CURREY "C"

Operated by VALENCE OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 881167) in the PERSONVILLE N (COTTON VALLEY LM) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 145620District 05Field 70794500Hydrogen sulphide field2 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$104 k
May 1993 – Mar 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$612
at the published price for each month
Months reported
71
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 14 leases and 14 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1968-05-31
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 160 acres. The field rule took effect on 1993-03-29.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: EFF. 6-22-00 PER DOCKET #05-0224815.

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 Gas111993-10-20129456
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
CondensateDisposition2,557 bbl$40,134
GasProduction358,364 Mcf$63,389
Total$103,523

332,000 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 43 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 31.4480, -96.4784. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.44798, -96.47835 · 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
11,176 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
6.8 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 11,176 ft.

Completions filed
Nov 2004
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Aug 2011
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 6.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.8 years and 6.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-29331001211,176 ftNov 2004Aug 2011Yes

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 (71)

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

71 months

Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 199959010.381.90$612
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 1998030414.702.15$655
Dec 199701,27916.322.41$3,084
Nov 1997099218.193.09$3,064
Oct 199701,02719.253.15$3,235
Sep 199701,27917.742.95$3,779
Aug 1997054417.862.55$1,390
Jul 199701,20717.582.25$2,712
Jun 199703,73017.242.26$8,419
May 199704,66618.972.31$10,771
Apr 19971184,32017.882.08$11,107
Mar 199701,64218.951.94$3,184
Feb 199703,69220.492.21$8,144
Jan 199701,68223.483.54$5,954
Dec 199601,73423.32$0
Nov 199601,58821.97$0
Oct 199604,87023.31$0
Sep 199601,71122.22$0
Aug 199613,22420.26$20
Jul 199603,29019.55$0
Jun 199602,15718.73$0
May 199602,10419.43$0
Apr 199604,04021.51$0
Mar 199605,01019.38$0
Feb 19961904,45516.98$3,226
Jan 199603,75117.07$0
Dec 199507,34117.19$0
Nov 199501,52916.00$0
Oct 1995085415.43$0
Sep 199503,71016.18$0
Aug 199515,72315.92$16
Jul 199505,06115.24$0
Jun 199502,94016.41$0
May 199502,01817.56$0
Apr 199507,68417.73$0
Mar 199503,67216.44$0
Feb 199525,50016.58$33
Jan 199505,11315.92$0
Dec 199406,62115.03$0
Nov 19941859,05515.90$2,942
Oct 199403,34515.58$0
Sep 19940015.29$0
Aug 199415,55716.13$16
Jul 199407,06617.56$0
Jun 199403,74017.09$0
May 199403,80315.88$0
Apr 199416,70714.14$14
Mar 199406,19112.46$0
Feb 199417613,07812.50$2,200
Jan 199418719,39512.66$2,367
Dec 1993013,33812.33$0
Nov 19931815,32414.49$2,623
Oct 199309,51115.85$0
Sep 1993018,15215.03$0
Aug 199335717,16415.66$5,591
Jul 199318027,37615.46$2,783
Jun 199373035,09416.79$12,257
May 199318832,40417.68$3,324

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.

Jan 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            59 bbl  × $ 10.38 =       $612
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  1.90 =         $0

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Month total                                     $612

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/145620 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.