STERLING "X" FEE

Name: STERLING "X" 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, SW (PENN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 30378District 08Field 20101500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$3.4 M

Jan 1993 – Mar 2008

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

183

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The CONGER, SW (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 271 leases and 445 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1979-02-21

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 1986-07-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “OPERATOR REQUEST. TEXACO E & P INC ALLICIANT..”

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	10	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	91,270 bbl	$1,535,487
Casinghead gas	Production	1,590,048 Mcf	$1,880,511
Total			$3,415,998

1,013,069 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 (12)

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 31.6572, -101.2324. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

31.65801, -101.23197 · 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%

12 of 12 wells

With a plug date

0.0%

0 of 12 wells

Median depth

8,300 ft

12 wells filed one

Completion to plug

—

no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

12100.0%

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

Total depth in feet, 12 of 12 wells. Median 8,300 ft, with the middle half between 8,279 and 8,336 ft; the shallowest is 8,195 ft and the deepest 8,450 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, 12 of 12 wells, Jun 2002 – Jul 2013. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed

Jun 2002 – Jul 2013

12 of 12 wells

12 wells


42-43132497	6	8,245 ft	Jul 2013	—	Yes
42-43132496	7	8,290 ft	Aug 2012	—	Yes
42-43132499	4	8,290 ft	Sep 2011	—	Yes
42-43132498	5	8,245 ft	Dec 2009	—	Yes
42-43132495	8	8,320 ft	May 2009	—	Yes
42-43132485	3	8,195 ft	Nov 2008	—	Yes
42-43132484	2	8,450 ft	Jul 2008	—	Yes
42-43132721	11	8,335 ft	Dec 2007	—	Yes
42-43132743	13	8,300 ft	Dec 2007	—	Yes
42-43132722	12	8,300 ft	Dec 2007	—	Yes
42-43132719	9	8,340 ft	Jan 2006	—	Yes
42-43131726	1	8,400 ft	Jun 2002	—	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 (183)

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

183 months


Mar 2008	0	0	101.90	9.66	$0
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	0	0	90.38	8.21	$0
Dec 2007	0	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	0	0	91.67	7.29	$0
Oct 2007	0	0	82.85	6.92	$0
Sep 2007	0	0	75.84	6.24	$0
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	0	0	70.90	6.39	$0
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	0	0	58.74	7.85	$0
Apr 2007	0	0	59.61	7.81	$0
Mar 2007	0	0	56.92	7.30	$0
Feb 2007	0	0	55.10	8.22	$0
Jan 2007	0	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	0	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	0	0	54.20	7.62	$0
Oct 2006	0	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	0	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	0	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	0	0	66.28	6.38	$0
May 2006	0	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	0	0	64.39	7.36	$0
Mar 2006	0	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	0	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	0	0	60.59	8.93	$0
Dec 2005	0	0	54.94	13.42	$0
Nov 2005	0	0	54.69	10.59	$0
Oct 2005	0	0	58.34	13.80	$0
Sep 2005	0	0	61.45	12.08	$0
Aug 2005	0	0	61.51	9.80	$0
Jul 2005	0	0	55.69	7.84	$0
Jun 2005	0	0	52.33	7.38	$0
May 2005	0	0	45.22	6.65	$0
Apr 2005	0	0	49.20	7.36	$0
Mar 2005	34	2,904	50.37	7.15	$22,490
Feb 2005	21	1,434	45.22	6.31	$10,001
Jan 2005	26	1,613	43.16	6.32	$11,320
Dec 2004	26	1,668	39.86	6.75	$12,297
Nov 2004	24	1,560	45.28	6.33	$10,962
Oct 2004	36	1,213	49.70	6.52	$9,692
Sep 2004	36	1,143	43.24	5.28	$7,596
Aug 2004	25	1,214	42.37	5.55	$7,798
Jul 2004	18	1,361	38.28	6.08	$8,970
Jun 2004	29	1,431	36.10	6.43	$10,253
May 2004	37	1,690	37.48	6.49	$12,363
Apr 2004	31	1,610	34.47	5.86	$10,501
Mar 2004	30	1,705	34.36	5.53	$10,460
Feb 2004	27	1,563	32.45	5.51	$9,488
Jan 2004	35	1,398	32.03	6.30	$9,928
Dec 2003	36	1,334	30.26	6.30	$9,496
Nov 2003	26	1,406	28.80	4.60	$7,210
Oct 2003	36	1,640	28.17	4.76	$8,820
Sep 2003	32	1,584	26.31	4.75	$8,365
Aug 2003	24	1,599	29.76	5.13	$8,917
Jul 2003	9	1,619	29.41	5.17	$8,636
Jun 2003	36	1,501	28.56	5.98	$10,009
May 2003	41	1,532	26.59	5.97	$10,240
Apr 2003	37	1,543	26.67	5.41	$9,330
Mar 2003	31	1,702	31.14	6.10	$11,341
Feb 2003	31	1,501	33.48	7.93	$12,935
Jan 2003	38	4,261	30.31	5.58	$24,937
Dec 2002	42	4,126	26.91	4.85	$21,157
Nov 2002	55	4,283	24.66	4.14	$19,075
Oct 2002	64	4,370	26.46	4.23	$20,175
Sep 2002	162	4,270	27.44	3.64	$19,968
Aug 2002	148	4,397	25.96	3.16	$17,755
Jul 2002	56	4,309	24.58	3.06	$14,570
Jun 2002	104	4,417	23.73	3.34	$17,213
May 2002	51	5,374	24.66	3.58	$20,518
Apr 2002	42	5,547	23.65	3.51	$20,476
Mar 2002	64	5,698	22.00	3.10	$19,087
Feb 2002	69	5,196	18.22	2.38	$13,601
Jan 2002	27	5,904	17.17	2.38	$14,490
Dec 2001	0	6,070	16.93	2.36	$14,352
Nov 2001	12	5,570	18.07	2.41	$13,616
Oct 2001	121	5,756	19.78	2.53	$16,950
Sep 2001	282	5,929	24.26	2.25	$20,189
Aug 2001	179	6,507	24.87	3.05	$24,319
Jul 2001	168	6,649	23.93	3.20	$25,278
Jun 2001	136	6,330	24.56	3.82	$27,547
May 2001	188	6,552	25.52	4.31	$33,019
Apr 2001	135	6,073	24.68	5.34	$35,733
Mar 2001	104	6,294	24.54	5.38	$36,391
Feb 2001	109	5,746	27.75	5.77	$36,162
Jan 2001	160	6,669	27.47	8.40	$60,407
Dec 2000	172	6,766	26.88	9.12	$66,346
Nov 2000	147	6,821	32.21	5.66	$43,328
Oct 2000	148	7,169	31.23	5.15	$41,510
Sep 2000	101	7,062	31.87	5.19	$39,846
Aug 2000	158	7,190	29.64	4.54	$37,331
Jul 2000	177	7,326	28.53	4.09	$35,011
Jun 2000	172	7,045	29.30	4.40	$36,018
May 2000	168	7,152	27.26	3.68	$30,897
Apr 2000	171	6,984	24.51	3.12	$25,953
Mar 2000	152	7,287	28.42	2.86	$25,159
Feb 2000	233	7,571	27.62	2.73	$27,078
Jan 2000	218	8,123	25.27	2.48	$25,658
Dec 1999	256	8,360	24.28	2.42	$26,478
Nov 1999	282	7,251	23.19	2.43	$24,188
Oct 1999	289	7,465	20.98	2.80	$26,993
Sep 1999	258	7,354	21.75	2.62	$24,871
Aug 1999	207	7,973	19.26	2.88	$26,914
Jul 1999	172	8,069	17.89	2.37	$22,220
Jun 1999	174	7,892	15.94	2.36	$21,415
May 1999	227	7,728	15.79	2.32	$21,521
Apr 1999	241	7,669	15.10	2.21	$20,573
Mar 1999	204	8,062	12.47	1.84	$17,365
Feb 1999	150	8,311	9.98	1.82	$16,605
Jan 1999	143	9,239	10.38	1.90	$19,038
Dec 1998	186	9,215	9.20	1.77	$18,052
Nov 1998	277	8,559	10.89	2.19	$21,724
Oct 1998	285	9,006	12.42	1.97	$21,274
Sep 1998	266	9,012	12.59	2.08	$22,118
Aug 1998	327	8,675	11.30	1.91	$20,241
Jul 1998	247	8,915	11.74	2.24	$22,845
Jun 1998	253	8,647	11.24	2.24	$22,189
May 1998	275	9,564	12.62	2.21	$24,572
Apr 1998	317	9,288	13.04	2.51	$27,403
Mar 1998	255	9,008	12.80	2.31	$24,067
Feb 1998	222	8,010	13.95	2.30	$21,513
Jan 1998	280	8,763	14.70	2.15	$22,998
Dec 1997	288	9,211	16.32	2.41	$26,909
Nov 1997	353	8,529	18.19	3.09	$32,761
Oct 1997	347	8,788	19.25	3.15	$34,360
Sep 1997	362	8,599	17.74	2.95	$31,831
Aug 1997	306	9,301	17.86	2.55	$29,227
Jul 1997	397	9,391	17.58	2.25	$28,080
Jun 1997	408	9,185	17.24	2.26	$27,766
May 1997	420	9,228	18.97	2.31	$29,270
Apr 1997	394	9,368	17.88	2.08	$26,556
Mar 1997	370	10,160	18.95	1.94	$26,713
Feb 1997	383	9,590	20.49	2.21	$29,002
Jan 1997	299	10,333	23.48	3.54	$43,596
Dec 1996	325	10,986	23.32	—	$7,579
Nov 1996	360	9,740	21.97	—	$7,909
Oct 1996	486	10,483	23.31	—	$11,329
Sep 1996	447	10,396	22.22	—	$9,932
Aug 1996	481	11,191	20.26	—	$9,745
Jul 1996	382	11,480	19.55	—	$7,468
Jun 1996	445	11,823	18.73	—	$8,335
May 1996	564	13,223	19.43	—	$10,959
Apr 1996	630	13,502	21.51	—	$13,551
Mar 1996	687	12,840	19.38	—	$13,314
Feb 1996	580	9,238	16.98	—	$9,848
Jan 1996	759	15,333	17.07	—	$12,956
Dec 1995	791	16,401	17.19	—	$13,597
Nov 1995	638	14,877	16.00	—	$10,208
Oct 1995	972	18,814	15.43	—	$14,998
Sep 1995	949	16,009	16.18	—	$15,355
Aug 1995	888	16,126	15.92	—	$14,137
Jul 1995	868	14,709	15.24	—	$13,228
Jun 1995	1,009	17,986	16.41	—	$16,558
May 1995	1,137	19,933	17.56	—	$19,966
Apr 1995	1,175	20,317	17.73	—	$20,833
Mar 1995	2,040	23,641	16.44	—	$33,538
Feb 1995	2,078	22,612	16.58	—	$34,453
Jan 1995	1,511	30,722	15.92	—	$24,055
Dec 1994	2,592	33,986	15.03	—	$38,958
Nov 1994	767	20,181	15.90	—	$12,195
Oct 1994	1,552	34,359	15.58	—	$24,180
Sep 1994	2,353	23,878	15.29	—	$35,977
Aug 1994	2,518	27,634	16.13	—	$40,615
Jul 1994	2,631	23,613	17.56	—	$46,200
Jun 1994	1,202	15,720	17.09	—	$20,542
May 1994	2,882	26,014	15.88	—	$45,766
Apr 1994	6,153	50,535	14.14	—	$87,003
Mar 1994	1,860	23,541	12.46	—	$23,176
Feb 1994	1,683	22,417	12.50	—	$21,038
Jan 1994	1,809	22,176	12.66	—	$22,902
Dec 1993	2,074	24,254	12.33	—	$25,572
Nov 1993	1,926	23,949	14.49	—	$27,908
Oct 1993	2,264	22,628	15.85	—	$35,884
Sep 1993	2,062	23,455	15.03	—	$30,992
Aug 1993	2,114	25,148	15.66	—	$33,105
Jul 1993	2,392	27,916	15.46	—	$36,980
Jun 1993	2,773	26,147	16.79	—	$46,559
May 1993	2,996	29,791	17.68	—	$52,969
Apr 1993	3,335	34,315	18.05	—	$60,197
Mar 1993	1,948	37,210	18.14	—	$35,337
Feb 1993	756	26,039	17.90	—	$13,532
Jan 1993	2,999	15,781	16.93	—	$50,773

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 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   34 bbl  × $ 50.37 =     $1,713
Casinghead gas     2,904 Mcf  × $  7.15 =    $20,778

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Month total                                  $22,490

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/30378 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.