COLLINS, CURTIS

Operated by HERRING, D OIL & GAS CO. (P-5 380148) in the SANTA ANNA (MARBLE FALLS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 18162District 7BField 80827625NGPA filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$3 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 1998
Value, last 12 filed months
$630
at the published price for each month
Months reported
72
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 173 leases and 186 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1926-03-17
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: EFFECTIVE 11/01/82

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
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
CondensateDisposition162 bbl$2,382
GasProduction8,030 Mcf$887
Total$3,269

7,653 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 31.6587, -99.3145. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.65866, -99.31453 · 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
2,456 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
43.9 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 2,456 ft.

Completions filed
Oct 1954
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Sep 1998
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 43.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 43.9 years and 43.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-0830460312,456 ftOct 1954Sep 1998Yes

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 (72)

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

72 months

Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 199850012.592.08$630
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 199727017.582.25$475
Jun 199702317.242.26$52
May 199707718.972.31$178
Apr 199707417.882.08$154
Mar 199707618.951.94$147
Feb 199707020.492.21$154
Jan 199705723.483.54$202
Dec 199607223.32$0
Nov 199607321.97$0
Oct 199608223.31$0
Sep 199608022.22$0
Aug 199608220.26$0
Jul 199608619.55$0
Jun 199608318.73$0
May 1996010719.43$0
Apr 199601821.51$0
Mar 199608119.38$0
Feb 199607916.98$0
Jan 1996011217.07$0
Dec 1995012017.19$0
Nov 1995012016.00$0
Oct 1995013315.43$0
Sep 1995012616.18$0
Aug 1995013515.92$0
Jul 1995012515.24$0
Jun 1995013716.41$0
May 1995014917.56$0
Apr 1995014117.73$0
Mar 1995013816.44$0
Feb 1995014316.58$0
Jan 1995020615.92$0
Dec 1994020715.03$0
Nov 1994017115.90$0
Oct 1994019315.58$0
Sep 1994021315.29$0
Aug 1994022116.13$0
Jul 1994019917.56$0
Jun 1994021017.09$0
May 1994021515.88$0
Apr 1994015514.14$0
Mar 1994021712.46$0
Feb 1994020712.50$0
Jan 1994023012.66$0
Dec 1993029112.33$0
Nov 1993024914.49$0
Oct 1993015115.85$0
Sep 19938517315.03$1,278
Aug 1993022215.66$0
Jul 1993022715.46$0
Jun 1993023016.79$0
May 1993020617.68$0
Apr 1993022618.05$0
Mar 1993021018.14$0
Feb 1993018817.90$0
Jan 1993021416.93$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.

Sep 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            50 bbl  × $ 12.59 =       $630
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  2.08 =         $0

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Month total                                     $630

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/18162 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.