VIBORAS FIELD GAS UNIT NO 1

Operated by EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION (P-5 257128) in the VIBORAS (FRIO CONS.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 78380District 04Field 93647126NGPA filingGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$2.5 M
Jan 1993 – Oct 2007
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
178
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
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 43 leases and 43 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1996-05-24
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 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 1996-05-03.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AOF-1 AND AOF-2 EFFECTIVE 06/01/2013.

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
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
GasProduction1,693,066 Mcf$2,481,890
Total$2,481,890

911,137 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 26.9558, -98.0416. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.95584, -98.04156 · 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
8,701 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
16.2 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 8,701 ft.

Completions filed
Aug 1991
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Oct 2007
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 16.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 16.2 years and 16.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-04730617V 70 D8,701 ftAug 1991Oct 2007Yes

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 (178)

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

178 months

Oct 2007082.856.92$0
Sep 2007075.846.24$0
Aug 2007069.066.39$0
Jul 2007070.906.39$0
Jun 2007062.007.55$0
May 2007058.747.85$0
Apr 2007059.617.81$0
Mar 2007056.927.30$0
Feb 2007055.108.22$0
Jan 2007050.306.73$0
Dec 2006056.656.92$0
Nov 2006054.207.62$0
Oct 2006054.906.01$0
Sep 2006060.085.04$0
Aug 2006068.717.34$0
Jul 2006069.376.34$0
Jun 2006066.286.38$0
May 2006066.016.42$0
Apr 2006064.397.36$0
Mar 2006056.707.08$0
Feb 2006057.597.75$0
Jan 2006060.598.93$0
Dec 2005054.9413.42$0
Nov 2005054.6910.59$0
Oct 2005058.3413.80$0
Sep 2005061.4512.08$0
Aug 2005061.519.80$0
Jul 2005055.697.84$0
Jun 2005052.337.38$0
May 2005045.226.65$0
Apr 2005049.207.36$0
Mar 2005050.377.15$0
Feb 2005045.226.31$0
Jan 2005043.166.32$0
Dec 2004039.866.75$0
Nov 2004045.286.33$0
Oct 2004049.706.52$0
Sep 2004043.245.28$0
Aug 2004042.375.55$0
Jul 2004038.286.08$0
Jun 2004036.106.43$0
May 2004037.486.49$0
Apr 2004034.475.86$0
Mar 2004034.365.53$0
Feb 2004032.455.51$0
Jan 2004032.036.30$0
Dec 2003030.266.30$0
Nov 2003028.804.60$0
Oct 200358528.174.76$2,784
Sep 2003026.314.75$0
Aug 200333829.765.13$1,734
Jul 200399329.415.17$5,135
Jun 20031,01028.565.98$6,043
May 20032,52326.595.97$15,069
Apr 20032,74326.675.41$14,832
Mar 20033,26731.146.10$19,916
Feb 20032,28933.487.93$18,142
Jan 20033,24330.315.58$18,103
Dec 20025,62226.914.85$27,288
Nov 20025,14424.664.14$21,281
Oct 20026,31726.464.23$26,715
Sep 20024,40727.443.64$16,020
Aug 20023,80425.963.16$12,036
Jul 20023,84424.583.06$11,769
Jun 20022,56823.733.34$8,573
May 20025,93224.663.58$21,260
Apr 20027,68723.653.51$26,999
Mar 20028,19122.003.10$25,414
Feb 20028,46618.222.38$20,113
Jan 200211,03517.172.38$26,216
Dec 200112,22616.932.36$28,907
Nov 200111,47718.072.41$27,608
Oct 200112,51719.782.53$31,654
Sep 20019,87524.262.25$22,232
Aug 200111,60624.873.05$35,435
Jul 200110,25623.933.20$32,789
Jun 20013,12824.563.82$11,962
May 20019,31625.524.31$40,127
Apr 200112,54224.685.34$66,916
Mar 200110,12924.545.38$54,458
Feb 20016,76927.755.77$39,037
Jan 200111,97927.478.40$100,609
Dec 200010,07626.889.12$91,918
Nov 200010,95732.215.66$61,995
Oct 200013,29231.235.15$68,394
Sep 200011,68231.875.19$60,589
Aug 200013,99329.644.54$63,539
Jul 200012,05928.534.09$49,318
Jun 200014,52429.304.40$63,866
May 200014,61027.263.68$53,761
Apr 200016,64624.513.12$51,869
Mar 200015,26228.422.86$43,646
Feb 20005,39327.622.73$14,704
Jan 200010725.272.48$265
Dec 199910,37624.282.42$25,149
Nov 19994,43023.192.43$10,783
Oct 199911,82420.982.80$33,151
Sep 19995,52521.752.62$14,469
Aug 1999019.262.88$0
Jul 19998,37617.892.37$19,871
Jun 199911,48215.942.36$27,122
May 19998,29315.792.32$19,248
Apr 199910,91515.102.21$24,101
Mar 199910,49712.471.84$19,297
Feb 19998,1969.981.82$14,899
Jan 19998,30010.381.90$15,770
Dec 19988,1839.201.77$14,511
Nov 199812,19610.892.19$26,657
Oct 199811,73412.421.97$23,107
Sep 19989,68912.592.08$20,179
Aug 199811,57511.301.91$22,078
Jul 199811,07911.742.24$24,787
Jun 199812,47211.242.24$27,903
May 199813,64612.622.21$30,108
Apr 199813,39113.042.51$33,549
Mar 199814,24312.802.31$32,893
Feb 199812,65013.952.30$29,084
Jan 199816,23814.702.15$34,989
Dec 199713,86316.322.41$33,425
Nov 199712,93718.193.09$39,953
Oct 199715,64319.253.15$49,273
Sep 199715,60617.742.95$46,114
Aug 199714,71517.862.55$37,593
Jul 199717,13017.582.25$38,490
Jun 199713,80017.242.26$31,149
May 199716,64318.972.31$38,420
Apr 199716,13717.882.08$33,610
Mar 199716,37718.951.94$31,757
Feb 199715,47920.492.21$34,145
Jan 199717,86023.483.54$63,219
Dec 199617,40223.32$0
Nov 199616,06221.97$0
Oct 199616,08623.31$0
Sep 199618,13022.22$0
Aug 199617,38620.26$0
Jul 199616,51119.55$0
Jun 199616,85618.73$0
May 199617,06719.43$0
Apr 199615,82321.51$0
Mar 199617,45419.38$0
Feb 199616,15716.98$0
Jan 199616,28617.07$0
Dec 199517,90817.19$0
Nov 199519,14816.00$0
Oct 199522,37315.43$0
Sep 19958,25316.18$0
Aug 199515,39015.92$0
Jul 199521,89115.24$0
Jun 199520,78516.41$0
May 199521,00217.56$0
Apr 199518,21517.73$0
Mar 199520,29316.44$0
Feb 199519,74516.58$0
Jan 199520,38015.92$0
Dec 199418,52715.03$0
Nov 199418,30815.90$0
Oct 199419,20015.58$0
Sep 199416,70915.29$0
Aug 199423,78416.13$0
Jul 199422,93317.56$0
Jun 199421,27817.09$0
May 199424,21315.88$0
Apr 19946,89114.14$0
Mar 199415,91912.46$0
Feb 199417,04012.50$0
Jan 199420,11212.66$0
Dec 199319,09312.33$0
Nov 199320,43814.49$0
Oct 199319,00615.85$0
Sep 199321,48615.03$0
Aug 199321,39215.66$0
Jul 199319,76415.46$0
Jun 199325,89416.79$0
May 199321,72317.68$0
Apr 199323,98918.05$0
Mar 199324,15518.14$0
Feb 199323,13217.90$0
Jan 199319,54816.93$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.

Oct 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  585 Mcf  × $  4.76 =     $2,784

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Month total                                   $2,784

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/78380 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.