HUGHES, D. J.

Operated by MITCHELL ENERGY COMPANY L.P. (P-5 570653) 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 70438District 09Field 10574520CondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$55 k
Jan 1993 – Oct 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
106
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 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.

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
CondensateDisposition31 bbl$687
GasProduction48,536 Mcf$53,912
Total$54,599

25,869 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 33.1176, -97.8240. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

33.11756, -97.82397 · 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
6,050 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
24.7 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 6,050 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 1977
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Oct 2001
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 24.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 24.7 years and 24.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-49730430156,050 ftFeb 1977Oct 2001Yes

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 (106)

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

106 months

Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 200019028.534.09$542
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 2000020027.263.68$736
Apr 2000023624.513.12$735
Mar 2000029828.422.86$852
Feb 2000018527.622.73$504
Jan 2000030825.272.48$764
Dec 1999034224.282.42$829
Nov 1999038623.192.43$940
Oct 1999047320.982.80$1,326
Sep 1999045221.752.62$1,184
Aug 1999048719.262.88$1,400
Jul 1999050917.892.37$1,208
Jun 1999058815.942.36$1,389
May 199901,02515.792.32$2,379
Apr 1999075015.102.21$1,656
Mar 1999050912.471.84$936
Feb 199972699.981.82$559
Jan 1999035510.381.90$674
Dec 199803119.201.77$552
Nov 1998040510.892.19$885
Oct 1998041712.421.97$821
Sep 1998027012.592.08$562
Aug 1998063611.301.91$1,213
Jul 1998089111.742.24$1,993
Jun 1998096811.242.24$2,166
May 1998056212.622.21$1,240
Apr 1998032613.042.51$817
Mar 1998047912.802.31$1,106
Feb 1998051013.952.30$1,173
Jan 1998099214.702.15$2,138
Dec 199701,06516.322.41$2,568
Nov 1997097218.193.09$3,002
Oct 1997055319.253.15$1,742
Sep 1997044217.742.95$1,306
Aug 1997054217.862.55$1,385
Jul 1997052317.582.25$1,175
Jun 1997048117.242.26$1,086
May 1997066018.972.31$1,524
Apr 1997093717.882.08$1,952
Mar 199701,08818.951.94$2,110
Feb 1997081020.492.21$1,787
Jan 1997045523.483.54$1,611
Dec 1996041023.32$0
Nov 1996047121.97$0
Oct 1996059423.31$0
Sep 1996078322.22$0
Aug 199601,10820.26$0
Jul 1996092619.55$0
Jun 1996045518.73$0
May 1996039319.43$0
Apr 1996042921.51$0
Mar 1996047019.38$0
Feb 1996022816.98$0
Jan 1996031017.07$0
Dec 1995059517.19$0
Nov 1995052116.00$0
Oct 199503115.43$0
Sep 1995060516.18$0
Aug 1995075015.92$0
Jul 1995065615.24$0
Jun 1995076516.41$0
May 1995079717.56$0
Apr 1995046717.73$0
Mar 1995030116.44$0
Feb 1995017516.58$0
Jan 1995041815.92$0
Dec 1994060615.03$0
Nov 1994039915.90$0
Oct 1994039715.58$0
Sep 1994053515.29$0
Aug 1994039916.13$0
Jul 1994022917.56$0
Jun 1994053917.09$0
May 1994063015.88$0
Apr 1994063414.14$0
Mar 1994066412.46$0
Feb 1994070912.50$0
Jan 1994056312.66$0
Dec 1993167012.33$12
Nov 1993059114.49$0
Oct 1993069215.85$0
Sep 1993060815.03$0
Aug 1993471115.66$63
Jul 1993061115.46$0
Jun 1993027816.79$0
May 1993075317.68$0
Apr 1993049418.05$0
Mar 1993041018.14$0
Feb 1993049017.90$0
Jan 1993059916.93$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.

Jul 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            19 bbl  × $ 28.53 =       $542
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  4.09 =         $0

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Month total                                     $542

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/70438 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.