BUCHNER, G. C.

Operated by XTO ENERGY INC. (P-5 945936) in the HUTCHINSON, N. (WHITE DOLOMITE) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 197608District 10Field 43850888Hydrogen sulphide fieldGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$3.4 M
Jul 2003 – Oct 2017
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
172
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 9 leases and 9 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1957-07-27
as the register files it
Field class
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 register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ALLOCATION FORMULA EFFECTIVE 02/01/86.

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
GasProduction484,118 Mcf$3,361,108
Total$3,361,108

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 36.0429, -101.2790. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

36.04285, -101.27899 · 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
6,124 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
14.3 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 6,124 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 2003
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Oct 2017
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 14.3 years and 14.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-233137341C6,124 ftJul 2003Oct 2017Yes

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 (172)

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

172 months

Oct 2017049.292.98$0
Sep 2017047.523.09$0
Aug 2017045.373.00$0
Jul 2017043.873.09$0
Jun 2017042.493.09$0
May 2017045.373.26$0
Apr 2017047.933.21$0
Mar 2017046.772.98$0
Feb 2017050.452.95$0
Jan 2017049.413.42$0
Dec 2016048.763.72$0
Nov 2016042.492.64$0
Oct 2016046.193.09$0
Sep 2016041.553.10$0
Aug 2016041.442.92$0
Jul 2016041.622.92$0
Jun 2016045.352.69$0
May 2016042.521.99$0
Apr 2016036.561.99$0
Mar 2016033.011.79$0
Feb 2016026.472.06$0
Jan 2016027.352.36$0
Dec 2015032.362.00$0
Nov 2015038.792.17$0
Oct 2015043.552.43$0
Sep 2015042.992.76$0
Aug 2015040.162.87$0
Jul 2015048.152.95$0
Jun 2015056.152.88$0
May 2015055.212.96$0
Apr 2015049.822.71$0
Mar 2015042.892.93$0
Feb 2015044.662.98$0
Jan 2015043.433.10$0
Dec 2014054.693.59$0
Nov 2014070.464.25$0
Oct 2014078.303.90$0
Sep 2014086.164.05$0
Aug 2014089.394.04$0
Jul 2014096.564.18$0
Jun 2014098.164.74$0
May 2014094.734.73$0
Apr 2014095.944.81$0
Mar 2014095.895.06$0
Feb 2014097.406.19$0
Jan 2014090.404.86$0
Dec 2013091.824.35$0
Nov 2013088.853.74$0
Oct 2013097.423.78$0
Sep 20130104.113.72$0
Aug 20130104.253.52$0
Jul 20130102.523.72$0
Jun 2013094.403.93$0
May 2013094.834.15$0
Apr 2013093.964.28$0
Mar 2013093.623.91$0
Feb 2013091.233.42$0
Jan 2013091.603.42$0
Dec 2012086.773.42$0
Nov 2012086.953.62$0
Oct 2012089.383.40$0
Sep 2012094.672.92$0
Aug 2012092.662.91$0
Jul 2012085.133.02$0
Jun 2012079.822.52$0
May 201231991.612.49$794
Apr 2012156101.652.00$312
Mar 20121,014105.052.22$2,253
Feb 20121,025101.102.57$2,635
Jan 201299898.092.73$2,729
Dec 201134296.873.24$1,108
Nov 201125695.723.31$848
Oct 201120684.983.65$752
Sep 20111,17883.623.99$4,695
Aug 20111,14283.404.15$4,739
Jul 20111,23194.144.52$5,561
Jun 20111,21192.904.64$5,619
May 20111,37798.134.40$6,065
Apr 20111,372105.964.33$5,945
Mar 201197096.364.06$3,936
Feb 20111,38485.644.18$5,785
Jan 20111,77886.504.59$8,159
Dec 20101,73885.734.35$7,556
Nov 20101,75280.843.80$6,649
Oct 20101,86178.103.51$6,530
Sep 20101,17772.633.98$4,684
Aug 201053773.684.42$2,373
Jul 201057172.554.74$2,705
Jun 20101,18370.364.91$5,809
May 20101,62571.124.24$6,882
Apr 20101,67981.694.12$6,922
Mar 20101,75378.394.39$7,693
Feb 20101,65873.585.44$9,023
Jan 20102,17774.365.96$12,984
Dec 20092,08771.445.48$11,445
Nov 20092,41374.593.75$9,052
Oct 20092,35072.544.11$9,659
Sep 20092,83065.543.06$8,673
Aug 20093,03067.423.22$9,752
Jul 20093,59761.133.46$12,462
Jun 20093,21666.163.90$12,526
May 20092,87454.743.93$11,283
Apr 20092,68946.773.59$9,647
Mar 20093,26042.144.06$13,232
Feb 20093,12732.814.63$14,487
Jan 20094,05235.865.37$21,763
Dec 20084,25537.105.98$25,433
Nov 20082,82355.496.86$19,367
Oct 20084,38275.246.92$30,332
Sep 20085,271101.767.88$41,520
Aug 20085,316114.228.48$45,096
Jul 20086,380131.0811.39$72,665
Jun 20087,044131.3313.03$91,802
May 20088,009123.1711.57$92,698
Apr 20087,701110.3110.45$80,513
Mar 20088,921101.909.66$86,213
Feb 20089,16292.538.77$80,356
Jan 200810,47290.388.21$85,930
Dec 20078,73188.337.30$63,754
Nov 20075,45791.677.29$39,791
Oct 20073,79482.856.92$26,262
Sep 20073,25175.846.24$20,300
Aug 20073,42469.066.39$21,872
Jul 20073,74070.906.39$23,891
Jun 20073,89062.007.55$29,363
May 20073,39658.747.85$26,646
Apr 20074,42559.617.81$34,538
Mar 20074,21556.927.30$30,778
Feb 20073,37755.108.22$27,745
Jan 20072,87150.306.73$19,313
Dec 20064,34956.656.92$30,088
Nov 20065,42954.207.62$41,355
Oct 20066,56954.906.01$39,505
Sep 20067,02460.085.04$35,381
Aug 20067,32968.717.34$53,794
Jul 20066,23669.376.34$39,553
Jun 20066,77466.286.38$43,244
May 20069,27166.016.42$59,566
Apr 20069,73464.397.36$71,647
Mar 200610,94956.707.08$77,551
Feb 20066,58057.597.75$51,002
Jan 20065,90760.598.93$52,769
Dec 20055,71054.9413.42$76,602
Nov 20055,52454.6910.59$58,490
Oct 20055,86458.3413.80$80,898
Sep 20055,53461.4512.08$66,845
Aug 20055,40861.519.80$52,981
Jul 20055,64755.697.84$44,293
Jun 20055,63452.337.38$41,585
May 20056,07345.226.65$40,392
Apr 20055,71549.207.36$42,065
Mar 20055,87750.377.15$42,049
Feb 20055,41445.226.31$34,173
Jan 20055,46343.166.32$34,538
Dec 20046,10739.866.75$41,229
Nov 20045,69545.286.33$36,052
Oct 20046,52649.706.52$42,518
Sep 20046,14143.245.28$32,448
Aug 20046,38142.375.55$35,419
Jul 20046,27438.286.08$38,172
Jun 20046,43836.106.43$41,416
May 20048,06437.486.49$52,372
Apr 20048,71134.475.86$51,033
Mar 20048,84334.365.53$48,903
Feb 20049,01032.455.51$49,642
Jan 20049,66032.036.30$60,855
Dec 20038,70730.266.30$54,868
Nov 20038,77728.804.60$40,332
Oct 20038,13828.174.76$38,734
Sep 20038,10426.314.75$38,489
Aug 20037,74129.765.13$39,709
Jul 20031,28529.415.17$6,645

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 2012 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  319 Mcf  × $  2.49 =       $794

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Month total                                     $794

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/197608 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.