SMITH

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 198534District 09Field 652802002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$4.0 M
Jun 2003 – Nov 2009
Value, last 12 filed months
$136 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
78
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 Gas112006-07-26167075
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
CondensateDisposition122 bbl$5,611
GasProduction595,990 Mcf$3,945,005
Total$3,950,616

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 33.0461, -97.2320. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.04608, -97.23199 · 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
7,707 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
6.4 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 7,707 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 2003
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2009
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 6.4 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.4 years and 6.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-1213159147,707 ftJun 2003Nov 2009Yes

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 (78)

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

78 months

Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 200922,65065.543.06$8,253
Aug 200933,35067.423.22$10,984
Jul 200902,58561.133.46$8,956
Jun 200902,66966.163.90$10,396
May 200904,16554.743.93$16,351
Apr 200903,44346.773.59$12,352
Mar 200905,87942.144.06$23,863
Feb 200904,09832.814.63$18,986
Jan 200903,73835.865.37$20,077
Dec 200801,03737.105.98$6,198
Nov 200804,50755.496.86$30,920
Oct 200804,38475.246.92$30,346
Sep 200813,507101.767.88$27,727
Aug 200802,252114.228.48$19,104
Jul 2008032131.0811.39$364
Jun 200803,529131.3313.03$45,992
May 200803,509123.1711.57$40,614
Apr 200802,635110.3110.45$27,549
Mar 200805,019101.909.66$48,504
Feb 200805,42992.538.77$47,615
Jan 200805,48090.388.21$44,967
Dec 200704,96388.337.30$36,240
Nov 200725,04791.677.29$36,985
Oct 200705,43282.856.92$37,600
Sep 200705,36775.846.24$33,512
Aug 200705,35469.066.39$34,201
Jul 200705,29170.906.39$33,799
Jun 200705,88162.007.55$44,392
May 200706,30458.747.85$49,463
Apr 200705,56459.617.81$43,428
Mar 200774,04456.927.30$29,928
Feb 200706,12255.108.22$50,298
Jan 200754,42650.306.73$30,025
Dec 200627,51456.656.92$52,098
Nov 200607,33554.207.62$55,874
Oct 200606,91354.906.01$41,573
Sep 200636,84260.085.04$34,645
Aug 200698,29668.717.34$61,510
Jul 200607,97569.376.34$50,584
Jun 200607,25666.286.38$46,321
May 200607,59766.016.42$48,811
Apr 200607,74764.397.36$57,022
Mar 200607,74656.707.08$54,864
Feb 200607,17957.597.75$55,645
Jan 200607,46860.598.93$66,714
Dec 200506,96054.9413.42$93,371
Nov 200517,40454.6910.59$78,451
Oct 200506,48258.3413.80$89,424
Sep 2005228,79061.4512.08$107,526
Aug 2005010,04361.519.80$98,390
Jul 200506,91955.697.84$54,270
Jun 200506,61952.337.38$48,855
May 200503,02145.226.65$20,093
Apr 200507,81949.207.36$57,552
Mar 200519,49050.377.15$67,950
Feb 200509,55845.226.31$60,329
Jan 200508,79343.166.32$55,591
Dec 200407,28539.866.75$49,182
Nov 2004010,63545.286.33$67,324
Oct 2004011,89949.706.52$77,523
Sep 2004112,23443.245.28$64,686
Aug 2004112,55142.375.55$69,709
Jul 2004015,20138.286.08$92,486
Jun 200468,51236.106.43$54,974
May 200424,62237.486.49$30,093
Apr 2004112,64934.475.86$74,138
Mar 2004211,93134.365.53$66,049
Feb 200448,62632.455.51$47,656
Jan 2004312,41232.036.30$78,287
Dec 2003017,45430.266.30$109,989
Nov 2003214,46028.804.60$66,504
Oct 2003016,98728.174.76$80,852
Sep 2003926,29326.314.75$125,112
Aug 2003833,53929.765.13$172,284
Jul 20032535,95829.415.17$186,668
Jun 200303,28428.565.98$19,648

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.

Sep 2009 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             2 bbl  × $ 65.54 =       $131
Gas                2,650 Mcf  × $  3.06 =     $8,122

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Month total                                   $8,253

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/198534 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.