SCHERTZ

Operated by WESTERN CHIEF OPERATING, L.L.C. (P-5 911808) 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 236140District 09Field 65280200CondensateGasSave
Value, all time
$644 k
Jan 2007 – Oct 2009
Value, last 12 filed months
$32 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
34
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, gas

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
CondensateDisposition3,617 bbl$290,341
GasProduction42,732 Mcf$353,658
Total$643,998

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 33.3309, -97.3562. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.33087, -97.35624 · 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
8,746 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
2.3 years
median over 1 wells

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 8,746 ft.

Completions filed
Jan 2007
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 2009
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 2.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 2.3 years and 2.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-121328772 H8,746 ftJan 2007Apr 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 (34)

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

34 months

Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 20092061.133.46$122
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 2009100042.144.06$4,214
Feb 200920077132.814.63$10,134
Jan 2009096135.865.37$5,162
Dec 2008099537.105.98$5,947
Nov 2008782855.496.86$6,069
Oct 200812296975.246.92$15,887
Sep 2008631101.767.88$855
Aug 20083485114.228.48$4,457
Jul 20083342131.0811.39$4,288
Jun 20083252,561131.3313.03$76,059
May 20081792,689123.1711.57$53,171
Apr 20081772,817110.3110.45$48,976
Mar 200803,082101.909.66$29,785
Feb 20083563,34092.538.77$62,234
Jan 20081723,24290.388.21$42,148
Dec 200722,00688.337.30$14,824
Nov 200717785491.677.29$22,453
Oct 20071781,90382.856.92$27,920
Sep 20071782,11775.846.24$26,718
Aug 20073562,26369.066.39$39,041
Jul 20071842,98170.906.39$32,088
Jun 20073772,81662.007.55$44,630
May 20075133,92458.747.85$60,922
Apr 2007075559.617.81$5,893
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$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.

Jul 2009 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             2 bbl  × $ 61.13 =       $122
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  3.46 =         $0

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Month total                                     $122

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/236140 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.