COURSON -B- 15

Operated by CRESCENDO RESOURCES, L.P. (P-5 189451) in the LIPS, WEST (CLEVELAND) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 155098District 10Field 538545002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$230 k
May 1995 – Oct 1999
Value, last 12 filed months
$3 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
54
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 45 leases and 45 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1958-02-06
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
2,500 ft
minimum
From a lease line
1,250 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 640 acres. The field rule took effect on 1961-09-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: PETRO (CLEVELAND) FLD 68735120 EFC 5/1/11

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 Gas111995-11-08133641
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
CondensateDisposition415 bbl$6,861
GasProduction272,543 Mcf$223,467
Total$230,329

181,174 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 19 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 36.0575, -101.0332. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

36.05754, -101.03321 · 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
8,808 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
3.4 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 8,808 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 1999
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2002
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 3.4 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 3.4 years and 3.4 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-39331253468,808 ftJun 1999Nov 2002Yes

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 (54)

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

54 months

Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 199940019.262.88$770
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 199920015.102.21$302
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 1999100010.381.90$1,038
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 1998020210.892.19$442
Oct 199802,77412.421.97$5,463
Sep 1998804,49812.592.08$10,375
Aug 199804,27611.301.91$8,156
Jul 199803,85011.742.24$8,613
Jun 199804,96811.242.24$11,115
May 199805,46412.622.21$12,055
Apr 199807,04113.042.51$17,640
Mar 1998022112.802.31$510
Feb 1998022413.952.30$515
Jan 199802,50614.702.15$5,400
Dec 199703,92016.322.41$9,452
Nov 199703,80818.193.09$11,760
Oct 199705,92419.253.15$18,660
Sep 199705,82417.742.95$17,209
Aug 1997080717.862.55$2,062
Jul 199703,24217.582.25$7,285
Jun 199704,74417.242.26$10,708
May 199704,75318.972.31$10,972
Apr 199704,86717.882.08$10,137
Mar 199705,08318.951.94$9,857
Feb 1997205,77820.492.21$13,155
Jan 199706,59523.483.54$23,344
Dec 199606,97623.32$0
Nov 199604,10521.97$0
Oct 199605,84623.31$0
Sep 199606,17222.22$0
Aug 199607,73320.26$0
Jul 199607,62719.55$0
Jun 199607,74718.73$0
May 199606,53319.43$0
Apr 19961557,47021.51$3,334
Mar 199606,98419.38$0
Feb 199608,32516.98$0
Jan 199609,28817.07$0
Dec 199509,80717.19$0
Nov 1995010,52916.00$0
Oct 1995010,25615.43$0
Sep 1995011,29916.18$0
Aug 1995014,51315.92$0
Jul 1995017,11015.24$0
Jun 1995022,85416.41$0
May 19950017.56$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.

Aug 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            40 bbl  × $ 19.26 =       $770
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  2.88 =         $0

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Month total                                     $770

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/155098 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.