SKIPPER

Operated by HILCORP ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 386310) in the LOPEZ RANCH (CONSOLIDATED) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 241985District 04Field 548954002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$592 k
Jul 2008 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
215
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 72 leases and 72 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
2008-07-29
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
660 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 2008-07-29.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 04/01/2009.

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 Gas112010-05-24198262
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
CondensateDisposition1,437 bbl$92,037
GasProduction80,148 Mcf$499,684
Total$591,720

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 26.9327, -98.2086. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.93267, -98.20862 · 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
11,510 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
14.8 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 11,510 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 2008
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 2023
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.8 years and 14.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-04732341611,510 ftJul 2008Apr 2023Yes

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 (215)

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

215 months

May 202600106.413.05$0
Apr 20260098.932.87$0
Mar 20260089.753.15$0
Feb 20260063.503.75$0
Jan 20260059.138.00$0
Dec 20250056.664.41$0
Nov 20250058.593.93$0
Oct 20250059.383.30$0
Sep 20250062.743.08$0
Aug 20250063.933.01$0
Jul 20250066.743.32$0
Jun 20250066.483.13$0
May 20250060.553.23$0
Apr 20250062.363.54$0
Mar 20250067.704.27$0
Feb 20250070.884.34$0
Jan 20250074.324.28$0
Dec 20240068.993.12$0
Nov 20240069.052.20$0
Oct 20240071.372.28$0
Sep 20240069.612.36$0
Aug 20240075.632.06$0
Jul 20240079.932.15$0
Jun 20240078.082.63$0
May 20240078.812.20$0
Apr 20240084.451.66$0
Mar 20240080.301.55$0
Feb 20240076.091.78$0
Jan 20240073.023.30$0
Dec 20230071.262.61$0
Nov 20230077.892.81$0
Oct 20230085.443.09$0
Sep 20230089.042.74$0
Aug 20230080.522.67$0
Jul 20230074.852.64$0
Jun 20230068.962.26$0
May 20230070.622.23$0
Apr 20230078.122.24$0
Mar 20230072.852.39$0
Feb 20230075.112.47$0
Jan 20230076.533.39$0
Dec 20220076.415.73$0
Nov 20220085.005.65$0
Oct 20220087.185.86$0
Sep 20220084.888.16$0
Aug 20220094.529.13$0
Jul 202200101.587.54$0
Jun 202200115.097.98$0
May 202200109.378.43$0
Apr 202200104.226.84$0
Mar 202200108.885.08$0
Feb 20220091.054.86$0
Jan 20220081.844.54$0
Dec 20210071.323.90$0
Nov 20210077.435.24$0
Oct 20210079.795.71$0
Sep 20210069.865.35$0
Aug 20210066.024.22$0
Jul 20210070.783.98$0
Jun 20210069.493.38$0
May 20210063.483.02$0
Apr 20210060.362.76$0
Mar 20210061.302.72$0
Feb 20210057.805.55$0
Jan 20210050.412.81$0
Dec 20200044.642.68$0
Nov 20200238.772.71$5
Oct 20200036.972.48$0
Sep 20200037.091.99$0
Aug 20200039.982.39$0
Jul 20200038.371.83$0
Jun 20200034.901.69$0
May 20200016.921.81$0
Apr 20200014.751.80$0
Mar 20200030.341.86$0
Feb 20200049.881.98$0
Jan 20200057.252.09$0
Dec 20190059.012.30$0
Nov 20190055.302.75$0
Oct 20190053.472.42$0
Sep 20190055.052.66$0
Aug 20190053.112.30$0
Jul 20190056.272.46$0
Jun 20190052.782.49$0
May 20190058.482.74$0
Apr 20190062.632.75$0
Mar 20190056.803.06$0
Feb 20190050.852.79$0
Jan 20190046.033.23$0
Dec 20180046.594.19$0
Nov 2018010452.934.24$441
Oct 2018032861.443.40$1,115
Sep 201809059.543.11$280
Aug 2018027859.403.07$853
Jul 2018034165.142.93$1,000
Jun 2018022860.183.08$702
May 2018084065.382.90$2,437
Apr 2018037063.842.90$1,073
Mar 2018086461.222.79$2,408
Feb 201801,11561.782.77$3,084
Jan 2018051662.874.01$2,069
Dec 2017030357.272.92$885
Nov 201701,04255.423.12$3,249
Oct 201708849.292.98$263
Sep 20170047.523.09$0
Aug 20170045.373.00$0
Jul 20170043.873.09$0
Jun 20170042.493.09$0
May 20170045.373.26$0
Apr 20170047.933.21$0
Mar 20170046.772.98$0
Feb 20170050.452.95$0
Jan 201725049.413.42$1,235
Dec 20160048.763.72$0
Nov 20160042.492.64$0
Oct 20160046.193.09$0
Sep 20160041.553.10$0
Aug 20160041.442.92$0
Jul 20160041.622.92$0
Jun 20160045.352.69$0
May 20160042.521.99$0
Apr 20160036.561.99$0
Mar 20160033.011.79$0
Feb 20160026.472.06$0
Jan 20160027.352.36$0
Dec 20150032.362.00$0
Nov 20150038.792.17$0
Oct 20150043.552.43$0
Sep 20150042.992.76$0
Aug 20150040.162.87$0
Jul 201501948.152.95$56
Jun 201505056.152.88$144
May 201502455.212.96$71
Apr 201507649.822.71$206
Mar 201507742.892.93$226
Feb 201508844.662.98$262
Jan 2015013843.433.10$428
Dec 201402154.693.59$75
Nov 2014013870.464.25$587
Oct 2014026278.303.90$1,022
Sep 2014028986.164.05$1,169
Aug 2014038789.394.04$1,562
Jul 2014055196.564.18$2,303
Jun 2014040698.164.74$1,923
May 2014041094.734.73$1,938
Apr 20144140095.944.81$5,857
Mar 2014044295.895.06$2,235
Feb 2014019797.406.19$1,220
Jan 2014010990.404.86$530
Dec 201307191.824.35$309
Nov 201301088.853.74$37
Oct 201302797.423.78$102
Sep 201300104.113.72$0
Aug 201300104.253.52$0
Jul 201304102.523.72$15
Jun 201301194.403.93$43
May 201302094.834.15$83
Apr 2013452093.964.28$4,314
Mar 201302593.623.91$98
Feb 2013049591.233.42$1,693
Jan 2013016691.603.42$568
Dec 2012023886.773.42$814
Nov 201208686.953.62$312
Oct 2012032989.383.40$1,118
Sep 20120094.672.92$0
Aug 2012011992.662.91$346
Jul 20121464485.133.02$12,562
Jun 20120879.822.52$20
May 20120791.612.49$17
Apr 2012029101.652.00$58
Mar 2012022105.052.22$49
Feb 2012014101.102.57$36
Jan 201207798.092.73$211
Dec 2011021896.873.24$706
Nov 2011026295.723.31$868
Oct 2011029384.983.65$1,069
Sep 2011028483.623.99$1,132
Aug 2011029183.404.15$1,207
Jul 2011040294.144.52$1,816
Jun 2011062292.904.64$2,886
May 2011048198.134.40$2,119
Apr 20110419105.964.33$1,816
Mar 2011041596.364.06$1,684
Feb 2011027185.644.18$1,133
Jan 20113955086.504.59$5,897
Dec 201012942485.734.35$12,903
Nov 2010048380.843.80$1,833
Oct 2010054178.103.51$1,898
Sep 2010054072.633.98$2,149
Aug 2010064173.684.42$2,833
Jul 2010069372.554.74$3,282
Jun 2010067170.364.91$3,295
May 20105349471.124.24$5,862
Apr 2010048581.694.12$2,000
Mar 2010058078.394.39$2,545
Feb 2010067273.585.44$3,657
Jan 2010064574.365.96$3,847
Dec 20097665571.445.48$9,021
Nov 2009099074.593.75$3,714
Oct 200917283072.544.11$15,888
Sep 2009082865.543.06$2,538
Aug 2009091467.423.22$2,942
Jul 200901,06861.133.46$3,700
Jun 2009062766.163.90$2,442
May 200901,12154.743.93$4,401
Apr 200901,19546.773.59$4,287
Mar 20091971,43542.144.06$14,126
Feb 200901,39832.814.63$6,477
Jan 200901,86635.865.37$10,022
Dec 20083092,60637.105.98$27,040
Nov 20081413,23055.496.86$29,983
Oct 200801,11375.246.92$7,704
Sep 2008644,441101.767.88$41,495
Aug 2008032,039114.228.48$271,787
Jul 200800131.0811.39$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.

Nov 2020 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 38.77 =         $0
Gas                    2 Mcf  × $  2.71 =         $5

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Month total                                       $5

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/241985 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.