SMITH, ERNEST

Name: SMITH, ERNEST lease production and value, May 1994 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by DEVON ENERGY PRODUCTION CO, L.P. (P-5 216378) in the BRIDGEPORT (STRAWN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 149621District 09Field 11887830CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.1 M

May 1994 – Nov 2009

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

187

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The BRIDGEPORT (STRAWN) 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 21 leases and 21 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1957-06-30

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

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “THIS FIELD UNDER COUNTY REGULAR RULES”

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
Condensate	Disposition	1,385 bbl	$40,372
Gas	Production	407,210 Mcf	$1,018,845
Total			$1,059,217

165,398 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 29 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 33.2608, -97.7005. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.26075, -97.70053 · 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

6,300 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

15.5 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 6,300 ft.

Completions filed

May 1994

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Nov 2009

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.5 years and 15.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-49700571	1	6,300 ft	May 1994	Nov 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 (187)

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

187 months


Nov 2009	0	0	74.59	3.75	$0
Oct 2009	0	0	72.54	4.11	$0
Sep 2009	0	0	65.54	3.06	$0
Aug 2009	0	0	67.42	3.22	$0
Jul 2009	0	0	61.13	3.46	$0
Jun 2009	0	0	66.16	3.90	$0
May 2009	0	0	54.74	3.93	$0
Apr 2009	0	0	46.77	3.59	$0
Mar 2009	0	0	42.14	4.06	$0
Feb 2009	0	0	32.81	4.63	$0
Jan 2009	0	0	35.86	5.37	$0
Dec 2008	0	0	37.10	5.98	$0
Nov 2008	0	0	55.49	6.86	$0
Oct 2008	0	0	75.24	6.92	$0
Sep 2008	0	0	101.76	7.88	$0
Aug 2008	0	0	114.22	8.48	$0
Jul 2008	0	0	131.08	11.39	$0
Jun 2008	0	0	131.33	13.03	$0
May 2008	0	0	123.17	11.57	$0
Apr 2008	0	0	110.31	10.45	$0
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	392	88.33	7.30	$2,862
Nov 2007	0	833	91.67	7.29	$6,074
Oct 2007	122	975	82.85	6.92	$16,857
Sep 2007	0	1,021	75.84	6.24	$6,375
Aug 2007	0	1,063	69.06	6.39	$6,790
Jul 2007	0	1,043	70.90	6.39	$6,663
Jun 2007	0	1,079	62.00	7.55	$8,145
May 2007	0	1,069	58.74	7.85	$8,388
Apr 2007	0	985	59.61	7.81	$7,688
Mar 2007	0	981	56.92	7.30	$7,163
Feb 2007	0	863	55.10	8.22	$7,090
Jan 2007	0	881	50.30	6.73	$5,926
Dec 2006	0	922	56.65	6.92	$6,379
Nov 2006	0	938	54.20	7.62	$7,145
Oct 2006	0	1,045	54.90	6.01	$6,284
Sep 2006	0	1,073	60.08	5.04	$5,405
Aug 2006	0	1,161	68.71	7.34	$8,522
Jul 2006	0	1,172	69.37	6.34	$7,434
Jun 2006	0	1,139	66.28	6.38	$7,271
May 2006	0	1,167	66.01	6.42	$7,498
Apr 2006	0	1,108	64.39	7.36	$8,155
Mar 2006	0	996	56.70	7.08	$7,055
Feb 2006	137	1,007	57.59	7.75	$15,695
Jan 2006	0	1,187	60.59	8.93	$10,604
Dec 2005	0	1,139	54.94	13.42	$15,280
Nov 2005	0	1,146	54.69	10.59	$12,134
Oct 2005	0	1,315	58.34	13.80	$18,141
Sep 2005	0	894	61.45	12.08	$10,799
Aug 2005	0	1,240	61.51	9.80	$12,148
Jul 2005	0	1,244	55.69	7.84	$9,757
Jun 2005	0	1,216	52.33	7.38	$8,975
May 2005	0	1,254	45.22	6.65	$8,341
Apr 2005	0	1,213	49.20	7.36	$8,928
Mar 2005	0	1,184	50.37	7.15	$8,471
Feb 2005	0	1,152	45.22	6.31	$7,271
Jan 2005	0	1,286	43.16	6.32	$8,130
Dec 2004	0	1,317	39.86	6.75	$8,891
Nov 2004	0	1,282	45.28	6.33	$8,116
Oct 2004	0	1,341	49.70	6.52	$8,737
Sep 2004	0	1,312	43.24	5.28	$6,932
Aug 2004	0	1,381	42.37	5.55	$7,665
Jul 2004	0	1,383	38.28	6.08	$8,414
Jun 2004	0	1,371	36.10	6.43	$8,820
May 2004	0	1,426	37.48	6.49	$9,261
Apr 2004	0	1,389	34.47	5.86	$8,137
Mar 2004	0	1,442	34.36	5.53	$7,974
Feb 2004	147	1,322	32.45	5.51	$12,054
Jan 2004	0	1,454	32.03	6.30	$9,160
Dec 2003	0	1,495	30.26	6.30	$9,421
Nov 2003	0	1,516	28.80	4.60	$6,966
Oct 2003	0	1,601	28.17	4.76	$7,620
Sep 2003	0	1,523	26.31	4.75	$7,233
Aug 2003	0	1,512	29.76	5.13	$7,756
Jul 2003	0	1,642	29.41	5.17	$8,491
Jun 2003	0	1,617	28.56	5.98	$9,674
May 2003	0	1,516	26.59	5.97	$9,055
Apr 2003	0	1,561	26.67	5.41	$8,441
Mar 2003	0	1,678	31.14	6.10	$10,229
Feb 2003	0	1,510	33.48	7.93	$11,968
Jan 2003	0	1,658	30.31	5.58	$9,255
Dec 2002	0	1,682	26.91	4.85	$8,164
Nov 2002	0	1,651	24.66	4.14	$6,830
Oct 2002	0	1,737	26.46	4.23	$7,346
Sep 2002	0	1,682	27.44	3.64	$6,114
Aug 2002	0	1,665	25.96	3.16	$5,268
Jul 2002	0	1,807	24.58	3.06	$5,533
Jun 2002	0	1,605	23.73	3.34	$5,358
May 2002	0	1,703	24.66	3.58	$6,104
Apr 2002	0	1,691	23.65	3.51	$5,939
Mar 2002	0	1,747	22.00	3.10	$5,420
Feb 2002	0	1,635	18.22	2.38	$3,884
Jan 2002	5	1,781	17.17	2.38	$4,317
Dec 2001	0	1,813	16.93	2.36	$4,287
Nov 2001	0	1,770	18.07	2.41	$4,258
Oct 2001	0	1,931	19.78	2.53	$4,883
Sep 2001	150	1,911	24.26	2.25	$7,941
Aug 2001	0	1,941	24.87	3.05	$5,926
Jul 2001	0	1,998	23.93	3.20	$6,388
Jun 2001	0	1,967	24.56	3.82	$7,522
May 2001	0	2,074	25.52	4.31	$8,933
Apr 2001	0	1,981	24.68	5.34	$10,569
Mar 2001	0	2,107	24.54	5.38	$11,328
Feb 2001	0	2,044	27.75	5.77	$11,788
Jan 2001	0	1,900	27.47	8.40	$15,958
Dec 2000	0	2,164	26.88	9.12	$19,741
Nov 2000	0	2,122	32.21	5.66	$12,006
Oct 2000	0	2,283	31.23	5.15	$11,747
Sep 2000	0	2,182	31.87	5.19	$11,317
Aug 2000	0	2,235	29.64	4.54	$10,149
Jul 2000	0	2,334	28.53	4.09	$9,545
Jun 2000	0	2,343	29.30	4.40	$10,303
May 2000	0	2,394	27.26	3.68	$8,809
Apr 2000	0	2,425	24.51	3.12	$7,556
Mar 2000	7	2,489	28.42	2.86	$7,317
Feb 2000	0	2,413	27.62	2.73	$6,579
Jan 2000	5	2,587	25.27	2.48	$6,543
Dec 1999	0	2,547	24.28	2.42	$6,173
Nov 1999	0	2,582	23.19	2.43	$6,285
Oct 1999	0	2,835	20.98	2.80	$7,949
Sep 1999	79	2,681	21.75	2.62	$8,739
Aug 1999	0	2,127	19.26	2.88	$6,116
Jul 1999	0	2,954	17.89	2.37	$7,008
Jun 1999	0	2,828	15.94	2.36	$6,680
May 1999	20	2,936	15.79	2.32	$7,130
Apr 1999	0	2,767	15.10	2.21	$6,110
Mar 1999	0	3,458	12.47	1.84	$6,357
Feb 1999	165	3,323	9.98	1.82	$7,687
Jan 1999	0	3,226	10.38	1.90	$6,129
Dec 1998	0	1,911	9.20	1.77	$3,389
Nov 1998	0	1,567	10.89	2.19	$3,425
Oct 1998	0	1,741	12.42	1.97	$3,428
Sep 1998	0	1,765	12.59	2.08	$3,676
Aug 1998	0	1,878	11.30	1.91	$3,582
Jul 1998	0	2,038	11.74	2.24	$4,560
Jun 1998	0	2,043	11.24	2.24	$4,571
May 1998	0	2,236	12.62	2.21	$4,933
Apr 1998	0	2,380	13.04	2.51	$5,963
Mar 1998	0	2,481	12.80	2.31	$5,730
Feb 1998	0	2,314	13.95	2.30	$5,320
Jan 1998	0	2,664	14.70	2.15	$5,740
Dec 1997	7	2,834	16.32	2.41	$6,947
Nov 1997	0	2,866	18.19	3.09	$8,851
Oct 1997	0	2,837	19.25	3.15	$8,936
Sep 1997	0	2,887	17.74	2.95	$8,531
Aug 1997	0	3,105	17.86	2.55	$7,932
Jul 1997	0	3,290	17.58	2.25	$7,392
Jun 1997	0	3,083	17.24	2.26	$6,959
May 1997	0	3,196	18.97	2.31	$7,378
Apr 1997	0	3,243	17.88	2.08	$6,754
Mar 1997	147	3,264	18.95	1.94	$9,115
Feb 1997	0	3,020	20.49	2.21	$6,662
Jan 1997	0	3,479	23.48	3.54	$12,315
Dec 1996	0	3,630	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	3,707	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	4,103	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	4,109	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	4,363	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	4,371	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	4,457	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	140	4,850	19.43	—	$2,720
Apr 1996	0	4,974	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	0	5,410	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	5,819	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	2	3,207	17.07	—	$34
Dec 1995	0	5,321	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	0	3,853	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	1,205	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	5,455	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	5,696	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	5,771	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	5,884	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	128	6,323	17.56	—	$2,248
Apr 1995	0	6,466	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	0	6,850	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	0	6,520	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	0	7,404	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	0	7,933	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	124	8,267	15.90	—	$1,972
Oct 1994	0	9,431	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	0	9,906	15.29	—	$0
Aug 1994	0	10,113	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	0	0	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	0	0	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	0	0	15.88	—	$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.

Dec 2007 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 88.33 =         $0
Gas                  392 Mcf  × $  7.30 =     $2,862

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Month total                                   $2,862

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/149621 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.