SOUTH WESLACO GAS UNIT

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

Gas lease lease 87987District 04Field 96444180CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$135 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
140
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
1946-03-04
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
2,640 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

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

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
CondensateDisposition1,316 bbl$20,558
GasProduction220,707 Mcf$114,672
Total$135,229

172,940 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 26.1166, -98.0040. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.11662, -98.00401 · 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
9,600 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
24.3 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 9,600 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 1980
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Aug 2004
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 24.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 24.3 years and 24.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-21530874249,600 ftApr 1980Aug 2004Yes

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 (140)

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

140 months

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 199909521.752.62$249
Aug 199909319.262.88$267
Jul 1999010917.892.37$259
Jun 1999036515.942.36$862
May 1999017115.792.32$397
Apr 1999049015.102.21$1,082
Mar 1999018112.471.84$333
Feb 1999102869.981.82$620
Jan 1999048910.381.90$929
Dec 1998411,3709.201.77$2,807
Nov 1998080410.892.19$1,757
Oct 199801,12012.421.97$2,206
Sep 199801,27212.592.08$2,649
Aug 1998431,16711.301.91$2,712
Jul 199801,21911.742.24$2,727
Jun 1998501,26411.242.24$3,390
May 199801,39212.622.21$3,071
Apr 199801,40213.042.51$3,512
Mar 1998501,61612.802.31$4,372
Feb 199801,50713.952.30$3,465
Jan 199801,97514.702.15$4,256
Dec 199702,26816.322.41$5,468
Nov 1997422,23618.193.09$7,669
Oct 199702,33819.253.15$7,364
Sep 199702,31417.742.95$6,838
Aug 1997392,45617.862.55$6,971
Jul 199702,38917.582.25$5,368
Jun 199702,14317.242.26$4,837
May 1997302,57918.972.31$6,523
Apr 199702,83717.882.08$5,909
Mar 1997382,87418.951.94$6,293
Feb 199702,31120.492.21$5,098
Jan 199702,63523.483.54$9,327
Dec 1996372,93823.32$863
Nov 199602,65821.97$0
Oct 199672,93323.31$163
Sep 199602,93522.22$0
Aug 199613,06420.26$20
Jul 199633,19919.55$59
Jun 199613,09118.73$19
May 199663,41219.43$117
Apr 1996233,32321.51$495
Mar 1996203,48619.38$388
Feb 1996123,23516.98$204
Jan 199673,27917.07$119
Dec 199583,46317.19$138
Nov 1995193,35316.00$304
Oct 1995223,51715.43$339
Sep 1995253,03116.18$405
Aug 1995212,79815.92$334
Jul 1995163,31615.24$244
Jun 1995133,04116.41$213
May 1995183,32017.56$316
Apr 1995193,20217.73$337
Mar 1995223,31916.44$362
Feb 1995173,25816.58$282
Jan 1995182,53215.92$287
Dec 1994213,63315.03$316
Nov 1994574,32015.90$906
Oct 1994275,96815.58$421
Sep 1994514,94315.29$780
Aug 199403,96916.13$0
Jul 199403,20917.56$0
Jun 1994523,29217.09$889
May 1994473,25915.88$746
Apr 1994812,94014.14$1,145
Mar 199403,26312.46$0
Feb 1994792,98212.50$988
Jan 199403,63012.66$0
Dec 1993423,89612.33$518
Nov 1993573,79214.49$826
Oct 199304,23715.85$0
Sep 199304,18815.03$0
Aug 1993274,35915.66$423
Jul 199384,73615.46$124
Jun 199354,38816.79$84
May 199304,37617.68$0
Apr 199394,62218.05$162
Mar 1993195,01318.14$345
Feb 1993182,98817.90$322
Jan 1993385,23416.93$643

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.

Sep 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 21.75 =         $0
Gas                   95 Mcf  × $  2.62 =       $249

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Month total                                     $249

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/87987 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.