RITCHIE, JOHN

Operated by CRIMSON EXPLORATION OPER., INC. (P-5 190005) in the STRAWN, N. (BEND CONGL.) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 40841District 7BField 86575333NGPA filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$18 k
Jan 1993 – Jan 2010
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
205
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 80 leases and 83 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1943-11-07
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
330 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 160 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: INTO THIS FIELD EFFECTIVE 7/1/66.

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
CondensateDisposition110 bbl$3,260
GasProduction6,349 Mcf$14,911
Total$18,172

2,361 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 36 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 32.6803, -98.4420. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.68033, -98.44203 · 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
3,925 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
43.2 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 3,925 ft.

Completions filed
Nov 1966
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 2010
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 43.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 43.2 years and 43.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3632011513,925 ftNov 1966Jan 2010Yes

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 (205)

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

205 months

Jan 20100074.365.96$0
Dec 20090071.445.48$0
Nov 20090074.593.75$0
Oct 20090072.544.11$0
Sep 20090065.543.06$0
Aug 20090067.423.22$0
Jul 20090061.133.46$0
Jun 20090066.163.90$0
May 20090054.743.93$0
Apr 20090046.773.59$0
Mar 20090042.144.06$0
Feb 20090032.814.63$0
Jan 20090035.865.37$0
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20080055.496.86$0
Oct 20080075.246.92$0
Sep 200800101.767.88$0
Aug 200800114.228.48$0
Jul 200800131.0811.39$0
Jun 200800131.3313.03$0
May 200800123.1711.57$0
Apr 200800110.3110.45$0
Mar 200800101.909.66$0
Feb 20080092.538.77$0
Jan 20080090.388.21$0
Dec 20070088.337.30$0
Nov 20070091.677.29$0
Oct 20070082.856.92$0
Sep 20070075.846.24$0
Aug 20070069.066.39$0
Jul 20070070.906.39$0
Jun 20070062.007.55$0
May 20070058.747.85$0
Apr 20070059.617.81$0
Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 20060054.906.01$0
Sep 20060060.085.04$0
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 20060069.376.34$0
Jun 20060066.286.38$0
May 20060066.016.42$0
Apr 20060064.397.36$0
Mar 20060056.707.08$0
Feb 20060057.597.75$0
Jan 20060060.598.93$0
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20050061.519.80$0
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20050045.226.65$0
Apr 20050049.207.36$0
Mar 20050050.377.15$0
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 2004010345.286.33$652
Oct 200401849.706.52$117
Sep 200401843.245.28$95
Aug 20040442.375.55$22
Jul 200404238.286.08$256
Jun 200404036.106.43$257
May 20040037.486.49$0
Apr 200401234.475.86$70
Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040332.455.51$17
Jan 20040332.036.30$19
Dec 20030530.266.30$32
Nov 20030428.804.60$18
Oct 20030428.174.76$19
Sep 200301626.314.75$76
Aug 20030429.765.13$21
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030128.565.98$6
May 20030326.595.97$18
Apr 20030526.675.41$27
Mar 200304631.146.10$280
Feb 20030933.487.93$71
Jan 200305030.315.58$279
Dec 200204726.914.85$228
Nov 200202124.664.14$87
Oct 200201126.464.23$47
Sep 200206127.443.64$222
Aug 200205225.963.16$165
Jul 200205124.583.06$156
Jun 200204423.733.34$147
May 200205024.663.58$179
Apr 200205523.653.51$193
Mar 200203122.003.10$96
Feb 200202718.222.38$64
Jan 200204617.172.38$109
Dec 200104616.932.36$109
Nov 200104518.072.41$108
Oct 200105119.782.53$129
Sep 200101024.262.25$23
Aug 200102124.873.05$64
Jul 200103623.933.20$115
Jun 200102724.563.82$103
May 200103425.524.31$146
Apr 200102024.685.34$107
Mar 200106024.545.38$323
Feb 200105827.755.77$334
Jan 200102027.478.40$168
Dec 200001326.889.12$119
Nov 200002832.215.66$158
Oct 2000013331.235.15$684
Sep 200007631.875.19$394
Aug 20001107729.644.54$3,610
Jul 200001,01728.534.09$4,159
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 200001427.263.68$52
Apr 20000524.513.12$16
Mar 20000428.422.86$11
Feb 20000627.622.73$16
Jan 20000925.272.48$22
Dec 19990424.282.42$10
Nov 19990323.192.43$7
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 199905919.262.88$170
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990915.942.36$21
May 19990615.792.32$14
Apr 19990515.102.21$11
Mar 19990812.471.84$15
Feb 1999019.981.82$2
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980710.892.19$15
Oct 19980512.421.97$10
Sep 199801212.592.08$25
Aug 199808411.301.91$160
Jul 199804511.742.24$101
Jun 199805711.242.24$128
May 199805912.622.21$130
Apr 199804313.042.51$108
Mar 199802012.802.31$46
Feb 199807213.952.30$166
Jan 199807314.702.15$157
Dec 199709016.322.41$217
Nov 199708118.193.09$250
Oct 199707619.253.15$239
Sep 199708117.742.95$239
Aug 199708817.862.55$225
Jul 199707517.582.25$169
Jun 199702317.242.26$52
May 199706218.972.31$143
Apr 199704317.882.08$90
Mar 199705418.951.94$105
Feb 199702620.492.21$57
Jan 199702123.483.54$74
Dec 199603023.32$0
Nov 199606321.97$0
Oct 199606623.31$0
Sep 199603422.22$0
Aug 199601220.26$0
Jul 199606819.55$0
Jun 199606118.73$0
May 199603019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19950015.43$0
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 19950017.56$0
Apr 199504017.73$0
Mar 199503616.44$0
Feb 199502716.58$0
Jan 199505515.92$0
Dec 199405915.03$0
Nov 199405915.90$0
Oct 199406315.58$0
Sep 199404215.29$0
Aug 199404216.13$0
Jul 199405517.56$0
Jun 199408817.09$0
May 1994011115.88$0
Apr 199409014.14$0
Mar 1994010312.46$0
Feb 199407912.50$0
Jan 199409212.66$0
Dec 199308712.33$0
Nov 199307314.49$0
Oct 199307915.85$0
Sep 199309115.03$0
Aug 199306815.66$0
Jul 199308315.46$0
Jun 199308616.79$0
May 199307717.68$0
Apr 199308218.05$0
Mar 199308418.14$0
Feb 199307217.90$0
Jan 199307416.93$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.

Nov 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 45.28 =         $0
Gas                  103 Mcf  × $  6.33 =       $652

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Month total                                     $652

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/40841 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.