STERLING 'X' FEE

Operated by CHEVRON U. S. A. INC. (P-5 148113) in the CONGER, SW (PENN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 193276District 08Field 20101500NGPA filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$670 k
Oct 2002 – Aug 2012
Value, last 12 filed months
$13 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
119
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 271 leases and 445 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1979-02-21
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 1986-07-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: OPERATOR REQUEST. TEXACO E & P INC ALLICIANT..

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
CondensateDisposition1,090 bbl$54,636
GasProduction98,981 Mcf$615,725
Total$670,361

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 31.6527, -101.2341. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.65271, -101.23412 · 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
8,290 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 8,290 ft.

Completions filed
Aug 2012
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-4313249678,290 ftAug 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 (119)

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

119 months

Aug 20120092.662.91$0
Jul 20120085.133.02$0
Jun 2012027479.822.52$690
May 2012038791.612.49$963
Apr 20120361101.652.00$721
Mar 20120317105.052.22$704
Feb 20120291101.102.57$748
Jan 2012027698.092.73$755
Dec 2011245796.873.24$1,674
Nov 2011454695.723.31$2,191
Oct 2011236684.983.65$1,505
Sep 2011562983.623.99$2,925
Aug 2011589383.404.15$4,122
Jul 2011794494.144.52$4,923
Jun 2011562692.904.64$3,369
May 2011338898.134.40$2,003
Apr 20115474105.964.33$2,584
Mar 20111149096.364.06$3,048
Feb 2011745985.644.18$2,518
Jan 2011747886.504.59$2,799
Dec 2010851485.734.35$2,921
Nov 2010646680.843.80$2,254
Oct 2010849678.103.51$2,365
Sep 2010563572.633.98$2,890
Aug 2010866573.684.42$3,528
Jul 20102160872.554.74$4,403
Jun 20101562670.364.91$4,129
May 2010574771.124.24$3,519
Apr 2010685081.694.12$3,994
Mar 2010778278.394.39$3,981
Feb 2010675673.585.44$4,556
Jan 2010799874.365.96$6,473
Dec 2009681871.445.48$4,914
Nov 2009776674.593.75$3,396
Oct 2009372372.544.11$3,189
Sep 2009474465.543.06$2,542
Aug 2009672167.423.22$2,725
Jul 20091074961.133.46$3,206
Jun 20091471666.163.90$3,715
May 20091684154.743.93$4,177
Apr 2009151,02246.773.59$4,368
Mar 2009339442.144.06$1,726
Feb 2009166032.814.63$3,091
Jan 2009187935.865.37$4,757
Dec 2008088437.105.98$5,284
Nov 2008166255.496.86$4,597
Oct 2008157275.246.92$4,035
Sep 20081531101.767.88$4,284
Aug 20085642114.228.48$6,017
Jul 20084613131.0811.39$7,506
Jun 20084566131.3313.03$7,902
May 20086534123.1711.57$6,920
Apr 20084590110.3110.45$6,610
Mar 20083680101.909.66$6,877
Feb 2008262792.538.77$5,684
Jan 2008261290.388.21$5,203
Dec 2007360388.337.30$4,668
Nov 2007654891.677.29$4,546
Oct 2007353782.856.92$3,966
Sep 2007359575.846.24$3,943
Aug 2007669369.066.39$4,841
Jul 2007871070.906.39$5,103
Jun 2007280262.007.55$6,178
May 2007881558.747.85$6,865
Apr 2007860759.617.81$5,215
Mar 2007359856.927.30$4,537
Feb 2007349855.108.22$4,257
Jan 2007550550.306.73$3,649
Dec 2006767356.656.92$5,053
Nov 2006873954.207.62$6,063
Oct 2006087154.906.01$5,238
Sep 2006086960.085.04$4,377
Aug 2006093668.717.34$6,870
Jul 200601,02869.376.34$6,520
Jun 2006097866.286.38$6,243
May 2006393666.016.42$6,212
Apr 2006488264.397.36$6,750
Mar 2006596556.707.08$7,119
Feb 2006474657.597.75$6,013
Jan 2006494760.598.93$8,702
Dec 2005591454.9413.42$12,536
Nov 2005894554.6910.59$10,444
Oct 2005151,12158.3413.80$16,340
Sep 20051193461.4512.08$11,958
Aug 200591,29661.519.80$13,250
Jul 200581,21655.697.84$9,983
Jun 200571,15752.337.38$8,906
May 2005111,22545.226.65$8,645
Apr 2005121,13949.207.36$8,974
Mar 2005111,21950.377.15$9,276
Feb 2005111,06045.226.31$7,188
Jan 2005131,16543.166.32$7,926
Dec 2004131,20539.866.75$8,653
Nov 2004101,20045.286.33$8,049
Oct 2004121,18049.706.52$8,284
Sep 2004151,11243.245.28$6,524
Aug 2004331,15042.375.55$7,781
Jul 2004661,18738.286.08$9,748
Jun 2004631,12736.106.43$9,524
May 2004271,30137.486.49$9,461
Apr 2004101,29934.475.86$7,955
Mar 2004121,37634.365.53$8,022
Feb 2004291,33232.455.51$8,280
Jan 2004431,33732.036.30$9,800
Dec 2003441,27630.266.30$9,372
Nov 2003221,24228.804.60$6,341
Oct 2003181,21728.174.76$6,300
Sep 2003161,17526.314.75$6,001
Aug 2003121,28529.765.13$6,949
Jul 200371,47429.415.17$7,828
Jun 2003101,40928.565.98$8,716
May 2003121,44026.595.97$8,920
Apr 2003191,46226.675.41$8,412
Mar 2003241,60431.146.10$10,525
Feb 2003231,41533.487.93$11,985
Jan 2003181,46930.315.58$8,746
Dec 2002141,40626.914.85$7,201
Nov 2002181,35924.664.14$6,066
Oct 2002212526.464.23$582

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.

Jun 2012 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 79.82 =         $0
Gas                  274 Mcf  × $  2.52 =       $690

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Month total                                     $690

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. 08/G/193276 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.