SMITH FARMS

Operated by CABOT OIL & GAS CORPORATION (P-5 121700) in the BRACHFIELD, S.E. (COTTON VALLEY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 229006District 06Field 111835002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$462 k
Mar 2007 – Mar 2012
Value, last 12 filed months
$784
at the published price for each month
Months reported
61
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 382 leases and 382 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1981-02-10
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
330 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 2014-10-14.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: API NO. 401-34011.

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 Gas112007-11-26179236
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
CondensateDisposition41 bbl$2,849
GasProduction65,241 Mcf$459,075
Total$461,924

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 32.0044, -94.5965. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.00440, -94.59646 · 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
10,515 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
4.9 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 10,515 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 2007
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 2012
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 4.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 4.9 years and 4.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-36536060110,515 ftApr 2007Mar 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 (61)

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

61 months

Mar 2012086105.052.22$191
Feb 2012016101.102.57$41
Jan 201204698.092.73$126
Dec 20110196.873.24$3
Nov 201101395.723.31$43
Oct 201101584.983.65$55
Sep 201101183.623.99$44
Aug 201101483.404.15$58
Jul 201101494.144.52$63
Jun 201101192.904.64$51
May 201101298.134.40$53
Apr 2011013105.964.33$56
Mar 201102596.364.06$101
Feb 201103585.644.18$146
Jan 201101686.504.59$73
Dec 201003685.734.35$157
Nov 201004780.843.80$178
Oct 2010032478.103.51$1,137
Sep 2010026372.633.98$1,047
Aug 2010036373.684.42$1,604
Jul 2010026872.554.74$1,269
Jun 2010048770.364.91$2,391
May 2010059671.124.24$2,524
Apr 2010045081.694.12$1,855
Mar 2010027078.394.39$1,185
Feb 2010033073.585.44$1,796
Jan 2010030874.365.96$1,837
Dec 2009045371.445.48$2,484
Nov 2009069174.593.75$2,592
Oct 200901,38872.544.11$5,705
Sep 200901,51165.543.06$4,631
Aug 2009085467.423.22$2,749
Jul 2009049261.133.46$1,705
Jun 2009079166.163.90$3,081
May 200901,72154.743.93$6,756
Apr 200901,93746.773.59$6,949
Mar 200901,22542.144.06$4,972
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 2009023535.865.37$1,262
Dec 2008058237.105.98$3,479
Nov 200809055.496.86$617
Oct 2008017475.246.92$1,204
Sep 20080713101.767.88$5,616
Aug 20080852114.228.48$7,228
Jul 20080786131.0811.39$8,952
Jun 200801,281131.3313.03$16,695
May 200801,963123.1711.57$22,720
Apr 200801,686110.3110.45$17,627
Mar 200801,969101.909.66$19,029
Feb 200802,51692.538.77$22,067
Jan 200804,74690.388.21$38,944
Dec 200707,72888.337.30$56,430
Nov 200705,69391.677.29$41,512
Oct 2007012,19982.856.92$84,441
Sep 20072386375.846.24$7,133
Aug 2007520869.066.39$1,674
Jul 2007016270.906.39$1,035
Jun 2007022662.007.55$1,706
May 200724,03758.747.85$31,793
Apr 2007638359.617.81$3,347
Mar 200751,01656.927.30$7,703

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 2012 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $105.05 =         $0
Gas                   86 Mcf  × $  2.22 =       $191

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Month total                                     $191

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/229006 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.