MITCHELL 5B

Operated by OXY USA INC. (P-5 630591) in the PAKENHAM (WOLFCAMP) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 175926District 7CField 684608002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$784 k
Dec 1999 – Oct 2012
Value, last 12 filed months
$2 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
155
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 173 leases and 173 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1975-08-01
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,000 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 1996-02-27.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: PER DOCKET 7C-0210603 2/27/96 OPOTIONAL 40 ACRE UNITS ESTABLISHED

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 Gas112000-03-29141414
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
CondensateDisposition841 bbl$32,897
GasProduction154,929 Mcf$750,823
Total$783,719

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 30.4648, -102.0624. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.46479, -102.06239 · 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
8,347 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
12.8 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 8,347 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 1999
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Oct 2012
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 12.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 12.8 years and 12.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-44330806168,347 ftDec 1999Oct 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 (155)

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

155 months

Oct 20120089.383.40$0
Sep 201204394.672.92$125
Aug 201208592.662.91$247
Jul 2012010385.133.02$311
Jun 2012011279.822.52$282
May 201207891.612.49$194
Apr 2012045101.652.00$90
Mar 2012042105.052.22$93
Feb 2012018101.102.57$46
Jan 201201998.092.73$52
Dec 201101896.873.24$58
Nov 201102695.723.31$86
Oct 201104784.983.65$171
Sep 201107983.623.99$315
Aug 2011011583.404.15$477
Jul 2011012794.144.52$574
Jun 2011011992.904.64$552
May 2011010398.134.40$454
Apr 2011079105.964.33$342
Mar 201107596.364.06$304
Feb 201107885.644.18$326
Jan 201105386.504.59$243
Dec 2010010385.734.35$448
Nov 201002380.843.80$87
Oct 2010012278.103.51$428
Sep 2010013172.633.98$521
Aug 2010013673.684.42$601
Jul 2010011372.554.74$535
Jun 2010019570.364.91$958
May 2010287371.124.24$3,840
Apr 201001,27881.694.12$5,269
Mar 2010088978.394.39$3,902
Feb 2010117273.585.44$1,010
Jan 20102014574.365.96$2,352
Dec 2009933271.445.48$2,464
Nov 20091699774.593.75$4,934
Oct 20091418772.544.11$1,784
Sep 2009963365.543.06$2,530
Aug 2009268467.423.22$2,336
Jul 2009054661.133.46$1,892
Jun 2009070366.163.90$2,738
May 200901,22954.743.93$4,825
Apr 200901,26146.773.59$4,524
Mar 2009094742.144.06$3,844
Feb 2009061632.814.63$2,854
Jan 20094035.865.37$143
Dec 20080037.105.98$0
Nov 20082355.496.86$132
Oct 20086675.246.92$493
Sep 2008226101.767.88$408
Aug 20086906114.228.48$8,371
Jul 20081991131.0811.39$11,418
Jun 20080221131.3313.03$2,880
May 20080827123.1711.57$9,572
Apr 20080177110.3110.45$1,851
Mar 2008039101.909.66$377
Feb 20080192.538.77$9
Jan 20080290.388.21$16
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 2007055558.747.85$4,355
Apr 2007096859.617.81$7,555
Mar 200701,00856.927.30$7,360
Feb 2007057155.108.22$4,691
Jan 2007013050.306.73$874
Dec 2006072656.656.92$5,023
Nov 2006072154.207.62$5,492
Oct 2006053054.906.01$3,187
Sep 2006177160.085.04$3,944
Aug 2006273768.717.34$5,547
Jul 2006572869.376.34$4,964
Jun 2006472566.286.38$4,893
May 2006977066.016.42$5,541
Apr 2006670264.397.36$5,553
Mar 2006776556.707.08$5,815
Feb 2006870857.597.75$5,949
Jan 2006488860.598.93$8,175
Dec 20051474454.9413.42$10,750
Nov 2005678254.6910.59$8,608
Oct 2005778158.3413.80$11,183
Sep 20051880961.4512.08$10,878
Aug 2005784061.519.80$8,660
Jul 2005474255.697.84$6,043
Jun 2005482652.337.38$6,306
May 2005789445.226.65$6,263
Apr 2005192849.207.36$6,880
Mar 2005186650.377.15$6,247
Feb 20051385345.226.31$5,972
Jan 2005291943.166.32$5,896
Dec 20043990639.866.75$7,671
Nov 20045192845.286.33$8,184
Oct 200401,03349.706.52$6,730
Sep 2004089843.245.28$4,745
Aug 200401,08642.375.55$6,028
Jul 200401,12238.286.08$6,826
Jun 200411,18736.106.43$7,672
May 200431,16137.486.49$7,653
Apr 2004062334.475.86$3,650
Mar 2004293334.365.53$5,228
Feb 2004395632.455.51$5,365
Jan 200401,36532.036.30$8,599
Dec 2003097230.266.30$6,125
Nov 200331,00728.804.60$4,714
Oct 2003090328.174.76$4,298
Sep 200301,02926.314.75$4,887
Aug 200301,10929.765.13$5,689
Jul 200301,11729.415.17$5,776
Jun 20031831,12728.565.98$11,969
May 200301,13426.595.97$6,773
Apr 200301,17226.675.41$6,337
Mar 200301,28531.146.10$7,833
Feb 200301,67033.487.93$13,236
Jan 2003053730.315.58$2,998
Dec 200201,11126.914.85$5,393
Nov 200231,11524.664.14$4,687
Oct 200201,18726.464.23$5,020
Sep 200201,20127.443.64$4,366
Aug 200231,23825.963.16$3,995
Jul 200231,28824.583.06$4,017
Jun 200251,17723.733.34$4,048
May 200281,07524.663.58$4,050
Apr 200281,16223.653.51$4,271
Mar 200201,20622.003.10$3,742
Feb 200201,07818.222.38$2,561
Jan 200201,26217.172.38$2,998
Dec 200141,19816.932.36$2,900
Nov 200101,39118.072.41$3,346
Oct 200101,50919.782.53$3,816
Sep 200101,51024.262.25$3,399
Aug 200101,65624.873.05$5,056
Jul 200101,62223.933.20$5,186
Jun 200101,58824.563.82$6,073
May 200101,84425.524.31$7,943
Apr 200151,80624.685.34$9,759
Mar 200131,88724.545.38$10,219
Feb 200131,86827.755.77$10,856
Jan 20011442,11127.478.40$21,685
Dec 200002,14026.889.12$19,522
Nov 200012,22232.215.66$12,604
Oct 200002,52031.235.15$12,967
Sep 200002,67331.875.19$13,864
Aug 200002,90929.644.54$13,209
Jul 200023,17328.534.09$13,034
Jun 200073,28029.304.40$14,628
May 200043,86227.263.68$14,320
Apr 200003,97024.513.12$12,371
Mar 200074,96828.422.86$14,406
Feb 2000966,11027.622.73$19,310
Jan 20002611,03225.272.48$28,022
Dec 199907,75524.282.42$18,796

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.

Sep 2012 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate             0 bbl  × $ 94.67 =         $0
Gas                   43 Mcf  × $  2.92 =       $125

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Month total                                     $125

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/175926 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.