VELA
Operated by CHESAPEAKE OPERATING, INC. (P-5 147715) in the EL GRULLO (7780) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.
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 8 leases and 8 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.
A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres.
The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “ONE WELL FIELD EFF 9-1-94.”
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 | 42 bbl | $1,783 |
| Gas | Production | 744,254 Mcf | $3,089,025 |
| Total | $3,090,808 | ||
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 26.8762, -99.0587. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.
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.
What the state filed about each well
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 8,800 ft.
Last completion to plug: a median of 5.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 5.8 years and 5.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.
1 well
| 42-50534445 | 1 | 8,800 ft | Jan 2002 | Oct 2007 | 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 (70)
Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.
70 months
| Oct 2007 | 0 | 0 | 82.85 | 6.92 | $0 |
| Sep 2007 | 0 | 0 | 75.84 | 6.24 | $0 |
| Aug 2007 | 0 | 0 | 69.06 | 6.39 | $0 |
| Jul 2007 | 0 | 0 | 70.90 | 6.39 | $0 |
| Jun 2007 | 0 | 80 | 62.00 | 7.55 | $604 |
| May 2007 | 0 | 101 | 58.74 | 7.85 | $792 |
| Apr 2007 | 0 | 13 | 59.61 | 7.81 | $101 |
| Mar 2007 | 0 | 0 | 56.92 | 7.30 | $0 |
| Feb 2007 | 0 | 0 | 55.10 | 8.22 | $0 |
| Jan 2007 | 0 | 18 | 50.30 | 6.73 | $121 |
| Dec 2006 | 0 | 0 | 56.65 | 6.92 | $0 |
| Nov 2006 | 0 | 0 | 54.20 | 7.62 | $0 |
| Oct 2006 | 0 | 0 | 54.90 | 6.01 | $0 |
| Sep 2006 | 0 | 0 | 60.08 | 5.04 | $0 |
| Aug 2006 | 0 | 0 | 68.71 | 7.34 | $0 |
| Jul 2006 | 0 | 248 | 69.37 | 6.34 | $1,573 |
| Jun 2006 | 0 | 950 | 66.28 | 6.38 | $6,065 |
| May 2006 | 0 | 724 | 66.01 | 6.42 | $4,652 |
| Apr 2006 | 0 | 282 | 64.39 | 7.36 | $2,076 |
| Mar 2006 | 0 | 732 | 56.70 | 7.08 | $5,185 |
| Feb 2006 | 0 | 631 | 57.59 | 7.75 | $4,891 |
| Jan 2006 | 1 | 778 | 60.59 | 8.93 | $7,011 |
| Dec 2005 | 0 | 849 | 54.94 | 13.42 | $11,390 |
| Nov 2005 | 0 | 1,005 | 54.69 | 10.59 | $10,641 |
| Oct 2005 | 0 | 1,701 | 58.34 | 13.80 | $23,467 |
| Sep 2005 | 4 | 1,820 | 61.45 | 12.08 | $22,230 |
| Aug 2005 | 0 | 1,573 | 61.51 | 9.80 | $15,410 |
| Jul 2005 | 0 | 1,313 | 55.69 | 7.84 | $10,299 |
| Jun 2005 | 2 | 2,245 | 52.33 | 7.38 | $16,675 |
| May 2005 | 0 | 1,280 | 45.22 | 6.65 | $8,513 |
| Apr 2005 | 0 | 1,032 | 49.20 | 7.36 | $7,596 |
| Mar 2005 | 1 | 1,402 | 50.37 | 7.15 | $10,082 |
| Feb 2005 | 6 | 687 | 45.22 | 6.31 | $4,608 |
| Jan 2005 | 0 | 1,284 | 43.16 | 6.32 | $8,118 |
| Dec 2004 | 16 | 1,461 | 39.86 | 6.75 | $10,501 |
| Nov 2004 | 0 | 1,562 | 45.28 | 6.33 | $9,888 |
| Oct 2004 | 0 | 1,890 | 49.70 | 6.52 | $12,314 |
| Sep 2004 | 0 | 1,525 | 43.24 | 5.28 | $8,058 |
| Aug 2004 | 0 | 1,834 | 42.37 | 5.55 | $10,180 |
| Jul 2004 | 0 | 2,240 | 38.28 | 6.08 | $13,629 |
| Jun 2004 | 0 | 2,750 | 36.10 | 6.43 | $17,691 |
| May 2004 | 0 | 3,175 | 37.48 | 6.49 | $20,620 |
| Apr 2004 | 0 | 4,071 | 34.47 | 5.86 | $23,850 |
| Mar 2004 | 12 | 3,567 | 34.36 | 5.53 | $20,138 |
| Feb 2004 | 0 | 3,919 | 32.45 | 5.51 | $21,592 |
| Jan 2004 | 0 | 1,688 | 32.03 | 6.30 | $10,634 |
| Dec 2003 | 0 | 3,805 | 30.26 | 6.30 | $23,978 |
| Nov 2003 | 0 | 4,842 | 28.80 | 4.60 | $22,250 |
| Oct 2003 | 0 | 6,286 | 28.17 | 4.76 | $29,919 |
| Sep 2003 | 0 | 5,998 | 26.31 | 4.75 | $28,487 |
| Aug 2003 | 0 | 8,212 | 29.76 | 5.13 | $42,125 |
| Jul 2003 | 0 | 10,932 | 29.41 | 5.17 | $56,528 |
| Jun 2003 | 0 | 11,001 | 28.56 | 5.98 | $65,819 |
| May 2003 | 0 | 11,334 | 26.59 | 5.97 | $67,694 |
| Apr 2003 | 0 | 14,714 | 26.67 | 5.41 | $79,563 |
| Mar 2003 | 0 | 20,310 | 31.14 | 6.10 | $123,811 |
| Feb 2003 | 0 | 25,606 | 33.48 | 7.93 | $202,950 |
| Jan 2003 | 0 | 23,317 | 30.31 | 5.58 | $130,156 |
| Dec 2002 | 0 | 19,191 | 26.91 | 4.85 | $93,149 |
| Nov 2002 | 0 | 28,894 | 24.66 | 4.14 | $119,533 |
| Oct 2002 | 0 | 34,703 | 26.46 | 4.23 | $146,763 |
| Sep 2002 | 0 | 32,102 | 27.44 | 3.64 | $116,697 |
| Aug 2002 | 0 | 18,865 | 25.96 | 3.16 | $59,692 |
| Jul 2002 | 0 | 40,590 | 24.58 | 3.06 | $124,277 |
| Jun 2002 | 0 | 57,381 | 23.73 | 3.34 | $191,552 |
| May 2002 | 0 | 75,329 | 24.66 | 3.58 | $269,979 |
| Apr 2002 | 0 | 85,515 | 23.65 | 3.51 | $300,356 |
| Mar 2002 | 0 | 91,265 | 22.00 | 3.10 | $283,170 |
| Feb 2002 | 0 | 63,632 | 18.22 | 2.38 | $151,169 |
| Jan 2002 | 0 | 0 | 17.17 | 2.38 | $0 |
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.
Condensate 0 bbl × $ 62.00 = $0 Gas 80 Mcf × $ 7.55 = $604 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── Month total $604
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/188680 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.