PARSONS, J. E.

Operated by MITCHELL ENERGY CORPORATION (P-5 570655) in the BOONSVILLE (BEND CONGL., GAS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 31231District 09Field 10574520NGPA filingGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$15 k
Jan 1993 – Apr 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
88
no gaps in the span
Streams
1
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 3,438 leases and 3,443 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1945-05-01
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1991-06-10.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AMOUNT HAD BEEN CALCULATED FOR 5/1/97.

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
NGPA3none

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
GasProduction25,642 Mcf$15,096
Total$15,096

19,491 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 months, carries no value here. No free Texas wellhead gas price exists before 1997, so those months are left out of the total rather than valued at zero. The total above is therefore a floor, not an estimate.

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 33.2876, -97.5432. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.28760, -97.54319 · 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
6,900 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
36.5 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 6,900 ft.

Completions filed
Oct 1963
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Apr 2000
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 36.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 36.5 years and 36.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4970053916,900 ftOct 1963Apr 2000Yes

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 (88)

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

88 months

Apr 2000024.513.12$0
Mar 2000028.422.86$0
Feb 2000027.622.73$0
Jan 20007025.272.48$174
Dec 19995624.282.42$136
Nov 19993723.192.43$90
Oct 19995820.982.80$163
Sep 19991721.752.62$45
Aug 19997819.262.88$224
Jul 199916017.892.37$380
Jun 199913315.942.36$314
May 199912615.792.32$292
Apr 199915515.102.21$342
Mar 199913612.471.84$250
Feb 19991209.981.82$218
Jan 199911510.381.90$218
Dec 19981499.201.77$264
Nov 199814510.892.19$317
Oct 199810812.421.97$213
Sep 199811112.592.08$231
Aug 19985711.301.91$109
Jul 199812611.742.24$282
Jun 199814111.242.24$315
May 199814012.622.21$309
Apr 199811913.042.51$298
Mar 199815312.802.31$353
Feb 19988913.952.30$205
Jan 199811614.702.15$250
Dec 19979016.322.41$217
Nov 199714618.193.09$451
Oct 1997519.253.15$16
Sep 19978817.742.95$260
Aug 199720317.862.55$519
Jul 199725017.582.25$562
Jun 199725017.242.26$564
May 199726518.972.31$612
Apr 199728617.882.08$596
Mar 199738918.951.94$754
Feb 199747120.492.21$1,039
Jan 199799323.483.54$3,515
Dec 199659123.32$0
Nov 199648721.97$0
Oct 199625123.31$0
Sep 199623722.22$0
Aug 199633620.26$0
Jul 199632119.55$0
Jun 199623418.73$0
May 199632419.43$0
Apr 199643621.51$0
Mar 199623019.38$0
Feb 199618616.98$0
Jan 199623317.07$0
Dec 199520317.19$0
Nov 199562816.00$0
Oct 19953015.43$0
Sep 199519916.18$0
Aug 199510715.92$0
Jul 199515515.24$0
Jun 199517816.41$0
May 199524817.56$0
Apr 199519617.73$0
Mar 199520816.44$0
Feb 199517016.58$0
Jan 199516415.92$0
Dec 199422515.03$0
Nov 199429915.90$0
Oct 199433415.58$0
Sep 199423815.29$0
Aug 199441816.13$0
Jul 199434017.56$0
Jun 199451417.09$0
May 199476115.88$0
Apr 199453614.14$0
Mar 199439312.46$0
Feb 199464412.50$0
Jan 199443312.66$0
Dec 199361312.33$0
Nov 199367814.49$0
Oct 199363315.85$0
Sep 199381715.03$0
Aug 199357215.66$0
Jul 199362015.46$0
Jun 19931,14716.79$0
May 199374217.68$0
Apr 199354218.05$0
Mar 199326718.14$0
Feb 199370217.90$0
Jan 199367116.93$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 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                   70 Mcf  × $  2.48 =       $174

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Month total                                     $174

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/31231 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.