WHITAKER UNIT

Operated by DEVON ENERGY PRODUCTION CO, L.P. (P-5 216378) 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 177791District 06Field 160321742 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$6.2 M
May 2000 – Feb 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$83
at the published price for each month
Months reported
130
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 Gas112000-08-22141923
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
CondensateDisposition2,199 bbl$98,697
GasProduction1,103,023 Mcf$6,072,398
Total$6,171,094

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 32.1916, -94.3378. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.19162, -94.33779 · 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
9,650 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
6.3 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 9,650 ft.

Completions filed
Nov 2004
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 2011
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 6.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.3 years and 6.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3653428915 U9,650 ftNov 2004Feb 2011Yes

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 (130)

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

130 months

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 20101178.394.39$83
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 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20090042.144.06$0
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 20090535.865.37$27
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 2008427255.496.86$2,088
Oct 200883,56075.246.92$25,244
Sep 200862,829101.767.88$22,895
Aug 200875,843114.228.48$50,366
Jul 200833,943131.0811.39$45,302
Jun 200810131.3313.03$131
May 200861,807123.1711.57$21,654
Apr 200885,681110.3110.45$60,277
Mar 200894,811101.909.66$47,411
Feb 200897,06392.538.77$62,779
Jan 2008105,78290.388.21$48,349
Dec 2007125,48088.337.30$41,075
Nov 200785,24991.677.29$39,007
Oct 200784,67982.856.92$33,051
Sep 200775,31075.846.24$33,687
Aug 200786,11969.066.39$39,640
Jul 200776,17870.906.39$39,961
Jun 2007105,64462.007.55$43,223
May 2007125,98658.747.85$47,673
Apr 2007155,89159.617.81$46,875
Mar 2007145,98456.927.30$44,492
Feb 200795,22355.108.22$43,408
Jan 2007126,09250.306.73$41,584
Dec 2006116,25556.656.92$43,898
Nov 2006146,17154.207.62$47,766
Oct 2006216,24354.906.01$38,697
Sep 2006156,29060.085.04$32,585
Aug 2006136,31968.717.34$47,274
Jul 2006106,56369.376.34$42,321
Jun 2006146,20066.286.38$40,508
May 2006176,79966.016.42$44,806
Apr 2006196,03464.397.36$45,637
Mar 2006315,94056.707.08$43,830
Feb 2006214,88657.597.75$39,081
Jan 200605,45060.598.93$48,687
Dec 200506,28354.9413.42$84,289
Nov 200565,83854.6910.59$62,143
Oct 2005206,29658.3413.80$88,025
Sep 2005295,94361.4512.08$73,568
Aug 2005385,96561.519.80$60,776
Jul 2005406,24855.697.84$51,235
Jun 2005426,45852.337.38$49,865
May 2005706,86645.226.65$48,832
Apr 2005776,41349.207.36$50,991
Mar 2005776,41550.377.15$49,777
Feb 2005665,85545.226.31$39,941
Jan 2005636,76343.166.32$45,476
Dec 2004796,88739.866.75$49,644
Nov 2004716,84445.286.33$46,540
Oct 2004567,09049.706.52$48,975
Sep 2004747,24443.245.28$41,476
Aug 2004797,61642.375.55$45,621
Jul 2004707,31238.286.08$47,167
Jun 2004497,18036.106.43$47,958
May 2004797,60637.486.49$52,359
Apr 2004787,52934.475.86$46,797
Mar 2004587,66334.365.53$44,370
Feb 2004447,13532.455.51$40,739
Jan 2004729,19732.036.30$60,244
Dec 2003619,58030.266.30$62,216
Nov 2003449,39028.804.60$44,416
Oct 2003408,58328.174.76$41,979
Sep 2003308,90326.314.75$43,073
Aug 2003339,25529.765.13$48,458
Jul 2003249,51329.415.17$49,896
Jun 2003319,65628.565.98$58,657
May 20033510,39826.595.97$63,035
Apr 20033310,08026.675.41$55,385
Mar 2003429,78731.146.10$60,970
Feb 2003489,39133.487.93$76,039
Jan 20033110,46630.315.58$59,361
Dec 20023011,34726.914.85$55,883
Nov 2002011,25524.664.14$46,561
Oct 2002012,06826.464.23$51,037
Sep 2002011,61327.443.64$42,216
Aug 2002012,10425.963.16$38,299
Jul 2002012,74124.583.06$39,010
Jun 2002012,98623.733.34$43,350
May 2002012,89324.663.58$46,209
Apr 2002011,96223.653.51$42,014
Mar 2002014,14322.003.10$43,882
Feb 2002012,77218.222.38$30,342
Jan 2002015,31017.172.38$36,372
Dec 2001015,45116.932.36$36,532
Nov 2001014,82518.072.41$35,662
Oct 2001015,79619.782.53$39,946
Sep 2001015,40924.262.25$34,691
Aug 2001017,63224.873.05$53,833
Jul 2001022,18323.933.20$70,921
Jun 2001018,18124.563.82$69,527
May 2001013,72325.524.31$59,109
Apr 2001018,03924.685.34$96,244
Mar 2001016,99524.545.38$91,373
Feb 2001021,41627.755.77$123,508
Jan 2001024,24927.478.40$203,662
Dec 2000026,26326.889.12$239,584
Nov 2000028,00932.215.66$158,475
Oct 2000031,62031.235.15$162,701
Sep 2000035,15731.875.19$182,342
Aug 2000040,17929.644.54$182,443
Jul 2000046,05228.534.09$188,341
Jun 2000055,18529.304.40$242,662
May 2000013,23527.263.68$48,701

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
Condensate             1 bbl  × $ 78.39 =        $78
Gas                    1 Mcf  × $  4.39 =         $4

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Month total                                      $83

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/177791 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.