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 204017District 08Field 201015002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$469 k
May 2004 – Mar 2012
Value, last 12 filed months
$11 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
95
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 Gas112004-12-22158324
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
CondensateDisposition328 bbl$18,048
GasProduction67,725 Mcf$451,146
Total$469,195

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 31.6827, -101.2366. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.68267, -101.23663 · 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
8,180 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 8,180 ft.

Completions filed
Mar 2012
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-43131765118,180 ftMar 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 (95)

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

95 months

Mar 201200105.052.22$0
Feb 201200101.102.57$0
Jan 201208098.092.73$219
Dec 2011020196.873.24$651
Nov 2011024095.723.31$795
Oct 2011017184.983.65$624
Sep 2011020083.623.99$797
Aug 2011024583.404.15$1,017
Jul 2011020594.144.52$926
Jun 2011038592.904.64$1,786
May 2011055298.134.40$2,431
Apr 20110482105.964.33$2,089
Mar 2011044596.364.06$1,806
Feb 2011043985.644.18$1,835
Jan 2011052386.504.59$2,400
Dec 2010055885.734.35$2,426
Nov 2010068280.843.80$2,588
Oct 2010064978.103.51$2,277
Sep 2010058172.633.98$2,312
Aug 2010065573.684.42$2,895
Jul 2010065172.554.74$3,083
Jun 2010061770.364.91$3,030
May 2010066371.124.24$2,808
Apr 2010062581.694.12$2,577
Mar 2010080078.394.39$3,511
Feb 2010075673.585.44$4,114
Jan 201001,03674.365.96$6,179
Dec 2009064271.445.48$3,521
Nov 2009094174.593.75$3,530
Oct 2009084872.544.11$3,485
Sep 2009062665.543.06$1,919
Aug 2009055267.423.22$1,777
Jul 2009058261.133.46$2,016
Jun 2009053766.163.90$2,092
May 2009051454.743.93$2,018
Apr 2009047646.773.59$1,708
Mar 2009052042.144.06$2,111
Feb 2009046432.814.63$2,150
Jan 2009063335.865.37$3,400
Dec 2008084637.105.98$5,057
Nov 2008058955.496.86$4,041
Oct 2008037675.246.92$2,603
Sep 20080320101.767.88$2,521
Aug 20080383114.228.48$3,249
Jul 20080452131.0811.39$5,148
Jun 20080447131.3313.03$5,826
May 20080429123.1711.57$4,965
Apr 20081489110.3110.45$5,223
Mar 20082780101.909.66$7,742
Feb 2008266292.538.77$5,991
Jan 2008272490.388.21$6,122
Dec 2007174088.337.30$5,492
Nov 2007280091.677.29$6,017
Oct 2007383982.856.92$6,056
Sep 2007380275.846.24$5,235
Aug 2007473669.066.39$4,978
Jul 2007270970.906.39$4,671
Jun 2007281662.007.55$6,284
May 2007684958.747.85$7,014
Apr 20071089459.617.81$7,574
Mar 2007765856.927.30$5,203
Feb 2007433855.108.22$2,997
Jan 2007976350.306.73$5,585
Dec 20061186256.656.92$6,587
Nov 2006685954.207.62$6,869
Oct 2006682554.906.01$5,291
Sep 2006589760.085.04$4,819
Aug 2006697868.717.34$7,591
Jul 200641,02169.376.34$6,753
Jun 200661,01266.286.38$6,858
May 2006697866.016.42$6,680
Apr 2006693564.397.36$7,268
Mar 2006784256.707.08$6,361
Feb 2006672257.597.75$5,942
Jan 2006101,06060.598.93$10,075
Dec 2005101,04454.9413.42$14,555
Nov 2005121,03554.6910.59$11,615
Oct 200581,01258.3413.80$14,428
Sep 2005686461.4512.08$10,805
Aug 2005101,11261.519.80$11,509
Jul 2005101,22855.697.84$10,189
Jun 2005101,21252.337.38$9,469
May 2005141,11945.226.65$8,076
Apr 20051598049.207.36$7,951
Mar 20052199350.377.15$8,163
Feb 20051191545.226.31$6,273
Jan 2005171,01343.166.32$7,138
Dec 2004131,04439.866.75$7,566
Nov 2004101,07145.286.33$7,233
Oct 200431,08049.706.52$7,185
Sep 200431,06643.245.28$5,762
Aug 200441,15642.375.55$6,586
Jul 200431,15938.286.08$7,166
Jun 200441,15836.106.43$7,594
May 200451,25637.486.49$8,345

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.

Jan 2012 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 98.09 =         $0
Gas                   80 Mcf  × $  2.73 =       $219

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Month total                                     $219

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/204017 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.