MITCHELL

Operated by OCCIDENTAL PERMIAN LTD. (P-5 617544) in the JM (ELLENBURGER) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 40265District 7CField 45090500Hydrogen sulphide fieldGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.3 M
Jan 1993 – May 2008
Value, last 12 filed months
$0
at the published price for each month
Months reported
185
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 28 leases and 28 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1965-10-18
as the register files it
Field class
Gas
the register's own label
Between wells
1,320 ft
minimum
From a lease line
660 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 320 acres. The field rule took effect on 2000-07-11.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: PER SHELL WESTERN E&P INC. REQUEST

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
GasProduction584,348 Mcf$1,290,273
Total$1,290,273

200,578 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 30.3273, -101.6252. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.32727, -101.62516 · 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
14,821 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
41.7 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 14,821 ft.

Completions filed
Sep 1966
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
May 2008
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 41.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 41.7 years and 41.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-10510607514,821 ftSep 1966May 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 (185)

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

185 months

May 20080123.1711.57$0
Apr 20080110.3110.45$0
Mar 20080101.909.66$0
Feb 2008092.538.77$0
Jan 2008090.388.21$0
Dec 2007088.337.30$0
Nov 2007091.677.29$0
Oct 2007082.856.92$0
Sep 2007075.846.24$0
Aug 2007069.066.39$0
Jul 2007070.906.39$0
Jun 2007062.007.55$0
May 2007058.747.85$0
Apr 2007059.617.81$0
Mar 2007056.927.30$0
Feb 2007055.108.22$0
Jan 2007050.306.73$0
Dec 2006056.656.92$0
Nov 2006054.207.62$0
Oct 2006054.906.01$0
Sep 2006060.085.04$0
Aug 2006068.717.34$0
Jul 2006069.376.34$0
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 20033,59826.314.75$17,088
Aug 20034,48529.765.13$23,007
Jul 20034,47529.415.17$23,140
Jun 20034,42628.565.98$26,481
May 20034,55126.595.97$27,182
Apr 20034,39826.675.41$23,781
Mar 20034,34631.146.10$26,493
Feb 20033,96333.487.93$31,410
Jan 20034,71030.315.58$26,291
Dec 20024,52726.914.85$21,973
Nov 20024,71024.664.14$19,485
Oct 20024,57026.464.23$19,327
Sep 20024,05427.443.64$14,737
Aug 20024,78625.963.16$15,144
Jul 20024,86324.583.06$14,889
Jun 20024,86523.733.34$16,241
May 20023,77624.663.58$13,533
Apr 20024,31223.653.51$15,145
Mar 20024,41722.003.10$13,705
Feb 20024,04518.222.38$9,610
Jan 20024,48117.172.38$10,645
Dec 20015,25416.932.36$12,423
Nov 20014,86518.072.41$11,703
Oct 20015,15919.782.53$13,046
Sep 20014,63324.262.25$10,430
Aug 20014,58024.873.05$13,983
Jul 20015,48423.933.20$17,533
Jun 2001024.563.82$0
May 20015,39325.524.31$23,229
Apr 20015,23724.685.34$27,941
Mar 20015,25024.545.38$28,226
Feb 20013,60527.755.77$20,790
Jan 20013,83327.478.40$32,192
Dec 20003,70126.889.12$33,762
Nov 20004,27532.215.66$24,188
Oct 20004,97431.235.15$25,594
Sep 20004,76731.875.19$24,724
Aug 20004,33829.644.54$19,698
Jul 20004,97828.534.09$20,359
Jun 20004,85829.304.40$21,362
May 20005,08727.263.68$18,719
Apr 20004,80624.513.12$14,976
Mar 20005,14728.422.86$14,719
Feb 20004,98127.622.73$13,581
Jan 20004,93225.272.48$12,234
Dec 19994,78624.282.42$11,600
Nov 19995,01323.192.43$12,202
Oct 19995,20120.982.80$14,582
Sep 19995,29521.752.62$13,867
Aug 19994,98619.262.88$14,338
Jul 19995,45017.892.37$12,929
Jun 19994,49815.942.36$10,625
May 19994,39515.792.32$10,201
Apr 19994,98515.102.21$11,007
Mar 19994,92412.471.84$9,052
Feb 19994,8269.981.82$8,773
Jan 19995,53210.381.90$10,511
Dec 19985,6829.201.77$10,076
Nov 19985,64910.892.19$12,347
Oct 19985,65212.421.97$11,130
Sep 19984,63112.592.08$9,645
Aug 19983,69311.301.91$7,044
Jul 19983,82611.742.24$8,560
Jun 19984,20611.242.24$9,410
May 19984,84012.622.21$10,679
Apr 19985,02013.042.51$12,577
Mar 19985,44212.802.31$12,568
Feb 19985,00913.952.30$11,516
Jan 19985,78414.702.15$12,463
Dec 19975,70916.322.41$13,765
Nov 19974,52318.193.09$13,968
Oct 19974,93719.253.15$15,551
Sep 19974,88317.742.95$14,429
Aug 19975,36817.862.55$13,714
Jul 19975,57117.582.25$12,518
Jun 19975,74717.242.26$12,972
May 19975,55018.972.31$12,812
Apr 19973,82117.882.08$7,958
Mar 19975,51818.951.94$10,700
Feb 19975,30320.492.21$11,698
Jan 19975,02023.483.54$17,769
Dec 19964,99423.32$0
Nov 19965,38021.97$0
Oct 19965,16023.31$0
Sep 19965,12622.22$0
Aug 19964,48420.26$0
Jul 19965,65819.55$0
Jun 19965,19418.73$0
May 19967,00419.43$0
Apr 19965,89221.51$0
Mar 19965,82019.38$0
Feb 19966,03416.98$0
Jan 19965,56317.07$0
Dec 19955,89417.19$0
Nov 19955,40516.00$0
Oct 19955,29715.43$0
Sep 19956,56616.18$0
Aug 19953,91715.92$0
Jul 19955,50815.24$0
Jun 19955,61916.41$0
May 19955,29117.56$0
Apr 19951,54617.73$0
Mar 19951,89116.44$0
Feb 19951,47716.58$0
Jan 19952,86215.92$0
Dec 19942,42715.03$0
Nov 19942,25015.90$0
Oct 19942,41015.58$0
Sep 19942,33715.29$0
Aug 19942,48916.13$0
Jul 19943,34817.56$0
Jun 19944,02317.09$0
May 19943,80315.88$0
Apr 19943,57214.14$0
Mar 19943,22312.46$0
Feb 19943,31512.50$0
Jan 19943,60612.66$0
Dec 19933,62612.33$0
Nov 19933,96914.49$0
Oct 19933,75415.85$0
Sep 19933,69915.03$0
Aug 19934,35315.66$0
Jul 19936,71415.46$0
Jun 19935,69116.79$0
May 19934,06517.68$0
Apr 19932,45318.05$0
Mar 19932,58218.14$0
Feb 19932,56217.90$0
Jan 19932,72516.93$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.

Sep 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Gas                3,598 Mcf  × $  4.75 =    $17,088

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Month total                                  $17,088

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/40265 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.