SMITH, CHARLES

Operated by GMT EXPLORATION CO TEXAS, LLC (P-5 311419) in the NACONICHE CREEK (ROD.-TP CONS.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 225310District 06Field 643002872 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.7 M
Dec 2006 – May 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$7 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
54
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 373 leases and 373 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
2005-09-27
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2005-09-27.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: BY HEARING.

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 Gas112007-11-27179163
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
CondensateDisposition411 bbl$31,279
GasProduction252,885 Mcf$1,675,315
Total$1,706,594

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 31.8884, -94.5606. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.88845, -94.56063 · 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
9,519 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
3.7 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 9,519 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 2006
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Aug 2010
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 3.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3.7 years and 3.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4013398419,519 ftDec 2006Aug 2010Yes

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 (54)

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

54 months

May 20110098.134.40$0
Apr 201100105.964.33$0
Mar 201120096.364.06$1,927
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 201060085.734.35$5,144
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 201007571.124.24$318
Apr 2010014181.694.12$581
Mar 2010018078.394.39$790
Feb 201004,54873.585.44$24,752
Jan 2010024374.365.96$1,449
Dec 200907,37471.445.48$40,437
Nov 200903,61674.593.75$13,565
Oct 200904,78872.544.11$19,680
Sep 200904,78465.543.06$14,662
Aug 200906,38667.423.22$20,553
Jul 2009011,18461.133.46$38,747
Jun 200917610,92766.163.90$54,205
May 2009012,31554.743.93$48,346
Apr 2009011,40946.773.59$40,930
Mar 200904,62542.144.06$18,773
Feb 200906,88332.814.63$31,889
Jan 200907,14635.865.37$38,381
Dec 200807,45237.105.98$44,542
Nov 200807,16055.496.86$49,120
Oct 200807,68075.246.92$53,161
Sep 200817,275101.767.88$57,408
Aug 200828,550114.228.48$72,758
Jul 200809,294131.0811.39$105,853
Jun 200808,173131.3313.03$106,516
May 200808,562123.1711.57$99,099
Apr 200807,060110.3110.45$73,811
Mar 20081311,136101.909.66$108,944
Feb 2008016992.538.77$1,482
Jan 2008013590.388.21$1,108
Dec 200703,83088.337.30$27,967
Nov 200703,74791.677.29$27,322
Oct 200710510,89782.856.92$84,128
Sep 2007913,08975.846.24$82,412
Aug 200729,95469.066.39$63,724
Jul 2007210,53270.906.39$67,420
Jun 200756,93662.007.55$52,666
May 200746,95358.747.85$54,790
Apr 200784,13159.617.81$32,720
Mar 2007016756.927.30$1,219
Feb 2007122855.108.22$1,928
Jan 200703,14850.306.73$21,176
Dec 20063356.656.92$191

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 2011 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            20 bbl  × $ 96.36 =     $1,927
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  4.06 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,927

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/225310 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.