RISKEN, CARL F.

Name: RISKEN, CARL F. lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

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

Gas lease lease 78486District 04Field 28115200NGPA filingGasSave Export

Value, all time

$6.3 M

Jan 1993 – Feb 2006

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

158

no gaps in the span

Streams

gas

The EL PAISTLE, DEEP (FRIO) 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 55 leases and 55 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1964-07-21

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

933 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 2010-05-18.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “PLAT REQUIRED. ALLOCATION FORMULA REMAINS SUSPENDED.”

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.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	1	none	—	—

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Gas	Production	3,419,583 Mcf	$6,273,972
Total			$6,273,972

1,605,892 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 27.1636, -97.7002. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

27.16355, -97.70019 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

15,500 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

27.4 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 15,500 ft.

Completions filed

Sep 1978

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Feb 2006

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 27.4 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 27.4 years and 27.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-26130415	4	15,500 ft	Sep 1978	Feb 2006	Yes

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 (158)

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

158 months


Feb 2006	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	0	60.59	8.93	$0
Dec 2005	0	54.94	13.42	$0
Nov 2005	0	54.69	10.59	$0
Oct 2005	0	58.34	13.80	$0
Sep 2005	0	61.45	12.08	$0
Aug 2005	0	61.51	9.80	$0
Jul 2005	0	55.69	7.84	$0
Jun 2005	0	52.33	7.38	$0
May 2005	0	45.22	6.65	$0
Apr 2005	0	49.20	7.36	$0
Mar 2005	0	50.37	7.15	$0
Feb 2005	386	45.22	6.31	$2,436
Jan 2005	581	43.16	6.32	$3,673
Dec 2004	2,344	39.86	6.75	$15,825
Nov 2004	0	45.28	6.33	$0
Oct 2004	0	49.70	6.52	$0
Sep 2004	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	0	42.37	5.55	$0
Jul 2004	0	38.28	6.08	$0
Jun 2004	348	36.10	6.43	$2,239
May 2004	255	37.48	6.49	$1,656
Apr 2004	389	34.47	5.86	$2,279
Mar 2004	15,997	34.36	5.53	$88,466
Feb 2004	17,645	32.45	5.51	$97,217
Jan 2004	19,352	32.03	6.30	$121,911
Dec 2003	18,340	30.26	6.30	$115,572
Nov 2003	18,486	28.80	4.60	$84,946
Oct 2003	19,418	28.17	4.76	$92,423
Sep 2003	21,062	26.31	4.75	$100,031
Aug 2003	0	29.76	5.13	$0
Jul 2003	17,258	29.41	5.17	$89,238
Jun 2003	17,615	28.56	5.98	$105,390
May 2003	19,112	26.59	5.97	$114,150
Apr 2003	18,944	26.67	5.41	$102,436
Mar 2003	18,502	31.14	6.10	$112,789
Feb 2003	14,262	33.48	7.93	$113,039
Jan 2003	15,910	30.31	5.58	$88,810
Dec 2002	14,770	26.91	4.85	$71,690
Nov 2002	9,984	24.66	4.14	$41,303
Oct 2002	18,112	26.46	4.23	$76,598
Sep 2002	6,032	27.44	3.64	$21,928
Aug 2002	2,376	25.96	3.16	$7,518
Jul 2002	3,798	24.58	3.06	$11,629
Jun 2002	1,523	23.73	3.34	$5,084
May 2002	1,158	24.66	3.58	$4,150
Apr 2002	2,276	23.65	3.51	$7,994
Mar 2002	474	22.00	3.10	$1,471
Feb 2002	1,221	18.22	2.38	$2,901
Jan 2002	1,971	17.17	2.38	$4,682
Dec 2001	5,069	16.93	2.36	$11,985
Nov 2001	16,608	18.07	2.41	$39,951
Oct 2001	25,270	19.78	2.53	$63,905
Sep 2001	24,410	24.26	2.25	$54,955
Aug 2001	25,106	24.87	3.05	$76,653
Jul 2001	25,098	23.93	3.20	$80,240
Jun 2001	23,663	24.56	3.82	$90,491
May 2001	26,517	25.52	4.31	$114,217
Apr 2001	25,358	24.68	5.34	$135,293
Mar 2001	26,453	24.54	5.38	$142,223
Feb 2001	24,382	27.75	5.77	$140,613
Jan 2001	25,932	27.47	8.40	$217,797
Dec 2000	27,257	26.88	9.12	$248,652
Nov 2000	23,697	32.21	5.66	$134,078
Oct 2000	25,118	31.23	5.15	$129,245
Sep 2000	23,933	31.87	5.19	$124,129
Aug 2000	23,400	29.64	4.54	$106,254
Jul 2000	20,008	28.53	4.09	$81,828
Jun 2000	16,586	29.30	4.40	$72,933
May 2000	3,563	27.26	3.68	$13,111
Apr 2000	2,644	24.51	3.12	$8,239
Mar 2000	102	28.42	2.86	$292
Feb 2000	17,112	27.62	2.73	$46,656
Jan 2000	29,649	25.27	2.48	$73,544
Dec 1999	31,217	24.28	2.42	$75,661
Nov 1999	31,117	23.19	2.43	$75,738
Oct 1999	32,677	20.98	2.80	$91,617
Sep 1999	27,470	21.75	2.62	$71,940
Aug 1999	25,190	19.26	2.88	$72,436
Jul 1999	30,586	17.89	2.37	$72,561
Jun 1999	27,929	15.94	2.36	$65,971
May 1999	20,104	15.79	2.32	$46,662
Apr 1999	30,466	15.10	2.21	$67,270
Mar 1999	30,532	12.47	1.84	$56,128
Feb 1999	28,780	9.98	1.82	$52,316
Jan 1999	32,323	10.38	1.90	$61,412
Dec 1998	33,097	9.20	1.77	$58,692
Nov 1998	28,294	10.89	2.19	$61,843
Oct 1998	32,068	12.42	1.97	$63,149
Sep 1998	17,325	12.59	2.08	$36,081
Aug 1998	28,345	11.30	1.91	$54,064
Jul 1998	32,932	11.74	2.24	$73,678
Jun 1998	31,844	11.24	2.24	$71,244
May 1998	33,677	12.62	2.21	$74,303
Apr 1998	32,692	13.04	2.51	$81,904
Mar 1998	34,494	12.80	2.31	$79,662
Feb 1998	33,065	13.95	2.30	$76,021
Jan 1998	35,038	14.70	2.15	$75,500
Dec 1997	34,492	16.32	2.41	$83,164
Nov 1997	33,052	18.19	3.09	$102,073
Oct 1997	33,853	19.25	3.15	$106,631
Sep 1997	33,483	17.74	2.95	$98,938
Aug 1997	32,431	17.86	2.55	$82,853
Jul 1997	32,893	17.58	2.25	$73,909
Jun 1997	30,821	17.24	2.26	$69,569
May 1997	25,414	18.97	2.31	$58,668
Apr 1997	7,930	17.88	2.08	$16,516
Mar 1997	16,894	18.95	1.94	$32,760
Feb 1997	781	20.49	2.21	$1,723
Jan 1997	3,549	23.48	3.54	$12,562
Dec 1996	34,912	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	33,920	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	35,240	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	35,465	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	35,916	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	34,676	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	31,139	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	36,476	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	35,442	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	32,923	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	28,506	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	29,464	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	38,409	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	28,109	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	29,344	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	37,467	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	32,188	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	31,497	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	30,492	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	32,659	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	31,314	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	32,010	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	30,088	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	30,574	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	28,083	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	32,897	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	36,259	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	29,155	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	32,475	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	35,044	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	24,856	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	33,847	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	36,078	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	37,064	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	33,729	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	35,334	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	30,533	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	40,566	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	43,348	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	38,050	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	40,801	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	40,545	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	41,555	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	43,710	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	41,587	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	37,111	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	17,667	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	7,368	16.93	—	$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.

Feb 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Gas                  386 Mcf  × $  6.31 =     $2,436

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Month total                                   $2,436

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/78486 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.