CAPRITO 83

Operated by ABRAXAS PETROLEUM CORPORATION (P-5 3125) in the R. O. C. (DEVONIAN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 48979District 08Field 74050332Hydrogen sulphide fieldCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1 k
Jan 1993 – Nov 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$4
at the published price for each month
Months reported
83
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 13 leases and 13 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1969-01-25
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
3,735 ft
minimum
From a lease line
1,867 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 640 acres.

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: PER OPERATOR REQUEST (ENERTEX, INC.)

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 bbl$12
GasProduction65,193 Mcf$1,049
Total$1,062

64,752 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 40 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 31.5672, -103.1227. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.56722, -103.12272 · 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
17,795 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 17,795 ft.

Completions filed
Nov 1999
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-475302251 U17,795 ftNov 1999Yes

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 (83)

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

83 months

Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998029.201.77$4
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980812.421.97$16
Sep 19980612.592.08$13
Aug 19980811.301.91$15
Jul 19980511.742.24$11
Jun 19980311.242.24$7
May 19980812.622.21$18
Apr 19980713.042.51$18
Mar 19980812.802.31$18
Feb 19980713.952.30$16
Jan 19980114.702.15$2
Dec 1997013416.322.41$323
Nov 199703118.193.09$96
Oct 199701719.253.15$54
Sep 199701917.742.95$56
Aug 199701917.862.55$49
Jul 199703117.582.25$70
Jun 199702417.242.26$54
May 199702818.972.31$65
Apr 199701117.882.08$23
Mar 199706418.951.94$124
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 1996028322.22$0
Aug 199608520.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 199601018.73$0
May 199602219.43$0
Apr 19960721.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960917.07$0
Dec 1995016717.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 199501,45015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 199501915.92$0
Jul 199505,98615.24$0
Jun 199501,85116.41$0
May 199502,15117.56$0
Apr 199505,16017.73$0
Mar 199502,14016.44$0
Feb 199501,86116.58$0
Jan 199502,34915.92$0
Dec 199401,95815.03$0
Nov 199401,95115.90$0
Oct 199401,88015.58$0
Sep 199401,98815.29$0
Aug 199401,72016.13$0
Jul 199401,50917.56$0
Jun 1994091517.09$0
May 199401,01615.88$0
Apr 1994041914.14$0
Mar 199411,37212.46$12
Feb 199401,56212.50$0
Jan 199401,83012.66$0
Dec 199301,91312.33$0
Nov 199301,87914.49$0
Oct 199301,88315.85$0
Sep 199301,94415.03$0
Aug 199302,15515.66$0
Jul 199301,93915.46$0
Jun 199302,04316.79$0
May 199302,01117.68$0
Apr 199301,66518.05$0
Mar 199301,83318.14$0
Feb 199301,77117.90$0
Jan 199302,04616.93$0

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.

Dec 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $  9.20 =         $0
Gas                    2 Mcf  × $  1.77 =         $4

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Month total                                       $4

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/48979 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.