BELL, E. GAS UNIT I

Name: BELL, E. GAS UNIT I lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by SMITH PRODUCTION INC. (P-5 789662) in the TABASCO (X) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 94601District 04Field 88103825NGPA filingCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$188 k

Jan 1993 – Aug 1999

Value, last 12 filed months

$63 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The TABASCO (X) 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 9 leases and 9 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1956-02-05

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: “TABASCO (CONSOLIDATED) 88103100”

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
Condensate	Disposition	1,841 bbl	$29,259
Gas	Production	197,846 Mcf	$158,732
Total			$187,991

128,975 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 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 26.2569, -98.4416. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

26.25689, -98.44159 · 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

8,898 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

7.6 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 8,898 ft.

Completions filed

Apr 2003

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Nov 2010

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 7.6 years and 7.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-21531125	6	8,898 ft	Apr 2003	Nov 2010	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 (80)

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

80 months


Aug 1999	0	1,949	19.26	2.88	$5,605
Jul 1999	22	1,506	17.89	2.37	$3,966
Jun 1999	28	2,281	15.94	2.36	$5,834
May 1999	54	3,422	15.79	2.32	$8,795
Apr 1999	36	3,476	15.10	2.21	$8,219
Mar 1999	55	2,299	12.47	1.84	$4,912
Feb 1999	47	2,769	9.98	1.82	$5,503
Jan 1999	29	2,018	10.38	1.90	$4,135
Dec 1998	30	1,115	9.20	1.77	$2,253
Nov 1998	42	2,779	10.89	2.19	$6,532
Oct 1998	33	3,371	12.42	1.97	$7,048
Sep 1998	6	13	12.59	2.08	$103
Aug 1998	22	1,507	11.30	1.91	$3,123
Jul 1998	26	2,219	11.74	2.24	$5,270
Jun 1998	33	1,693	11.24	2.24	$4,159
May 1998	31	3,060	12.62	2.21	$7,143
Apr 1998	31	2,832	13.04	2.51	$7,499
Mar 1998	16	1,020	12.80	2.31	$2,560
Feb 1998	22	2,053	13.95	2.30	$5,027
Jan 1998	25	1,588	14.70	2.15	$3,789
Dec 1997	31	2,957	16.32	2.41	$7,636
Nov 1997	12	207	18.19	3.09	$858
Oct 1997	29	2,651	19.25	3.15	$8,908
Sep 1997	24	2,161	17.74	2.95	$6,811
Aug 1997	23	2,026	17.86	2.55	$5,587
Jul 1997	22	2,882	17.58	2.25	$6,862
Jun 1997	11	30	17.24	2.26	$257
May 1997	23	2,790	18.97	2.31	$6,877
Apr 1997	31	2,351	17.88	2.08	$5,451
Mar 1997	56	5,334	18.95	1.94	$11,405
Feb 1997	9	21	20.49	2.21	$231
Jan 1997	22	2,491	23.48	3.54	$9,334
Dec 1996	19	1,284	23.32	—	$443
Nov 1996	11	1,557	21.97	—	$242
Oct 1996	32	2,987	23.31	—	$746
Sep 1996	22	3,322	22.22	—	$489
Aug 1996	12	660	20.26	—	$243
Jul 1996	35	3,118	19.55	—	$684
Jun 1996	27	3,737	18.73	—	$506
May 1996	21	2,130	19.43	—	$408
Apr 1996	23	1,743	21.51	—	$495
Mar 1996	37	2,392	19.38	—	$717
Feb 1996	37	3,673	16.98	—	$628
Jan 1996	46	4,354	17.07	—	$785
Dec 1995	11	344	17.19	—	$189
Nov 1995	28	3,459	16.00	—	$448
Oct 1995	6	341	15.43	—	$93
Sep 1995	37	4,736	16.18	—	$599
Aug 1995	4	0	15.92	—	$64
Jul 1995	16	1,707	15.24	—	$244
Jun 1995	20	1,860	16.41	—	$328
May 1995	11	2,693	17.56	—	$193
Apr 1995	21	3,369	17.73	—	$372
Mar 1995	13	1,702	16.44	—	$214
Feb 1995	20	1,547	16.58	—	$332
Jan 1995	14	3,197	15.92	—	$223
Dec 1994	0	1,136	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	0	2,725	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	0	2,997	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	0	1,515	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	0	2,390	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	4	2,682	17.56	—	$70
Jun 1994	21	3,152	17.09	—	$359
May 1994	33	2,885	15.88	—	$524
Apr 1994	34	3,071	14.14	—	$481
Mar 1994	45	3,414	12.46	—	$561
Feb 1994	27	3,376	12.50	—	$338
Jan 1994	24	1,608	12.66	—	$304
Dec 1993	40	6,001	12.33	—	$493
Nov 1993	11	2,014	14.49	—	$159
Oct 1993	22	3,462	15.85	—	$349
Sep 1993	16	2,973	15.03	—	$240
Aug 1993	22	2,595	15.66	—	$345
Jul 1993	16	4,664	15.46	—	$247
Jun 1993	11	1,577	16.79	—	$185
May 1993	19	3,723	17.68	—	$336
Apr 1993	19	2,965	18.05	—	$343
Mar 1993	20	3,255	18.14	—	$363
Feb 1993	24	4,061	17.90	—	$430
Jan 1993	29	4,822	16.93	—	$491

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.

Aug 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 19.26 =         $0
Gas                1,949 Mcf  × $  2.88 =     $5,605

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Month total                                   $5,605

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/94601 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.