FOSTER, R. W.

Name: FOSTER, R. W. lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by SAHARA OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 743279) in the CONGER (PENN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

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Value, all time

$333 k

Jan 1993 – Jun 2009

Value, last 12 filed months

$290

at the published price for each month

Months reported

198

no gaps in the span

Streams

gas

The CONGER (PENN) 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 1,011 leases and 1,988 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1978-01-01

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 1985-04-29.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “OPTIONAL 40ACRE UNIT DIAG. 2100 PER #8-84810”

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.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	1	none	—	—

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Gas	Production	135,007 Mcf	$333,452
Total			$333,452

33,482 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 31.7194, -101.0649. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.71941, -101.06493 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

7,650 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

30.3 years

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 7,650 ft.

Completions filed

Mar 1979

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Jun 2009

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 30.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 30.3 years and 30.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-43130753	A 1	7,650 ft	Mar 1979	Jun 2009	Yes

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 (198)

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

198 months


Jun 2009	0	66.16	3.90	$0
May 2009	0	54.74	3.93	$0
Apr 2009	0	46.77	3.59	$0
Mar 2009	0	42.14	4.06	$0
Feb 2009	0	32.81	4.63	$0
Jan 2009	0	35.86	5.37	$0
Dec 2008	0	37.10	5.98	$0
Nov 2008	0	55.49	6.86	$0
Oct 2008	0	75.24	6.92	$0
Sep 2008	0	101.76	7.88	$0
Aug 2008	2	114.22	8.48	$17
Jul 2008	24	131.08	11.39	$273
Jun 2008	76	131.33	13.03	$990
May 2008	288	123.17	11.57	$3,333
Apr 2008	0	110.31	10.45	$0
Mar 2008	0	101.90	9.66	$0
Feb 2008	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	0	90.38	8.21	$0
Dec 2007	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	0	91.67	7.29	$0
Oct 2007	0	82.85	6.92	$0
Sep 2007	127	75.84	6.24	$793
Aug 2007	14	69.06	6.39	$89
Jul 2007	95	70.90	6.39	$607
Jun 2007	105	62.00	7.55	$793
May 2007	340	58.74	7.85	$2,668
Apr 2007	284	59.61	7.81	$2,217
Mar 2007	49	56.92	7.30	$358
Feb 2007	204	55.10	8.22	$1,676
Jan 2007	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	1	54.20	7.62	$8
Oct 2006	1	54.90	6.01	$6
Sep 2006	1	60.08	5.04	$5
Aug 2006	11	68.71	7.34	$81
Jul 2006	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	9	66.28	6.38	$57
May 2006	20	66.01	6.42	$129
Apr 2006	23	64.39	7.36	$169
Mar 2006	28	56.70	7.08	$198
Feb 2006	42	57.59	7.75	$326
Jan 2006	71	60.59	8.93	$634
Dec 2005	150	54.94	13.42	$2,012
Nov 2005	610	54.69	10.59	$6,459
Oct 2005	20	58.34	13.80	$276
Sep 2005	22	61.45	12.08	$266
Aug 2005	24	61.51	9.80	$235
Jul 2005	34	55.69	7.84	$267
Jun 2005	40	52.33	7.38	$295
May 2005	429	45.22	6.65	$2,853
Apr 2005	60	49.20	7.36	$442
Mar 2005	71	50.37	7.15	$508
Feb 2005	69	45.22	6.31	$436
Jan 2005	93	43.16	6.32	$588
Dec 2004	93	39.86	6.75	$628
Nov 2004	99	45.28	6.33	$627
Oct 2004	113	49.70	6.52	$736
Sep 2004	118	43.24	5.28	$624
Aug 2004	132	42.37	5.55	$733
Jul 2004	147	38.28	6.08	$894
Jun 2004	156	36.10	6.43	$1,004
May 2004	165	37.48	6.49	$1,072
Apr 2004	184	34.47	5.86	$1,078
Mar 2004	194	34.36	5.53	$1,073
Feb 2004	202	32.45	5.51	$1,113
Jan 2004	279	32.03	6.30	$1,758
Dec 2003	376	30.26	6.30	$2,369
Nov 2003	225	28.80	4.60	$1,034
Oct 2003	274	28.17	4.76	$1,304
Sep 2003	327	26.31	4.75	$1,553
Aug 2003	241	29.76	5.13	$1,236
Jul 2003	319	29.41	5.17	$1,650
Jun 2003	328	28.56	5.98	$1,962
May 2003	402	26.59	5.97	$2,401
Apr 2003	384	26.67	5.41	$2,076
Mar 2003	396	31.14	6.10	$2,414
Feb 2003	401	33.48	7.93	$3,178
Jan 2003	503	30.31	5.58	$2,808
Dec 2002	607	26.91	4.85	$2,946
Nov 2002	643	24.66	4.14	$2,660
Oct 2002	631	26.46	4.23	$2,669
Sep 2002	664	27.44	3.64	$2,414
Aug 2002	1,192	25.96	3.16	$3,772
Jul 2002	550	24.58	3.06	$1,684
Jun 2002	569	23.73	3.34	$1,899
May 2002	598	24.66	3.58	$2,143
Apr 2002	662	23.65	3.51	$2,325
Mar 2002	663	22.00	3.10	$2,057
Feb 2002	586	18.22	2.38	$1,392
Jan 2002	696	17.17	2.38	$1,653
Dec 2001	670	16.93	2.36	$1,584
Nov 2001	630	18.07	2.41	$1,515
Oct 2001	560	19.78	2.53	$1,416
Sep 2001	606	24.26	2.25	$1,364
Aug 2001	672	24.87	3.05	$2,052
Jul 2001	908	23.93	3.20	$2,903
Jun 2001	1,148	24.56	3.82	$4,390
May 2001	1,050	25.52	4.31	$4,523
Apr 2001	965	24.68	5.34	$5,149
Mar 2001	823	24.54	5.38	$4,425
Feb 2001	948	27.75	5.77	$5,467
Jan 2001	990	27.47	8.40	$8,315
Dec 2000	902	26.88	9.12	$8,229
Nov 2000	1,115	32.21	5.66	$6,309
Oct 2000	1,389	31.23	5.15	$7,147
Sep 2000	1,229	31.87	5.19	$6,374
Aug 2000	1,539	29.64	4.54	$6,988
Jul 2000	1,324	28.53	4.09	$5,415
Jun 2000	1,609	29.30	4.40	$7,075
May 2000	1,609	27.26	3.68	$5,921
Apr 2000	1,936	24.51	3.12	$6,033
Mar 2000	1,856	28.42	2.86	$5,308
Feb 2000	1,818	27.62	2.73	$4,957
Jan 2000	853	25.27	2.48	$2,116
Dec 1999	905	24.28	2.42	$2,193
Nov 1999	1,358	23.19	2.43	$3,305
Oct 1999	1,886	20.98	2.80	$5,288
Sep 1999	1,623	21.75	2.62	$4,250
Aug 1999	2,012	19.26	2.88	$5,786
Jul 1999	1,765	17.89	2.37	$4,187
Jun 1999	2,461	15.94	2.36	$5,813
May 1999	2,609	15.79	2.32	$6,056
Apr 1999	2,695	15.10	2.21	$5,951
Mar 1999	3,293	12.47	1.84	$6,054
Feb 1999	3,222	9.98	1.82	$5,857
Jan 1999	4,287	10.38	1.90	$8,145
Dec 1998	3,697	9.20	1.77	$6,556
Nov 1998	4,832	10.89	2.19	$10,561
Oct 1998	4,404	12.42	1.97	$8,672
Sep 1998	487	12.59	2.08	$1,014
Aug 1998	521	11.30	1.91	$994
Jul 1998	544	11.74	2.24	$1,217
Jun 1998	540	11.24	2.24	$1,208
May 1998	646	12.62	2.21	$1,425
Apr 1998	777	13.04	2.51	$1,947
Mar 1998	1,264	12.80	2.31	$2,919
Feb 1998	1,297	13.95	2.30	$2,982
Jan 1998	476	14.70	2.15	$1,026
Dec 1997	494	16.32	2.41	$1,191
Nov 1997	462	18.19	3.09	$1,427
Oct 1997	474	19.25	3.15	$1,493
Sep 1997	434	17.74	2.95	$1,282
Aug 1997	528	17.86	2.55	$1,349
Jul 1997	313	17.58	2.25	$703
Jun 1997	919	17.24	2.26	$2,074
May 1997	1,597	18.97	2.31	$3,687
Apr 1997	2,018	17.88	2.08	$4,203
Mar 1997	1,144	18.95	1.94	$2,218
Feb 1997	388	20.49	2.21	$856
Jan 1997	448	23.48	3.54	$1,586
Dec 1996	448	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	448	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	500	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	500	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	493	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	554	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	703	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	1,133	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	1,294	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	1,778	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	2,986	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	494	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	494	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	494	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	315	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	315	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	501	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	607	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	663	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	815	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	754	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	731	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	574	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	703	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	787	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	1,096	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	1,095	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	1,224	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	700	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	698	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	600	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	288	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	299	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	303	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	302	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	301	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	320	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	318	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	601	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	600	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	800	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	701	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	700	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	676	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	541	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	523	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	975	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	737	16.93	—	$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 2008 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Gas                    2 Mcf  × $  8.48 =        $17

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Month total                                      $17

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/83137 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.