ARCHER-BATTLE

Operated by MARATHON OIL COMPANY (P-5 525380) in the OLETHA (TRAVIS PEAK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 145575District 05Field 671026202 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$2.4 M
Mar 1993 – Sep 2014
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
259
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 88 leases and 88 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1992-02-23
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 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 1995-03-21.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: DENSITY REMAINS STATEWIDE.

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
High Cost Gas111993-09-08127453
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
CondensateDisposition3,678 bbl$78,092
GasProduction1,430,612 Mcf$2,272,685
Total$2,350,777

749,511 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 46 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 31.3941, -96.4086. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.39414, -96.40858 · 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
9,225 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
14.3 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 9,225 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 2000
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2014
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.3 years and 14.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2933080419,225 ftJun 2000Sep 2014Yes

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 (259)

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

259 months

Sep 20140086.164.05$0
Aug 20140089.394.04$0
Jul 20140096.564.18$0
Jun 20140098.164.74$0
May 20140094.734.73$0
Apr 20140095.944.81$0
Mar 20140095.895.06$0
Feb 20140097.406.19$0
Jan 20140090.404.86$0
Dec 20130091.824.35$0
Nov 20130088.853.74$0
Oct 20130097.423.78$0
Sep 201300104.113.72$0
Aug 201300104.253.52$0
Jul 201300102.523.72$0
Jun 20130094.403.93$0
May 20130094.834.15$0
Apr 20130093.964.28$0
Mar 20130093.623.91$0
Feb 20130091.233.42$0
Jan 20130091.603.42$0
Dec 20120086.773.42$0
Nov 20120086.953.62$0
Oct 20120089.383.40$0
Sep 20120094.672.92$0
Aug 20120092.662.91$0
Jul 20120085.133.02$0
Jun 20120079.822.52$0
May 20120091.612.49$0
Apr 2012037101.652.00$74
Mar 201200105.052.22$0
Feb 2012031101.102.57$80
Jan 201203098.092.73$82
Dec 20110096.873.24$0
Nov 20110095.723.31$0
Oct 20110084.983.65$0
Sep 20110083.623.99$0
Aug 20110083.404.15$0
Jul 20110094.144.52$0
Jun 20110092.904.64$0
May 20110098.134.40$0
Apr 201100105.964.33$0
Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 20100072.554.74$0
Jun 20100070.364.91$0
May 20100671.124.24$25
Apr 201002581.694.12$103
Mar 201003278.394.39$140
Feb 201002373.585.44$125
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090665.543.06$18
Aug 200901267.423.22$39
Jul 20090961.133.46$31
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20090042.144.06$0
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 20080137.105.98$6
Nov 20080255.496.86$14
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200804101.767.88$32
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 2008013131.3313.03$169
May 200807123.1711.57$81
Apr 200803110.3110.45$31
Mar 200803101.909.66$29
Feb 20080292.538.77$18
Jan 200804990.388.21$402
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 200702491.677.29$175
Oct 200701682.856.92$111
Sep 200702875.846.24$175
Aug 200702069.066.39$128
Jul 200702670.906.39$166
Jun 200702562.007.55$189
May 200704258.747.85$330
Apr 200702559.617.81$195
Mar 20070756.927.30$51
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 200601554.906.01$90
Sep 200607360.085.04$368
Aug 200609368.717.34$683
Jul 200608169.376.34$514
Jun 2006011466.286.38$728
May 2006015166.016.42$970
Apr 2006011964.397.36$876
Mar 2006011256.707.08$793
Feb 2006011457.597.75$884
Jan 2006012960.598.93$1,152
Dec 2005013754.9413.42$1,838
Nov 2005124654.6910.59$2,659
Oct 2005023858.3413.80$3,283
Sep 2005019361.4512.08$2,331
Aug 2005013561.519.80$1,323
Jul 200516255.697.84$542
Jun 200507552.337.38$554
May 200507245.226.65$479
Apr 2005615349.207.36$1,421
Mar 2005914850.377.15$1,512
Feb 2005012945.226.31$814
Jan 20051521043.166.32$1,975
Dec 2004021139.866.75$1,424
Nov 2004719245.286.33$1,532
Oct 200428849.706.52$673
Sep 2004741043.245.28$2,469
Aug 2004202,44742.375.55$14,430
Jul 200483,33238.286.08$20,579
Jun 200403,51536.106.43$22,612
May 200464,20937.486.49$27,561
Apr 2004124,36834.475.86$26,003
Mar 200403,45834.365.53$19,123
Feb 2004738432.455.51$2,343
Jan 200402,29532.036.30$14,458
Dec 200303,19530.266.30$20,134
Nov 200303,15828.804.60$14,512
Oct 200303,84328.174.76$18,291
Sep 2003105,03326.314.75$24,167
Aug 200375,59929.765.13$28,930
Jul 200305,71729.415.17$29,562
Jun 200355,56428.565.98$33,432
May 200351,89026.595.97$11,421
Apr 2003698126.675.41$5,465
Mar 200315,68231.146.10$34,669
Feb 200315,40733.487.93$42,889
Jan 200396,20330.315.58$34,898
Dec 200206,53126.914.85$31,700
Nov 200206,43224.664.14$26,609
Oct 2002116,60126.464.23$28,207
Sep 200205,75127.443.64$20,906
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 200207,07723.733.34$23,625
May 200207,32824.663.58$26,264
Apr 200208,51523.653.51$29,907
Mar 200208,00422.003.10$24,834
Feb 2002147,54918.222.38$18,189
Jan 200208,69517.172.38$20,657
Dec 200109,13216.932.36$21,592
Nov 200109,14118.072.41$21,989
Oct 200151,86319.782.53$4,810
Sep 2001345524.262.25$1,097
Aug 200102,72824.873.05$8,329
Jul 200119884323.933.20$7,433
Jun 200105,74024.563.82$21,951
May 2001710,50625.524.31$45,431
Apr 2001010,67724.685.34$56,965
Mar 200167,01824.545.38$37,879
Feb 200132,33027.755.77$13,521
Jan 200163,77927.478.40$31,904
Dec 2000910,22126.889.12$93,483
Nov 200075,58832.215.66$31,842
Oct 200001,31131.235.15$6,746
Sep 20001847,46731.875.19$44,592
Aug 20001807,95029.644.54$41,434
Jul 200036926,03128.534.09$116,988
Jun 200014,76829.304.40$20,995
May 200005,39527.263.68$19,852
Apr 200004,93024.513.12$15,362
Mar 200006,28228.422.86$17,965
Feb 200006,24627.622.73$17,030
Jan 200006,40725.272.48$15,893
Dec 199906,78124.282.42$16,435
Nov 19991926,61323.192.43$20,548
Oct 199906,83220.982.80$19,155
Sep 199908,01721.752.62$20,995
Aug 199919,11719.262.88$26,236
Jul 199902,72317.892.37$6,460
Jun 199907,10815.942.36$16,790
May 199907,68315.792.32$17,832
Apr 199906,03715.102.21$13,330
Mar 19991848,49412.471.84$17,909
Feb 199907,8319.981.82$14,235
Jan 199909,37610.381.90$17,814
Dec 19981919,6149.201.77$18,806
Nov 199809,82710.892.19$21,479
Oct 1998010,01412.421.97$19,720
Sep 1998010,08512.592.08$21,003
Aug 1998110,32611.301.91$19,707
Jul 199818,12911.742.24$18,199
Jun 199806,07411.242.24$13,589
May 1998010,44112.622.21$23,036
Apr 19981859,29313.042.51$25,694
Mar 199817,93612.802.31$18,341
Feb 199819,92113.952.30$22,824
Jan 1998112,30414.702.15$26,527
Dec 1997111,66016.322.41$28,130
Nov 199718716,32718.193.09$53,824
Oct 1997113,20719.253.15$41,619
Sep 199719311,19017.742.95$36,489
Aug 1997512,47317.862.55$31,955
Jul 199719114,10817.582.25$35,058
Jun 199718514,98017.242.26$37,002
May 1997021,04018.972.31$48,571
Apr 199718023,40617.882.08$51,968
Mar 1997418,25818.951.94$35,481
Feb 1997314,09720.492.21$31,158
Jan 199718023.483.54$423
Dec 199673,66223.32$163
Nov 1996014,94921.97$0
Oct 199619016,71423.31$4,429
Sep 1996017,07322.22$0
Aug 1996516,20520.26$101
Jul 1996821,86119.55$156
Jun 1996025,22818.73$0
May 199619030,79719.43$3,692
Apr 199618533,04621.51$3,979
Mar 19961041,32919.38$194
Feb 1996941,46116.98$153
Jan 1996143,15917.07$17
Dec 199534,53817.19$52
Nov 199503,50616.00$0
Oct 199503,09515.43$0
Sep 199504,21616.18$0
Aug 199502,18015.92$0
Jul 1995092115.24$0
Jun 199502,41516.41$0
May 199524,96917.56$35
Apr 199513,42817.73$18
Mar 19951114,48416.44$1,825
Feb 199512,95316.58$17
Jan 199524,76915.92$32
Dec 199416,26115.03$15
Nov 199435,76615.90$48
Oct 199427,23915.58$31
Sep 199427,88715.29$31
Aug 1994811,59216.13$129
Jul 199404,75517.56$0
Jun 199428,84517.09$34
May 199418,25515.88$16
Apr 1994315,02714.14$42
Mar 1994721,54312.46$87
Feb 19941118,65612.50$138
Jan 1994112,65912.66$13
Dec 1993110,08212.33$12
Nov 1993213,76314.49$29
Oct 1993216,12015.85$32
Sep 1993321,70315.03$45
Aug 1993122,13715.66$16
Jul 1993329,14915.46$46
Jun 19931436,01816.79$235
May 19931249,91817.68$212
Apr 1993064,56718.05$0
Mar 1993010,61118.14$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.

Apr 2012 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $101.65 =         $0
Gas                   37 Mcf  × $  2.00 =        $74

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Month total                                      $74

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. 05/G/145575 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.