COPE, E. B.

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 204016District 08Field 201015002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$397 k
May 2004 – Jul 2014
Value, last 12 filed months
$10 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
123
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
High Cost Gas112005-03-22158320
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
CondensateDisposition249 bbl$14,285
GasProduction61,289 Mcf$382,901
Total$397,186

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 31.6880, -101.2317. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.68795, -101.23170 · 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
8,172 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 8,172 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 2014
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-43131595108,172 ftJul 2014Yes

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 (123)

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

123 months

Jul 20140096.564.18$0
Jun 20140098.164.74$0
May 2014010694.734.73$501
Apr 2014021295.944.81$1,020
Mar 2014020295.895.06$1,021
Feb 2014018297.406.19$1,127
Jan 2014021390.404.86$1,035
Dec 2013025491.824.35$1,106
Nov 2013028888.853.74$1,077
Oct 2013029097.423.78$1,096
Sep 20130343104.113.72$1,275
Aug 20130327104.253.52$1,152
Jul 20130294102.523.72$1,093
Jun 2013028794.403.93$1,129
May 2013032994.834.15$1,365
Apr 2013017893.964.28$762
Mar 2013026693.623.91$1,041
Feb 2013024591.233.42$838
Jan 2013042291.603.42$1,443
Dec 2012069086.773.42$2,360
Nov 2012068386.953.62$2,476
Oct 2012052289.383.40$1,775
Sep 2012031994.672.92$931
Aug 2012034492.662.91$1,000
Jul 2012232985.133.02$1,164
Jun 2012238279.822.52$1,122
May 2012118891.612.49$559
Apr 20120166101.652.00$331
Mar 20120172105.052.22$382
Feb 20120236101.102.57$607
Jan 2012022598.092.73$615
Dec 2011010296.873.24$330
Nov 2011012595.723.31$414
Oct 2011010184.983.65$369
Sep 2011011283.623.99$446
Aug 2011013683.404.15$564
Jul 2011012694.144.52$569
Jun 2011013092.904.64$603
May 2011223498.134.40$1,227
Apr 20112271105.964.33$1,386
Mar 2011033496.364.06$1,355
Feb 2011033085.644.18$1,379
Jan 2011037586.504.59$1,721
Dec 2010039085.734.35$1,696
Nov 2010068780.843.80$2,607
Oct 2010070578.103.51$2,474
Sep 2010165472.633.98$2,675
Aug 2010153873.684.42$2,451
Jul 2010169072.554.74$3,341
Jun 2010078370.364.91$3,845
May 2010044371.124.24$1,876
Apr 2010054481.694.12$2,243
Mar 2010085178.394.39$3,735
Feb 2010080673.585.44$4,387
Jan 201001,10574.365.96$6,590
Dec 2009068571.445.48$3,756
Nov 200901,00374.593.75$3,763
Oct 2009285172.544.11$3,643
Sep 2009160365.543.06$1,914
Aug 2009343567.423.22$1,602
Jul 2009342861.133.46$1,666
Jun 2009339566.163.90$1,737
May 2009338554.743.93$1,676
Apr 2009238446.773.59$1,471
Mar 2009332742.144.06$1,454
Feb 2009534832.814.63$1,776
Jan 2009345735.865.37$2,562
Dec 2008459737.105.98$3,717
Nov 2008349055.496.86$3,528
Oct 2008142975.246.92$3,045
Sep 20083365101.767.88$3,180
Aug 20083423114.228.48$3,931
Jul 20080558131.0811.39$6,355
Jun 20080578131.3313.03$7,533
May 20080622123.1711.57$7,199
Apr 20080473110.3110.45$4,945
Mar 20081596101.909.66$5,862
Feb 2008155192.538.77$4,925
Jan 2008160490.388.21$5,047
Dec 2007161788.337.30$4,594
Nov 2007155591.677.29$4,139
Oct 2007255982.856.92$4,035
Sep 2007253575.846.24$3,492
Aug 2007451069.066.39$3,534
Jul 2007250070.906.39$3,336
Jun 2007257662.007.55$4,472
May 2007350958.747.85$4,170
Apr 2007349759.617.81$4,058
Mar 2007351156.927.30$3,902
Feb 2007450655.108.22$4,378
Jan 2007461550.306.73$4,338
Dec 2006669056.656.92$5,114
Nov 2006468754.207.62$5,450
Oct 2006466054.906.01$4,189
Sep 2006468160.085.04$3,671
Aug 2006451468.717.34$4,048
Jul 2006353869.376.34$3,621
Jun 2006453366.286.38$3,668
May 2006458266.016.42$4,003
Apr 2006458864.397.36$4,586
Mar 2006558656.707.08$4,434
Feb 2006452457.597.75$4,292
Jan 2006573760.598.93$6,887
Dec 2005474554.9413.42$10,214
Nov 2005874154.6910.59$8,284
Oct 2005684458.3413.80$11,994
Sep 2005576161.4512.08$9,499
Aug 2005878061.519.80$8,134
Jul 2005781855.697.84$6,806
Jun 2005780852.337.38$6,330
May 2005778545.226.65$5,538
Apr 2005372849.207.36$5,506
Mar 2005473850.377.15$5,482
Feb 2005563945.226.31$4,259
Jan 2005869543.166.32$4,739
Dec 2004771639.866.75$5,113
Nov 2004875145.286.33$5,116
Oct 2004376749.706.52$5,146
Sep 2004375843.245.28$4,135
Aug 2004485142.375.55$4,893
Jul 2004387038.286.08$5,408
Jun 2004486836.106.43$5,728
May 2004696337.486.49$6,479

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 2014 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 94.73 =         $0
Gas                  106 Mcf  × $  4.73 =       $501

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Month total                                     $501

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/204016 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.