SMITH-DEWITT

Operated by VANTAGE FORT WORTH ENERGY LLC (P-5 882575) in the PALO PINTO CO. REG. (GAS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 156531District 7BField 68707333GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$183 k
Sep 1995 – May 2011
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
189
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 710 leases and 710 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1957-10-15
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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
GasProduction68,126 Mcf$182,746
Total$182,746

21,930 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 15 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 32.7186, -98.2795. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.71855, -98.27952 · 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
2,250 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
15.7 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 2,250 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 1995
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2011
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.7 years and 15.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-363014473A2,250 ftSep 1995May 2011Yes

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 (189)

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

189 months

May 2011098.134.40$0
Apr 20110105.964.33$0
Mar 2011096.364.06$0
Feb 2011085.644.18$0
Jan 2011086.504.59$0
Dec 2010085.734.35$0
Nov 2010080.843.80$0
Oct 2010078.103.51$0
Sep 2010072.633.98$0
Aug 2010073.684.42$0
Jul 2010072.554.74$0
Jun 2010070.364.91$0
May 2010071.124.24$0
Apr 2010081.694.12$0
Mar 2010078.394.39$0
Feb 2010073.585.44$0
Jan 2010074.365.96$0
Dec 2009071.445.48$0
Nov 2009074.593.75$0
Oct 2009072.544.11$0
Sep 2009565.543.06$15
Aug 20091967.423.22$61
Jul 2009061.133.46$0
Jun 2009066.163.90$0
May 2009054.743.93$0
Apr 2009046.773.59$0
Mar 2009042.144.06$0
Feb 2009032.814.63$0
Jan 20091735.865.37$91
Dec 20082137.105.98$126
Nov 20083455.496.86$233
Oct 20085875.246.92$401
Sep 200851101.767.88$402
Aug 200855114.228.48$467
Jul 200854131.0811.39$615
Jun 200849131.3313.03$639
May 200854123.1711.57$625
Apr 200850110.3110.45$523
Mar 200850101.909.66$483
Feb 20085292.538.77$456
Jan 20085090.388.21$410
Dec 20075388.337.30$387
Nov 20076491.677.29$467
Oct 20074682.856.92$318
Sep 20075175.846.24$318
Aug 20075669.066.39$358
Jul 20075270.906.39$332
Jun 20074262.007.55$317
May 20076758.747.85$526
Apr 200710359.617.81$804
Mar 20077156.927.30$518
Feb 20071855.108.22$148
Jan 20075150.306.73$343
Dec 20064156.656.92$284
Nov 20064254.207.62$320
Oct 20062754.906.01$162
Sep 20062160.085.04$106
Aug 20064468.717.34$323
Jul 20065769.376.34$362
Jun 20065166.286.38$326
May 20066866.016.42$437
Apr 20067164.397.36$523
Mar 20069256.707.08$652
Feb 20067757.597.75$597
Jan 20068460.598.93$750
Dec 20059454.9413.42$1,261
Nov 200510554.6910.59$1,112
Oct 20059758.3413.80$1,338
Sep 200512561.4512.08$1,510
Aug 200515061.519.80$1,470
Jul 200513955.697.84$1,090
Jun 200523152.337.38$1,705
May 200533345.226.65$2,215
Apr 200533549.207.36$2,466
Mar 200535950.377.15$2,569
Feb 200534045.226.31$2,146
Jan 200546043.166.32$2,908
Dec 200442139.866.75$2,842
Nov 200422445.286.33$1,418
Oct 200451149.706.52$3,329
Sep 200446343.245.28$2,446
Aug 200437042.375.55$2,054
Jul 200443838.286.08$2,665
Jun 200458836.106.43$3,783
May 200468837.486.49$4,468
Apr 200411534.475.86$674
Mar 200411234.365.53$619
Feb 200414532.455.51$799
Jan 200416032.036.30$1,008
Dec 200316230.266.30$1,021
Nov 200312628.804.60$579
Oct 200323028.174.76$1,095
Sep 200318526.314.75$879
Aug 200320329.765.13$1,041
Jul 200321329.415.17$1,101
Jun 200322928.565.98$1,370
May 200315726.595.97$938
Apr 200322026.675.41$1,190
Mar 200314431.146.10$878
Feb 200325833.487.93$2,045
Jan 200332330.315.58$1,803
Dec 200221326.914.85$1,034
Nov 200217624.664.14$728
Oct 200220126.464.23$850
Sep 200224627.443.64$894
Aug 200231725.963.16$1,003
Jul 200237724.583.06$1,154
Jun 200234023.733.34$1,135
May 200231324.663.58$1,122
Apr 200228423.653.51$998
Mar 200239222.003.10$1,216
Feb 200235118.222.38$834
Jan 200227317.172.38$649
Dec 200116916.932.36$400
Nov 2001418.072.41$10
Oct 200125919.782.53$655
Sep 200131124.262.25$700
Aug 200136724.873.05$1,121
Jul 200135223.933.20$1,125
Jun 200138924.563.82$1,488
May 200137325.524.31$1,607
Apr 200136824.685.34$1,963
Mar 200135224.545.38$1,893
Feb 200135027.755.77$2,018
Jan 200139627.478.40$3,326
Dec 200041926.889.12$3,822
Nov 200047132.215.66$2,665
Oct 200056531.235.15$2,907
Sep 200042531.875.19$2,204
Aug 200052529.644.54$2,384
Jul 200038328.534.09$1,566
Jun 200022629.304.40$994
May 200047727.263.68$1,755
Apr 200033424.513.12$1,041
Mar 200044828.422.86$1,281
Feb 200015527.622.73$423
Jan 200024425.272.48$605
Dec 199936324.282.42$880
Nov 199933123.192.43$806
Oct 199971820.982.80$2,013
Sep 199977521.752.62$2,030
Aug 199983819.262.88$2,410
Jul 199965217.892.37$1,547
Jun 199951215.942.36$1,209
May 199971215.792.32$1,653
Apr 199921915.102.21$484
Mar 199962712.471.84$1,153
Feb 19995059.981.82$918
Jan 199963610.381.90$1,208
Dec 19987089.201.77$1,256
Nov 199854510.892.19$1,191
Oct 199819512.421.97$384
Sep 199877712.592.08$1,618
Aug 199880211.301.91$1,530
Jul 199863011.742.24$1,409
Jun 199863811.242.24$1,427
May 199869912.622.21$1,542
Apr 199874413.042.51$1,864
Mar 199888912.802.31$2,053
Feb 199881913.952.30$1,883
Jan 199831414.702.15$677
Dec 19971,12216.322.41$2,705
Nov 199742518.193.09$1,313
Oct 19971,44319.253.15$4,545
Sep 19971,49117.742.95$4,406
Aug 19971,76217.862.55$4,501
Jul 1997817.582.25$18
Jun 19976817.242.26$153
May 199714318.972.31$330
Apr 199732617.882.08$679
Mar 199730218.951.94$586
Feb 199736020.492.21$794
Jan 199783223.483.54$2,945
Dec 199674123.32$0
Nov 199656621.97$0
Oct 199688823.31$0
Sep 19961,15222.22$0
Aug 19961,05720.26$0
Jul 19961,23519.55$0
Jun 19961,36318.73$0
May 19962,20119.43$0
Apr 19962,82721.51$0
Mar 19961,51619.38$0
Feb 19963,70116.98$0
Jan 19961,48617.07$0
Dec 1995017.19$0
Nov 19952,79516.00$0
Oct 199523415.43$0
Sep 199516816.18$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.

Sep 2009 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                    5 Mcf  × $  3.06 =        $15

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Month total                                      $15

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. 7B/G/156531 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.