VESTAL GAS UNIT NO. 1

Operated by HILCORP ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 386310) in the FARRAR (COTTON VALLEY LIME) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 201564District 05Field 30321300Hydrogen sulphide field2 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$11.4 M
Apr 2004 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$69 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
266
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 478 leases and 478 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1977-03-17
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 2010-11-30.

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: PRORATION PURPOSES.

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 Gas112006-09-15169882
NGPA2none

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
CondensateDisposition773 bbl$44,108
GasProduction1,970,918 Mcf$11,365,280
Total$11,409,389

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 31.4446, -96.2527. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.44459, -96.25265 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
14,272 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
00.0%
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.
1100.0%

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 14,272 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 2004
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-161328021214,272 ftApr 2004

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 (266)

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

266 months

May 202601,699106.413.05$5,175
Apr 202611,32898.932.87$3,910
Mar 202601,15789.753.15$3,644
Feb 2026095263.503.75$3,570
Jan 202601,73359.138.00$13,860
Dec 202511,01556.664.41$4,536
Nov 202501,08758.593.93$4,268
Oct 202511,81859.383.30$6,068
Sep 202501,89462.743.08$5,828
Aug 202501,96163.933.01$5,912
Jul 202501,91466.743.32$6,345
Jun 202501,77966.483.13$5,566
May 202501,95060.553.23$6,303
Apr 202511,73662.363.54$6,213
Mar 202511,53367.704.27$6,611
Feb 202501,48270.884.34$6,433
Jan 202501,61174.324.28$6,893
Dec 202411,80368.993.12$5,697
Nov 202401,49269.052.20$3,280
Oct 202401,05271.372.28$2,400
Sep 202401,56869.612.36$3,707
Aug 202402,09675.632.06$4,325
Jul 202402,13479.932.15$4,581
Jun 202412,05678.082.63$5,494
May 202411,70778.812.20$3,832
Apr 202411,91684.451.66$3,263
Mar 202402,31180.301.55$3,571
Feb 202412,08876.091.78$3,800
Jan 202402,17973.023.30$7,186
Dec 202312,54771.262.61$6,721
Nov 202312,10877.892.81$5,996
Oct 202332,95785.443.09$9,385
Sep 202331,88889.042.74$5,431
Aug 202332,34380.522.67$6,504
Jul 202321,78674.852.64$4,868
Jun 202352,28368.962.26$5,501
May 2023201,29570.622.23$4,297
Apr 2023173778.122.24$1,727
Mar 202321,92372.852.39$4,748
Feb 202322,25775.112.47$5,715
Jan 202342,66476.533.39$9,331
Dec 202261,99076.415.73$11,859
Nov 202262,66285.005.65$15,540
Oct 202232,33687.185.86$13,959
Sep 202232,53184.888.16$20,917
Aug 202242,83794.529.13$26,272
Jul 202242,641101.587.54$20,325
Jun 202252,702115.097.98$22,130
May 2022122,595109.378.43$23,196
Apr 202212,470104.226.84$16,993
Mar 202293,311108.885.08$17,788
Feb 202213,19891.054.86$15,630
Jan 202263,52281.844.54$16,473
Dec 202143,38671.323.90$13,488
Nov 202173,33877.435.24$18,023
Oct 202143,30579.795.71$19,204
Sep 202133,19569.865.35$17,306
Aug 202153,38266.024.22$14,604
Jul 202153,37170.783.98$13,777
Jun 202163,30769.493.38$11,597
May 202183,58563.483.02$11,326
Apr 202123,54160.362.76$9,888
Mar 202152,96461.302.72$8,360
Feb 202191,99157.805.55$11,566
Jan 202143,46050.412.81$9,925
Dec 202043,39144.642.68$9,251
Nov 202063,02638.772.71$8,423
Oct 202053,16536.972.48$8,029
Sep 202083,79937.091.99$7,861
Aug 202044,28139.982.39$10,371
Jul 2020164,15438.371.83$8,195
Jun 2020143,17934.901.69$5,862
May 202013,92416.921.81$7,138
Apr 2020154,03514.751.80$7,502
Mar 2020173,17430.341.86$6,407
Feb 2020153,50149.881.98$7,683
Jan 202003,35057.252.09$7,017
Dec 201902,14359.012.30$4,938
Nov 201912,93755.302.75$8,134
Oct 201902,41453.472.42$5,838
Sep 201912,23255.052.66$5,986
Aug 201911,23053.112.30$2,887
Jul 201922,72656.272.46$6,819
Jun 201943,30752.782.49$8,450
May 201933,31458.482.74$9,257
Apr 201963,20462.632.75$9,189
Mar 201973,36656.803.06$10,705
Feb 201973,19250.852.79$9,269
Jan 2019203,55146.033.23$12,384
Dec 201873,72846.594.19$15,929
Nov 201854,82452.934.24$20,705
Oct 201854,02261.443.40$13,974
Sep 201853,81859.543.11$12,164
Aug 201834,07259.403.07$12,665
Jul 201873,51065.142.93$10,747
Jun 201883,37760.183.08$10,872
May 201883,12865.382.90$9,597
Apr 201832,34363.842.90$6,988
Mar 201873,62761.222.79$10,536
Feb 201843,55161.782.77$10,070
Jan 201833,37762.874.01$13,728
Dec 201763,94157.272.92$11,857
Nov 201722,73855.423.12$8,649
Oct 201775,44349.292.98$16,585
Sep 201745,32147.523.09$16,618
Aug 201734,26445.373.00$12,947
Jul 201734,82543.873.09$15,028
Jun 201733,73542.493.09$11,658
May 201743,15345.373.26$10,471
Apr 201754,57447.933.21$14,930
Mar 201744,97646.772.98$15,034
Feb 201764,46050.452.95$13,471
Jan 201734,64149.413.42$16,015
Dec 201635,50948.763.72$20,655
Nov 201604,74842.492.64$12,555
Oct 201604,81446.193.09$14,877
Sep 201604,27441.553.10$13,252
Aug 201604,26741.442.92$12,478
Jul 201603,84741.622.92$11,250
Jun 201603,97145.352.69$10,665
May 201603,26342.521.99$6,497
Apr 201603,07136.561.99$6,114
Mar 201603,48833.011.79$6,258
Feb 201603,93426.472.06$8,118
Jan 201604,31127.352.36$10,193
Dec 201503,89032.362.00$7,785
Nov 201504,48138.792.17$9,712
Oct 201504,55443.552.43$11,051
Sep 201504,59642.992.76$12,678
Aug 201504,34640.162.87$12,484
Jul 201505,52148.152.95$16,260
Jun 201505,27856.152.88$15,216
May 201501,50555.212.96$4,448
Apr 201504,06749.822.71$11,008
Mar 201505,29142.892.93$15,528
Feb 201504,85344.662.98$14,443
Jan 201505,47043.433.10$16,960
Dec 201405,55254.693.59$19,939
Nov 201405,12370.464.25$21,782
Oct 201404,58978.303.90$17,902
Sep 201404,54886.164.05$18,399
Aug 201404,92189.394.04$19,857
Jul 201404,74796.564.18$19,841
Jun 201404,73898.164.74$22,443
May 201404,87194.734.73$23,023
Apr 201404,85095.944.81$23,324
Mar 201405,03995.895.06$25,481
Feb 201404,81297.406.19$29,796
Jan 201405,35790.404.86$26,039
Dec 201305,68491.824.35$24,751
Nov 201305,28888.853.74$19,768
Oct 201303,69097.423.78$13,946
Sep 201303,394104.113.72$12,618
Aug 201304,410104.253.52$15,535
Jul 201304,572102.523.72$16,998
Jun 201304,65494.403.93$18,306
May 201304,81694.834.15$19,982
Apr 201304,31193.964.28$18,462
Mar 201304,91893.623.91$19,243
Feb 201304,64191.233.42$15,872
Jan 201304,91091.603.42$16,792
Dec 201203,73286.773.42$12,764
Nov 201205,27086.953.62$19,104
Oct 201206,25789.383.40$21,272
Sep 201206,38494.672.92$18,631
Aug 201206,50092.662.91$18,903
Jul 201206,00385.133.02$18,134
Jun 201205,92279.822.52$14,918
May 201204,93991.612.49$12,290
Apr 201205,541101.652.00$11,064
Mar 201206,230105.052.22$13,844
Feb 201205,686101.102.57$14,614
Jan 201206,76098.092.73$18,482
Dec 201107,49796.873.24$24,288
Nov 201107,36195.723.31$24,374
Oct 201107,45584.983.65$27,200
Sep 201108,87383.623.99$35,366
Aug 201104,77383.404.15$19,805
Jul 201107,32894.144.52$33,102
Jun 201103,48892.904.64$16,184
May 201106,95598.134.40$30,636
Apr 201106,357105.964.33$27,547
Mar 201107,72396.364.06$31,335
Feb 201105,37385.644.18$22,459
Jan 201106,95186.504.59$31,897
Dec 201007,37685.734.35$32,069
Nov 201007,28580.843.80$27,649
Oct 201007,32478.103.51$25,699
Sep 201007,55672.633.98$30,069
Aug 201007,63173.684.42$33,724
Jul 201007,95772.554.74$37,688
Jun 201006,99770.364.91$34,358
May 201007,48071.124.24$31,679
Apr 201007,63981.694.12$31,493
Mar 201007,88378.394.39$34,596
Feb 201017,00973.585.44$38,219
Jan 201048,37074.365.96$50,217
Dec 200907,99271.445.48$43,826
Nov 200907,83674.593.75$29,397
Oct 200907,43672.544.11$30,564
Sep 200908,41465.543.06$25,787
Aug 200908,02767.423.22$25,835
Jul 200906,86061.133.46$23,766
Jun 200907,28066.163.90$28,356
May 200907,77454.743.93$30,519
Apr 200918,45446.773.59$30,376
Mar 200928,76942.144.06$35,678
Feb 200938,30132.814.63$38,557
Jan 200929,53335.865.37$51,273
Dec 200809,77637.105.98$58,433
Nov 200809,69555.496.86$66,511
Oct 200806,46275.246.92$44,730
Sep 200806,701101.767.88$52,784
Aug 200836,332114.228.48$54,057
Jul 200806,897131.0811.39$78,553
Jun 200828,861131.3313.03$115,745
May 200829,771123.1711.57$113,339
Apr 200869,716110.3110.45$102,241
Mar 200819,570101.909.66$92,587
Feb 200849,45992.538.77$83,331
Jan 20081310,57490.388.21$87,942
Dec 200749,87088.337.30$72,424
Nov 2007610,39991.677.29$76,376
Oct 2007210,94282.856.92$75,906
Sep 2007211,08475.846.24$69,362
Aug 2007311,35869.066.39$72,761
Jul 2007110,39370.906.39$66,461
Jun 2007110,52062.007.55$79,472
May 2007011,69058.747.85$91,723
Apr 2007011,43959.617.81$89,284
Mar 2007112,10256.927.30$88,425
Feb 2007011,52655.108.22$94,698
Jan 2007314,00450.306.73$94,354
Dec 2006213,89456.656.92$96,238
Nov 2006115,23254.207.62$116,084
Oct 2006415,97354.906.01$96,278
Sep 2006216,16160.085.04$81,526
Aug 2006014,70868.717.34$107,956
Jul 2006315,85169.376.34$100,747
Jun 2006415,31866.286.38$98,053
May 2006517,64166.016.42$113,673
Apr 2006616,27864.397.36$120,200
Mar 2006118,87956.707.08$133,775
Feb 2006417,73257.597.75$137,673
Jan 2006619,56760.598.93$175,162
Dec 2005820,70554.9413.42$278,205
Nov 2005921,64554.6910.59$229,678
Oct 2005423,84458.3413.80$329,179
Sep 2005322,96361.4512.08$277,554
Aug 2005624,28961.519.80$238,325
Jul 2005525,34055.697.84$199,036
Jun 2005926,00252.337.38$192,393
May 2005530,82645.226.65$205,255
Apr 20051132,27349.207.36$238,086
Mar 2005039,29250.377.15$281,130
Feb 2005633,03845.226.31$208,805
Jan 2005322,25543.166.32$140,830
Dec 2004725,10539.866.75$169,765
Nov 2004227,97745.286.33$177,197
Oct 2004644,75449.706.52$291,875
Sep 20041132,69443.245.28$173,227
Aug 20041436,48242.375.55$203,092
Jul 20041640,37738.286.08$246,273
Jun 2004938,90436.106.43$250,595
May 20042470,93537.486.49$461,593
Apr 20045623,01634.475.86$136,769

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 2026 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $106.41 =         $0
Gas                1,699 Mcf  × $  3.05 =     $5,175

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Month total                                   $5,175

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/201564 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.