CLAY HILL CATTLE CO. "A"

Operated by J-W OPERATING CO. (P-5 427960) in the NEWARK, EAST (BARNETT SHALE) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 180404District 09Field 652802002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.4 M
Oct 2000 – May 2010
Value, last 12 filed months
$796
at the published price for each month
Months reported
116
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, gas

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 21,881 leases and 22,468 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1981-10-15
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
0 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres. The field rule took effect on 2009-09-29.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: DESIGNATED AS UFT FIELD PER DOCKET 01-0299858

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.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
High Cost Gas112002-02-21146300
NGPA1none

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.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
CondensateDisposition2,341 bbl$63,388
GasProduction271,736 Mcf$1,380,735
Total$1,444,123

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 33.1673, -97.4399. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.16725, -97.43988 · centre of the wells drawn, derived

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
8,306 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
9.6 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 8,306 ft.

Completions filed
Oct 2000
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2010
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 9.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.6 years and 9.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4973450738,306 ftOct 2000May 2010Yes

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 (116)

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

116 months

May 20100071.124.24$0
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 20100078.394.39$0
Feb 20100073.585.44$0
Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 2009011561.133.46$398
Jun 2009010266.163.90$397
May 200914010454.743.93$8,072
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20090242.144.06$8
Feb 200902832.814.63$130
Jan 20090535.865.37$27
Dec 200805437.105.98$323
Nov 200805655.496.86$384
Oct 2008020675.246.92$1,426
Sep 20080198101.767.88$1,560
Aug 2008045114.228.48$382
Jul 20080165131.0811.39$1,879
Jun 20080107131.3313.03$1,394
May 2008092123.1711.57$1,065
Apr 20080115110.3110.45$1,202
Mar 200803101.909.66$29
Feb 200801792.538.77$149
Jan 2008019890.388.21$1,625
Dec 200708388.337.30$606
Nov 2007019391.677.29$1,407
Oct 2007011482.856.92$789
Sep 2007011975.846.24$743
Aug 2007013069.066.39$830
Jul 2007016670.906.39$1,060
Jun 2007016562.007.55$1,245
May 2007016058.747.85$1,255
Apr 2007013159.617.81$1,022
Mar 2007016356.927.30$1,190
Feb 2007018555.108.22$1,520
Jan 200709850.306.73$659
Dec 2006011456.656.92$789
Nov 2006016854.207.62$1,280
Oct 2006018454.906.01$1,107
Sep 2006016560.085.04$831
Aug 2006019868.717.34$1,453
Jul 2006015469.376.34$977
Jun 2006041166.286.38$2,624
May 2006011566.016.42$739
Apr 20060364.397.36$22
Mar 2006026956.707.08$1,905
Feb 2006022057.597.75$1,705
Jan 2006026060.598.93$2,323
Dec 2005050454.9413.42$6,761
Nov 2005050654.6910.59$5,358
Oct 2005013658.3413.80$1,876
Sep 2005024161.4512.08$2,911
Aug 2005048861.519.80$4,781
Jul 2005048955.697.84$3,836
Jun 2005055452.337.38$4,089
May 2005054845.226.65$3,645
Apr 2005054949.207.36$4,041
Mar 2005067450.377.15$4,822
Feb 2005067145.226.31$4,235
Jan 2005079143.166.32$5,001
Dec 200401,57839.866.75$10,653
Nov 200403,43945.286.33$21,770
Oct 200404,67449.706.52$30,452
Sep 200405,80443.245.28$30,668
Aug 200404,16342.375.55$23,107
Jul 200404,20438.286.08$25,578
Jun 200404,39636.106.43$28,280
May 200403,96137.486.49$25,725
Apr 200403,29934.475.86$19,327
Mar 200403,67334.365.53$20,312
Feb 200402,06632.455.51$11,383
Jan 200401,27032.036.30$8,001
Dec 200302,21830.266.30$13,977
Nov 200302,00028.804.60$9,190
Oct 200301,90528.174.76$9,067
Sep 20031001,44126.314.75$9,475
Aug 200302,57429.765.13$13,204
Jul 200302,60329.415.17$13,460
Jun 200303,08628.565.98$18,463
May 200302,32526.595.97$13,886
Apr 200302,30026.675.41$12,437
Mar 200302,40831.146.10$14,679
Feb 200301,92633.487.93$15,265
Jan 20031152,16330.315.58$15,560
Dec 200201,90726.914.85$9,256
Nov 200202,02624.664.14$8,381
Oct 200202,42726.464.23$10,264
Sep 200201,42027.443.64$5,162
Aug 200202,67225.963.16$8,455
Jul 200202,26824.583.06$6,944
Jun 2002067323.733.34$2,247
May 20021702,92924.663.58$14,690
Apr 20021847,14423.653.51$29,444
Mar 20021847,11422.003.10$26,121
Feb 200206,90418.222.38$16,402
Jan 20021817,70217.172.38$21,405
Dec 200107,82416.932.36$18,499
Nov 2001227,95218.072.41$19,526
Oct 200157,32319.782.53$18,618
Sep 2001848,17824.262.25$20,449
Aug 200178,88624.873.05$27,304
Jul 20011808,97523.933.20$33,001
Jun 200119,02024.563.82$34,518
May 200199,66125.524.31$41,843
Apr 2001149,76224.685.34$52,429
Mar 200117510,64724.545.38$61,537
Feb 200109,72727.755.77$56,096
Jan 200139819,27327.478.40$172,802
Dec 200017212,96726.889.12$122,915
Nov 200020014,86732.215.66$90,559
Oct 2000028131.235.15$1,446

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.

Jul 2009 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 61.13 =         $0
Gas                  115 Mcf  × $  3.46 =       $398

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Month total                                     $398

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/180404 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.