WILCOTS, S. W. GAS UNIT

Operated by VASTAR RESOURCES, INC. (P-5 883810) in the CARTHAGE (COTTON VALLEY) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 97818District 06Field 16032174NGPA filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$239 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
104
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 4,104 leases and 4,104 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1968-05-01
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 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2011-02-08.

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
CondensateDisposition3,372 bbl$56,668
GasProduction176,839 Mcf$181,867
Total$238,535

99,667 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 39 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 32.1089, -94.4969. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.10887, -94.49687 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
10,000 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
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 10,000 ft.

Completions filed
Aug 2001
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-36531281210,000 ftAug 2001Yes

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 (104)

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

104 months

Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20001027.622.73$28
Jan 20005025.272.48$126
Dec 199965324.282.42$274
Nov 1999432,03223.192.43$5,943
Oct 1999191,96420.982.80$5,905
Sep 1999242,15921.752.62$6,176
Aug 1999282,28319.262.88$7,104
Jul 1999302,27517.892.37$5,934
Jun 1999292,14215.942.36$5,522
May 1999322,20015.792.32$5,612
Apr 1999302,18015.102.21$5,267
Mar 1999312,24112.471.84$4,506
Feb 1999292,0599.981.82$4,032
Jan 1999491,99910.381.90$4,307
Dec 1998332,1809.201.77$4,169
Nov 1998202,24810.892.19$5,131
Oct 1998182,29412.421.97$4,741
Sep 1998352,29312.592.08$5,216
Aug 1998192,27511.301.91$4,554
Jul 1998341,72311.742.24$4,254
Jun 199821,88411.242.24$4,238
May 1998312,64212.622.21$6,220
Apr 1998502,02613.042.51$5,728
Mar 1998152,34812.802.31$5,615
Feb 1998442,28613.952.30$5,870
Jan 1998322,60814.702.15$6,090
Dec 1997472,55616.322.41$6,930
Nov 1997302,47918.193.09$8,202
Oct 1997322,72219.253.15$9,190
Sep 1997172,64517.742.95$8,117
Aug 1997182,96817.862.55$7,904
Jul 1997191,91617.582.25$4,639
Jun 1997212,12617.242.26$5,161
May 1997132,53918.972.31$6,108
Apr 1997151,74117.882.08$3,894
Mar 1997191,84918.951.94$3,946
Feb 1997371,55920.492.21$4,197
Jan 1997251,67823.483.54$6,527
Dec 1996221,58423.32$513
Nov 1996422,97621.97$923
Oct 1996153,27023.31$350
Sep 1996293,17622.22$644
Aug 1996212,94820.26$425
Jul 1996422,88119.55$821
Jun 1996412,79818.73$768
May 1996202,29719.43$389
Apr 1996612,57821.51$1,312
Mar 1996532,55619.38$1,027
Feb 199632,29116.98$51
Jan 1996311,39117.07$529
Dec 1995502,53117.19$860
Nov 1995242,51016.00$384
Oct 1995282,56815.43$432
Sep 1995433,34216.18$696
Aug 1995222,68615.92$350
Jul 1995462,73515.24$701
Jun 1995383,08616.41$624
May 1995772,72817.56$1,352
Apr 1995762,56617.73$1,347
Mar 1995783,03916.44$1,282
Feb 1995322,97916.58$531
Jan 1995171,82715.92$271
Dec 199446615.03$60
Nov 19940015.90$0
Oct 19940015.58$0
Sep 19940015.29$0
Aug 19940016.13$0
Jul 19940017.56$0
Jun 19940017.09$0
May 19940015.88$0
Apr 19942014.14$28
Mar 199417012.46$212
Feb 1994251,21012.50$313
Jan 1994282,88712.66$354
Dec 1993952,56512.33$1,171
Nov 1993592,66814.49$855
Oct 1993472,69215.85$745
Sep 1993452,66815.03$676
Aug 1993472,90715.66$736
Jul 1993702,83315.46$1,082
Jun 1993992,74716.79$1,662
May 19931442,73517.68$2,546
Apr 19932172,55118.05$3,917
Mar 19932182,64218.14$3,955
Feb 19931422,45917.90$2,542
Jan 19932202,69416.93$3,725

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 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             1 bbl  × $ 27.62 =        $28
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  2.73 =         $0

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Month total                                      $28

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/97818 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.