STERLING "H" FEE

Name: STERLING "H" FEE lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by CHEVRON U. S. A. INC. (P-5 148113) in the CONGER (PENN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 24808District 08Field 20097700NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$2.1 M

Jan 1993 – Feb 2016

Value, last 12 filed months

$147

at the published price for each month

Months reported

278

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead 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	15	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
Oil	Disposition	34,789 bbl	$704,774
Casinghead gas	Production	924,734 Mcf	$1,404,588
Total			$2,109,362

529,300 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 (16)

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 31.7517, -101.2162. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.0 miles.

31.75138, -101.21631 · 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%

16 of 16 wells

With a plug date

6.3%

1 of 16 wells

Median depth

8,200 ft

16 wells filed one

Completion to plug

9.3 years

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

16100.0%

A plug date is filed

16.3%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

16.3%

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

Total depth in feet, 16 of 16 wells. Median 8,200 ft, with the middle half between 8,170 and 8,226 ft; the shallowest is 8,125 ft and the deepest 8,250 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 16 of 16 wells, Jan 1978 – Mar 2014. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed

Jan 1978 – Mar 2014

16 of 16 wells

Plug dates filed

Jun 2023

1 of 16 wells; 15 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 9.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.3 years and 9.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

16 wells


42-43131673	10	8,200 ft	Mar 2014	Jun 2023	Yes
42-43131485	6	8,220 ft	Apr 2004	—	Yes
42-43131701	13	8,170 ft	Feb 2004	—	Yes
42-43130578	4	8,230 ft	Feb 2004	—	Yes
42-43130274	1	8,180 ft	Aug 2003	—	Yes
42-43131722	14	8,238 ft	Dec 1985	—	Yes
42-43131721	15	8,200 ft	Oct 1985	—	Yes
42-43131720	16	8,160 ft	Oct 1985	—	Yes
42-43131672	12	8,200 ft	Sep 1985	—	Yes
42-43131676	11	8,150 ft	Sep 1985	—	Yes
42-43131681	9	8,250 ft	Aug 1985	—	Yes
42-43131484	8	8,225 ft	Aug 1984	—	Yes
42-43131487	7	8,125 ft	Aug 1984	—	Yes
42-43131486	5	8,245 ft	Jul 1984	—	Yes
42-43130293	2	8,170 ft	Jan 1978	—	Yes
42-43130314	3	8,200 ft	Jan 1978	—	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 (278)

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

278 months


Feb 2016	0	0	26.47	2.06	$0
Jan 2016	0	0	27.35	2.36	$0
Dec 2015	0	0	32.36	2.00	$0
Nov 2015	0	0	38.79	2.17	$0
Oct 2015	0	0	43.55	2.43	$0
Sep 2015	0	0	42.99	2.76	$0
Aug 2015	0	0	40.16	2.87	$0
Jul 2015	0	0	48.15	2.95	$0
Jun 2015	0	0	56.15	2.88	$0
May 2015	0	0	55.21	2.96	$0
Apr 2015	0	0	49.82	2.71	$0
Mar 2015	0	50	42.89	2.93	$147
Feb 2015	0	56	44.66	2.98	$167
Jan 2015	0	59	43.43	3.10	$183
Dec 2014	0	52	54.69	3.59	$187
Nov 2014	0	53	70.46	4.25	$225
Oct 2014	0	51	78.30	3.90	$199
Sep 2014	0	58	86.16	4.05	$235
Aug 2014	0	61	89.39	4.04	$246
Jul 2014	0	90	96.56	4.18	$376
Jun 2014	0	171	98.16	4.74	$810
May 2014	0	297	94.73	4.73	$1,404
Apr 2014	0	128	95.94	4.81	$616
Mar 2014	0	242	95.89	5.06	$1,224
Feb 2014	0	148	97.40	6.19	$916
Jan 2014	0	155	90.40	4.86	$753
Dec 2013	0	157	91.82	4.35	$684
Nov 2013	0	163	88.85	3.74	$609
Oct 2013	0	193	97.42	3.78	$729
Sep 2013	0	174	104.11	3.72	$647
Aug 2013	0	198	104.25	3.52	$697
Jul 2013	0	218	102.52	3.72	$810
Jun 2013	0	206	94.40	3.93	$810
May 2013	0	130	94.83	4.15	$539
Apr 2013	0	157	93.96	4.28	$672
Mar 2013	0	161	93.62	3.91	$630
Feb 2013	0	130	91.23	3.42	$445
Jan 2013	0	195	91.60	3.42	$667
Dec 2012	0	202	86.77	3.42	$691
Nov 2012	0	189	86.95	3.62	$685
Oct 2012	0	194	89.38	3.40	$660
Sep 2012	0	193	94.67	2.92	$563
Aug 2012	0	200	92.66	2.91	$582
Jul 2012	0	210	85.13	3.02	$634
Jun 2012	0	200	79.82	2.52	$504
May 2012	0	228	91.61	2.49	$567
Apr 2012	0	229	101.65	2.00	$457
Mar 2012	0	245	105.05	2.22	$544
Feb 2012	0	214	101.10	2.57	$550
Jan 2012	0	204	98.09	2.73	$558
Dec 2011	0	182	96.87	3.24	$590
Nov 2011	0	194	95.72	3.31	$642
Oct 2011	0	205	84.98	3.65	$748
Sep 2011	0	179	83.62	3.99	$713
Aug 2011	0	199	83.40	4.15	$826
Jul 2011	0	170	94.14	4.52	$768
Jun 2011	0	203	92.90	4.64	$942
May 2011	0	228	98.13	4.40	$1,004
Apr 2011	0	163	105.96	4.33	$706
Mar 2011	0	225	96.36	4.06	$913
Feb 2011	0	221	85.64	4.18	$924
Jan 2011	0	274	86.50	4.59	$1,257
Dec 2010	0	246	85.73	4.35	$1,070
Nov 2010	0	250	80.84	3.80	$949
Oct 2010	0	191	78.10	3.51	$670
Sep 2010	0	238	72.63	3.98	$947
Aug 2010	0	230	73.68	4.42	$1,016
Jul 2010	0	212	72.55	4.74	$1,004
Jun 2010	0	288	70.36	4.91	$1,414
May 2010	0	252	71.12	4.24	$1,067
Apr 2010	0	250	81.69	4.12	$1,031
Mar 2010	0	261	78.39	4.39	$1,145
Feb 2010	0	234	73.58	5.44	$1,274
Jan 2010	0	223	74.36	5.96	$1,330
Dec 2009	0	199	71.44	5.48	$1,091
Nov 2009	0	195	74.59	3.75	$732
Oct 2009	0	145	72.54	4.11	$596
Sep 2009	0	226	65.54	3.06	$693
Aug 2009	0	147	67.42	3.22	$473
Jul 2009	0	158	61.13	3.46	$547
Jun 2009	0	263	66.16	3.90	$1,024
May 2009	0	210	54.74	3.93	$824
Apr 2009	0	108	46.77	3.59	$387
Mar 2009	0	182	42.14	4.06	$739
Feb 2009	0	210	32.81	4.63	$973
Jan 2009	0	153	35.86	5.37	$822
Dec 2008	0	151	37.10	5.98	$903
Nov 2008	0	133	55.49	6.86	$912
Oct 2008	0	153	75.24	6.92	$1,059
Sep 2008	0	177	101.76	7.88	$1,394
Aug 2008	0	102	114.22	8.48	$865
Jul 2008	0	186	131.08	11.39	$2,118
Jun 2008	1	234	131.33	13.03	$3,181
May 2008	1	240	123.17	11.57	$2,901
Apr 2008	2	206	110.31	10.45	$2,374
Mar 2008	3	156	101.90	9.66	$1,813
Feb 2008	2	154	92.53	8.77	$1,536
Jan 2008	2	163	90.38	8.21	$1,518
Dec 2007	4	199	88.33	7.30	$1,806
Nov 2007	3	204	91.67	7.29	$1,763
Oct 2007	1	202	82.85	6.92	$1,481
Sep 2007	3	201	75.84	6.24	$1,483
Aug 2007	3	229	69.06	6.39	$1,670
Jul 2007	3	285	70.90	6.39	$2,033
Jun 2007	4	230	62.00	7.55	$1,984
May 2007	7	230	58.74	7.85	$2,216
Apr 2007	10	194	59.61	7.81	$2,110
Mar 2007	2	163	56.92	7.30	$1,304
Feb 2007	3	168	55.10	8.22	$1,546
Jan 2007	3	152	50.30	6.73	$1,173
Dec 2006	8	196	56.65	6.92	$1,809
Nov 2006	6	221	54.20	7.62	$2,009
Oct 2006	2	206	54.90	6.01	$1,349
Sep 2006	3	203	60.08	5.04	$1,203
Aug 2006	6	229	68.71	7.34	$2,093
Jul 2006	4	243	69.37	6.34	$1,819
Jun 2006	5	245	66.28	6.38	$1,895
May 2006	4	250	66.01	6.42	$1,870
Apr 2006	4	251	64.39	7.36	$2,105
Mar 2006	6	260	56.70	7.08	$2,182
Feb 2006	8	235	57.59	7.75	$2,282
Jan 2006	9	263	60.59	8.93	$2,895
Dec 2005	8	241	54.94	13.42	$3,673
Nov 2005	9	218	54.69	10.59	$2,800
Oct 2005	16	221	58.34	13.80	$3,982
Sep 2005	3	212	61.45	12.08	$2,745
Aug 2005	13	270	61.51	9.80	$3,445
Jul 2005	10	280	55.69	7.84	$2,753
Jun 2005	9	347	52.33	7.38	$3,032
May 2005	16	463	45.22	6.65	$3,803
Apr 2005	39	473	49.20	7.36	$5,400
Mar 2005	35	1,008	50.37	7.15	$8,975
Feb 2005	14	374	45.22	6.31	$2,994
Jan 2005	31	415	43.16	6.32	$3,962
Dec 2004	31	431	39.86	6.75	$4,145
Nov 2004	60	380	45.28	6.33	$5,122
Oct 2004	48	383	49.70	6.52	$4,881
Sep 2004	75	370	43.24	5.28	$5,198
Aug 2004	93	371	42.37	5.55	$6,000
Jul 2004	114	373	38.28	6.08	$6,633
Jun 2004	81	722	36.10	6.43	$7,569
May 2004	81	724	37.48	6.49	$7,738
Apr 2004	77	756	34.47	5.86	$7,083
Mar 2004	83	795	34.36	5.53	$7,248
Feb 2004	275	2,174	32.45	5.51	$20,902
Jan 2004	220	2,413	32.03	6.30	$22,248
Dec 2003	256	2,429	30.26	6.30	$23,053
Nov 2003	309	2,579	28.80	4.60	$20,750
Oct 2003	296	2,705	28.17	4.76	$21,213
Sep 2003	288	2,662	26.31	4.75	$20,220
Aug 2003	242	2,498	29.76	5.13	$20,016
Jul 2003	206	3,475	29.41	5.17	$24,027
Jun 2003	216	3,402	28.56	5.98	$26,523
May 2003	201	3,455	26.59	5.97	$25,980
Apr 2003	170	3,353	26.67	5.41	$22,665
Mar 2003	178	3,204	31.14	6.10	$25,075
Feb 2003	119	3,015	33.48	7.93	$27,881
Jan 2003	169	3,268	30.31	5.58	$23,365
Dec 2002	225	3,293	26.91	4.85	$22,038
Nov 2002	167	3,467	24.66	4.14	$18,461
Oct 2002	196	3,659	26.46	4.23	$20,661
Sep 2002	217	3,619	27.44	3.64	$19,110
Aug 2002	170	3,858	25.96	3.16	$16,621
Jul 2002	172	3,910	24.58	3.06	$16,199
Jun 2002	144	3,903	23.73	3.34	$16,446
May 2002	161	3,986	24.66	3.58	$18,256
Apr 2002	200	3,740	23.65	3.51	$17,866
Mar 2002	264	3,796	22.00	3.10	$17,586
Feb 2002	176	3,094	18.22	2.38	$10,557
Jan 2002	150	3,533	17.17	2.38	$10,969
Dec 2001	183	3,504	16.93	2.36	$11,383
Nov 2001	243	3,545	18.07	2.41	$12,919
Oct 2001	231	3,960	19.78	2.53	$14,584
Sep 2001	218	3,920	24.26	2.25	$14,114
Aug 2001	235	4,049	24.87	3.05	$18,207
Jul 2001	236	4,109	23.93	3.20	$18,784
Jun 2001	219	3,984	24.56	3.82	$20,614
May 2001	240	4,183	25.52	4.31	$24,142
Apr 2001	205	4,074	24.68	5.34	$26,795
Mar 2001	151	4,031	24.54	5.38	$25,378
Feb 2001	117	3,303	27.75	5.77	$22,295
Jan 2001	100	3,548	27.47	8.40	$32,546
Dec 2000	203	3,935	26.88	9.12	$41,354
Nov 2000	206	4,011	32.21	5.66	$29,330
Oct 2000	208	4,082	31.23	5.15	$27,500
Sep 2000	140	4,202	31.87	5.19	$26,255
Aug 2000	245	4,468	29.64	4.54	$27,550
Jul 2000	244	4,472	28.53	4.09	$25,251
Jun 2000	215	4,319	29.30	4.40	$25,291
May 2000	224	4,345	27.26	3.68	$22,095
Apr 2000	214	4,179	24.51	3.12	$18,267
Mar 2000	190	4,361	28.42	2.86	$17,871
Feb 2000	215	4,355	27.62	2.73	$17,812
Jan 2000	191	4,679	25.27	2.48	$16,433
Dec 1999	201	4,741	24.28	2.42	$16,371
Nov 1999	295	4,678	23.19	2.43	$18,227
Oct 1999	304	4,925	20.98	2.80	$20,186
Sep 1999	268	4,953	21.75	2.62	$18,800
Aug 1999	321	5,663	19.26	2.88	$22,467
Jul 1999	275	5,711	17.89	2.37	$18,468
Jun 1999	313	5,321	15.94	2.36	$17,558
May 1999	286	4,412	15.79	2.32	$14,756
Apr 1999	277	4,413	15.10	2.21	$13,927
Mar 1999	200	4,342	12.47	1.84	$10,476
Feb 1999	180	4,202	9.98	1.82	$9,435
Jan 1999	156	4,506	10.38	1.90	$10,180
Dec 1998	192	4,621	9.20	1.77	$9,961
Nov 1998	215	5,098	10.89	2.19	$13,484
Oct 1998	213	4,882	12.42	1.97	$12,259
Sep 1998	180	5,049	12.59	2.08	$12,781
Aug 1998	199	5,017	11.30	1.91	$11,818
Jul 1998	145	4,996	11.74	2.24	$12,880
Jun 1998	186	4,650	11.24	2.24	$12,494
May 1998	179	5,006	12.62	2.21	$13,304
Apr 1998	212	4,569	13.04	2.51	$14,211
Mar 1998	182	4,926	12.80	2.31	$13,706
Feb 1998	175	4,435	13.95	2.30	$12,638
Jan 1998	220	4,304	14.70	2.15	$12,508
Dec 1997	205	4,251	16.32	2.41	$13,595
Nov 1997	174	4,277	18.19	3.09	$16,374
Oct 1997	173	4,624	19.25	3.15	$17,895
Sep 1997	169	4,790	17.74	2.95	$17,152
Aug 1997	120	5,148	17.86	2.55	$15,295
Jul 1997	166	6,607	17.58	2.25	$17,764
Jun 1997	189	6,712	17.24	2.26	$18,409
May 1997	249	6,113	18.97	2.31	$18,835
Apr 1997	228	5,674	17.88	2.08	$15,894
Mar 1997	187	5,844	18.95	1.94	$14,876
Feb 1997	173	5,768	20.49	2.21	$16,268
Jan 1997	150	7,182	23.48	3.54	$28,944
Dec 1996	140	7,034	23.32	—	$3,265
Nov 1996	156	5,901	21.97	—	$3,427
Oct 1996	222	6,029	23.31	—	$5,175
Sep 1996	201	6,018	22.22	—	$4,466
Aug 1996	188	7,767	20.26	—	$3,809
Jul 1996	137	7,588	19.55	—	$2,678
Jun 1996	145	7,205	18.73	—	$2,716
May 1996	181	7,923	19.43	—	$3,517
Apr 1996	204	7,272	21.51	—	$4,388
Mar 1996	198	7,400	19.38	—	$3,837
Feb 1996	187	6,300	16.98	—	$3,175
Jan 1996	177	6,595	17.07	—	$3,021
Dec 1995	154	5,889	17.19	—	$2,647
Nov 1995	103	6,350	16.00	—	$1,648
Oct 1995	164	7,174	15.43	—	$2,531
Sep 1995	177	5,207	16.18	—	$2,864
Aug 1995	120	5,858	15.92	—	$1,910
Jul 1995	152	6,551	15.24	—	$2,316
Jun 1995	181	6,167	16.41	—	$2,970
May 1995	158	6,668	17.56	—	$2,774
Apr 1995	107	6,711	17.73	—	$1,897
Mar 1995	130	7,523	16.44	—	$2,137
Feb 1995	119	7,391	16.58	—	$1,973
Jan 1995	116	6,976	15.92	—	$1,847
Dec 1994	368	7,536	15.03	—	$5,531
Nov 1994	237	6,713	15.90	—	$3,768
Oct 1994	206	6,659	15.58	—	$3,209
Sep 1994	202	6,279	15.29	—	$3,089
Aug 1994	209	9,340	16.13	—	$3,371
Jul 1994	284	7,599	17.56	—	$4,987
Jun 1994	277	6,292	17.09	—	$4,734
May 1994	365	3,540	15.88	—	$5,796
Apr 1994	439	5,315	14.14	—	$6,207
Mar 1994	443	10,850	12.46	—	$5,520
Feb 1994	559	16,680	12.50	—	$6,988
Jan 1994	617	16,842	12.66	—	$7,811
Dec 1993	566	17,382	12.33	—	$6,979
Nov 1993	440	18,840	14.49	—	$6,376
Oct 1993	592	19,178	15.85	—	$9,383
Sep 1993	587	21,596	15.03	—	$8,823
Aug 1993	603	22,111	15.66	—	$9,443
Jul 1993	620	24,852	15.46	—	$9,585
Jun 1993	622	20,964	16.79	—	$10,443
May 1993	705	24,161	17.68	—	$12,464
Apr 1993	726	23,760	18.05	—	$13,104
Mar 1993	928	23,715	18.14	—	$16,834
Feb 1993	720	21,582	17.90	—	$12,888
Jan 1993	772	26,017	16.93	—	$13,070

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.

Mar 2015 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                    0 bbl  × $ 42.89 =         $0
Casinghead gas        50 Mcf  × $  2.93 =       $147

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                     $147

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/O/24808 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.