDATED) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 167824District 04Field 779730502 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$255 k
Oct 1997 – Sep 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$19 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
168
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 345 leases and 345 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1995-01-09
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
933 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: PERMITTED/DRILLED/COMPLETED ON THE SAME LEASE.

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 Gas112000-10-16142563
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
CondensateDisposition524 bbl$24,595
GasProduction66,147 Mcf$230,499
Total$255,094

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 26.7571, -99.1773. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.75711, -99.17730 · 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
10,512 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
9.3 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 10,512 ft.

Completions filed
Oct 1997
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 2007
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 9.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.3 years and 9.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-50533607710,512 ftOct 1997Jan 2007Yes

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 (168)

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

168 months

Sep 20110083.623.99$0
Aug 20110083.404.15$0
Jul 2011202094.144.52$19,016
Jun 20110092.904.64$0
May 20110098.134.40$0
Apr 201100105.964.33$0
Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 20100072.554.74$0
Jun 20100070.364.91$0
May 20100071.124.24$0
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 20100078.394.39$0
Feb 20100073.585.44$0
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20090042.144.06$0
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 2006034969.376.34$2,214
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 2005014049.207.36$1,030
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 2004222849.706.52$1,585
Sep 2004033243.245.28$1,754
Aug 2004017042.375.55$944
Jul 2004027238.286.08$1,655
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 2004015037.486.49$974
Apr 2004048134.475.86$2,818
Mar 2004042234.365.53$2,334
Feb 2004039132.455.51$2,154
Jan 2004033532.036.30$2,110
Dec 2003035930.266.30$2,262
Nov 2003034728.804.60$1,595
Oct 2003056828.174.76$2,703
Sep 2003033426.314.75$1,586
Aug 2003050829.765.13$2,606
Jul 2003050829.415.17$2,627
Jun 2003057328.565.98$3,428
May 2003075226.595.97$4,491
Apr 2003173626.675.41$4,006
Mar 2003083931.146.10$5,115
Feb 2003072433.487.93$5,738
Jan 2003077430.315.58$4,321
Dec 2002063326.914.85$3,072
Nov 2002073124.664.14$3,024
Oct 2002081626.464.23$3,451
Sep 2002087227.443.64$3,170
Aug 2002094625.963.16$2,993
Jul 200201,08424.583.06$3,319
Jun 2002094823.733.34$3,165
May 200212085024.663.58$6,006
Apr 200201,06923.653.51$3,755
Mar 2002034322.003.10$1,064
Feb 2002027318.222.38$649
Jan 2002029817.172.38$708
Dec 2001040116.932.36$948
Nov 2001027318.072.41$657
Oct 2001054319.782.53$1,373
Sep 2001149224.262.25$1,132
Aug 2001061824.873.05$1,887
Jul 2001069223.933.20$2,212
Jun 2001025424.563.82$971
May 2001029725.524.31$1,279
Apr 2001024324.685.34$1,296
Mar 2001024824.545.38$1,333
Feb 2001035927.755.77$2,070
Jan 2001037227.478.40$3,124
Dec 2000030926.889.12$2,819
Nov 2000053232.215.66$3,010
Oct 2000097431.235.15$5,012
Sep 200001,03831.875.19$5,384
Aug 200001,30229.644.54$5,912
Jul 200001,94828.534.09$7,967
Jun 2000040429.304.40$1,776
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 200004325.272.48$107
Dec 199905824.282.42$141
Nov 199903623.192.43$88
Oct 1999016020.982.80$449
Sep 1999013521.752.62$354
Aug 1999042219.262.88$1,214
Jul 1999012517.892.37$297
Jun 1999049815.942.36$1,176
May 1999067015.792.32$1,555
Apr 1999080515.102.21$1,777
Mar 199919836412.471.84$3,138
Feb 199905049.981.82$916
Jan 1999070010.381.90$1,330
Dec 199808799.201.77$1,559
Nov 1998073410.892.19$1,604
Oct 199801,42712.421.97$2,810
Sep 199802,23012.592.08$4,644
Aug 199803,32711.301.91$6,346
Jul 199802,97311.742.24$6,651
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 1998064112.622.21$1,414
Apr 1998085913.042.51$2,152
Mar 199801,84112.802.31$4,252
Feb 1998098013.952.30$2,253
Jan 199801,35314.702.15$2,915
Dec 199701,77816.322.41$4,287
Nov 199703,48918.193.09$10,775
Oct 199708,66219.253.15$27,284

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.

Jul 2011 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate           202 bbl  × $ 94.14 =    $19,016
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  4.52 =         $0

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Month total                                  $19,016

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/167824 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.