STENGER, C.M.

Operated by MKS NATURAL GAS COMPANY (P-5 518491) in the DICEY, N. (BIG SALINE CONGL. 3) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 83615District 7BField 24620600NGPA filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$22 k
Jan 1993 – Jul 2012
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
235
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 8 leases and 8 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1978-04-03
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 160 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ONE WELL FIELD EFF. 9-1-90.

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
NGPA2none

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
CondensateDisposition3 bbl$62
GasProduction20,756 Mcf$21,780
Total$21,842

16,272 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 40 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 32.8480, -97.6949. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

32.84796, -97.69488 · 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
5,963 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
33.3 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 5,963 ft.

Completions filed
Mar 1979
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jul 2012
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 33.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 33.3 years and 33.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-3673147315,963 ftMar 1979Jul 2012Yes

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 (235)

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

235 months

Jul 20120085.133.02$0
Jun 20120079.822.52$0
May 20120091.612.49$0
Apr 201200101.652.00$0
Mar 201200105.052.22$0
Feb 201200101.102.57$0
Jan 20120098.092.73$0
Dec 20110096.873.24$0
Nov 20110095.723.31$0
Oct 20110084.983.65$0
Sep 20110083.623.99$0
Aug 20110083.404.15$0
Jul 20110094.144.52$0
Jun 20110092.904.64$0
May 20110098.134.40$0
Apr 201100105.964.33$0
Mar 20110096.364.06$0
Feb 20110085.644.18$0
Jan 20110086.504.59$0
Dec 20100085.734.35$0
Nov 20100080.843.80$0
Oct 20100078.103.51$0
Sep 20100072.633.98$0
Aug 20100073.684.42$0
Jul 20100072.554.74$0
Jun 20100070.364.91$0
May 20100071.124.24$0
Apr 20100081.694.12$0
Mar 20100078.394.39$0
Feb 20100073.585.44$0
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 2005014145.226.65$938
Apr 2005017249.207.36$1,266
Mar 2005014750.377.15$1,052
Feb 200508045.226.31$505
Jan 200505643.166.32$354
Dec 200404939.866.75$331
Nov 200405545.286.33$348
Oct 200405649.706.52$365
Sep 200408143.245.28$428
Aug 200404142.375.55$228
Jul 2004023838.286.08$1,448
Jun 200403136.106.43$199
May 2004011537.486.49$747
Apr 200409634.475.86$562
Mar 200409134.365.53$503
Feb 2004017432.455.51$959
Jan 2004013432.036.30$844
Dec 2003011730.266.30$737
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 2003012628.174.76$600
Sep 2003019426.314.75$921
Aug 2003017429.765.13$893
Jul 2003014429.415.17$745
Jun 2003010428.565.98$622
May 2003010126.595.97$603
Apr 200303426.675.41$184
Mar 200304031.146.10$244
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 200303030.315.58$167
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 200206324.664.14$261
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 200205327.443.64$193
Aug 200203025.963.16$95
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 200204123.733.34$137
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 200202023.653.51$70
Mar 200203122.003.10$96
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 200202017.172.38$48
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 200103518.072.41$84
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 200103624.873.05$110
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 200106225.524.31$267
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 200106327.755.77$363
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 200004432.215.66$249
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 2000011229.644.54$509
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 200008527.263.68$313
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 200009627.622.73$262
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 199905923.192.43$144
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 199903319.262.88$95
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 199905915.792.32$137
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 19990909.981.82$164
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 1998011310.892.19$247
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 1998046112.622.21$1,017
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 199704117.582.25$92
Jun 199701617.242.26$36
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 19970018.951.94$0
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19971023.483.54$23
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19961418.73$19
May 19961019.43$19
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 199603019.38$0
Feb 199601516.98$0
Jan 1996010517.07$0
Dec 1995035417.19$0
Nov 1995050316.00$0
Oct 1995020915.43$0
Sep 1995031916.18$0
Aug 1995034915.92$0
Jul 1995042415.24$0
Jun 1995046316.41$0
May 1995054017.56$0
Apr 1995059117.73$0
Mar 1995056416.44$0
Feb 1995054116.58$0
Jan 1995058915.92$0
Dec 1994041015.03$0
Nov 1994037715.90$0
Oct 1994018715.58$0
Sep 199409315.29$0
Aug 1994022216.13$0
Jul 1994039417.56$0
Jun 1994039417.09$0
May 1994039315.88$0
Apr 1994039614.14$0
Mar 1994048912.46$0
Feb 1994047712.50$0
Jan 1994063012.66$0
Dec 1993050412.33$0
Nov 1993045314.49$0
Oct 1993045515.85$0
Sep 1993089415.03$0
Aug 1993047715.66$0
Jul 1993043715.46$0
Jun 1993049216.79$0
May 1993054417.68$0
Apr 1993050418.05$0
Mar 1993053118.14$0
Feb 1993044417.90$0
Jan 1993047516.93$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 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 45.22 =         $0
Gas                  141 Mcf  × $  6.65 =       $938

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Month total                                     $938

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/83615 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.