I.R. GAONA

Operated by CONOCO INC. (P-5 172230) in the BENAVIDES (LOBO CONS.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 170507District 04Field 070784752 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$195 k
Jun 1998 – Dec 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$7 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
43
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 247 leases and 247 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1998-02-24
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 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 Gas111998-11-19139596
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
CondensateDisposition4,584 bbl$53,551
GasProduction59,874 Mcf$141,570
Total$195,121

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 27.5146, -99.2104. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.51461, -99.21043 · 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
8,600 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
3.5 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 8,600 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 1998
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 2001
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 3.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3.5 years and 3.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4793693018,600 ftJun 1998Dec 2001Yes

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 (43)

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

43 months

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 200105524.563.82$210
May 2001089825.524.31$3,868
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010124.545.38$5
Feb 2001056327.755.77$3,247
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 200008626.889.12$785
Nov 2000047432.215.66$2,682
Oct 200001,51031.235.15$7,770
Sep 2000123131.875.19$1,230
Aug 20000929.644.54$41
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000227.263.68$7
Apr 2000372624.513.12$2,336
Mar 2000476328.422.86$2,296
Feb 200061,51327.622.73$4,291
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 199912224.282.42$78
Nov 199961,12223.192.43$2,870
Oct 1999227020.982.80$799
Sep 199991,44621.752.62$3,983
Aug 199971,42919.262.88$4,244
Jul 1999011617.892.37$275
Jun 199981,57915.942.36$3,857
May 199992,48715.792.32$5,914
Apr 199932515.102.21$101
Mar 1999562,95812.471.84$6,136
Feb 199935239.981.82$981
Jan 1999252,67210.381.90$5,336
Dec 19982922,3559.201.77$6,863
Nov 19984182,76210.892.19$10,589
Oct 19984663,69812.421.97$13,070
Sep 19985353,68412.592.08$14,408
Aug 19981,1008,03111.301.91$27,748
Jul 19981,63013,95611.742.24$50,360
Jun 199803,90811.242.24$8,743

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.

Jun 2001 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 24.56 =         $0
Gas                   55 Mcf  × $  3.82 =       $210

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Month total                                     $210

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/170507 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.