CHICO, WEST (CADDO CONGL. UPPER), District 09, Texas

A field is the Railroad Commission's unit of geology and of regulation. Its spacing rule is what decides how many wells an acreage can hold.

Leases

with a page here

Operators

Value, all time

$54.0 M

75% of the register's 52

Discovered

1948-07-28

Oil and gas

Our estimate: volumes the operator filed with the Commission, valued at the EIA first-purchase price for that month. It is not a payment anyone received, and it is not a royalty. It sums the 39 leases in this field that have a page here — 75% of the register's 52 — so it understates the field.

Production, 2025

The Railroad Commission's Oil and Gas Annual Report for 2025, its most recent. These are the state's figures for the whole field, not ours.

Wells	In the field	Producing	Produced in 2025	Also produced	Cumulative
Oil	30	17	1,911 bbl	16,164 mcfcasinghead	5,262,048 bblsince discovery
Gas	13	8	30,464 mcf	207 bblcondensate	4,686,054 mcfsince 1970

The discovery well's oil measured 41.0° API gravity, perforated at 5,134 ft.

Spacing rule

What the Commission requires of a well on this field.

The register files no field rule here. Statewide spacing applies.

Commission remarks: FIELD RETURNED TO ALLOCATION FORMULA EFFECTIVE 08/01/83

County

Wise County

Leases in this field

Every lease here files this field's number with the Commission and has a page on this site.

Lease	Operator	Value
WEST CHICO UNIT	LARGE OPERATING LLC	$9.7 M
MORRIS, R. L. -A-	IPR ENERGY PARTNERS, LLC	$9.2 M
DAVENPORT -B-	LARGE OPERATING LLC	$8.9 M
BERRY	SABRE OPERATING, INC.	$4.1 M
LOWRANCE, GENE	MCCUTCHIN PETROLEUM CORPORATION	$2.0 M
LOWRANCE, GENE #2	MCCUTCHIN PETROLEUM CORPORATION	$1.9 M
APPLING, VERON	JAY MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC	$1.9 M
DAVENPORT "B"	LARGE OPERATING LLC	$1.4 M
DAVENPORT "A"	LARGE OPERATING LLC	$1.4 M
LOWRANCE, GENE	MCCUTCHIN PETROLEUM CORPORATION	$1.2 M
HALMAN-SMITH "A"	LARGE OPERATING LLC	$1.1 M
BLOCKER, W. O.	DWP OIL & GAS	$999 k
TULLY, SALLY E.	DEVON ENERGY PRODUCTION CO, L.P.	$876 k
ROBINSON, JOHN W.	JAY MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC	$840 k
SMITH	DECLEVA, PAUL	$767 k
HORN, DAVIS	BANKHEAD E & P LLC	$763 k
ROBINSON, JOHN W.	JAY MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC	$739 k
HALMAN-SMITH "A"	MILAGRO EXPLORATION, LLC	$701 k
SIPES, ETAL	ITX PIPELINE COMPANY, LLC	$614 k
LOWRANCE, G. #7	MCCUTCHIN PETROLEUM CORPORATION	$569 k
DAHLSTROM, RALPH V.	PENNY, RALPH E.	$565 k
DAHLSTROM, RALPH V.	DWP OIL & GAS	$535 k
HINES	BRIAR ENERGY CORPORATION	$511 k
CHAMBERS	TEXXOL OPERATING COMPANY, INC.	$451 k
DAVIS-HORN	BANKHEAD E & P LLC	$443 k
MORRIS, R. L. C	IPR ENERGY PARTNERS, LLC	$376 k
HALMAN	KND OIL & GAS, LLC	$356 k
LOWRANCE, GENE #3	MCCUTCHIN PETROLEUM CORPORATION	$250 k
HINES	BRIAR ENERGY CORPORATION	$219 k
CHAMBERS	TEXXOL OPERATING COMPANY, INC.	$160 k
HALMAN	KNIGHT, REUBEN B.	$147 k
DAHLSTROM, RALPH V.	PENNY, RALPH E.	$101 k
BERRY	AETERNUM ENERGY, LLC	$86 k
SEALY "A"	LARGE OPERATING LLC	$63 k
LOWRANCE, GENE	MCCUTCHIN PETROLEUM CORPORATION	$49 k
BERRY	AETERNUM ENERGY, LLC	$16 k
SIPES, ETAL	ITX PIPELINE COMPANY, LLC	$14 k
HALMAN-SMITH -A-	OXY USA INC.	$11 k
HORN, DAVIS	BANKHEAD OPERATING CORP.	$25

Field number 17634264, from the Railroad Commission's field register. The register's own index resolves 52 leases and 109 wells to this field by name, over every lease in Texas rather than only those with a page here. It resolves a lease by NAME and refuses an ambiguous one, so it counts nothing for a field that shares its name with another — which is why the lease count above comes from the field number instead.