WETTERMARK

Operated by XTO ENERGY INC. (P-5 945936) in the REED (BOSSIER SAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 169986District 05Field 75509050Hydrogen sulphide field2 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$368 k
Aug 1998 – Jan 2006
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
90
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
1979-08-30
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 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1999-07-27.

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: THE REED (HAYNESVILLE CONS.) FIELD.

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 Gas112004-04-14155989
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
CondensateDisposition336 bbl$10,261
GasProduction105,179 Mcf$357,418
Total$367,679

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 31.6507, -96.2565. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.65072, -96.25649 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
12,480 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
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 12,480 ft.

Completions filed
Aug 1998
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-16130415112,480 ftAug 1998Yes

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 (90)

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

90 months

Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 200537050.377.15$1,864
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 2005156743.166.32$3,628
Dec 2004101639.866.75$507
Nov 2004056145.286.33$3,551
Oct 2004035049.706.52$2,280
Sep 2004041743.245.28$2,203
Aug 2004041542.375.55$2,304
Jul 2004043838.286.08$2,665
Jun 2004051136.106.43$3,287
May 2004057737.486.49$3,747
Apr 2004061934.475.86$3,626
Mar 2004072434.365.53$4,004
Feb 2004067132.455.51$3,697
Jan 200401,01232.036.30$6,375
Dec 2003083930.266.30$5,287
Nov 2003081428.804.60$3,740
Oct 200320182128.174.76$9,570
Sep 2003073126.314.75$3,472
Aug 2003075229.765.13$3,858
Jul 2003079529.415.17$4,111
Jun 2003089628.565.98$5,361
May 2003085226.595.97$5,089
Apr 2003081126.675.41$4,385
Mar 2003084131.146.10$5,127
Feb 2003074133.487.93$5,873
Jan 2003079430.315.58$4,432
Dec 2002080626.914.85$3,912
Nov 2002079224.664.14$3,276
Oct 2002084126.464.23$3,557
Sep 2002078427.443.64$2,850
Aug 2002180225.963.16$2,564
Jul 200201,00124.583.06$3,065
Jun 2002191823.733.34$3,088
May 2002090424.663.58$3,240
Apr 2002087223.653.51$3,063
Mar 2002068122.003.10$2,113
Feb 2002084018.222.38$1,996
Jan 2002076417.172.38$1,815
Dec 2001088116.932.36$2,083
Nov 2001188618.072.41$2,149
Oct 2001091319.782.53$2,309
Sep 2001388624.262.25$2,067
Aug 200101,02424.873.05$3,126
Jul 200131,10123.933.20$3,592
Jun 200101,00024.563.82$3,824
May 200101,11625.524.31$4,807
Apr 200101,16824.685.34$6,232
Mar 200101,14524.545.38$6,156
Feb 200101,00327.755.77$5,784
Jan 200101,18627.478.40$9,961
Dec 200001,10826.889.12$10,108
Nov 200001,13232.215.66$6,405
Oct 200001,20231.235.15$6,185
Sep 200001,25831.875.19$6,525
Aug 200001,30329.644.54$5,917
Jul 200001,30228.534.09$5,325
Jun 200011,30629.304.40$5,772
May 200001,32127.263.68$4,861
Apr 200001,30924.513.12$4,079
Mar 200001,39928.422.86$4,001
Feb 2000711,27927.622.73$5,448
Jan 200001,44525.272.48$3,584
Dec 199901,50624.282.42$3,650
Nov 199901,38323.192.43$3,366
Oct 199901,76020.982.80$4,935
Sep 199901,74321.752.62$4,565
Aug 199932,15619.262.88$6,258
Jul 199902,27717.892.37$5,402
Jun 199901,92415.942.36$4,545
May 199902,18715.792.32$5,076
Apr 199902,36815.102.21$5,229
Mar 199902,34812.471.84$4,316
Feb 199902,5439.981.82$4,623
Jan 199902,79210.381.90$5,305
Dec 199813,2269.201.77$5,730
Nov 199803,58210.892.19$7,829
Oct 199814,97412.421.97$9,807
Sep 199806,44912.592.08$13,431
Aug 199817,71811.301.91$14,732

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.

Mar 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            37 bbl  × $ 50.37 =     $1,864
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  7.15 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,864

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/169986 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.