RICHARDSON, R. N.

Operated by DELTA OIL & GAS LTD. (P-5 213703) in the STEPHENS COUNTY REGULAR (GAS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 70414District 7BField 85948100NGPA filingGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$6 k
Jan 1993 – Dec 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$1 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
132
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 635 leases and 635 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1943-12-02
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

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: FIELD CHANGED FROM EXEMPT TO PRORATED EFFECTIVE 07/01/22.

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
GasProduction12,155 Mcf$6,114
Total$6,114

10,390 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 32.8174, -98.6890. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.81741, -98.68903 · 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
4,066 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
26.0 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 4,066 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 1977
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 2003
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 26.0 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 26.0 years and 26.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-429311202 U4,066 ftDec 1977Dec 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 (132)

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

132 months

Dec 2003030.266.30$0
Nov 2003028.804.60$0
Oct 20031928.174.76$90
Sep 20031626.314.75$76
Aug 20032429.765.13$123
Jul 20032129.415.17$109
Jun 20031728.565.98$102
May 20032226.595.97$131
Apr 20032226.675.41$119
Mar 20032331.146.10$140
Feb 20031533.487.93$119
Jan 20032130.315.58$117
Dec 20021926.914.85$92
Nov 20021724.664.14$70
Oct 20023126.464.23$131
Sep 20021727.443.64$62
Aug 20022125.963.16$66
Jul 20021924.583.06$58
Jun 20022123.733.34$70
May 20021624.663.58$57
Apr 20022323.653.51$81
Mar 20021522.003.10$47
Feb 20021118.222.38$26
Jan 20021617.172.38$38
Dec 20011616.932.36$38
Nov 20011218.072.41$29
Oct 20011419.782.53$35
Sep 20012224.262.25$50
Aug 20011424.873.05$43
Jul 20012723.933.20$86
Jun 20012624.563.82$99
May 20012325.524.31$99
Apr 20012424.685.34$128
Mar 20011824.545.38$97
Feb 20011627.755.77$92
Jan 20012827.478.40$235
Dec 20002626.889.12$237
Nov 20002432.215.66$136
Oct 20002731.235.15$139
Sep 20001731.875.19$88
Aug 20002229.644.54$100
Jul 20002628.534.09$106
Jun 20002229.304.40$97
May 20002027.263.68$74
Apr 20001924.513.12$59
Mar 20002128.422.86$60
Feb 20002027.622.73$55
Jan 20002625.272.48$64
Dec 19991924.282.42$46
Nov 19992023.192.43$49
Oct 19992420.982.80$67
Sep 19992621.752.62$68
Aug 19992319.262.88$66
Jul 19992017.892.37$47
Jun 19992115.942.36$50
May 19992615.792.32$60
Apr 19992115.102.21$46
Mar 19992112.471.84$39
Feb 1999249.981.82$44
Jan 19992610.381.90$49
Dec 1998239.201.77$41
Nov 19982010.892.19$44
Oct 19982412.421.97$47
Sep 19982112.592.08$44
Aug 19982211.301.91$42
Jul 19982311.742.24$51
Jun 19982311.242.24$51
May 19981712.622.21$38
Apr 19982413.042.51$60
Mar 19982112.802.31$49
Feb 19982213.952.30$51
Jan 19982914.702.15$62
Dec 19972416.322.41$58
Nov 19972718.193.09$83
Oct 19972519.253.15$79
Sep 19972517.742.95$74
Aug 19972217.862.55$56
Jul 19972517.582.25$56
Jun 19972217.242.26$50
May 19972818.972.31$65
Apr 19972217.882.08$46
Mar 19972818.951.94$54
Feb 19972620.492.21$57
Jan 19971523.483.54$53
Dec 19961623.32$0
Nov 19962121.97$0
Oct 19963723.31$0
Sep 19962922.22$0
Aug 19962520.26$0
Jul 19965619.55$0
Jun 19962118.73$0
May 19968319.43$0
Apr 199611721.51$0
Mar 19962219.38$0
Feb 199614716.98$0
Jan 19969417.07$0
Dec 19952917.19$0
Nov 19959816.00$0
Oct 199512215.43$0
Sep 19952716.18$0
Aug 199517315.92$0
Jul 199524515.24$0
Jun 19957216.41$0
May 19952217.56$0
Apr 199524817.73$0
Mar 199510216.44$0
Feb 199525916.58$0
Jan 199528415.92$0
Dec 199411215.03$0
Nov 199442715.90$0
Oct 199442015.58$0
Sep 199420815.29$0
Aug 199445116.13$0
Jul 199437817.56$0
Jun 199420717.09$0
May 199424115.88$0
Apr 199438714.14$0
Mar 199421212.46$0
Feb 199431512.50$0
Jan 199441612.66$0
Dec 199325612.33$0
Nov 199324214.49$0
Oct 199359315.85$0
Sep 199332615.03$0
Aug 199343715.66$0
Jul 199359315.46$0
Jun 199330716.79$0
May 199330817.68$0
Apr 199351718.05$0
Mar 199310618.14$0
Feb 199316517.90$0
Jan 199341716.93$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.

Oct 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                   19 Mcf  × $  4.76 =        $90

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Month total                                      $90

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/70414 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.