SAUDER, LEE

Operated by ENCANA OIL & GAS(USA) INC. (P-5 251691) 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 182906District 09Field 652802002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.7 M
Mar 2001 – Nov 2009
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
83
22 months not filed
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 Gas112001-08-28144144
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
CondensateDisposition9,044 bbl$249,192
GasProduction323,563 Mcf$1,405,392
Total$1,654,584

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 33.2475, -97.5131. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.24754, -97.51313 · 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
8,145 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
6.6 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 8,145 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 2001
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2007
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 6.6 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.6 years and 6.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4973464918,145 ftApr 2001Nov 2007Yes

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 (83)

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

83 months

Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060956.656.92$62
Nov 200602554.207.62$190
Oct 200601854.906.01$108
Sep 200602960.085.04$146
Aug 20061655868.717.34$11,763
Jul 2006010769.376.34$679
Jun 2006013666.286.38$868
May 2006013366.016.42$855
Apr 200607964.397.36$581
Mar 200603956.707.08$276
Feb 2006012257.597.75$946
Jan 200601060.598.93$89
Dec 200521,73054.9413.42$23,319
Nov 200502,36154.6910.59$24,999
Oct 200502,78958.3413.80$38,476
Sep 2005781,77261.4512.08$26,197
Aug 200501,99761.519.80$19,564
Jul 200501,83955.697.84$14,424
Jun 2005811,54652.337.38$15,650
May 200501,06245.226.65$7,064
Apr 2005861,60449.207.36$16,037
Mar 200502,25750.377.15$16,149
Feb 2005711,07445.226.31$9,990
Jan 200541,08843.166.32$7,051
Dec 2004492,90439.866.75$21,558
Nov 20041193,23445.286.33$25,861
Oct 200443,81049.706.52$25,021
Sep 200441,54943.245.28$8,358
Aug 200416981642.375.55$11,690
Jul 2004083238.286.08$5,062
Jun 200443,01536.106.43$19,540
May 20041503,02037.486.49$25,236
Apr 200403,62834.475.86$21,254
Mar 20041463,95634.365.53$26,894
Feb 20041743,66132.455.51$25,817
Jan 200493,45832.036.30$22,072
Dec 20032013,95430.266.30$30,999
Nov 2003514,48628.804.60$22,083
Oct 20032073,75728.174.76$23,713
Sep 20031884,97526.314.75$28,574
Aug 2003715,60429.765.13$30,860
Jul 20031278,15929.415.17$45,924
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 2003971,89426.595.97$13,891
Apr 20032116,17326.675.41$39,007
Mar 20031215,96231.146.10$40,113
Feb 20031895,72833.487.93$51,727
Jan 20033417,39130.315.58$51,593
Dec 20022107,42526.914.85$41,690
Nov 20022286,92224.664.14$34,259
Oct 20022368,38526.464.23$41,706
Sep 20023208,78227.443.64$40,705
Aug 20023289,49325.963.16$38,552
Jul 20022259,60424.583.06$34,936
Jun 20022539,43923.733.34$37,513
May 20022839,88524.663.58$42,407
Apr 20022919,78023.653.51$41,233
Mar 200238012,96022.003.10$48,571
Feb 20023799,56618.222.38$29,631
Jan 200228911,01517.172.38$31,130
Dec 200125511,23316.932.36$30,876
Nov 200130111,53418.072.41$33,184
Oct 200129811,71119.782.53$35,510
Sep 200143012,49424.262.25$38,560
Aug 200134115,09324.873.05$54,562
Jul 200118414,53923.933.20$50,885
Jun 200143813,37324.563.82$61,898
May 20012566,48025.524.31$34,445
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0

Not filed, and not zero: Nov 2007 – Aug 2009 (22 months). The Railroad Commission holds no report for those months, so this page shows none — a zero would state that the lease produced nothing.

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 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 56.65 =         $0
Gas                    9 Mcf  × $  6.92 =        $62

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Month total                                      $62

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/182906 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.