VERGARA

Name: VERGARA lease production and value, May 2000 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by HILCORP ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 386310) 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 177399District 04Field 932154002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.5 M

May 2000 – Oct 2019

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

234

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The VAQUILLAS RANCH (LOBO CONS.) field

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.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
High Cost Gas	1	1	2000-07-24	142162
NGPA	1	none	—	—

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Condensate	Disposition	10,519 bbl	$314,857
Gas	Production	243,583 Mcf	$1,153,511
Total			$1,468,368

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 27.5935, -99.1121. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.59349, -99.11208 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

9,200 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

19.4 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 9,200 ft.

Completions filed

May 2000

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Oct 2019

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 19.4 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 19.4 years and 19.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-47937466	23	9,200 ft	May 2000	Oct 2019	Yes

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 (234)

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

234 months


Oct 2019	0	0	53.47	2.42	$0
Sep 2019	0	0	55.05	2.66	$0
Aug 2019	0	0	53.11	2.30	$0
Jul 2019	0	0	56.27	2.46	$0
Jun 2019	0	0	52.78	2.49	$0
May 2019	0	0	58.48	2.74	$0
Apr 2019	0	0	62.63	2.75	$0
Mar 2019	0	0	56.80	3.06	$0
Feb 2019	0	0	50.85	2.79	$0
Jan 2019	0	0	46.03	3.23	$0
Dec 2018	0	0	46.59	4.19	$0
Nov 2018	0	0	52.93	4.24	$0
Oct 2018	0	0	61.44	3.40	$0
Sep 2018	0	0	59.54	3.11	$0
Aug 2018	0	0	59.40	3.07	$0
Jul 2018	0	0	65.14	2.93	$0
Jun 2018	0	0	60.18	3.08	$0
May 2018	0	0	65.38	2.90	$0
Apr 2018	0	0	63.84	2.90	$0
Mar 2018	0	0	61.22	2.79	$0
Feb 2018	0	0	61.78	2.77	$0
Jan 2018	0	0	62.87	4.01	$0
Dec 2017	0	0	57.27	2.92	$0
Nov 2017	0	0	55.42	3.12	$0
Oct 2017	0	0	49.29	2.98	$0
Sep 2017	0	0	47.52	3.09	$0
Aug 2017	0	0	45.37	3.00	$0
Jul 2017	0	0	43.87	3.09	$0
Jun 2017	0	0	42.49	3.09	$0
May 2017	0	0	45.37	3.26	$0
Apr 2017	0	0	47.93	3.21	$0
Mar 2017	0	0	46.77	2.98	$0
Feb 2017	0	0	50.45	2.95	$0
Jan 2017	0	0	49.41	3.42	$0
Dec 2016	0	0	48.76	3.72	$0
Nov 2016	0	0	42.49	2.64	$0
Oct 2016	0	0	46.19	3.09	$0
Sep 2016	0	0	41.55	3.10	$0
Aug 2016	0	0	41.44	2.92	$0
Jul 2016	0	0	41.62	2.92	$0
Jun 2016	0	0	45.35	2.69	$0
May 2016	0	0	42.52	1.99	$0
Apr 2016	0	0	36.56	1.99	$0
Mar 2016	0	0	33.01	1.79	$0
Feb 2016	0	0	26.47	2.06	$0
Jan 2016	0	0	27.35	2.36	$0
Dec 2015	0	0	32.36	2.00	$0
Nov 2015	0	0	38.79	2.17	$0
Oct 2015	0	0	43.55	2.43	$0
Sep 2015	0	0	42.99	2.76	$0
Aug 2015	0	0	40.16	2.87	$0
Jul 2015	0	0	48.15	2.95	$0
Jun 2015	0	0	56.15	2.88	$0
May 2015	0	0	55.21	2.96	$0
Apr 2015	0	0	49.82	2.71	$0
Mar 2015	0	0	42.89	2.93	$0
Feb 2015	0	0	44.66	2.98	$0
Jan 2015	0	0	43.43	3.10	$0
Dec 2014	0	0	54.69	3.59	$0
Nov 2014	0	0	70.46	4.25	$0
Oct 2014	0	0	78.30	3.90	$0
Sep 2014	0	0	86.16	4.05	$0
Aug 2014	0	0	89.39	4.04	$0
Jul 2014	0	0	96.56	4.18	$0
Jun 2014	0	0	98.16	4.74	$0
May 2014	0	0	94.73	4.73	$0
Apr 2014	0	0	95.94	4.81	$0
Mar 2014	0	0	95.89	5.06	$0
Feb 2014	0	0	97.40	6.19	$0
Jan 2014	0	0	90.40	4.86	$0
Dec 2013	0	0	91.82	4.35	$0
Nov 2013	0	0	88.85	3.74	$0
Oct 2013	0	0	97.42	3.78	$0
Sep 2013	0	0	104.11	3.72	$0
Aug 2013	0	0	104.25	3.52	$0
Jul 2013	0	0	102.52	3.72	$0
Jun 2013	0	0	94.40	3.93	$0
May 2013	0	0	94.83	4.15	$0
Apr 2013	0	0	93.96	4.28	$0
Mar 2013	0	0	93.62	3.91	$0
Feb 2013	0	0	91.23	3.42	$0
Jan 2013	0	0	91.60	3.42	$0
Dec 2012	0	0	86.77	3.42	$0
Nov 2012	0	0	86.95	3.62	$0
Oct 2012	0	0	89.38	3.40	$0
Sep 2012	0	0	94.67	2.92	$0
Aug 2012	0	0	92.66	2.91	$0
Jul 2012	0	0	85.13	3.02	$0
Jun 2012	3	0	79.82	2.52	$239
May 2012	0	0	91.61	2.49	$0
Apr 2012	0	0	101.65	2.00	$0
Mar 2012	0	0	105.05	2.22	$0
Feb 2012	0	0	101.10	2.57	$0
Jan 2012	0	0	98.09	2.73	$0
Dec 2011	0	0	96.87	3.24	$0
Nov 2011	0	0	95.72	3.31	$0
Oct 2011	0	0	84.98	3.65	$0
Sep 2011	44	0	83.62	3.99	$3,679
Aug 2011	0	0	83.40	4.15	$0
Jul 2011	0	0	94.14	4.52	$0
Jun 2011	0	0	92.90	4.64	$0
May 2011	0	0	98.13	4.40	$0
Apr 2011	0	0	105.96	4.33	$0
Mar 2011	0	0	96.36	4.06	$0
Feb 2011	0	0	85.64	4.18	$0
Jan 2011	0	149	86.50	4.59	$684
Dec 2010	56	160	85.73	4.35	$5,497
Nov 2010	0	200	80.84	3.80	$759
Oct 2010	0	145	78.10	3.51	$509
Sep 2010	0	140	72.63	3.98	$557
Aug 2010	0	197	73.68	4.42	$871
Jul 2010	0	109	72.55	4.74	$516
Jun 2010	0	182	70.36	4.91	$894
May 2010	0	149	71.12	4.24	$631
Apr 2010	6	144	81.69	4.12	$1,084
Mar 2010	0	167	78.39	4.39	$733
Feb 2010	0	93	73.58	5.44	$506
Jan 2010	0	183	74.36	5.96	$1,091
Dec 2009	7	135	71.44	5.48	$1,240
Nov 2009	0	151	74.59	3.75	$566
Oct 2009	0	161	72.54	4.11	$662
Sep 2009	0	223	65.54	3.06	$683
Aug 2009	0	79	67.42	3.22	$254
Jul 2009	0	165	61.13	3.46	$572
Jun 2009	0	184	66.16	3.90	$717
May 2009	0	178	54.74	3.93	$699
Apr 2009	0	50	46.77	3.59	$179
Mar 2009	0	89	42.14	4.06	$361
Feb 2009	0	86	32.81	4.63	$398
Jan 2009	0	141	35.86	5.37	$757
Dec 2008	0	146	37.10	5.98	$873
Nov 2008	0	94	55.49	6.86	$645
Oct 2008	0	129	75.24	6.92	$893
Sep 2008	0	172	101.76	7.88	$1,355
Aug 2008	0	95	114.22	8.48	$806
Jul 2008	3	376	131.08	11.39	$4,676
Jun 2008	0	3	131.33	13.03	$39
May 2008	0	39	123.17	11.57	$451
Apr 2008	0	21	110.31	10.45	$220
Mar 2008	0	43	101.90	9.66	$416
Feb 2008	0	128	92.53	8.77	$1,123
Jan 2008	19	179	90.38	8.21	$3,186
Dec 2007	0	146	88.33	7.30	$1,066
Nov 2007	16	155	91.67	7.29	$2,597
Oct 2007	0	171	82.85	6.92	$1,184
Sep 2007	0	259	75.84	6.24	$1,617
Aug 2007	0	270	69.06	6.39	$1,725
Jul 2007	12	200	70.90	6.39	$2,128
Jun 2007	0	162	62.00	7.55	$1,223
May 2007	0	124	58.74	7.85	$973
Apr 2007	55	44	59.61	7.81	$3,622
Mar 2007	0	163	56.92	7.30	$1,190
Feb 2007	41	884	55.10	8.22	$9,522
Jan 2007	0	78	50.30	6.73	$525
Dec 2006	0	153	56.65	6.92	$1,059
Nov 2006	20	56	54.20	7.62	$1,511
Oct 2006	0	166	54.90	6.01	$998
Sep 2006	19	487	60.08	5.04	$3,595
Aug 2006	6	121	68.71	7.34	$1,300
Jul 2006	0	169	69.37	6.34	$1,072
Jun 2006	15	215	66.28	6.38	$2,367
May 2006	0	154	66.01	6.42	$989
Apr 2006	0	142	64.39	7.36	$1,045
Mar 2006	18	278	56.70	7.08	$2,990
Feb 2006	0	252	57.59	7.75	$1,953
Jan 2006	0	253	60.59	8.93	$2,260
Dec 2005	8	158	54.94	13.42	$2,559
Nov 2005	0	260	54.69	10.59	$2,753
Oct 2005	0	176	58.34	13.80	$2,428
Sep 2005	0	238	61.45	12.08	$2,875
Aug 2005	0	241	61.51	9.80	$2,361
Jul 2005	0	272	55.69	7.84	$2,133
Jun 2005	0	357	52.33	7.38	$2,635
May 2005	0	340	45.22	6.65	$2,261
Apr 2005	0	115	49.20	7.36	$846
Mar 2005	0	240	50.37	7.15	$1,717
Feb 2005	0	0	45.22	6.31	$0
Jan 2005	0	534	43.16	6.32	$3,376
Dec 2004	0	63	39.86	6.75	$425
Nov 2004	0	32	45.28	6.33	$203
Oct 2004	19	240	49.70	6.52	$2,508
Sep 2004	0	277	43.24	5.28	$1,464
Aug 2004	0	263	42.37	5.55	$1,460
Jul 2004	35	195	38.28	6.08	$2,526
Jun 2004	0	319	36.10	6.43	$2,052
May 2004	13	102	37.48	6.49	$1,150
Apr 2004	0	327	34.47	5.86	$1,916
Mar 2004	16	416	34.36	5.53	$2,850
Feb 2004	0	91	32.45	5.51	$501
Jan 2004	20	352	32.03	6.30	$2,858
Dec 2003	16	654	30.26	6.30	$4,605
Nov 2003	6	2	28.80	4.60	$182
Oct 2003	6	543	28.17	4.76	$2,754
Sep 2003	1	119	26.31	4.75	$591
Aug 2003	0	242	29.76	5.13	$1,241
Jul 2003	0	267	29.41	5.17	$1,381
Jun 2003	0	710	28.56	5.98	$4,248
May 2003	0	416	26.59	5.97	$2,485
Apr 2003	0	378	26.67	5.41	$2,044
Mar 2003	0	526	31.14	6.10	$3,207
Feb 2003	0	1,318	33.48	7.93	$10,446
Jan 2003	0	623	30.31	5.58	$3,478
Dec 2002	0	769	26.91	4.85	$3,733
Nov 2002	0	602	24.66	4.14	$2,490
Oct 2002	3	657	26.46	4.23	$2,858
Sep 2002	34	1,082	27.44	3.64	$4,866
Aug 2002	16	579	25.96	3.16	$2,247
Jul 2002	48	1,591	24.58	3.06	$6,051
Jun 2002	12	478	23.73	3.34	$1,880
May 2002	27	1,019	24.66	3.58	$4,318
Apr 2002	14	695	23.65	3.51	$2,772
Mar 2002	6	691	22.00	3.10	$2,276
Feb 2002	14	1,376	18.22	2.38	$3,524
Jan 2002	11	964	17.17	2.38	$2,479
Dec 2001	16	1,575	16.93	2.36	$3,995
Nov 2001	19	1,022	18.07	2.41	$2,802
Oct 2001	31	2,117	19.78	2.53	$5,967
Sep 2001	91	2,135	24.26	2.25	$7,014
Aug 2001	100	2,897	24.87	3.05	$11,332
Jul 2001	112	2,837	23.93	3.20	$11,750
Jun 2001	110	2,889	24.56	3.82	$13,750
May 2001	178	4,460	25.52	4.31	$23,753
Apr 2001	106	2,806	24.68	5.34	$17,587
Mar 2001	129	4,300	24.54	5.38	$26,284
Feb 2001	194	5,055	27.75	5.77	$34,536
Jan 2001	260	6,154	27.47	8.40	$58,828
Dec 2000	273	6,943	26.88	9.12	$70,676
Nov 2000	284	8,083	32.21	5.66	$54,881
Oct 2000	451	10,254	31.23	5.15	$66,847
Sep 2000	1,041	12,292	31.87	5.19	$96,929
Aug 2000	1,943	24,421	29.64	4.54	$168,480
Jul 2000	1,474	24,116	28.53	4.09	$140,682
Jun 2000	167	52,743	29.30	4.40	$236,817
May 2000	2,875	34,388	27.26	3.68	$204,912

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 2012 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             3 bbl  × $ 79.82 =       $239
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  2.52 =         $0

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Month total                                     $239

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/177399 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.