SUDDERTH "C"

Operated by SMITH PIPE OF ABILENE (P-5 794745) in the WHITEHEAD (STRAWN) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 117790District 7CField 96929600NGPA filingGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$11 k
Jan 1993 – Jun 2006
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
162
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 210 leases and 210 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1975-12-01
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 ft
minimum
From a lease line
933 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 160 acres. The field rule took effect on 1987-12-14.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: ALLOCATION FORMULA SUSPENDED 4/1/95 PER COMPLETED AOF SURVEY

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
GasProduction19,843 Mcf$10,754
Total$10,754

15,132 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 30.4808, -100.9856. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.48079, -100.98560 · 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
9,665 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
20.9 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 9,665 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 1985
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 2006
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 20.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 20.9 years and 20.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-10535040799,665 ftJul 1985Jun 2006Yes

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 (162)

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

162 months

Jun 2006066.286.38$0
May 2006066.016.42$0
Apr 2006064.397.36$0
Mar 2006056.707.08$0
Feb 2006057.597.75$0
Jan 2006060.598.93$0
Dec 2005054.9413.42$0
Nov 2005054.6910.59$0
Oct 2005058.3413.80$0
Sep 2005061.4512.08$0
Aug 2005061.519.80$0
Jul 2005055.697.84$0
Jun 2005052.337.38$0
May 2005045.226.65$0
Apr 2005049.207.36$0
Mar 2005050.377.15$0
Feb 2005045.226.31$0
Jan 2005043.166.32$0
Dec 2004039.866.75$0
Nov 2004045.286.33$0
Oct 2004049.706.52$0
Sep 2004043.245.28$0
Aug 2004042.375.55$0
Jul 2004038.286.08$0
Jun 2004036.106.43$0
May 2004037.486.49$0
Apr 2004034.475.86$0
Mar 2004034.365.53$0
Feb 2004032.455.51$0
Jan 2004032.036.30$0
Dec 2003030.266.30$0
Nov 2003028.804.60$0
Oct 2003028.174.76$0
Sep 2003026.314.75$0
Aug 2003029.765.13$0
Jul 2003029.415.17$0
Jun 2003028.565.98$0
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 2000027.263.68$0
Apr 2000024.513.12$0
Mar 2000028.422.86$0
Feb 2000027.622.73$0
Jan 2000025.272.48$0
Dec 1999024.282.42$0
Nov 1999023.192.43$0
Oct 1999020.982.80$0
Sep 1999021.752.62$0
Aug 1999019.262.88$0
Jul 1999017.892.37$0
Jun 1999015.942.36$0
May 1999015.792.32$0
Apr 1999015.102.21$0
Mar 199910912.471.84$200
Feb 19991099.981.82$198
Jan 199913710.381.90$260
Dec 19982189.201.77$387
Nov 199819710.892.19$431
Oct 199822812.421.97$449
Sep 199814612.592.08$304
Aug 199822911.301.91$437
Jul 199826611.742.24$595
Jun 199828211.242.24$631
May 199819612.622.21$432
Apr 199810613.042.51$266
Mar 199811412.802.31$263
Feb 19981613.952.30$37
Jan 199810614.702.15$228
Dec 199712316.322.41$297
Nov 199711818.193.09$364
Oct 199719719.253.15$621
Sep 199727017.742.95$798
Aug 199729317.862.55$749
Jul 199722717.582.25$510
Jun 19971017.242.26$23
May 199719318.972.31$446
Apr 199733617.882.08$700
Mar 199715018.951.94$291
Feb 199726020.492.21$574
Jan 19977523.483.54$265
Dec 199623523.32$0
Nov 199621121.97$0
Oct 199630423.31$0
Sep 199634122.22$0
Aug 199611920.26$0
Jul 199621519.55$0
Jun 199622118.73$0
May 199627019.43$0
Apr 199624621.51$0
Mar 199630219.38$0
Feb 199623016.98$0
Jan 199628317.07$0
Dec 199529417.19$0
Nov 199530616.00$0
Oct 199535615.43$0
Sep 199529816.18$0
Aug 199529115.92$0
Jul 199536415.24$0
Jun 199532516.41$0
May 199525617.56$0
Apr 199531617.73$0
Mar 199533016.44$0
Feb 199529616.58$0
Jan 199535915.92$0
Dec 199428015.03$0
Nov 199428515.90$0
Oct 199432815.58$0
Sep 199427815.29$0
Aug 199432816.13$0
Jul 199437017.56$0
Jun 199437517.09$0
May 199438115.88$0
Apr 199432414.14$0
Mar 199443612.46$0
Feb 199430712.50$0
Jan 199440412.66$0
Dec 199341012.33$0
Nov 199334714.49$0
Oct 199326215.85$0
Sep 199332915.03$0
Aug 19939515.66$0
Jul 199333815.46$0
Jun 199333616.79$0
May 199335717.68$0
Apr 199348118.05$0
Mar 199341418.14$0
Feb 199341217.90$0
Jan 199348716.93$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.

Mar 1999 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                  109 Mcf  × $  1.84 =       $200

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Month total                                     $200

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. 7C/G/117790 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.