BELL, C. M.

Operated by CHEVRON U. S. A. INC. (P-5 148113) in the CODY BELL (CANYON) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 159181District 7CField 19303180NGPA filingCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$375 k
Jul 1996 – Aug 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$21 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
98
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 140 leases and 148 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1967-04-23
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
933 ft
minimum
From a lease line
467 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 40 acres. The field rule took effect on 2003-10-01.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: CONTINUED SUSPENSION OF ALLOCATION FORMULA.

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
CondensateDisposition1,630 bbl$40,863
GasProduction212,074 Mcf$334,404
Total$375,267

98,402 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 6 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 30.9678, -100.6370. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.96776, -100.63704 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
6,700 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
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 6,700 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 2004
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-4133196656,700 ftApr 2004Yes

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 (98)

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

98 months

Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 200446037.486.49$1,724
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 200401934.365.53$105
Feb 2004541932.455.51$1,857
Jan 200402032.036.30$126
Dec 2003792030.266.30$2,517
Nov 2003082928.804.60$3,809
Oct 2003096628.174.76$4,598
Sep 20038882326.314.75$6,224
Aug 200301,05029.765.13$5,386
Jul 20038288629.415.17$6,993
Jun 2003095128.565.98$5,690
May 2003861,01926.595.97$8,373
Apr 200301,01326.675.41$5,478
Mar 2003821,12931.146.10$9,436
Feb 2003092433.487.93$7,324
Jan 2003431,22430.315.58$8,136
Dec 2002481,27626.914.85$7,485
Nov 2002065224.664.14$2,697
Oct 2002881,57326.464.23$8,981
Sep 2002092027.443.64$3,344
Aug 2002801,47425.963.16$6,741
Jul 200201,80924.583.06$5,539
Jun 2002992,06923.733.34$9,256
May 2002992,91024.663.58$12,871
Apr 2002723,75523.653.51$14,892
Mar 200203,13322.003.10$9,721
Feb 20023857118.222.38$2,049
Jan 2002059717.172.38$1,418
Dec 2001057716.932.36$1,364
Nov 2001049018.072.41$1,179
Oct 20011142,42919.782.53$8,398
Sep 2001651,76924.262.25$5,559
Aug 200104,42024.873.05$13,495
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010024.685.34$0
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 200011027.263.68$300
Apr 2000075024.513.12$2,337
Mar 2000097828.422.86$2,797
Feb 20001591427.622.73$2,906
Jan 200001,01625.272.48$2,520
Dec 199901,07024.282.42$2,593
Nov 199901,05423.192.43$2,565
Oct 199901,05420.982.80$2,955
Sep 199961,05021.752.62$2,880
Aug 199901,13119.262.88$3,252
Jul 199901,29417.892.37$3,070
Jun 199991,05715.942.36$2,640
May 1999085315.792.32$1,980
Apr 199901,23415.102.21$2,725
Mar 199901,27112.471.84$2,337
Feb 199951,1859.981.82$2,204
Jan 199901,23510.381.90$2,346
Dec 199801,2159.201.77$2,155
Nov 1998111,40710.892.19$3,195
Oct 199801,39712.421.97$2,751
Sep 199801,35112.592.08$2,814
Aug 199801,71911.301.91$3,279
Jul 199801,56711.742.24$3,506
Jun 199801,62011.242.24$3,624
May 199881,68812.622.21$3,825
Apr 199801,68013.042.51$4,209
Mar 199801,74912.802.31$4,039
Feb 199801,75013.952.30$4,023
Jan 1998111,88814.702.15$4,230
Dec 199701,84216.322.41$4,441
Nov 199702,21018.193.09$6,825
Oct 199702,37019.253.15$7,465
Sep 1997112,58217.742.95$7,825
Aug 199702,81517.862.55$7,192
Jul 199702,95517.582.25$6,640
Jun 199703,07917.242.26$6,950
May 199773,38718.972.31$7,952
Apr 199703,11917.882.08$6,496
Mar 199783,70618.951.94$7,338
Feb 1997153,68120.492.21$8,427
Jan 199704,43323.483.54$15,691
Dec 1996305,14023.32$700
Nov 199605,74921.97$0
Oct 1996547,09823.31$1,259
Sep 1996013,09222.22$0
Aug 1996041,01620.26$0
Jul 199616626,30719.55$3,245

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 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            46 bbl  × $ 37.48 =     $1,724
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  6.49 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,724

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/159181 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.