VEST, SAM

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

Operated by CIMAREX ENERGY CO. OF COLORADO (P-5 153429) in the ARENOSO (STRAWN DETRITUS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 33159District 08Field 03520500Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.9 M

Jan 1993 – Oct 2016

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

286

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The ARENOSO (STRAWN DETRITUS) 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 51 leases and 126 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1965-01-23

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

1,867 ft

minimum

From a lease line

660 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 160 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.

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	49,455 bbl	$1,937,257
Casinghead gas	Production	35 Mcf	$0
Total			$1,937,257

35 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 35 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 31.7446, -102.8307. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.74459, -102.83072 · 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

8,769 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

25.3 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 8,769 ft.

Completions filed

May 1991

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Aug 2016

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 25.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 25.3 years and 25.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-49532365	1	8,769 ft	May 1991	Aug 2016	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 (286)

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

286 months


Oct 2016	0	0	46.19	3.09	$0
Sep 2016	0	0	41.55	3.10	$0
Aug 2016	0	0	41.44	2.92	$0
Jul 2016	0	0	41.62	2.92	$0
Jun 2016	0	0	45.35	2.69	$0
May 2016	0	0	42.52	1.99	$0
Apr 2016	0	0	36.56	1.99	$0
Mar 2016	0	0	33.01	1.79	$0
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	0	42.89	2.93	$0
Feb 2015	0	0	44.66	2.98	$0
Jan 2015	0	0	43.43	3.10	$0
Dec 2014	143	0	54.69	3.59	$7,821
Nov 2014	164	0	70.46	4.25	$11,555
Oct 2014	165	0	78.30	3.90	$12,920
Sep 2014	0	0	86.16	4.05	$0
Aug 2014	163	0	89.39	4.04	$14,571
Jul 2014	162	0	96.56	4.18	$15,643
Jun 2014	0	0	98.16	4.74	$0
May 2014	170	0	94.73	4.73	$16,104
Apr 2014	163	0	95.94	4.81	$15,638
Mar 2014	0	0	95.89	5.06	$0
Feb 2014	149	0	97.40	6.19	$14,513
Jan 2014	178	0	90.40	4.86	$16,091
Dec 2013	164	0	91.82	4.35	$15,058
Nov 2013	162	0	88.85	3.74	$14,394
Oct 2013	0	0	97.42	3.78	$0
Sep 2013	165	0	104.11	3.72	$17,178
Aug 2013	162	0	104.25	3.52	$16,889
Jul 2013	0	0	102.52	3.72	$0
Jun 2013	159	0	94.40	3.93	$15,010
May 2013	160	0	94.83	4.15	$15,173
Apr 2013	164	0	93.96	4.28	$15,409
Mar 2013	159	0	93.62	3.91	$14,886
Feb 2013	0	0	91.23	3.42	$0
Jan 2013	166	0	91.60	3.42	$15,206
Dec 2012	161	0	86.77	3.42	$13,970
Nov 2012	161	0	86.95	3.62	$13,999
Oct 2012	0	0	89.38	3.40	$0
Sep 2012	344	0	94.67	2.92	$32,566
Aug 2012	0	0	92.66	2.91	$0
Jul 2012	160	0	85.13	3.02	$13,621
Jun 2012	162	0	79.82	2.52	$12,931
May 2012	166	0	91.61	2.49	$15,207
Apr 2012	0	0	101.65	2.00	$0
Mar 2012	162	0	105.05	2.22	$17,018
Feb 2012	167	0	101.10	2.57	$16,884
Jan 2012	163	0	98.09	2.73	$15,989
Dec 2011	0	0	96.87	3.24	$0
Nov 2011	175	0	95.72	3.31	$16,751
Oct 2011	161	0	84.98	3.65	$13,682
Sep 2011	169	0	83.62	3.99	$14,132
Aug 2011	0	0	83.40	4.15	$0
Jul 2011	179	0	94.14	4.52	$16,851
Jun 2011	163	0	92.90	4.64	$15,143
May 2011	168	0	98.13	4.40	$16,486
Apr 2011	177	0	105.96	4.33	$18,755
Mar 2011	0	0	96.36	4.06	$0
Feb 2011	0	0	85.64	4.18	$0
Jan 2011	159	0	86.50	4.59	$13,754
Dec 2010	168	0	85.73	4.35	$14,403
Nov 2010	181	0	80.84	3.80	$14,632
Oct 2010	0	0	78.10	3.51	$0
Sep 2010	160	0	72.63	3.98	$11,621
Aug 2010	174	0	73.68	4.42	$12,820
Jul 2010	174	0	72.55	4.74	$12,624
Jun 2010	167	0	70.36	4.91	$11,750
May 2010	0	0	71.12	4.24	$0
Apr 2010	155	0	81.69	4.12	$12,662
Mar 2010	166	0	78.39	4.39	$13,013
Feb 2010	161	0	73.58	5.44	$11,846
Jan 2010	149	0	74.36	5.96	$11,080
Dec 2009	0	0	71.44	5.48	$0
Nov 2009	174	0	74.59	3.75	$12,979
Oct 2009	165	0	72.54	4.11	$11,969
Sep 2009	160	0	65.54	3.06	$10,486
Aug 2009	0	0	67.42	3.22	$0
Jul 2009	156	0	61.13	3.46	$9,536
Jun 2009	153	0	66.16	3.90	$10,122
May 2009	156	0	54.74	3.93	$8,539
Apr 2009	161	0	46.77	3.59	$7,530
Mar 2009	152	0	42.14	4.06	$6,405
Feb 2009	152	0	32.81	4.63	$4,987
Jan 2009	173	0	35.86	5.37	$6,204
Dec 2008	175	0	37.10	5.98	$6,493
Nov 2008	0	0	55.49	6.86	$0
Oct 2008	164	0	75.24	6.92	$12,339
Sep 2008	156	0	101.76	7.88	$15,875
Aug 2008	341	0	114.22	8.48	$38,949
Jul 2008	0	0	131.08	11.39	$0
Jun 2008	316	0	131.33	13.03	$41,500
May 2008	0	0	123.17	11.57	$0
Apr 2008	175	0	110.31	10.45	$19,304
Mar 2008	330	0	101.90	9.66	$33,627
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	164	0	90.38	8.21	$14,822
Dec 2007	327	0	88.33	7.30	$28,884
Nov 2007	159	0	91.67	7.29	$14,576
Oct 2007	160	0	82.85	6.92	$13,256
Sep 2007	164	0	75.84	6.24	$12,438
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	162	0	70.90	6.39	$11,486
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	158	0	58.74	7.85	$9,281
Apr 2007	166	0	59.61	7.81	$9,895
Mar 2007	171	0	56.92	7.30	$9,733
Feb 2007	332	0	55.10	8.22	$18,293
Jan 2007	166	0	50.30	6.73	$8,350
Dec 2006	0	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	311	0	54.20	7.62	$16,856
Oct 2006	0	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	161	0	60.08	5.04	$9,673
Aug 2006	0	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	333	0	69.37	6.34	$23,100
Jun 2006	166	0	66.28	6.38	$11,002
May 2006	0	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	165	0	64.39	7.36	$10,624
Mar 2006	0	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	164	0	57.59	7.75	$9,445
Jan 2006	162	0	60.59	8.93	$9,816
Dec 2005	164	0	54.94	13.42	$9,010
Nov 2005	175	0	54.69	10.59	$9,571
Oct 2005	339	0	58.34	13.80	$19,777
Sep 2005	0	0	61.45	12.08	$0
Aug 2005	174	0	61.51	9.80	$10,703
Jul 2005	163	0	55.69	7.84	$9,077
Jun 2005	0	0	52.33	7.38	$0
May 2005	166	0	45.22	6.65	$7,507
Apr 2005	170	0	49.20	7.36	$8,364
Mar 2005	312	0	50.37	7.15	$15,715
Feb 2005	171	0	45.22	6.31	$7,733
Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	167	0	39.86	6.75	$6,657
Nov 2004	172	0	45.28	6.33	$7,788
Oct 2004	344	0	49.70	6.52	$17,097
Sep 2004	172	0	43.24	5.28	$7,437
Aug 2004	169	0	42.37	5.55	$7,161
Jul 2004	168	0	38.28	6.08	$6,431
Jun 2004	169	0	36.10	6.43	$6,101
May 2004	171	0	37.48	6.49	$6,409
Apr 2004	173	0	34.47	5.86	$5,963
Mar 2004	158	0	34.36	5.53	$5,429
Feb 2004	0	0	32.45	5.51	$0
Jan 2004	173	0	32.03	6.30	$5,541
Dec 2003	166	0	30.26	6.30	$5,023
Nov 2003	0	0	28.80	4.60	$0
Oct 2003	0	0	28.17	4.76	$0
Sep 2003	163	0	26.31	4.75	$4,289
Aug 2003	0	0	29.76	5.13	$0
Jul 2003	166	0	29.41	5.17	$4,882
Jun 2003	138	0	28.56	5.98	$3,941
May 2003	0	0	26.59	5.97	$0
Apr 2003	164	0	26.67	5.41	$4,374
Mar 2003	0	0	31.14	6.10	$0
Feb 2003	167	0	33.48	7.93	$5,591
Jan 2003	166	0	30.31	5.58	$5,031
Dec 2002	0	0	26.91	4.85	$0
Nov 2002	164	0	24.66	4.14	$4,044
Oct 2002	135	0	26.46	4.23	$3,572
Sep 2002	328	0	27.44	3.64	$9,000
Aug 2002	170	0	25.96	3.16	$4,413
Jul 2002	171	0	24.58	3.06	$4,203
Jun 2002	168	0	23.73	3.34	$3,987
May 2002	157	0	24.66	3.58	$3,872
Apr 2002	171	0	23.65	3.51	$4,044
Mar 2002	169	0	22.00	3.10	$3,718
Feb 2002	166	0	18.22	2.38	$3,025
Jan 2002	150	0	17.17	2.38	$2,576
Dec 2001	338	0	16.93	2.36	$5,722
Nov 2001	0	0	18.07	2.41	$0
Oct 2001	176	0	19.78	2.53	$3,481
Sep 2001	333	0	24.26	2.25	$8,079
Aug 2001	166	0	24.87	3.05	$4,128
Jul 2001	0	0	23.93	3.20	$0
Jun 2001	341	0	24.56	3.82	$8,375
May 2001	0	0	25.52	4.31	$0
Apr 2001	175	0	24.68	5.34	$4,319
Mar 2001	175	0	24.54	5.38	$4,295
Feb 2001	348	0	27.75	5.77	$9,657
Jan 2001	179	0	27.47	8.40	$4,917
Dec 2000	0	0	26.88	9.12	$0
Nov 2000	181	0	32.21	5.66	$5,830
Oct 2000	361	0	31.23	5.15	$11,274
Sep 2000	162	0	31.87	5.19	$5,163
Aug 2000	176	0	29.64	4.54	$5,217
Jul 2000	182	0	28.53	4.09	$5,192
Jun 2000	172	0	29.30	4.40	$5,040
May 2000	176	0	27.26	3.68	$4,798
Apr 2000	173	0	24.51	3.12	$4,240
Mar 2000	368	0	28.42	2.86	$10,459
Feb 2000	188	0	27.62	2.73	$5,193
Jan 2000	363	0	25.27	2.48	$9,173
Dec 1999	187	0	24.28	2.42	$4,540
Nov 1999	180	0	23.19	2.43	$4,174
Oct 1999	0	0	20.98	2.80	$0
Sep 1999	368	0	21.75	2.62	$8,004
Aug 1999	17	0	19.26	2.88	$327
Jul 1999	186	0	17.89	2.37	$3,328
Jun 1999	173	0	15.94	2.36	$2,758
May 1999	170	0	15.79	2.32	$2,684
Apr 1999	184	0	15.10	2.21	$2,778
Mar 1999	175	0	12.47	1.84	$2,182
Feb 1999	167	0	9.98	1.82	$1,667
Jan 1999	0	0	10.38	1.90	$0
Dec 1998	325	0	9.20	1.77	$2,990
Nov 1998	0	0	10.89	2.19	$0
Oct 1998	155	0	12.42	1.97	$1,925
Sep 1998	322	0	12.59	2.08	$4,054
Aug 1998	149	0	11.30	1.91	$1,684
Jul 1998	163	0	11.74	2.24	$1,914
Jun 1998	157	0	11.24	2.24	$1,765
May 1998	154	0	12.62	2.21	$1,943
Apr 1998	160	0	13.04	2.51	$2,086
Mar 1998	158	0	12.80	2.31	$2,022
Feb 1998	157	0	13.95	2.30	$2,190
Jan 1998	156	0	14.70	2.15	$2,293
Dec 1997	161	0	16.32	2.41	$2,628
Nov 1997	333	0	18.19	3.09	$6,057
Oct 1997	164	0	19.25	3.15	$3,157
Sep 1997	164	0	17.74	2.95	$2,909
Aug 1997	318	0	17.86	2.55	$5,679
Jul 1997	166	0	17.58	2.25	$2,918
Jun 1997	167	0	17.24	2.26	$2,879
May 1997	166	0	18.97	2.31	$3,149
Apr 1997	324	0	17.88	2.08	$5,793
Mar 1997	159	0	18.95	1.94	$3,013
Feb 1997	326	0	20.49	2.21	$6,680
Jan 1997	158	0	23.48	3.54	$3,710
Dec 1996	162	0	23.32	—	$3,778
Nov 1996	159	0	21.97	—	$3,493
Oct 1996	471	0	23.31	—	$10,979
Sep 1996	158	0	22.22	—	$3,511
Aug 1996	321	0	20.26	—	$6,503
Jul 1996	174	0	19.55	—	$3,402
Jun 1996	335	0	18.73	—	$6,275
May 1996	328	0	19.43	—	$6,373
Apr 1996	162	0	21.51	—	$3,485
Mar 1996	324	0	19.38	—	$6,279
Feb 1996	161	0	16.98	—	$2,734
Jan 1996	502	0	17.07	—	$8,569
Dec 1995	169	0	17.19	—	$2,905
Nov 1995	330	1	16.00	—	$5,280
Oct 1995	331	1	15.43	—	$5,107
Sep 1995	332	1	16.18	—	$5,372
Aug 1995	167	1	15.92	—	$2,659
Jul 1995	331	1	15.24	—	$5,044
Jun 1995	338	1	16.41	—	$5,547
May 1995	343	1	17.56	—	$6,023
Apr 1995	335	1	17.73	—	$5,940
Mar 1995	336	1	16.44	—	$5,524
Feb 1995	168	1	16.58	—	$2,785
Jan 1995	500	1	15.92	—	$7,960
Dec 1994	334	1	15.03	—	$5,020
Nov 1994	336	1	15.90	—	$5,342
Oct 1994	332	1	15.58	—	$5,173
Sep 1994	329	1	15.29	—	$5,030
Aug 1994	317	1	16.13	—	$5,113
Jul 1994	491	1	17.56	—	$8,622
Jun 1994	332	1	17.09	—	$5,674
May 1994	329	1	15.88	—	$5,225
Apr 1994	327	1	14.14	—	$4,624
Mar 1994	505	1	12.46	—	$6,292
Feb 1994	668	1	12.50	—	$8,350
Jan 1994	165	1	12.66	—	$2,089
Dec 1993	333	1	12.33	—	$4,106
Nov 1993	504	1	14.49	—	$7,303
Oct 1993	331	1	15.85	—	$5,246
Sep 1993	507	1	15.03	—	$7,620
Aug 1993	672	1	15.66	—	$10,524
Jul 1993	501	1	15.46	—	$7,745
Jun 1993	164	1	16.79	—	$2,754
May 1993	518	1	17.68	—	$9,158
Apr 1993	514	1	18.05	—	$9,278
Mar 1993	533	1	18.14	—	$9,669
Feb 1993	354	1	17.90	—	$6,337
Jan 1993	551	1	16.93	—	$9,328

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 2014 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                  143 bbl  × $ 54.69 =     $7,821
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.59 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $7,821

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/33159 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.