CARTER, MATTIE K.

Operated by FORTSON OIL COMPANY (P-5 278563) in the BUTLER (SUBCLARKSVILLE) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 166078District 05Field 14009425CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$434 k
Oct 1997 – May 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$5 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
128
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 1 leases and 1 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1997-10-25
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

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
CondensateDisposition430 bbl$19,981
GasProduction98,428 Mcf$413,573
Total$433,554

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 31.6185, -95.9392. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.61849, -95.93923 · 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
5,650 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
10.6 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 5,650 ft.

Completions filed
Oct 1997
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2008
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 10.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 10.6 years and 10.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-1613120735,650 ftOct 1997May 2008Yes

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 (128)

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

128 months

May 2008440123.1711.57$5,419
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 2007022858.747.85$1,789
Apr 2007054459.617.81$4,246
Mar 2007014756.927.30$1,073
Feb 2007025755.108.22$2,112
Jan 200701250.306.73$81
Dec 2006014656.656.92$1,010
Nov 2006097054.207.62$7,389
Oct 2006020654.906.01$1,239
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 2006179064.397.36$11,526
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 2006039357.597.75$3,046
Jan 2006057460.598.93$5,128
Dec 2005061354.9413.42$8,224
Nov 2005067454.6910.59$7,137
Oct 2005065458.3413.80$9,022
Sep 2005062061.4512.08$7,489
Aug 2005056561.519.80$5,535
Jul 2005058855.697.84$4,612
Jun 2005057152.337.38$4,215
May 200502,03645.226.65$13,542
Apr 2005069949.207.36$5,145
Mar 2005079450.377.15$5,681
Feb 2005066445.226.31$4,191
Jan 2005082543.166.32$5,216
Dec 2004082839.866.75$5,590
Nov 2004078545.286.33$4,969
Oct 2004097849.706.52$6,372
Sep 2004076243.245.28$4,026
Aug 2004082042.375.55$4,552
Jul 2004087538.286.08$5,324
Jun 2004083936.106.43$5,397
May 2004099837.486.49$6,482
Apr 200401,01534.475.86$5,946
Mar 2004172434.365.53$4,038
Feb 2004182432.455.51$4,572
Jan 2004063232.036.30$3,981
Dec 2003065130.266.30$4,102
Nov 2003065428.804.60$3,005
Oct 2003042928.174.76$2,042
Sep 2003065526.314.75$3,111
Aug 2003097929.765.13$5,022
Jul 2003160929.415.17$3,178
Jun 2003055528.565.98$3,321
May 2003038826.595.97$2,317
Apr 2003187026.675.41$4,731
Mar 2003074131.146.10$4,517
Feb 2003058233.487.93$4,613
Jan 2003068430.315.58$3,818
Dec 2002063226.914.85$3,068
Nov 2002076324.664.14$3,157
Oct 2002087326.464.23$3,692
Sep 2002070527.443.64$2,563
Aug 2002094025.963.16$2,974
Jul 2002096224.583.06$2,945
Jun 2002082123.733.34$2,741
May 2002039424.663.58$1,412
Apr 2002045323.653.51$1,591
Mar 2002052522.003.10$1,629
Feb 2002033018.222.38$784
Jan 2002054817.172.38$1,302
Dec 2001048116.932.36$1,137
Nov 2001054018.072.41$1,299
Oct 2001037019.782.53$936
Sep 2001042224.262.25$950
Aug 2001038224.873.05$1,166
Jul 2001057923.933.20$1,851
Jun 2001029624.563.82$1,132
May 2001057725.524.31$2,485
Apr 2001070224.685.34$3,745
Mar 2001056924.545.38$3,059
Feb 2001069427.755.77$4,002
Jan 2001093027.478.40$7,811
Dec 2000160126.889.12$5,510
Nov 2000087832.215.66$4,968
Oct 2000097931.235.15$5,037
Sep 2000077131.875.19$3,999
Aug 2000054329.644.54$2,466
Jul 2000069328.534.09$2,834
Jun 2000085229.304.40$3,746
May 200001,04827.263.68$3,856
Apr 200001,00524.513.12$3,132
Mar 2000077528.422.86$2,216
Feb 2000080227.622.73$2,187
Jan 2000093025.272.48$2,307
Dec 1999075024.282.42$1,818
Nov 1999060623.192.43$1,475
Oct 1999035620.982.80$998
Sep 1999058921.752.62$1,543
Aug 1999090319.262.88$2,597
Jul 1999087317.892.37$2,071
Jun 199901,20015.942.36$2,835
May 1999041315.792.32$959
Apr 1999035315.102.21$779
Mar 1999078512.471.84$1,443
Feb 199901,0809.981.82$1,963
Jan 199911,97810.381.90$3,768
Dec 199806809.201.77$1,206
Nov 1998014210.892.19$310
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 199801,49912.592.08$3,122
Aug 1998075511.301.91$1,440
Jul 199831,00011.742.24$2,272
Jun 199811,23111.242.24$2,765
May 199802,06912.622.21$4,565
Apr 199811,96913.042.51$4,946
Mar 199813,06812.802.31$7,098
Feb 19981743,64913.952.30$10,817
Jan 199806,02614.702.15$12,985
Dec 199737,01716.322.41$16,968
Nov 1997183,33218.193.09$10,618
Oct 199701,08319.253.15$3,411

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.

May 2008 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            44 bbl  × $123.17 =     $5,419
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $ 11.57 =         $0

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Month total                                   $5,419

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/166078 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.