DAVIS "C"

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

Gas lease lease 175170District 7CField 846465002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.1 M
Sep 1999 – Dec 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$921
at the published price for each month
Months reported
112
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 959 leases and 959 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1954-05-01
as the register files it
Field class
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 1993-09-13.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: EFFECTIVE JAN 1; ANNUAL TESTING. ALL WELLS EXEMPT FROM SIWHP.

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
High Cost Gas112000-02-28141501
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
CondensateDisposition30 bbl$761
GasProduction294,416 Mcf$1,146,848
Total$1,147,609

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 30.6705, -100.6679. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.67048, -100.66787 · 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
6,779 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
9.3 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 6,779 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 1999
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Dec 2008
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 9.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 9.3 years and 9.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-435349777R6,779 ftSep 1999Dec 2008Yes

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 (112)

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

112 months

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 200804792.538.77$412
Jan 200806290.388.21$509
Dec 200706288.337.30$453
Nov 200706091.677.29$438
Oct 200705982.856.92$408
Sep 200706075.846.24$375
Aug 200706169.066.39$390
Jul 200706170.906.39$390
Jun 200705962.007.55$445
May 200706258.747.85$486
Apr 200706059.617.81$468
Mar 200706156.927.30$445
Feb 200705655.108.22$460
Jan 200706250.306.73$417
Dec 200606056.656.92$415
Nov 200606054.207.62$457
Oct 200606254.906.01$373
Sep 200606060.085.04$302
Aug 200606168.717.34$448
Jul 200606269.376.34$393
Jun 200606166.286.38$389
May 200606366.016.42$405
Apr 200606764.397.36$493
Mar 200606156.707.08$432
Feb 200606257.597.75$481
Jan 200605560.598.93$491
Dec 200507154.9413.42$952
Nov 2005021254.6910.59$2,245
Oct 2005034158.3413.80$4,704
Sep 2005035761.4512.08$4,312
Aug 2005031761.519.80$3,106
Jul 2005036755.697.84$2,879
Jun 2005031452.337.38$2,318
May 2005037445.226.65$2,488
Apr 2005025949.207.36$1,906
Mar 2005022050.377.15$1,574
Feb 2005024545.226.31$1,546
Jan 2005060743.166.32$3,838
Dec 2004051739.866.75$3,490
Nov 2004052345.286.33$3,311
Oct 2004061349.706.52$3,994
Sep 2004050343.245.28$2,658
Aug 2004057142.375.55$3,169
Jul 2004049438.286.08$3,006
Jun 2004072336.106.43$4,651
May 2004057437.486.49$3,728
Apr 2004063634.475.86$3,726
Mar 2004054534.365.53$3,014
Feb 2004060232.455.51$3,317
Jan 2004088332.036.30$5,563
Dec 2003084730.266.30$5,337
Nov 2003098728.804.60$4,535
Oct 200301,47628.174.76$7,025
Sep 200302,18826.314.75$10,392
Aug 200301,89429.765.13$9,716
Jul 200301,99429.415.17$10,311
Jun 2003095928.565.98$5,738
May 2003019226.595.97$1,147
Apr 2003097126.675.41$5,250
Mar 200301,21631.146.10$7,413
Feb 200301,09833.487.93$8,703
Jan 200301,25430.315.58$7,000
Dec 200201,82226.914.85$8,844
Nov 200201,86324.664.14$7,707
Oct 200201,59526.464.23$6,745
Sep 200201,75527.443.64$6,380
Aug 200202,39325.963.16$7,572
Jul 200202,98524.583.06$9,139
Jun 200203,29423.733.34$10,996
May 200203,02524.663.58$10,842
Apr 200203,19123.653.51$11,208
Mar 200203,05522.003.10$9,479
Feb 200202,94518.222.38$6,996
Jan 200203,86117.172.38$9,173
Dec 200103,50016.932.36$8,275
Nov 200104,51418.072.41$10,859
Oct 200103,22019.782.53$8,143
Sep 200103,58324.262.25$8,066
Aug 200103,69624.873.05$11,284
Jul 200103,97623.933.20$12,712
Jun 200104,38924.563.82$16,784
May 200104,37425.524.31$18,840
Apr 200105,17824.685.34$27,626
Mar 200105,86524.545.38$31,533
Feb 200105,44627.755.77$31,408
Jan 200106,07627.478.40$51,031
Dec 200006,54426.889.12$59,698
Nov 200006,60732.215.66$37,382
Oct 200007,46831.235.15$38,427
Sep 200007,54931.875.19$39,153
Aug 200038,22529.644.54$37,437
Jul 200018,57828.534.09$35,110
Jun 200009,18029.304.40$40,367
May 2000310,15927.263.68$37,464
Apr 2000210,34424.513.12$32,281
Mar 2000211,30928.422.86$32,398
Feb 2000311,89827.622.73$32,523
Jan 2000414,07625.272.48$35,017
Dec 1999515,78424.282.42$38,377
Nov 1999118,24123.192.43$44,422
Oct 1999421,59020.982.80$60,616
Sep 1999213,75321.752.62$36,061

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.

Feb 2008 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 92.53 =         $0
Gas                   47 Mcf  × $  8.77 =       $412

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Month total                                     $412

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/175170 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.