PORTLEY-TAYLOR GAS UNIT

Operated by CHINN EXPLORATION COMPANY (P-5 149423) in the OAK HILL (COTTON VALLEY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 200087District 06Field 664612752 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$2.7 M
Sep 2003 – Sep 2014
Value, last 12 filed months
$61 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
133
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 2,275 leases and 2,276 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1976-11-17
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 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 2018-03-20.

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 Gas112004-04-16156270
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
CondensateDisposition966 bbl$68,915
GasProduction420,565 Mcf$2,633,100
Total$2,702,015

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 32.3894, -94.6551. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.38943, -94.65511 · 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
10,750 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
11.0 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 10,750 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 2003
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 2014
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 11.0 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 11.0 years and 11.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-18331588310,750 ftSep 2003Sep 2014Yes

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 (133)

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

133 months

Sep 20140086.164.05$0
Aug 20147267989.394.04$9,176
Jul 2014091096.564.18$3,803
Jun 2014297998.164.74$4,834
May 201401,24194.734.73$5,866
Apr 2014094595.944.81$4,545
Mar 201411,10595.895.06$5,684
Feb 201421,28497.406.19$8,145
Jan 2014193990.404.86$4,655
Dec 2013099491.824.35$4,328
Nov 201311,29288.853.74$4,919
Oct 201311,22597.423.78$4,727
Sep 201311,106104.113.72$4,216
Aug 20130820104.253.52$2,889
Jul 20130906102.523.72$3,368
Jun 2013080694.403.93$3,170
May 2013196994.834.15$4,115
Apr 2013085893.964.28$3,674
Mar 2013186993.623.91$3,494
Feb 201311,10591.233.42$3,870
Jan 201321,28891.603.42$4,588
Dec 201211,28986.773.42$4,495
Nov 201211,23486.953.62$4,560
Oct 201211,42489.383.40$4,931
Sep 201211,17294.672.92$3,515
Aug 201211,20792.662.91$3,603
Jul 201221,25785.133.02$3,967
Jun 201201,35379.822.52$3,408
May 201201,00791.612.49$2,506
Apr 201201,052101.652.00$2,101
Mar 2012831,043105.052.22$11,037
Feb 201211,021101.102.57$2,725
Jan 201201,02798.092.73$2,808
Dec 201101,08996.873.24$3,528
Nov 201111,12295.723.31$3,811
Oct 201101,15984.983.65$4,229
Sep 201111,03183.623.99$4,193
Aug 201111,21483.404.15$5,121
Jul 201101,24794.144.52$5,633
Jun 201101,10092.904.64$5,104
May 201101,36598.134.40$6,013
Apr 201111,302105.964.33$5,748
Mar 201111,49096.364.06$6,142
Feb 201111,09485.644.18$4,659
Jan 201111,24886.504.59$5,813
Dec 201001,44185.734.35$6,265
Nov 201001,31280.843.80$4,979
Oct 201011,42278.103.51$5,068
Sep 201001,49472.633.98$5,945
Aug 201011,71773.684.42$7,662
Jul 201001,72672.554.74$8,175
Jun 201011,20070.364.91$5,963
May 201001,36871.124.24$5,794
Apr 201021,33781.694.12$5,675
Mar 201021,21978.394.39$5,507
Feb 201011,26473.585.44$6,953
Jan 201001,38174.365.96$8,236
Dec 200901,47071.445.48$8,061
Nov 200911,33574.593.75$5,083
Oct 2009461,59072.544.11$9,872
Sep 200911,11565.543.06$3,483
Aug 200901,49967.423.22$4,825
Jul 200901,84461.133.46$6,389
Jun 200911,81566.163.90$7,136
May 200911,72854.743.93$6,838
Apr 200901,73746.773.59$6,231
Mar 200901,62042.144.06$6,576
Feb 200901,41132.814.63$6,537
Jan 200911,67135.865.37$9,011
Dec 200801,61137.105.98$9,629
Nov 200811,69955.496.86$11,711
Oct 200811,94775.246.92$13,552
Sep 200811,815101.767.88$14,399
Aug 200812,114114.228.48$18,047
Jul 20081672,175131.0811.39$46,662
Jun 200812,228131.3313.03$29,168
May 200812,255123.1711.57$26,223
Apr 200812,338110.3110.45$24,554
Mar 200812,322101.909.66$22,542
Feb 200802,22292.538.77$19,488
Jan 200812,59390.388.21$21,368
Dec 200712,59488.337.30$19,030
Nov 200712,52991.677.29$18,532
Oct 200712,75082.856.92$19,118
Sep 200712,44275.846.24$15,324
Aug 200722,51769.066.39$16,217
Jul 200712,52870.906.39$16,220
Jun 200712,54962.007.55$19,303
May 200732,80558.747.85$22,185
Apr 200702,59559.617.81$20,254
Mar 200712,72256.927.30$19,933
Feb 200702,58455.108.22$21,230
Jan 200702,35250.306.73$15,822
Dec 200602,50156.656.92$17,303
Nov 200602,35054.207.62$17,901
Oct 200603,11854.906.01$18,751
Sep 200633,41460.085.04$17,377
Aug 200623,95168.717.34$29,137
Jul 200613,97869.376.34$25,301
Jun 200623,44966.286.38$22,151
May 200613,06366.016.42$19,746
Apr 200612,68964.397.36$19,857
Mar 200603,17356.707.08$22,474
Feb 200652,44357.597.75$19,224
Jan 200603,45560.598.93$30,865
Dec 200523,90854.9413.42$52,537
Nov 200543,45854.6910.59$36,833
Oct 200514,62158.3413.80$63,809
Sep 200534,67761.4512.08$56,678
Aug 200535,15461.519.80$50,677
Jul 20051854,66555.697.84$46,893
Jun 200534,44652.337.38$32,973
May 200524,88045.226.65$32,548
Apr 200535,42349.207.36$40,063
Mar 200515,81550.377.15$41,656
Feb 200535,49245.226.31$34,801
Jan 200536,56143.166.32$41,609
Dec 200464,98339.866.75$33,880
Nov 200415,22545.286.33$33,122
Oct 200456,45649.706.52$42,310
Sep 200417,60943.245.28$40,248
Aug 200448,59242.375.55$47,861
Jul 200468,02238.286.08$49,037
Jun 2004138,71336.106.43$56,520
May 200439,54937.486.49$62,129
Apr 200418811,54934.475.86$74,140
Mar 2004814,11634.365.53$78,338
Feb 2004913,61332.455.51$75,295
Jan 20041917,30732.036.30$109,636
Dec 20032231,12330.266.30$196,792
Nov 200348,85228.804.60$40,792
Oct 2003510,42628.174.76$49,765
Sep 20031316,87726.314.75$80,497

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.

Aug 2014 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            72 bbl  × $ 89.39 =     $6,436
Gas                  679 Mcf  × $  4.04 =     $2,740

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Month total                                   $9,176

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/200087 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.