LA BLANCA GAS UNIT

Operated by APACHE CORPORATION (P-5 27200) in the LA BLANCA ( 7400 11-A) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 61198District 04Field 50658330CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$83 k
Jan 1993 – Sep 2005
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
153
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 7 leases and 7 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1947-11-17
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
2,640 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 160 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: CONSOLIDATED).

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
CondensateDisposition1,571 bbl$27,175
GasProduction270,448 Mcf$55,729
Total$82,903

248,678 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 months, carries no value here. No free Texas wellhead gas price exists before 1997, so those months are left out of the total rather than valued at zero. The total above is therefore a floor, not an estimate.

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 26.3180, -98.0294. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.31802, -98.02939 · 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
8,059 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
30.5 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 8,059 ft.

Completions filed
Mar 1975
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2005
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 30.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 30.5 years and 30.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2150103058,059 ftMar 1975Sep 2005Yes

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 (153)

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

153 months

Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 199724718.193.09$182
Oct 1997232,01719.253.15$6,796
Sep 1997312,46117.742.95$7,822
Aug 1997322,70317.862.55$7,477
Jul 19971889517.582.25$2,327
Jun 1997371,96717.242.26$5,078
May 1997272,88618.972.31$7,175
Apr 1997422,01917.882.08$4,956
Mar 1997332,06818.951.94$4,635
Feb 1997242,20220.492.21$5,349
Jan 1997252,50523.483.54$9,454
Dec 1996353,07623.32$816
Nov 1996264,22721.97$571
Oct 1996364,39923.31$839
Sep 1996364,50622.22$800
Aug 1996274,68620.26$547
Jul 1996264,78719.55$508
Jun 1996363,66918.73$674
May 1996174,28619.43$330
Apr 1996414,05321.51$882
Mar 1996344,69119.38$659
Feb 1996214,41016.98$357
Jan 1996374,22217.07$632
Dec 1995354,50117.19$602
Nov 1995184,18516.00$288
Oct 1995144,30015.43$216
Sep 1995254,14916.18$405
Aug 1995304,41815.92$478
Jul 1995274,80115.24$411
Jun 1995314,71216.41$509
May 1995374,92317.56$650
Apr 1995285,04417.73$496
Mar 1995375,27416.44$608
Feb 1995264,76616.58$431
Jan 1995305,41915.92$478
Dec 1994285,24115.03$421
Nov 1994584,81215.90$922
Oct 1994545,10315.58$841
Sep 1994305,10315.29$459
Aug 1994405,50016.13$645
Jul 1994285,74617.56$492
Jun 1994396,43617.09$667
May 1994406,03115.88$635
Apr 1994365,51814.14$509
Mar 1994485,52212.46$598
Feb 1994385,11112.50$475
Jan 1994395,75712.66$494
Dec 1993286,10312.33$345
Nov 1993265,93014.49$377
Oct 199396,80615.85$143
Sep 199316,25215.03$15
Aug 199306,18415.66$0
Jul 199346,40215.46$62
Jun 199326,33316.79$34
May 199336,12117.68$53
Apr 199306,74518.05$0
Mar 199346,42418.14$73
Feb 199355,69617.90$90
Jan 199376,29816.93$119

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 1997 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             2 bbl  × $ 18.19 =        $36
Gas                   47 Mcf  × $  3.09 =       $145

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Month total                                     $182

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/61198 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.