SMITH

Operated by O'BENCO, INC. (P-5 617512) in the PAXTON (JAMES LIME) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 178712District 06Field 69855410CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$176 k
Jun 2000 – Nov 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$17 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
42
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 2 leases and 2 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
2000-06-03
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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
CondensateDisposition63 bbl$1,658
GasProduction35,446 Mcf$174,518
Total$176,176

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 31.9892, -94.1779. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.98918, -94.17792 · 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
7,300 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
3.3 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 7,300 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 2000
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2003
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 3.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3.3 years and 3.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3653416017,300 ftJun 2000Sep 2003Yes

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 (42)

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

42 months

Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 200363026.314.75$1,658
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20030226.675.41$11
Mar 2003082931.146.10$5,054
Feb 2003074133.487.93$5,873
Jan 2003064330.315.58$3,589
Dec 2002020526.914.85$995
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 200201,24125.963.16$3,927
Jul 200201,13024.583.06$3,460
Jun 200201,05623.733.34$3,525
May 200201,17324.663.58$4,204
Apr 200201,04923.653.51$3,684
Mar 2002094822.003.10$2,941
Feb 2002020418.222.38$485
Jan 2002062417.172.38$1,482
Dec 2001081116.932.36$1,918
Nov 2001054418.072.41$1,309
Oct 2001025319.782.53$640
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 2001049024.873.05$1,496
Jul 200101,72223.933.20$5,505
Jun 200101,92024.563.82$7,342
May 200101,26325.524.31$5,440
Apr 200101,87324.685.34$9,993
Mar 200101,37824.545.38$7,409
Feb 200101,60527.755.77$9,256
Jan 200102,66427.478.40$22,374
Dec 200002,46526.889.12$22,487
Nov 200001,80132.215.66$10,190
Oct 200005831.235.15$298
Sep 2000012431.875.19$643
Aug 200004,15129.644.54$18,849
Jul 200002,47928.534.09$10,138
Jun 20000029.304.40$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.

Sep 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            63 bbl  × $ 26.31 =     $1,658
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  4.75 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,658

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/178712 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.