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VELA, J.M.

Operated by HILCORP ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 386310) in the LA PERLA (WILCOX 6800) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 289291District 04Field 50925860GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$162 k
May 2016 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$14 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
121
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
gas

The LA PERLA (WILCOX 6800) 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 34 leases and 34 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1977-08-13
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: “FIELD RETURNED TO ALLOCATION FORMULA EFFECTIVE 08/01/83”

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
GasProduction50,268 Mcf$161,888
Total$161,888

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 27.2836, -99.3773. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.28357, -99.37728 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
8,900 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
—
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
00.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
1100.0%

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 8,900 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 2016
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-5053201478,900 ftJun 2016——

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 (121)

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

121 months

May 2026305106.413.05$929
Apr 202627498.932.87$786
Mar 202632789.753.15$1,030
Feb 202631063.503.75$1,163
Jan 202634859.138.00$2,783
Dec 202531156.664.41$1,373
Nov 202530158.593.93$1,182
Oct 202531759.383.30$1,048
Sep 202530962.743.08$951
Aug 202533063.933.01$995
Jul 202533266.743.32$1,101
Jun 202532266.483.13$1,007
May 202533760.553.23$1,089
Apr 202532962.363.54$1,166
Mar 202533967.704.27$1,447
Feb 202531670.884.34$1,372
Jan 202535774.324.28$1,527
Dec 202435468.993.12$1,105
Nov 202434169.052.20$750
Oct 202435571.372.28$810
Sep 202432769.612.36$773
Aug 202440575.632.06$836
Jul 202444479.932.15$953
Jun 202442978.082.63$1,130
May 202443078.812.20$945
Apr 202441584.451.66$689
Mar 202444780.301.55$691
Feb 202444576.091.78$794
Jan 202453873.023.30$1,774
Dec 202383471.262.61$2,177
Nov 202320077.892.81$562
Oct 2023085.443.09$0
Sep 2023089.042.74$0
Aug 20231880.522.67$48
Jul 2023074.852.64$0
Jun 202332268.962.26$727
May 202341570.622.23$924
Apr 202324078.122.24$537
Mar 202341972.852.39$1,003
Feb 202340575.112.47$999
Jan 202349076.533.39$1,660
Dec 202254076.415.73$3,094
Nov 202268285.005.65$3,851
Oct 202225887.185.86$1,513
Sep 202215384.888.16$1,249
Aug 202215194.529.13$1,378
Jul 2022152101.587.54$1,146
Jun 2022184115.097.98$1,468
May 2022256109.378.43$2,159
Apr 2022445104.226.84$3,043
Mar 2022357108.885.08$1,812
Feb 202219991.054.86$967
Jan 202225081.844.54$1,134
Dec 202122171.323.90$862
Nov 202119977.435.24$1,042
Oct 202123979.795.71$1,366
Sep 202126769.865.35$1,429
Aug 202125866.024.22$1,089
Jul 202126670.783.98$1,059
Jun 202152069.493.38$1,758
May 202129963.483.02$902
Apr 202129560.362.76$814
Mar 202131261.302.72$848
Feb 202131257.805.55$1,731
Jan 202132750.412.81$919
Dec 202019744.642.68$527
Nov 202026438.772.71$715
Oct 202016536.972.48$409
Sep 202030137.091.99$599
Aug 202031939.982.39$761
Jul 202032838.371.83$599
Jun 202032134.901.69$543
May 202032816.921.81$595
Apr 202028414.751.80$512
Mar 202036730.341.86$681
Feb 202028049.881.98$555
Jan 202023657.252.09$494
Dec 201926059.012.30$599
Nov 201929655.302.75$814
Oct 201916053.472.42$387
Sep 201924755.052.66$656
Aug 201941153.112.30$947
Jul 201936856.272.46$905
Jun 201937152.782.49$924
May 201952458.482.74$1,436
Apr 201944562.632.75$1,224
Mar 201942656.803.06$1,304
Feb 201940450.852.79$1,128
Jan 201944046.033.23$1,420
Dec 201814246.594.19$594
Nov 201817552.934.24$742
Oct 201821961.443.40$744
Sep 201833559.543.11$1,041
Aug 201850859.403.07$1,558
Jul 201852565.142.93$1,539
Jun 201848360.183.08$1,486
May 201858465.382.90$1,694
Apr 201854763.842.90$1,587
Mar 201856261.222.79$1,566
Feb 201849361.782.77$1,364
Jan 201853062.874.01$2,125
Dec 201758657.272.92$1,712
Nov 201756455.423.12$1,759
Oct 201765449.292.98$1,951
Sep 201757047.523.09$1,760
Aug 201765645.373.00$1,971
Jul 201736043.873.09$1,111
Jun 201748742.493.09$1,504
May 201750645.373.26$1,651
Apr 201762747.933.21$2,014
Mar 201780346.772.98$2,396
Feb 201784750.452.95$2,501
Jan 201795249.413.42$3,255
Dec 201651748.763.72$1,925
Nov 201648742.492.64$1,288
Oct 201673646.193.09$2,274
Sep 20161,04041.553.10$3,225
Aug 20161,39341.442.92$4,074
Jul 20162,07541.622.92$6,068
Jun 20162,68445.352.69$7,209
May 2016042.521.99$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.

May 2026 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  305 Mcf  × $  3.05 =       $929

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Month total                                     $929

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/289291 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.