MATTHEWS, S.E. 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 160252District 06Field 160321742 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.7 M
Sep 1996 – Jul 2012
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
191
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 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 Gas111996-11-18135599
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
CondensateDisposition4 bbl$137
GasProduction590,857 Mcf$1,676,956
Total$1,677,093

107,532 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 4 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 32.2506, -94.4005. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.25057, -94.40054 · 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
9,950 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
15.8 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 9,950 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 1996
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 2012
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.8 years and 15.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-36533447119,950 ftSep 1996Jul 2012Yes

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 (191)

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

191 months

Jul 20120085.133.02$0
Jun 20120079.822.52$0
May 20120091.612.49$0
Apr 201200101.652.00$0
Mar 201200105.052.22$0
Feb 201200101.102.57$0
Jan 20120098.092.73$0
Dec 20110096.873.24$0
Nov 20110095.723.31$0
Oct 20110084.983.65$0
Sep 20110083.623.99$0
Aug 20110083.404.15$0
Jul 20110094.144.52$0
Jun 20110092.904.64$0
May 20110098.134.40$0
Apr 201100105.964.33$0
Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 20100072.554.74$0
Jun 20100070.364.91$0
May 20100071.124.24$0
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 20100078.394.39$0
Feb 20100073.585.44$0
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090354.743.93$12
Apr 20090946.773.59$32
Mar 200901042.144.06$41
Feb 200901332.814.63$60
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 2008011337.105.98$675
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200801110.3110.45$10
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080492.538.77$35
Jan 2008037390.388.21$3,061
Dec 200703988.337.30$285
Nov 2007028391.677.29$2,064
Oct 200701682.856.92$111
Sep 2007023475.846.24$1,461
Aug 2007012569.066.39$798
Jul 2007096570.906.39$6,164
Jun 200701,10262.007.55$8,318
May 200701358.747.85$102
Apr 2007072459.617.81$5,651
Mar 200701,79756.927.30$13,122
Feb 200701,10355.108.22$9,062
Jan 2007077050.306.73$5,180
Dec 2006083156.656.92$5,749
Nov 200601,36754.207.62$10,413
Oct 200601,67054.906.01$10,043
Sep 200601,77160.085.04$8,921
Aug 200601,85168.717.34$13,586
Jul 200602,38269.376.34$15,108
Jun 200602,79066.286.38$17,811
May 200602,28966.016.42$14,707
Apr 200601,55264.397.36$11,423
Mar 200601,31656.707.08$9,321
Feb 200602,32557.597.75$18,021
Jan 200601,12660.598.93$10,059
Dec 200503,31554.9413.42$44,472
Nov 200503754.6910.59$392
Oct 200504758.3413.80$648
Sep 2005010261.4512.08$1,232
Aug 200501,60561.519.80$15,724
Jul 200502,09855.697.84$16,456
Jun 200503752.337.38$273
May 200504445.226.65$293
Apr 200504049.207.36$294
Mar 200501,90650.377.15$13,637
Feb 200502,35445.226.31$14,858
Jan 200508043.166.32$506
Dec 2004077339.866.75$5,219
Nov 200403545.286.33$222
Oct 200407449.706.52$482
Sep 200401,11143.245.28$5,870
Aug 2004010242.375.55$566
Jul 2004021238.286.08$1,290
Jun 2004021736.106.43$1,396
May 2004023237.486.49$1,507
Apr 2004024834.475.86$1,453
Mar 200446934.365.53$519
Feb 200408832.455.51$485
Jan 2004069832.036.30$4,397
Dec 200301,12630.266.30$7,096
Nov 200301,94528.804.60$8,938
Oct 200301,52828.174.76$7,273
Sep 2003057926.314.75$2,750
Aug 200301,44329.765.13$7,402
Jul 200302,46829.415.17$12,762
Jun 200303,64528.565.98$21,808
May 200301,86426.595.97$11,133
Apr 200302,17726.675.41$11,772
Mar 200301,18331.146.10$7,212
Feb 2003095433.487.93$7,561
Jan 200302,02930.315.58$11,326
Dec 200203,23726.914.85$15,712
Nov 200203,76624.664.14$15,580
Oct 200203,29026.464.23$13,914
Sep 200203,11027.443.64$11,305
Aug 200202,67525.963.16$8,464
Jul 200203,33624.583.06$10,214
Jun 200203,25823.733.34$10,876
May 200205,04824.663.58$18,092
Apr 200206,53923.653.51$22,967
Mar 200203,50522.003.10$10,875
Feb 200203,10118.222.38$7,367
Jan 200203,51617.172.38$8,353
Dec 200104,46916.932.36$10,567
Nov 200104,27918.072.41$10,293
Oct 200104,06119.782.53$10,270
Sep 200104,30124.262.25$9,683
Aug 200105,09324.873.05$15,550
Jul 200103,97423.933.20$12,705
Jun 200103,09924.563.82$11,851
May 200102,63025.524.31$11,328
Apr 200103,41524.685.34$18,220
Mar 200103,44324.545.38$18,511
Feb 200103,15027.755.77$18,166
Jan 200103,65427.478.40$30,689
Dec 200003,38126.889.12$30,843
Nov 200004,72432.215.66$26,728
Oct 200004,17331.235.15$21,472
Sep 200004,35531.875.19$22,587
Aug 200004,95729.644.54$22,509
Jul 200005,02628.534.09$20,555
Jun 200004,55829.304.40$20,043
May 200005,27327.263.68$19,403
Apr 200005,92924.513.12$18,475
Mar 200005,18828.422.86$14,836
Feb 200004,97127.622.73$13,553
Jan 200006,25925.272.48$15,525
Dec 199906,60724.282.42$16,014
Nov 199906,31823.192.43$15,378
Oct 199907,31520.982.80$20,509
Sep 199907,79521.752.62$20,414
Aug 199904,44619.262.88$12,785
Jul 199904,55717.892.37$10,811
Jun 199904,97315.942.36$11,747
May 199905,17415.792.32$12,009
Apr 199905,37915.102.21$11,877
Mar 199905,29312.471.84$9,730
Feb 199904,6609.981.82$8,471
Jan 199905,84210.381.90$11,100
Dec 199805,6349.201.77$9,991
Nov 199805,37810.892.19$11,755
Oct 199805,66812.421.97$11,161
Sep 199805,62012.592.08$11,704
Aug 199806,35311.301.91$12,117
Jul 199806,48211.742.24$14,502
Jun 199805,76311.242.24$12,893
May 199806,21012.622.21$13,701
Apr 199806,16113.042.51$15,435
Mar 199806,95412.802.31$16,060
Feb 199806,14813.952.30$14,135
Jan 199807,34414.702.15$15,825
Dec 199707,66616.322.41$18,483
Nov 199707,98518.193.09$24,660
Oct 199708,87519.253.15$27,955
Sep 199709,06817.742.95$26,795
Aug 1997011,83717.862.55$30,240
Jul 199708,41817.582.25$18,915
Jun 199707,57917.242.26$17,107
May 1997011,79618.972.31$27,231
Apr 1997011,72517.882.08$24,421
Mar 1997012,52718.951.94$24,292
Feb 1997012,45920.492.21$27,483
Jan 1997017,14123.483.54$60,674
Dec 1996020,44823.32$0
Nov 1996022,23321.97$0
Oct 1996031,91323.31$0
Sep 1996032,93822.22$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.

May 2009 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 54.74 =         $0
Gas                    3 Mcf  × $  3.93 =        $12

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Month total                                      $12

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/160252 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.