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CHUTE BUSTER

Operated by COG OPERATING LLC (P-5 166150) in the FORD, WEST (WOLFCAMP) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 281868District 08Field 31913800Hydrogen sulphide field2 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$21.3 M
Dec 2016 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$647 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
114
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, gas

The FORD, WEST (WOLFCAMP) field

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 1,466 leases and 1,484 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
2010-11-05
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 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2018-06-05.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “DOCKET SAYS PRO PLAT NOT REQUIRED NOT LEASE PLAT NOT REQ”

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 Gas112018-08-29221857
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
CondensateDisposition187,076 bbl$9,903,471
GasProduction3,478,401 Mcf$11,414,742
Total$21,318,213

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 31.9998, -104.2054. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
9,781 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
00.0%
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.
1100.0%

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 9,781 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 2016
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-10932964623H9,781 ftDec 2016——

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 (114)

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

114 months

May 202655725,680106.413.05$137,488
Apr 202624135,75798.932.87$126,455
Mar 20261569,01989.753.15$42,406
Feb 20261275,47663.503.75$28,601
Jan 20262209,18659.138.00$86,477
Dec 20250056.664.41$0
Nov 20250558.593.93$20
Oct 202502359.383.30$76
Sep 202502362.743.08$71
Aug 202531714,88463.933.01$65,138
Jul 20257818,78566.743.32$67,482
Jun 202518825,52466.483.13$92,356
May 20258927,42860.553.23$94,045
Apr 2025021,77362.363.54$77,144
Mar 2025022167.704.27$943
Feb 202501470.884.34$61
Jan 202506374.324.28$270
Dec 202406368.993.12$197
Nov 2024088169.052.20$1,937
Oct 202401,84571.372.28$4,209
Sep 202401,59869.612.36$3,778
Aug 2024073275.632.06$1,511
Jul 202401,21079.932.15$2,597
Jun 20242733278.082.63$2,983
May 20243078.812.20$236
Apr 202455884.451.66$4,658
Mar 202428910,74980.301.55$39,815
Feb 202441119,46776.091.78$65,995
Jan 202444121,39773.023.30$102,762
Dec 202341916,03071.262.61$71,708
Nov 202317510,87677.892.81$44,166
Oct 202334319,26485.443.09$88,779
Sep 202322517,69489.042.74$68,428
Aug 2023979,37880.522.67$32,877
Jul 202322011,18174.852.64$46,005
Jun 202316314,10168.962.26$43,087
May 202334014,52870.622.23$56,370
Apr 20231367,37578.122.24$27,128
Mar 202318713,15172.852.39$45,095
Feb 20231272,26075.112.47$15,111
Jan 20232976,80476.533.39$45,779
Dec 202245015,25276.415.73$121,764
Nov 202255514,98385.005.65$131,772
Oct 2022022,01287.185.86$129,073
Sep 202225616,71884.888.16$158,210
Aug 202237219,56094.529.13$213,689
Jul 202245821,869101.587.54$211,461
Jun 202248823,770115.097.98$245,782
May 202252420,882109.378.43$233,409
Apr 202241223,987104.226.84$206,952
Mar 202261424,676108.885.08$192,118
Feb 202241920,75491.054.86$138,990
Jan 202261324,51881.844.54$161,423
Dec 202135519,79571.323.90$102,502
Nov 202149913,05977.435.24$107,026
Oct 202150524,09379.795.71$177,958
Sep 202150424,35169.865.35$165,510
Aug 202169423,82266.024.22$146,361
Jul 202155225,70070.783.98$141,410
Jun 202156524,74769.493.38$122,922
May 202148221,74763.483.02$96,223
Apr 202175424,92260.362.76$114,257
Mar 202175024,71361.302.72$113,119
Feb 202162220,20557.805.55$148,048
Jan 202189626,27450.412.81$119,004
Dec 202088325,61144.642.68$107,938
Nov 202093822,02338.772.71$95,973
Oct 202092426,45236.972.48$99,720
Sep 202094730,35337.091.99$95,558
Aug 202092028,42839.982.39$104,585
Jul 202089929,03938.371.83$87,494
Jun 202096832,27634.901.69$88,340
May 202077029,06716.921.81$65,778
Apr 20201,01632,04814.751.80$72,813
Mar 20201,09832,76230.341.86$94,127
Feb 20201,07432,37049.881.98$117,685
Jan 20201,42636,67357.252.09$158,459
Dec 20191,46037,55559.012.30$172,695
Nov 201993228,14155.302.75$128,947
Oct 20191,48141,41553.472.42$179,353
Sep 20191,29135,34355.052.66$164,986
Aug 20191,33937,59353.112.30$157,742
Jul 20191,28336,51056.272.46$162,011
Jun 20191,36241,63152.782.49$175,598
May 20191,81947,43358.482.74$236,357
Apr 201997625,93262.632.75$132,458
Mar 20191,51732,97356.803.06$187,132
Feb 20191,91634,75150.852.79$194,461
Jan 20192,13438,29646.033.23$221,854
Dec 20182,26443,75046.594.19$288,593
Nov 20182,27537,63652.934.24$279,889
Oct 20181,73629,81161.443.40$207,960
Sep 20182,09730,50059.543.11$219,649
Aug 20183,55440,99259.403.07$336,812
Jul 20185584,94665.142.93$50,849
Jun 20188227360.183.08$5,775
May 201880615,41865.382.90$97,421
Apr 20183,88459,84863.842.90$421,562
Mar 20184,35269,70761.222.79$460,692
Feb 20184,44470,52061.782.77$469,617
Jan 20185,34880,94562.874.01$660,763
Dec 20174,89069,45257.272.92$482,956
Nov 20176,06286,87655.423.12$606,867
Oct 20176,806102,75049.292.98$642,041
Sep 20176,91193,06547.523.09$615,728
Aug 20177,62794,57645.373.00$630,181
Jul 20178,258100,01543.873.09$671,053
Jun 20178,10198,88342.493.09$649,491
May 20179,498112,97045.373.26$799,591
Apr 201710,949123,05647.933.21$919,992
Mar 201712,948141,95746.772.98$1,029,132
Feb 201712,540120,32650.452.95$987,918
Jan 201711,14896,03649.413.42$879,151
Dec 20162,29842,22448.763.72$269,243

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 2026 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate           557 bbl  × $106.41 =    $59,270
Gas               25,680 Mcf  × $  3.05 =    $78,217

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Month total                                 $137,488

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/281868 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.