HICKS GAS UNIT

Operated by CHEVRON U. S. A. INC. (P-5 148113) in the CARTHAGE (COTTON VALLEY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 157404District 06Field 160321742 tax incentive programmesGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$2.7 M
Jan 1996 – Oct 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
190
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
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 4,104 leases and 4,104 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1968-05-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and 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 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2011-02-08.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: FIELD. EFFECTIVE 4/12/16.

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 Gas111996-04-11134432
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
GasProduction931,079 Mcf$2,691,074
Total$2,691,074

290,493 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 12 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 32.2549, -94.3801. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.25486, -94.38006 · 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
9,915 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
10.7 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 9,915 ft.

Completions filed
Oct 2011
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 2022
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 10.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 10.7 years and 10.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3653325189,915 ftOct 2011Jun 2022Yes

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 (190)

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

190 months

Oct 2011084.983.65$0
Sep 2011083.623.99$0
Aug 2011083.404.15$0
Jul 2011094.144.52$0
Jun 2011092.904.64$0
May 2011098.134.40$0
Apr 20110105.964.33$0
Mar 2011096.364.06$0
Feb 2011085.644.18$0
Jan 2011086.504.59$0
Dec 2010085.734.35$0
Nov 2010080.843.80$0
Oct 2010078.103.51$0
Sep 2010072.633.98$0
Aug 2010073.684.42$0
Jul 2010072.554.74$0
Jun 2010070.364.91$0
May 2010071.124.24$0
Apr 2010081.694.12$0
Mar 201045578.394.39$1,997
Feb 201086173.585.44$4,686
Jan 20101,02174.365.96$6,089
Dec 200964971.445.48$3,559
Nov 200988874.593.75$3,331
Oct 200976372.544.11$3,136
Sep 20091,83265.543.06$5,615
Aug 20092,76767.423.22$8,906
Jul 20091,83361.133.46$6,350
Jun 200931266.163.90$1,215
May 200953954.743.93$2,116
Apr 200975746.773.59$2,716
Mar 20091,77542.144.06$7,205
Feb 20091,59432.814.63$7,385
Jan 20092,15735.865.37$11,585
Dec 200850337.105.98$3,007
Nov 20081,02855.496.86$7,052
Oct 20081,86975.246.92$12,937
Sep 20082,029101.767.88$15,983
Aug 20082,439114.228.48$20,690
Jul 20082,180131.0811.39$24,829
Jun 20081,967131.3313.03$25,635
May 20082,427123.1711.57$28,091
Apr 20082,652110.3110.45$27,726
Mar 20082,544101.909.66$24,585
Feb 20082,80992.538.77$24,637
Jan 20082,77390.388.21$22,754
Dec 20072,94288.337.30$21,482
Nov 20072,65291.677.29$19,338
Oct 20072,79782.856.92$19,361
Sep 20071,34875.846.24$8,417
Aug 20071,64869.066.39$10,527
Jul 20071,92870.906.39$12,316
Jun 20071,48362.007.55$11,194
May 20071,79058.747.85$14,045
Apr 20071,30059.617.81$10,147
Mar 20071,31856.927.30$9,624
Feb 20071,54855.108.22$12,718
Jan 20072,29250.306.73$15,418
Dec 20063,05556.656.92$21,136
Nov 20063,21554.207.62$24,490
Oct 20061,22754.906.01$7,379
Sep 20061,66960.085.04$8,407
Aug 20061,54968.717.34$11,370
Jul 20061,44769.376.34$9,178
Jun 20061,79866.286.38$11,478
May 20061,90566.016.42$12,240
Apr 20062,74364.397.36$20,190
Mar 20063,23356.707.08$22,899
Feb 20062,04957.597.75$15,882
Jan 20062,63260.598.93$23,513
Dec 20052,47454.9413.42$33,190
Nov 20052,33154.6910.59$24,682
Oct 20052,14058.3413.80$29,523
Sep 20052,17561.4512.08$26,272
Aug 20052,77461.519.80$27,176
Jul 20053,00755.697.84$23,586
Jun 20052,49552.337.38$18,416
May 20052,80445.226.65$18,650
Apr 20052,84449.207.36$20,933
Mar 20052,70850.377.15$19,375
Feb 20053,07945.226.31$19,434
Jan 20053,85143.166.32$24,347
Dec 20043,69539.866.75$24,945
Nov 20043,46645.286.33$21,941
Oct 20042,82149.706.52$18,379
Sep 20042,84843.245.28$15,049
Aug 20043,18042.375.55$17,651
Jul 20043,10338.286.08$18,879
Jun 20043,18736.106.43$20,502
May 20043,07837.486.49$19,990
Apr 20043,10334.475.86$18,179
Mar 20043,37834.365.53$18,681
Feb 20043,29032.455.51$18,127
Jan 20043,74432.036.30$23,586
Dec 20033,99930.266.30$25,200
Nov 20033,54028.804.60$16,267
Oct 20033,41328.174.76$16,245
Sep 20033,48026.314.75$16,528
Aug 20033,48929.765.13$17,898
Jul 20033,56929.415.17$18,455
Jun 20033,40128.565.98$20,348
May 20033,55426.595.97$21,227
Apr 20033,37226.675.41$18,233
Mar 20033,57431.146.10$21,787
Feb 20033,38933.487.93$26,861
Jan 20033,87930.315.58$21,653
Dec 20023,81426.914.85$18,512
Nov 20022,96924.664.14$12,283
Oct 20023,43426.464.23$14,523
Sep 20023,58927.443.64$13,047
Aug 20023,29825.963.16$10,435
Jul 20023,44524.583.06$10,548
Jun 20023,48923.733.34$11,647
May 20023,33824.663.58$11,963
Apr 20023,62723.653.51$12,739
Mar 20023,65722.003.10$11,347
Feb 20022,79218.222.38$6,633
Jan 20024,16617.172.38$9,897
Dec 20013,91716.932.36$9,261
Nov 20014,25218.072.41$10,228
Oct 20013,98219.782.53$10,070
Sep 20013,24924.262.25$7,315
Aug 20013,67224.873.05$11,211
Jul 20013,75523.933.20$12,005
Jun 20013,81224.563.82$14,578
May 20013,95525.524.31$17,035
Apr 20013,82024.685.34$20,381
Mar 20014,27724.545.38$22,995
Feb 20013,86927.755.77$22,313
Jan 20013,97227.478.40$33,360
Dec 20003,67726.889.12$33,543
Nov 20004,14232.215.66$23,435
Oct 20004,19331.235.15$21,575
Sep 20004,63431.875.19$24,034
Aug 20005,07529.644.54$23,044
Jul 20004,80628.534.09$19,655
Jun 20003,97929.304.40$17,497
May 20004,75827.263.68$17,508
Apr 20004,46224.513.12$13,904
Mar 20004,32528.422.86$12,368
Feb 20004,43627.622.73$12,095
Jan 20005,26825.272.48$13,067
Dec 19995,46524.282.42$13,246
Nov 19994,95523.192.43$12,060
Oct 19995,37620.982.80$15,073
Sep 19995,71021.752.62$14,954
Aug 19995,86219.262.88$16,857
Jul 19995,13217.892.37$12,175
Jun 19995,44715.942.36$12,866
May 19995,73515.792.32$13,311
Apr 19995,69315.102.21$12,570
Mar 19995,99612.471.84$11,023
Feb 19995,7039.981.82$10,367
Jan 19996,45110.381.90$12,257
Dec 19986,8439.201.77$12,135
Nov 19986,71510.892.19$14,677
Oct 19986,20212.421.97$12,213
Sep 19985,72912.592.08$11,931
Aug 19985,39211.301.91$10,284
Jul 19984,44111.742.24$9,936
Jun 19987,05311.242.24$15,779
May 19986,99812.622.21$15,440
Apr 19987,85613.042.51$19,682
Mar 19988,76712.802.31$20,247
Feb 19986,80813.952.30$15,652
Jan 19988,66414.702.15$18,669
Dec 19978,86316.322.41$21,370
Nov 19979,34418.193.09$28,857
Oct 199710,02519.253.15$31,577
Sep 19979,81417.742.95$28,999
Aug 199710,93517.862.55$27,936
Jul 199711,94717.582.25$26,844
Jun 199712,42517.242.26$28,046
May 199713,21218.972.31$30,500
Apr 199713,07317.882.08$27,228
Mar 199714,12618.951.94$27,392
Feb 199713,10320.492.21$28,904
Jan 199715,59623.483.54$55,205
Dec 199616,75423.32$0
Nov 199617,87821.97$0
Oct 199616,62823.31$0
Sep 199617,60722.22$0
Aug 199619,95220.26$0
Jul 199622,28519.55$0
Jun 199624,20518.73$0
May 199626,48619.43$0
Apr 199628,64621.51$0
Mar 199631,78919.38$0
Feb 199635,32816.98$0
Jan 199632,93517.07$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.

Mar 2010 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  455 Mcf  × $  4.39 =     $1,997

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Month total                                   $1,997

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. 06/G/157404 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.