RUTHERFORD, BILLY K.

Operated by ARUBA PETROLEUM, INC. (P-5 33762) 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 198491District 09Field 652802002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$427 k
Oct 2003 – Aug 2015
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
143
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 Gas112006-01-31165660
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
CondensateDisposition1,104 bbl$78,203
GasProduction51,966 Mcf$348,402
Total$426,605

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 33.2710, -97.5790. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.27102, -97.57895 · 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
7,786 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
10.3 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 7,786 ft.

Completions filed
Oct 2003
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Feb 2014
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 10.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 10.3 years and 10.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4973537017,786 ftOct 2003Feb 2014Yes

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 (143)

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

143 months

Aug 20150040.162.87$0
Jul 20150048.152.95$0
Jun 20150056.152.88$0
May 20150055.212.96$0
Apr 20150049.822.71$0
Mar 20150042.892.93$0
Feb 20150044.662.98$0
Jan 20150043.433.10$0
Dec 20140054.693.59$0
Nov 20140070.464.25$0
Oct 20140078.303.90$0
Sep 20140086.164.05$0
Aug 20140089.394.04$0
Jul 20140096.564.18$0
Jun 20140098.164.74$0
May 20140094.734.73$0
Apr 20140095.944.81$0
Mar 20140095.895.06$0
Feb 20140097.406.19$0
Jan 20140890.404.86$39
Dec 201303491.824.35$148
Nov 20130088.853.74$0
Oct 2013853297.423.78$8,402
Sep 20130143104.113.72$532
Aug 20130180104.253.52$634
Jul 20130220102.523.72$818
Jun 2013020094.403.93$787
May 2013022094.834.15$913
Apr 2013024293.964.28$1,036
Mar 2013020593.623.91$802
Feb 2013020391.233.42$694
Jan 2013021791.603.42$742
Dec 201209186.773.42$311
Nov 2012010486.953.62$377
Oct 20120689.383.40$20
Sep 201208094.672.92$233
Aug 201215811092.662.91$14,960
Jul 2012013485.133.02$405
Jun 201208179.822.52$204
May 2012014391.612.49$356
Apr 20120147101.652.00$294
Mar 20120163105.052.22$362
Feb 20120226101.102.57$581
Jan 2012015498.092.73$421
Dec 2011229496.873.24$1,146
Nov 2011218595.723.31$804
Oct 2011020484.983.65$744
Sep 2011029283.623.99$1,164
Aug 2011032583.404.15$1,349
Jul 2011039794.144.52$1,793
Jun 2011011292.904.64$520
May 2011031898.134.40$1,401
Apr 20110103105.964.33$446
Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110585.644.18$21
Jan 20110286.504.59$9
Dec 20100785.734.35$30
Nov 201005280.843.80$197
Oct 2010129378.103.51$1,106
Sep 201006772.633.98$267
Aug 2010019173.684.42$844
Jul 2010033972.554.74$1,606
Jun 2010033070.364.91$1,620
May 2010022271.124.24$940
Apr 2010027481.694.12$1,130
Mar 2010019378.394.39$847
Feb 2010011473.585.44$620
Jan 2010026574.365.96$1,580
Dec 2009025871.445.48$1,415
Nov 20090174.593.75$4
Oct 2009171072.544.11$12,404
Sep 2009014865.543.06$454
Aug 2009019267.423.22$618
Jul 2009015261.133.46$527
Jun 2009025066.163.90$974
May 2009030454.743.93$1,193
Apr 2009029346.773.59$1,051
Mar 2009028942.144.06$1,173
Feb 2009038832.814.63$1,798
Jan 200905735.865.37$306
Dec 2008011537.105.98$687
Nov 2008025155.496.86$1,722
Oct 2008044075.246.92$3,046
Sep 20080488101.767.88$3,844
Aug 20080410114.228.48$3,478
Jul 20080547131.0811.39$6,230
Jun 200802,681131.3313.03$34,940
May 20080637123.1711.57$7,373
Apr 2008185736110.3110.45$28,102
Mar 2008045101.909.66$435
Feb 200801592.538.77$132
Jan 2008014090.388.21$1,149
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 200708875.846.24$549
Aug 2007030969.066.39$1,974
Jul 200708170.906.39$517
Jun 2007021062.007.55$1,585
May 2007012258.747.85$957
Apr 2007053959.617.81$4,207
Mar 2007011256.927.30$818
Feb 20070355.108.22$25
Jan 20070550.306.73$34
Dec 2006014056.656.92$969
Nov 2006011354.207.62$861
Oct 2006012554.906.01$752
Sep 2006024160.085.04$1,214
Aug 2006056168.717.34$4,118
Jul 2006051169.376.34$3,241
Jun 2006070666.286.38$4,507
May 2006015566.016.42$996
Apr 2006029664.397.36$2,179
Mar 2006043756.707.08$3,095
Feb 2006044457.597.75$3,442
Jan 2006042560.598.93$3,797
Dec 2005015054.9413.42$2,012
Nov 2005045854.6910.59$4,849
Oct 2005053758.3413.80$7,408
Sep 2005048961.4512.08$5,907
Aug 2005071161.519.80$6,966
Jul 200515883355.697.84$15,333
Jun 2005060452.337.38$4,458
May 2005092045.226.65$6,119
Apr 2005057049.207.36$4,195
Mar 2005049450.377.15$3,535
Feb 2005067845.226.31$4,279
Jan 2005093643.166.32$5,918
Dec 200416486439.866.75$12,370
Nov 2004062945.286.33$3,982
Oct 2004036349.706.52$2,365
Sep 2004060543.245.28$3,197
Aug 2004090642.375.55$5,029
Jul 200401,51438.286.08$9,211
Jun 2004067236.106.43$4,323
May 20041782,21237.486.49$21,037
Apr 200403,08034.475.86$18,044
Mar 200401,94834.365.53$10,773
Feb 200401,41432.455.51$7,791
Jan 200402,15932.036.30$13,601
Dec 200305,83330.266.30$36,757
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$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.

Jan 2014 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 90.40 =         $0
Gas                    8 Mcf  × $  4.86 =        $39

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Month total                                      $39

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/198491 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.