RICHARDS, H. J. "A"

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

Operated by STAMPER OPERATING CO., INC. (P-5 812133) in the SHAR-PAT (CONGL.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 102984District 09Field 82689400NGPA filingGasSave Export

Value, all time

$280 k

Jan 1993 – Apr 2006

Value, last 12 filed months

$24 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

160

no gaps in the span

Streams

gas

The SHAR-PAT (CONGL.) 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 4 leases and 4 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1982-05-22

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

—

no field rule filed

From a lease line

—

no field rule filed

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	137,837 Mcf	$280,467
Total			$280,467

63,394 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 33.1682, -98.1809. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.16823, -98.18088 · 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

5,321 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

23.8 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 5,321 ft.

Completions filed

Jul 1982

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Apr 2006

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 23.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 23.8 years and 23.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-23734538	1	5,321 ft	Jul 1982	Apr 2006	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 (160)

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

160 months


Apr 2006	332	64.39	7.36	$2,444
Mar 2006	159	56.70	7.08	$1,126
Feb 2006	294	57.59	7.75	$2,279
Jan 2006	326	60.59	8.93	$2,912
Dec 2005	219	54.94	13.42	$2,938
Nov 2005	179	54.69	10.59	$1,895
Oct 2005	185	58.34	13.80	$2,552
Sep 2005	215	61.45	12.08	$2,597
Aug 2005	211	61.51	9.80	$2,067
Jul 2005	137	55.69	7.84	$1,075
Jun 2005	131	52.33	7.38	$967
May 2005	145	45.22	6.65	$964
Apr 2005	211	49.20	7.36	$1,553
Mar 2005	181	50.37	7.15	$1,295
Feb 2005	280	45.22	6.31	$1,767
Jan 2005	234	43.16	6.32	$1,479
Dec 2004	339	39.86	6.75	$2,289
Nov 2004	394	45.28	6.33	$2,494
Oct 2004	332	49.70	6.52	$2,163
Sep 2004	337	43.24	5.28	$1,781
Aug 2004	377	42.37	5.55	$2,093
Jul 2004	406	38.28	6.08	$2,470
Jun 2004	369	36.10	6.43	$2,374
May 2004	386	37.48	6.49	$2,507
Apr 2004	424	34.47	5.86	$2,484
Mar 2004	457	34.36	5.53	$2,527
Feb 2004	459	32.45	5.51	$2,529
Jan 2004	487	32.03	6.30	$3,068
Dec 2003	450	30.26	6.30	$2,836
Nov 2003	517	28.80	4.60	$2,376
Oct 2003	671	28.17	4.76	$3,194
Sep 2003	658	26.31	4.75	$3,125
Aug 2003	717	29.76	5.13	$3,678
Jul 2003	475	29.41	5.17	$2,456
Jun 2003	698	28.56	5.98	$4,176
May 2003	632	26.59	5.97	$3,775
Apr 2003	562	26.67	5.41	$3,039
Mar 2003	652	31.14	6.10	$3,975
Feb 2003	550	33.48	7.93	$4,359
Jan 2003	579	30.31	5.58	$3,232
Dec 2002	588	26.91	4.85	$2,854
Nov 2002	529	24.66	4.14	$2,188
Oct 2002	574	26.46	4.23	$2,428
Sep 2002	576	27.44	3.64	$2,094
Aug 2002	598	25.96	3.16	$1,892
Jul 2002	598	24.58	3.06	$1,831
Jun 2002	682	23.73	3.34	$2,277
May 2002	730	24.66	3.58	$2,616
Apr 2002	660	23.65	3.51	$2,318
Mar 2002	697	22.00	3.10	$2,163
Feb 2002	675	18.22	2.38	$1,604
Jan 2002	693	17.17	2.38	$1,646
Dec 2001	663	16.93	2.36	$1,568
Nov 2001	321	18.07	2.41	$772
Oct 2001	714	19.78	2.53	$1,806
Sep 2001	701	24.26	2.25	$1,578
Aug 2001	817	24.87	3.05	$2,494
Jul 2001	719	23.93	3.20	$2,299
Jun 2001	664	24.56	3.82	$2,539
May 2001	525	25.52	4.31	$2,261
Apr 2001	652	24.68	5.34	$3,479
Mar 2001	758	24.54	5.38	$4,075
Feb 2001	706	27.75	5.77	$4,072
Jan 2001	780	27.47	8.40	$6,551
Dec 2000	829	26.88	9.12	$7,563
Nov 2000	771	32.21	5.66	$4,362
Oct 2000	755	31.23	5.15	$3,885
Sep 2000	751	31.87	5.19	$3,895
Aug 2000	789	29.64	4.54	$3,583
Jul 2000	757	28.53	4.09	$3,096
Jun 2000	797	29.30	4.40	$3,505
May 2000	809	27.26	3.68	$2,977
Apr 2000	736	24.51	3.12	$2,293
Mar 2000	805	28.42	2.86	$2,302
Feb 2000	780	27.62	2.73	$2,127
Jan 2000	632	25.27	2.48	$1,568
Dec 1999	692	24.28	2.42	$1,677
Nov 1999	704	23.19	2.43	$1,714
Oct 1999	720	20.98	2.80	$2,019
Sep 1999	687	21.75	2.62	$1,799
Aug 1999	746	19.26	2.88	$2,145
Jul 1999	689	17.89	2.37	$1,635
Jun 1999	640	15.94	2.36	$1,512
May 1999	671	15.79	2.32	$1,557
Apr 1999	610	15.10	2.21	$1,347
Mar 1999	738	12.47	1.84	$1,357
Feb 1999	658	9.98	1.82	$1,196
Jan 1999	743	10.38	1.90	$1,412
Dec 1998	678	9.20	1.77	$1,202
Nov 1998	732	10.89	2.19	$1,600
Oct 1998	862	12.42	1.97	$1,697
Sep 1998	1,164	12.59	2.08	$2,424
Aug 1998	1,115	11.30	1.91	$2,127
Jul 1998	1,147	11.74	2.24	$2,566
Jun 1998	1,059	11.24	2.24	$2,369
May 1998	1,097	12.62	2.21	$2,420
Apr 1998	1,057	13.04	2.51	$2,648
Mar 1998	1,177	12.80	2.31	$2,718
Feb 1998	1,141	13.95	2.30	$2,623
Jan 1998	1,255	14.70	2.15	$2,704
Dec 1997	1,201	16.32	2.41	$2,896
Nov 1997	1,311	18.19	3.09	$4,049
Oct 1997	1,277	19.25	3.15	$4,022
Sep 1997	1,082	17.74	2.95	$3,197
Aug 1997	1,030	17.86	2.55	$2,631
Jul 1997	1,024	17.58	2.25	$2,301
Jun 1997	1,139	17.24	2.26	$2,571
May 1997	1,087	18.97	2.31	$2,509
Apr 1997	1,146	17.88	2.08	$2,387
Mar 1997	1,218	18.95	1.94	$2,362
Feb 1997	968	20.49	2.21	$2,135
Jan 1997	980	23.48	3.54	$3,469
Dec 1996	779	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	1,124	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	1,357	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	1,132	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	1,789	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	1,643	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	1,010	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	956	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	1,164	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	712	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	1,258	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	1,008	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	788	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	791	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	1,221	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	890	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	1,416	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	1,285	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	1,258	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	1,185	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	1,376	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	1,341	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	1,301	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	1,640	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	1,613	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	1,143	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	1,185	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	1,206	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	1,175	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	1,205	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	1,242	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	1,347	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	1,420	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	1,499	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	1,797	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	2,074	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	2,716	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	3,432	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	1,415	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	1,309	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	1,213	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	774	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	672	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	898	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	999	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	1,678	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	1,885	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	1,073	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.

Apr 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Gas                  332 Mcf  × $  7.36 =     $2,444

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Month total                                   $2,444

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. 09/G/102984 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.