J.W. WILTCHER GAS UNIT

Operated by VALENCE OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 881167) in the CARTHAGE (HAYNESVILLE SHALE) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 271987District 06Field 160323002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$3.3 M
Nov 2013 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$85 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
151
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 2,565 leases and 2,565 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
2009-12-15
as the register files it
Field class
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 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 2013-01-29.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: DESIGNATED AS UFT FIELD PER DOCKET 01-0299858

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 Gas112014-08-20213315
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
CondensateDisposition7,952 bbl$569,821
GasProduction770,492 Mcf$2,714,701
Total$3,284,522

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 32.0982, -94.4277. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.09819, -94.42774 · 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
10,480 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
12.1 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 10,480 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 2014
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2026
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 12.1 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 12.1 years and 12.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-36538060710,480 ftApr 2014May 2026Yes

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 (151)

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

151 months

May 202670106.413.05$745
Apr 20263183898.932.87$5,472
Mar 2026421,62389.753.15$8,881
Feb 2026351,56263.503.75$8,081
Jan 2026371,78459.138.00$16,456
Dec 2025171,48256.664.41$7,504
Nov 2025251,46058.593.93$7,197
Oct 2025261,47359.383.30$6,412
Sep 2025141,54762.743.08$5,638
Aug 2025221,66263.933.01$6,417
Jul 2025261,67366.743.32$7,282
Jun 2025151,26266.483.13$4,946
May 2025151,19960.553.23$4,784
Apr 2025161,07362.363.54$4,800
Mar 20251782967.704.27$4,689
Feb 2025241,17070.884.34$6,780
Jan 2025261,66474.324.28$9,052
Dec 2024281,45668.993.12$6,476
Nov 2024161,22569.052.20$3,798
Oct 2024121,22271.372.28$3,644
Sep 2024261,36369.612.36$5,032
Aug 2024151,03875.632.06$3,277
Jul 2024371,63479.932.15$6,465
Jun 2024272,17178.082.63$7,827
May 2024432,29378.812.20$8,430
Apr 2024382,62984.451.66$7,571
Mar 2024532,94380.301.55$8,803
Feb 2024563,03376.091.78$9,671
Jan 2024463,50073.023.30$14,901
Dec 2023423,19271.262.61$11,326
Nov 2023383,01077.892.81$11,411
Oct 2023442,68485.443.09$12,046
Sep 2023362,66789.042.74$10,500
Aug 2023362,74280.522.67$10,228
Jul 2023553,01174.852.64$12,071
Jun 2023392,96868.962.26$9,393
May 2023512,19370.622.23$8,486
Apr 2023503,23178.122.24$11,136
Mar 2023573,17072.852.39$11,739
Feb 2023532,93575.112.47$11,218
Jan 2023432,61076.533.39$12,133
Dec 2022623,02576.415.73$22,068
Nov 2022533,19585.005.65$22,545
Oct 2022543,51887.185.86$25,336
Sep 2022553,19484.888.16$30,743
Aug 2022473,20494.529.13$33,686
Jul 2022423,637101.587.54$31,697
Jun 2022513,719115.097.98$35,537
May 2022593,826109.378.43$38,718
Apr 2022443,514104.226.84$28,613
Mar 2022502,728108.885.08$19,292
Feb 2022653,80791.054.86$24,416
Jan 2022584,27581.844.54$24,145
Dec 2021423,25271.323.90$15,675
Nov 2021694,97277.435.24$31,380
Oct 2021553,77379.795.71$25,947
Sep 2021353,65969.865.35$22,024
Aug 2021412,41766.024.22$12,908
Jul 2021593,91170.783.98$19,750
Jun 2021353,38569.493.38$13,876
May 2021703,60563.483.02$15,322
Apr 2021493,63060.362.76$12,971
Mar 2021634,26761.302.72$15,455
Feb 2021502,76257.805.55$18,213
Jan 2021703,20450.412.81$12,533
Dec 2020413,48244.642.68$11,146
Nov 2020972,67638.772.71$11,003
Oct 202002,90536.972.48$7,200
Sep 202004,62437.091.99$9,207
Aug 202002,90639.982.39$6,931
Jul 202002,73338.371.83$4,988
Jun 202004,10334.901.69$6,935
May 202004,53916.921.81$8,237
Apr 202005,53814.751.80$9,993
Mar 20201735,87430.341.86$16,152
Feb 20201515,61149.881.98$18,645
Jan 202006,62157.252.09$13,869
Dec 201906,61759.012.30$15,248
Nov 201906,20455.302.75$17,065
Oct 201907,19153.472.42$17,392
Sep 201907,56855.052.66$20,110
Aug 201907,90753.112.30$18,221
Jul 2019677,64756.272.46$22,582
Jun 201906,01652.782.49$14,987
May 201905,04458.482.74$13,822
Apr 201905,38062.632.75$14,799
Mar 2019475,18956.803.06$18,559
Feb 201902,92750.852.79$8,173
Jan 201904,20846.033.23$13,584
Dec 201803,75046.594.19$15,695
Nov 2018623,65052.934.24$18,748
Oct 201803,47061.443.40$11,791
Sep 201803,75659.543.11$11,674
Aug 201803,95959.403.07$12,141
Jul 2018963,74065.142.93$17,219
Jun 201804,86260.183.08$14,960
May 201805,14965.382.90$14,936
Apr 201804,68163.842.90$13,579
Mar 2018664,59661.222.79$16,849
Feb 201804,54661.782.77$12,575
Jan 20181186,81762.874.01$34,750
Dec 201705,81957.272.92$17,000
Nov 201705,43655.423.12$16,951
Oct 2017875,47549.292.98$20,624
Sep 201704,88147.523.09$15,069
Aug 201703,62445.373.00$10,888
Jul 2017583,93043.873.09$14,677
Jun 201704,30842.493.09$13,300
May 2017704,77045.373.26$18,742
Apr 201704,07747.933.21$13,094
Mar 201703,11146.772.98$9,282
Feb 2017632,80750.452.95$11,466
Jan 20171013,54249.413.42$17,100
Dec 201603,83848.763.72$14,288
Nov 2016794,46542.492.64$15,164
Oct 201604,97446.193.09$15,371
Sep 2016494,37141.553.10$15,589
Aug 201605,01241.442.92$14,657
Jul 2016644,56641.622.92$16,016
Jun 201604,32145.352.69$11,605
May 2016795,64442.521.99$14,597
Apr 2016745,62836.561.99$13,911
Mar 201606,35933.011.79$11,408
Feb 2016695,83326.472.06$13,864
Jan 201605,41927.352.36$12,812
Dec 2015424,08332.362.00$9,531
Nov 2015495,31238.792.17$13,414
Oct 201506,92543.552.43$16,804
Sep 2015667,66142.992.76$23,970
Aug 2015769,47540.162.87$30,269
Jul 2015010,95348.152.95$32,257
Jun 20157910,28756.152.88$34,092
May 20157710,80355.212.96$36,179
Apr 2015718,94849.822.71$27,756
Mar 201515911,89542.892.93$41,728
Feb 20157010,56744.662.98$34,576
Jan 20157513,74943.433.10$45,888
Dec 201419216,11354.693.59$68,368
Nov 201426711,45970.464.25$67,535
Oct 201422316,13678.303.90$80,407
Sep 201427613,06186.164.05$76,618
Aug 20141459,59989.394.04$51,695
Jul 201415913,11396.564.18$70,160
Jun 201416914,11198.164.74$83,431
May 201434916,19494.734.73$109,603
Apr 201418415,31395.944.81$91,295
Mar 201435422,42595.895.06$147,344
Feb 201454523,81197.406.19$200,521
Jan 201408,45490.404.86$41,093
Dec 2013011,85191.824.35$51,605
Nov 2013013,79888.853.74$51,581

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.

May 2026 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             7 bbl  × $106.41 =       $745
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  3.05 =         $0

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Month total                                     $745

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/271987 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.