MATTHEWS, RONALD C.

Operated by BUFFCO PRODUCTION INC. (P-5 106406) in the WOODLAWN (COTTON VALLEY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 94020District 06Field 98563083NGPA filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$143 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
217
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 368 leases and 368 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1965-01-10
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and 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 2010-11-02.

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
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
CondensateDisposition77 bbl$1,905
GasProduction101,894 Mcf$141,431
Total$143,336

55,060 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 months, carries no value here. No free Texas wellhead gas price exists before 1997, so those months are left out of the total rather than valued at zero. The total above is therefore a floor, not an estimate.

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 32.5783, -94.3931. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.57834, -94.39313 · 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
10,009 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
29.8 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 10,009 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 1981
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 2011
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 29.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 29.8 years and 29.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-20330042110,009 ftApr 1981Jan 2011Yes

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 (217)

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

217 months

Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
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 20100071.124.24$0
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 20100078.394.39$0
Feb 20100073.585.44$0
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20090042.144.06$0
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 200411032.455.51$357
Jan 20040032.036.30$0
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 2003014429.415.17$745
Jun 2003014228.565.98$850
May 200346026.595.97$465
Apr 2003025226.675.41$1,363
Mar 2003018231.146.10$1,109
Feb 2003010333.487.93$816
Jan 2003260730.315.58$3,449
Dec 2002759426.914.85$3,072
Nov 2002229624.664.14$1,274
Oct 2002420026.464.23$952
Sep 2002118527.443.64$700
Aug 2002017325.963.16$547
Jul 2002012424.583.06$380
Jun 2002218423.733.34$662
May 2002132624.663.58$1,193
Apr 2002265723.653.51$2,355
Mar 200281,57022.003.10$5,047
Feb 2002025918.222.38$615
Jan 2002154317.172.38$1,307
Dec 2001045316.932.36$1,071
Nov 2001021018.072.41$505
Oct 2001035619.782.53$900
Sep 2001077724.262.25$1,749
Aug 200111,09924.873.05$3,380
Jul 2001048723.933.20$1,557
Jun 2001041024.563.82$1,568
May 2001043725.524.31$1,882
Apr 2001036624.685.34$1,953
Mar 2001124224.545.38$1,326
Feb 2001130827.755.77$1,804
Jan 2001238827.478.40$3,314
Dec 2000162826.889.12$5,756
Nov 2000266032.215.66$3,799
Oct 2000061031.235.15$3,139
Sep 2000010731.875.19$555
Aug 2000122429.644.54$1,047
Jul 2000026428.534.09$1,080
Jun 2000051629.304.40$2,269
May 2000162827.263.68$2,338
Apr 2000053724.513.12$1,673
Mar 2000376328.422.86$2,267
Feb 2000167927.622.73$1,879
Jan 2000272925.272.48$1,859
Dec 1999072624.282.42$1,760
Nov 1999255623.192.43$1,400
Oct 1999147720.982.80$1,358
Sep 1999065921.752.62$1,726
Aug 1999250219.262.88$1,482
Jul 1999054917.892.37$1,302
Jun 1999346515.942.36$1,146
May 1999019415.792.32$450
Apr 1999036915.102.21$815
Mar 1999038312.471.84$704
Feb 199905579.981.82$1,013
Jan 1999052810.381.90$1,003
Dec 199805009.201.77$887
Nov 1998149510.892.19$1,093
Oct 1998137712.421.97$755
Sep 1998022612.592.08$471
Aug 1998133211.301.91$645
Jul 1998027811.742.24$622
Jun 1998049911.242.24$1,116
May 1998399012.622.21$2,222
Apr 1998086913.042.51$2,177
Mar 1998161612.802.31$1,435
Feb 1998067513.952.30$1,552
Jan 1998167614.702.15$1,471
Dec 1997086216.322.41$2,078
Nov 199701,14918.193.09$3,548
Oct 199701,19519.253.15$3,764
Sep 199701,07417.742.95$3,174
Aug 199701,44917.862.55$3,702
Jul 199701,55517.582.25$3,494
Jun 199702,06517.242.26$4,661
May 199701,56818.972.31$3,620
Apr 199701,70617.882.08$3,553
Mar 199701,91118.951.94$3,706
Feb 1997088320.492.21$1,948
Jan 1997044023.483.54$1,557
Dec 1996060523.32$0
Nov 1996061321.97$0
Oct 199601,12923.31$0
Sep 199601,10422.22$0
Aug 199601,17620.26$0
Jul 199601,31319.55$0
Jun 199601,56018.73$0
May 199601,25319.43$0
Apr 199602,13121.51$0
Mar 1996080719.38$0
Feb 1996096216.98$0
Jan 199601,61917.07$0
Dec 199503,05117.19$0
Nov 199503,95016.00$0
Oct 199504,82415.43$0
Sep 1995029016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950215.24$0
Jun 199502016.41$0
May 199502717.56$0
Apr 1995011617.73$0
Mar 1995012216.44$0
Feb 1995010616.58$0
Jan 199509415.92$0
Dec 199405115.03$0
Nov 199401715.90$0
Oct 1994011115.58$0
Sep 1994028915.29$0
Aug 199401,34516.13$0
Jul 199402,29017.56$0
Jun 1994057817.09$0
May 1994044915.88$0
Apr 199401,02414.14$0
Mar 199401,59912.46$0
Feb 1994062512.50$0
Jan 199401,54612.66$0
Dec 1993095412.33$0
Nov 1993089114.49$0
Oct 199301,29815.85$0
Sep 199301,85815.03$0
Aug 199302,73015.66$0
Jul 199301,08915.46$0
Jun 1993032916.79$0
May 199301,29317.68$0
Apr 199301,13018.05$0
Mar 199301,81118.14$0
Feb 199302,28117.90$0
Jan 199302,59816.93$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.

Feb 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            11 bbl  × $ 32.45 =       $357
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  5.51 =         $0

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Month total                                     $357

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/94020 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.