AKERS

Operated by VASTAR RESOURCES, INC. (P-5 883810) in the MURPHY (FIRST MACKHANK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 171953District 04Field 63925200CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$418 k
Dec 1998 – Sep 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$26 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
22
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 1 leases and 1 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1998-12-24
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

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
CondensateDisposition3,187 bbl$42,640
GasProduction179,676 Mcf$375,775
Total$418,415

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 28.0448, -98.4955. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.04477, -98.49545 · 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
10,500 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
5.1 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 10,500 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 2000
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Oct 2005
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 5.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 5.1 years and 5.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-131382461 C10,500 ftSep 2000Oct 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 (22)

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

22 months

Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20004029.644.54$119
Jul 2000014128.534.09$577
Jun 20002029.304.40$59
May 2000172,08927.263.68$8,150
Apr 2000118424.513.12$598
Mar 20001044428.422.86$1,554
Feb 2000593,09827.622.73$10,076
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 1999901,13720.982.80$5,076
Sep 19991143,12521.752.62$10,663
Aug 1999968,73219.262.88$26,959
Jul 19991839,40217.892.37$25,579
Jun 199915312,68115.942.36$32,393
May 199914612,55915.792.32$31,455
Apr 199927013,57715.102.21$34,056
Mar 199937222,83212.471.84$46,612
Feb 199956024,0999.981.82$49,396
Jan 19991,11057,53810.381.90$120,841
Dec 199808,0389.201.77$14,254

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 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             4 bbl  × $ 29.64 =       $119
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  4.54 =         $0

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Month total                                     $119

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/171953 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.