CATOR

Name: CATOR lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by STRAT LAND EXPLORATION COMPANY (P-5 825420) in the SHAPLEY, NW. (MARMATON) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 137740District 10Field 82681500CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$170 k

Jan 1993 – Aug 2010

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

212

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The SHAPLEY, NW. (MARMATON) field

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 6 leases and 6 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1985-07-31

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 320 acres. The field rule took effect on 1988-01-11.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “WITH 320 AC BASE UNITS UP TO 640 + 10% AC MAX.”

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Condensate	Disposition	367 bbl	$9,828
Gas	Production	140,378 Mcf	$159,751
Total			$169,579

88,323 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 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 36.4029, -101.4260. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

36.40295, -101.42596 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

7,500 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

19.4 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 7,500 ft.

Completions filed

Mar 1991

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Aug 2010

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 19.4 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 19.4 years and 19.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-19530939	1294	7,500 ft	Mar 1991	Aug 2010	Yes

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 (212)

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

212 months


Aug 2010	0	0	73.68	4.42	$0
Jul 2010	0	0	72.55	4.74	$0
Jun 2010	0	0	70.36	4.91	$0
May 2010	0	0	71.12	4.24	$0
Apr 2010	0	0	81.69	4.12	$0
Mar 2010	0	0	78.39	4.39	$0
Feb 2010	0	0	73.58	5.44	$0
Jan 2010	0	0	74.36	5.96	$0
Dec 2009	0	0	71.44	5.48	$0
Nov 2009	0	0	74.59	3.75	$0
Oct 2009	0	0	72.54	4.11	$0
Sep 2009	0	0	65.54	3.06	$0
Aug 2009	0	0	67.42	3.22	$0
Jul 2009	0	0	61.13	3.46	$0
Jun 2009	0	0	66.16	3.90	$0
May 2009	0	0	54.74	3.93	$0
Apr 2009	0	0	46.77	3.59	$0
Mar 2009	0	0	42.14	4.06	$0
Feb 2009	0	0	32.81	4.63	$0
Jan 2009	0	0	35.86	5.37	$0
Dec 2008	0	0	37.10	5.98	$0
Nov 2008	0	0	55.49	6.86	$0
Oct 2008	0	0	75.24	6.92	$0
Sep 2008	0	0	101.76	7.88	$0
Aug 2008	0	0	114.22	8.48	$0
Jul 2008	0	0	131.08	11.39	$0
Jun 2008	0	0	131.33	13.03	$0
May 2008	0	0	123.17	11.57	$0
Apr 2008	0	0	110.31	10.45	$0
Mar 2008	0	0	101.90	9.66	$0
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	0	0	90.38	8.21	$0
Dec 2007	0	0	88.33	7.30	$0
Nov 2007	0	0	91.67	7.29	$0
Oct 2007	0	0	82.85	6.92	$0
Sep 2007	0	0	75.84	6.24	$0
Aug 2007	0	0	69.06	6.39	$0
Jul 2007	0	0	70.90	6.39	$0
Jun 2007	0	0	62.00	7.55	$0
May 2007	0	0	58.74	7.85	$0
Apr 2007	0	0	59.61	7.81	$0
Mar 2007	0	0	56.92	7.30	$0
Feb 2007	0	0	55.10	8.22	$0
Jan 2007	0	0	50.30	6.73	$0
Dec 2006	0	0	56.65	6.92	$0
Nov 2006	0	0	54.20	7.62	$0
Oct 2006	0	0	54.90	6.01	$0
Sep 2006	0	0	60.08	5.04	$0
Aug 2006	0	0	68.71	7.34	$0
Jul 2006	0	0	69.37	6.34	$0
Jun 2006	0	0	66.28	6.38	$0
May 2006	0	0	66.01	6.42	$0
Apr 2006	0	0	64.39	7.36	$0
Mar 2006	0	0	56.70	7.08	$0
Feb 2006	0	0	57.59	7.75	$0
Jan 2006	0	0	60.59	8.93	$0
Dec 2005	0	0	54.94	13.42	$0
Nov 2005	0	0	54.69	10.59	$0
Oct 2005	0	0	58.34	13.80	$0
Sep 2005	0	0	61.45	12.08	$0
Aug 2005	0	0	61.51	9.80	$0
Jul 2005	0	0	55.69	7.84	$0
Jun 2005	0	0	52.33	7.38	$0
May 2005	68	0	45.22	6.65	$3,075
Apr 2005	0	0	49.20	7.36	$0
Mar 2005	0	0	50.37	7.15	$0
Feb 2005	0	0	45.22	6.31	$0
Jan 2005	0	0	43.16	6.32	$0
Dec 2004	0	0	39.86	6.75	$0
Nov 2004	0	0	45.28	6.33	$0
Oct 2004	0	0	49.70	6.52	$0
Sep 2004	0	0	43.24	5.28	$0
Aug 2004	0	0	42.37	5.55	$0
Jul 2004	0	0	38.28	6.08	$0
Jun 2004	0	0	36.10	6.43	$0
May 2004	0	0	37.48	6.49	$0
Apr 2004	0	0	34.47	5.86	$0
Mar 2004	0	0	34.36	5.53	$0
Feb 2004	0	0	32.45	5.51	$0
Jan 2004	0	0	32.03	6.30	$0
Dec 2003	0	0	30.26	6.30	$0
Nov 2003	0	0	28.80	4.60	$0
Oct 2003	0	0	28.17	4.76	$0
Sep 2003	0	0	26.31	4.75	$0
Aug 2003	0	0	29.76	5.13	$0
Jul 2003	0	0	29.41	5.17	$0
Jun 2003	0	0	28.56	5.98	$0
May 2003	0	0	26.59	5.97	$0
Apr 2003	0	0	26.67	5.41	$0
Mar 2003	0	8	31.14	6.10	$49
Feb 2003	0	0	33.48	7.93	$0
Jan 2003	0	0	30.31	5.58	$0
Dec 2002	0	0	26.91	4.85	$0
Nov 2002	0	8	24.66	4.14	$33
Oct 2002	0	35	26.46	4.23	$148
Sep 2002	0	512	27.44	3.64	$1,861
Aug 2002	0	773	25.96	3.16	$2,446
Jul 2002	0	767	24.58	3.06	$2,348
Jun 2002	0	749	23.73	3.34	$2,500
May 2002	0	712	24.66	3.58	$2,552
Apr 2002	0	702	23.65	3.51	$2,466
Mar 2002	0	568	22.00	3.10	$1,762
Feb 2002	0	628	18.22	2.38	$1,492
Jan 2002	0	700	17.17	2.38	$1,663
Dec 2001	0	715	16.93	2.36	$1,691
Nov 2001	0	612	18.07	2.41	$1,472
Oct 2001	0	143	19.78	2.53	$362
Sep 2001	0	653	24.26	2.25	$1,470
Aug 2001	0	787	24.87	3.05	$2,403
Jul 2001	0	763	23.93	3.20	$2,439
Jun 2001	0	673	24.56	3.82	$2,574
May 2001	0	774	25.52	4.31	$3,334
Apr 2001	0	393	24.68	5.34	$2,097
Mar 2001	0	563	24.54	5.38	$3,027
Feb 2001	0	653	27.75	5.77	$3,766
Jan 2001	0	702	27.47	8.40	$5,896
Dec 2000	0	942	26.88	9.12	$8,593
Nov 2000	129	840	32.21	5.66	$8,908
Oct 2000	0	852	31.23	5.15	$4,384
Sep 2000	0	578	31.87	5.19	$2,998
Aug 2000	0	259	29.64	4.54	$1,176
Jul 2000	0	61	28.53	4.09	$249
Jun 2000	0	260	29.30	4.40	$1,143
May 2000	0	640	27.26	3.68	$2,355
Apr 2000	0	887	24.51	3.12	$2,764
Mar 2000	0	860	28.42	2.86	$2,459
Feb 2000	0	836	27.62	2.73	$2,279
Jan 2000	0	790	25.27	2.48	$1,960
Dec 1999	0	744	24.28	2.42	$1,803
Nov 1999	0	418	23.19	2.43	$1,017
Oct 1999	0	771	20.98	2.80	$2,162
Sep 1999	0	626	21.75	2.62	$1,639
Aug 1999	0	124	19.26	2.88	$357
Jul 1999	0	62	17.89	2.37	$147
Jun 1999	0	510	15.94	2.36	$1,205
May 1999	0	778	15.79	2.32	$1,806
Apr 1999	0	758	15.10	2.21	$1,674
Mar 1999	0	223	12.47	1.84	$410
Feb 1999	0	338	9.98	1.82	$614
Jan 1999	0	452	10.38	1.90	$859
Dec 1998	0	588	9.20	1.77	$1,043
Nov 1998	0	668	10.89	2.19	$1,460
Oct 1998	0	440	12.42	1.97	$866
Sep 1998	0	163	12.59	2.08	$339
Aug 1998	0	124	11.30	1.91	$237
Jul 1998	0	497	11.74	2.24	$1,112
Jun 1998	4	341	11.24	2.24	$808
May 1998	0	1,033	12.62	2.21	$2,279
Apr 1998	0	1,232	13.04	2.51	$3,087
Mar 1998	0	1,371	12.80	2.31	$3,166
Feb 1998	0	1,220	13.95	2.30	$2,805
Jan 1998	0	1,345	14.70	2.15	$2,898
Dec 1997	0	1,313	16.32	2.41	$3,166
Nov 1997	5	1,286	18.19	3.09	$4,062
Oct 1997	0	1,528	19.25	3.15	$4,813
Sep 1997	0	1,563	17.74	2.95	$4,618
Aug 1997	0	1,468	17.86	2.55	$3,750
Jul 1997	0	1,840	17.58	2.25	$4,134
Jun 1997	0	795	17.24	2.26	$1,794
May 1997	0	1,255	18.97	2.31	$2,897
Apr 1997	0	981	17.88	2.08	$2,043
Mar 1997	0	1,131	18.95	1.94	$2,193
Feb 1997	0	1,347	20.49	2.21	$2,971
Jan 1997	0	1,324	23.48	3.54	$4,687
Dec 1996	0	1,321	23.32	—	$0
Nov 1996	0	1,477	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	1,707	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	0	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	0	1,285	20.26	—	$0
Jul 1996	0	950	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	0	857	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	0	1,606	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	0	2,226	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	0	1,122	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	0	1,642	16.98	—	$0
Jan 1996	0	1,818	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	0	1,846	17.19	—	$0
Nov 1995	0	1,769	16.00	—	$0
Oct 1995	0	1,409	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	1,746	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	0	1,943	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	0	1,826	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	0	1,218	16.41	—	$0
May 1995	0	2,339	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	0	1,289	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	0	1,924	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	0	1,692	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	0	1,778	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	0	1,846	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	0	1,762	15.90	—	$0
Oct 1994	0	1,892	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	161	1,809	15.29	—	$2,462
Aug 1994	0	2,937	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	0	1,081	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	0	2,061	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	0	2,066	15.88	—	$0
Apr 1994	0	2,290	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	0	2,001	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	0	1,940	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	0	2,143	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	0	2,078	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	0	2,648	14.49	—	$0
Oct 1993	0	1,897	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	0	2,118	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	0	2,496	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	0	1,763	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	0	2,387	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	0	1,780	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	0	2,282	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	0	2,412	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	0	3,738	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	0	2,106	16.93	—	$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.

May 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate            68 bbl  × $ 45.22 =     $3,075
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  6.65 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $3,075

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. 10/G/137740 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.