BENAVIDES, CARLOS

Operated by VALENCE OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 881167) in the PICOSO (WILCOX 8700) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 244398District 04Field 71385260CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$81 k
Jun 2008 – Jun 2017
Value, last 12 filed months
$96
at the published price for each month
Months reported
109
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 2 leases and 2 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1998-05-14
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

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ONE WELL FIELD EFF 07/01/09.

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
CondensateDisposition78 bbl$4,818
GasProduction9,969 Mcf$76,606
Total$81,424

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 27.5337, -98.9366. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.53373, -98.93658 · 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
8,750 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
8.1 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 8,750 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 2008
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 2016
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 8.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 8.1 years and 8.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4793373428,750 ftJun 2008Jul 2016Yes

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 (109)

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

109 months

Jun 20170042.493.09$0
May 20170045.373.26$0
Apr 20172047.933.21$96
Mar 20170046.772.98$0
Feb 20170050.452.95$0
Jan 20170049.413.42$0
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 20150048.152.95$0
Jun 20150056.152.88$0
May 20150055.212.96$0
Apr 20150049.822.71$0
Mar 20150042.892.93$0
Feb 20150044.662.98$0
Jan 20150843.433.10$25
Dec 201401254.693.59$43
Nov 201407970.464.25$336
Oct 201408978.303.90$347
Sep 2014010286.164.05$413
Aug 2014010789.394.04$432
Jul 2014011096.564.18$460
Jun 201409198.164.74$431
May 201401994.734.73$90
Apr 201402895.944.81$135
Mar 201403995.895.06$197
Feb 201402897.406.19$173
Jan 20140390.404.86$15
Dec 201304491.824.35$192
Nov 201303188.853.74$116
Oct 201303597.423.78$132
Sep 2013044104.113.72$164
Aug 2013446104.253.52$579
Jul 2013026102.523.72$97
Jun 201303294.403.93$126
May 201303294.834.15$133
Apr 201308093.964.28$343
Mar 201302893.623.91$110
Feb 201303391.233.42$113
Jan 201303291.603.42$109
Dec 201202786.773.42$92
Nov 201204386.953.62$156
Oct 201206889.383.40$231
Sep 20120494.672.92$12
Aug 201207792.662.91$224
Jul 2012013885.133.02$417
Jun 201204679.822.52$116
May 201203891.612.49$95
Apr 2012010101.652.00$20
Mar 2012020105.052.22$44
Feb 2012021101.102.57$54
Jan 201205598.092.73$150
Dec 201103696.873.24$117
Nov 201102895.723.31$93
Oct 20110684.983.65$22
Sep 201101183.623.99$44
Aug 201101983.404.15$79
Jul 201107194.144.52$321
Jun 20112792.904.64$218
May 201103298.134.40$141
Apr 2011024105.964.33$104
Mar 2011013896.364.06$560
Feb 20110385.644.18$13
Jan 20110386.504.59$14
Dec 201001485.734.35$61
Nov 20100780.843.80$27
Oct 201003878.103.51$133
Sep 20100272.633.98$8
Aug 20100773.684.42$31
Jul 20100872.554.74$38
Jun 201004270.364.91$206
May 201006571.124.24$275
Apr 201005481.694.12$223
Mar 201003178.394.39$136
Feb 201002573.585.44$136
Jan 2010013974.365.96$829
Dec 2009244771.445.48$1,972
Nov 200901974.593.75$71
Oct 200903872.544.11$156
Sep 200903565.543.06$107
Aug 2009013667.423.22$438
Jul 2009019361.133.46$669
Jun 2009022266.163.90$865
May 2009013254.743.93$518
Apr 20094316346.773.59$2,596
Mar 2009019442.144.06$787
Feb 2009010632.814.63$491
Jan 200907135.865.37$381
Dec 200808237.105.98$490
Nov 2008026955.496.86$1,845
Oct 2008046875.246.92$3,239
Sep 200801,247101.767.88$9,823
Aug 20080980114.228.48$8,313
Jul 200801,272131.0811.39$14,487
Jun 200831,760131.3313.03$23,331

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.

Apr 2017 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             2 bbl  × $ 47.93 =        $96
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  3.21 =         $0

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Month total                                      $96

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/244398 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.