GREEN SOUTH -C-

Operated by VAN OPERATING, LTD. (P-5 881442) in the GREEN SOUTH (CONGL) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 62970District 7BField 36637500GasSaveExport
Value, all time
$201 k
Jan 1993 – May 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
125
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 3 leases and 3 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1978-11-01
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,200 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 1989-12-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ALLOCATION FORMULA EFFECTIVE 12/01/89.

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
GasProduction279,850 Mcf$201,158
Total$201,158

200,478 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 32.6049, -99.3573. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.60494, -99.35729 · 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
4,646 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
28.0 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 4,646 ft.

Completions filed
May 1975
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2003
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 28.0 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 28.0 years and 28.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-4173156934,646 ftMay 1975May 2003Yes

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 (125)

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

125 months

May 2003026.595.97$0
Apr 2003026.675.41$0
Mar 2003031.146.10$0
Feb 2003033.487.93$0
Jan 2003030.315.58$0
Dec 2002026.914.85$0
Nov 2002024.664.14$0
Oct 2002026.464.23$0
Sep 2002027.443.64$0
Aug 2002025.963.16$0
Jul 2002024.583.06$0
Jun 2002023.733.34$0
May 2002024.663.58$0
Apr 2002023.653.51$0
Mar 2002022.003.10$0
Feb 2002018.222.38$0
Jan 2002017.172.38$0
Dec 2001016.932.36$0
Nov 2001018.072.41$0
Oct 2001019.782.53$0
Sep 2001024.262.25$0
Aug 2001024.873.05$0
Jul 2001023.933.20$0
Jun 2001024.563.82$0
May 2001025.524.31$0
Apr 2001024.685.34$0
Mar 2001024.545.38$0
Feb 2001027.755.77$0
Jan 2001027.478.40$0
Dec 2000026.889.12$0
Nov 2000032.215.66$0
Oct 2000031.235.15$0
Sep 2000031.875.19$0
Aug 2000029.644.54$0
Jul 2000028.534.09$0
Jun 2000029.304.40$0
May 200029027.263.68$1,067
Apr 20001,90424.513.12$5,933
Mar 200067828.422.86$1,939
Feb 200083727.622.73$2,282
Jan 200016025.272.48$397
Dec 199935324.282.42$856
Nov 199924923.192.43$606
Oct 199929920.982.80$838
Sep 199934121.752.62$893
Aug 199936019.262.88$1,035
Jul 199958917.892.37$1,397
Jun 199957015.942.36$1,346
May 199986315.792.32$2,003
Apr 199966515.102.21$1,468
Mar 199927912.471.84$513
Feb 19993679.981.82$667
Jan 199963310.381.90$1,203
Dec 19982949.201.77$521
Nov 199830410.892.19$664
Oct 199816112.421.97$317
Sep 1998012.592.08$0
Aug 1998011.301.91$0
Jul 19981,73211.742.24$3,875
Jun 19981,71611.242.24$3,839
May 19982,75712.622.21$6,083
Apr 19981,28713.042.51$3,224
Mar 19983,09312.802.31$7,143
Feb 19983,64113.952.30$8,371
Jan 19984,29914.702.15$9,263
Dec 19975,11216.322.41$12,326
Nov 19975,03918.193.09$15,562
Oct 19975,37219.253.15$16,921
Sep 19974,77017.742.95$14,095
Aug 19973,27917.862.55$8,377
Jul 19973,12617.582.25$7,024
Jun 19973,65917.242.26$8,259
May 19974,32618.972.31$9,987
Apr 19973,28217.882.08$6,836
Mar 19973,20618.951.94$6,217
Feb 19974,30820.492.21$9,503
Jan 19975,17223.483.54$18,307
Dec 19963,61523.32$0
Nov 19964,86521.97$0
Oct 19964,34523.31$0
Sep 19964,42022.22$0
Aug 19964,85720.26$0
Jul 19966,45119.55$0
Jun 19963,96418.73$0
May 19964,21819.43$0
Apr 19964,66021.51$0
Mar 19964,96819.38$0
Feb 19965,13416.98$0
Jan 19963617.07$0
Dec 19955,15817.19$0
Nov 19957,41916.00$0
Oct 19957,67315.43$0
Sep 19952,29116.18$0
Aug 19952,67615.92$0
Jul 19953,19315.24$0
Jun 19953,56516.41$0
May 19954,54717.56$0
Apr 19954,40317.73$0
Mar 19954,80716.44$0
Feb 19956,26716.58$0
Jan 19958,39415.92$0
Dec 199410,30315.03$0
Nov 199410,47315.90$0
Oct 199410,98115.58$0
Sep 19946,57115.29$0
Aug 19944,42516.13$0
Jul 19945,19617.56$0
Jun 19943,14017.09$0
May 19942,59515.88$0
Apr 19943,55914.14$0
Mar 19943,02212.46$0
Feb 199433412.50$0
Jan 199466512.66$0
Dec 199397412.33$0
Nov 19932,08614.49$0
Oct 19932,68015.85$0
Sep 19933,18415.03$0
Aug 19931,72915.66$0
Jul 19931,71615.46$0
Jun 19931,36116.79$0
May 19932,37617.68$0
Apr 19932,01718.05$0
Mar 19932,75318.14$0
Feb 19933,25417.90$0
Jan 19933,15816.93$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.

May 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  290 Mcf  × $  3.68 =     $1,067

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Month total                                   $1,067

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/62970 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.