MONROE GAS UNIT

Operated by SAMSON LONE STAR LP (P-5 744700) in the QUITO (FUSSELMAN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 58768District 08Field 73926550Hydrogen sulphide fieldGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$4.8 M
Jan 1993 – Dec 2002
Value, last 12 filed months
$194 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
120
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
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 7 leases and 7 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1971-05-28
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
2,640 ft
minimum
From a lease line
1,320 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 320 acres. The field rule took effect on 1991-09-24.

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 (WAGNER, DUER & CO.)

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
GasProduction4,507,763 Mcf$4,814,162
Total$4,814,162

2,773,942 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 31.5528, -103.3915. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.55285, -103.39153 · 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
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
17,264 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
18 months
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
1100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1100.0%
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 17,264 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 2002
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 2004
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 18 months across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 18 months and 18 months. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-47530621317,264 ftDec 2002Jun 2004Yes

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 (120)

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

120 months

Dec 2002026.914.85$0
Nov 2002024.664.14$0
Oct 2002026.464.23$0
Sep 2002027.443.64$0
Aug 200220425.963.16$645
Jul 20025,05024.583.06$15,462
Jun 20029,17123.733.34$30,615
May 20029,85024.663.58$35,302
Apr 20029,96423.653.51$34,997
Mar 200210,51422.003.10$32,622
Feb 20029,41018.222.38$22,355
Jan 20029,33417.172.38$22,175
Dec 200110,96116.932.36$25,916
Nov 200110,92718.072.41$26,285
Oct 200112,92619.782.53$32,688
Sep 200111,22724.262.25$25,276
Aug 200112,40324.873.05$37,868
Jul 200110,11023.933.20$32,322
Jun 200113,14424.563.82$50,265
May 200110,61025.524.31$45,701
Apr 200110,98424.685.34$58,603
Mar 200111,84324.545.38$63,673
Feb 200112,24927.755.77$70,641
Jan 200114,13927.478.40$118,750
Dec 200014,57226.889.12$132,933
Nov 200014,22332.215.66$80,474
Oct 200017,63731.235.15$90,751
Sep 200017,12631.875.19$88,824
Aug 200020,35229.644.54$92,413
Jul 200020,36628.534.09$83,292
Jun 200020,98429.304.40$92,272
May 200019,23527.263.68$70,780
Apr 200021,33924.513.12$66,492
Mar 200021,94028.422.86$62,743
Feb 200022,44427.622.73$61,194
Jan 200024,61825.272.48$61,065
Dec 199927,43124.282.42$66,485
Nov 199923,25323.192.43$56,598
Oct 199924,53020.982.80$68,775
Sep 199924,66921.752.62$64,604
Aug 199926,21519.262.88$75,384
Jul 199927,10217.892.37$64,296
Jun 199917,00715.942.36$40,172
May 199920,64615.792.32$47,920
Apr 199930,06715.102.21$66,389
Mar 199932,25312.471.84$59,292
Feb 199929,1699.981.82$53,023
Jan 199932,61510.381.90$61,967
Dec 199833,3579.201.77$59,153
Nov 199833,11210.892.19$72,374
Oct 199836,11712.421.97$71,122
Sep 199834,98812.592.08$72,867
Aug 199837,19411.301.91$70,942
Jul 199838,57911.742.24$86,312
Jun 199836,77811.242.24$82,282
May 199840,08112.622.21$88,432
Apr 199838,89113.042.51$97,435
Mar 199840,69012.802.31$93,971
Feb 199836,78813.952.30$84,580
Jan 199840,45114.702.15$87,163
Dec 199739,94716.322.41$96,316
Nov 199739,23318.193.09$121,162
Oct 199740,76219.253.15$128,393
Sep 199741,50117.742.95$122,630
Aug 199745,03517.862.55$115,053
Jul 199746,91317.582.25$105,411
Jun 199744,79317.242.26$101,107
May 199747,59018.972.31$109,862
Apr 199745,32517.882.08$94,402
Mar 199748,05318.951.94$93,181
Feb 199744,14320.492.21$97,375
Jan 199748,68723.483.54$172,337
Dec 199649,32423.32$0
Nov 199648,74621.97$0
Oct 199649,74923.31$0
Sep 199648,72022.22$0
Aug 199646,95220.26$0
Jul 199649,28119.55$0
Jun 199648,65418.73$0
May 199651,65619.43$0
Apr 199652,48721.51$0
Mar 199655,47319.38$0
Feb 199653,63316.98$0
Jan 199656,98217.07$0
Dec 199555,43817.19$0
Nov 199554,66016.00$0
Oct 199556,94515.43$0
Sep 199555,72216.18$0
Aug 199557,13315.92$0
Jul 199558,46115.24$0
Jun 199557,95216.41$0
May 199558,54017.56$0
Apr 199555,27117.73$0
Mar 199554,59116.44$0
Feb 199554,08216.58$0
Jan 199560,84015.92$0
Dec 199462,01915.03$0
Nov 199462,33715.90$0
Oct 199460,99615.58$0
Sep 199460,79315.29$0
Aug 199459,55916.13$0
Jul 199455,21517.56$0
Jun 199460,94117.09$0
May 199463,46415.88$0
Apr 199462,18114.14$0
Mar 199464,89412.46$0
Feb 199458,25812.50$0
Jan 199465,23312.66$0
Dec 199365,13412.33$0
Nov 199363,41914.49$0
Oct 199364,93215.85$0
Sep 199363,24415.03$0
Aug 199365,36915.66$0
Jul 199356,05415.46$0
Jun 199362,82816.79$0
May 199365,14617.68$0
Apr 199363,23918.05$0
Mar 199364,15918.14$0
Feb 199349,94717.90$0
Jan 199363,28916.93$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.

Aug 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  204 Mcf  × $  3.16 =       $645

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Month total                                     $645

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/58768 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.