CHOCOLATE BAYOU ( FRIO UPPER), District 03, 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.
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 19 leases in this field that have a page here — 54% of the register's 35 — 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 | 20 | 7 | 16,363 bbl | 9,554 mcfcasinghead | 23,550,048 bblsince discovery |
| Gas | 0 | 0 | 0 mcf | 0 bblcondensate | 384,505 mcfsince 1970 |
The discovery well's oil measured 47.9° API gravity, perforated at 8,747 ft.
Spacing rule
What the Commission requires of a well on this field.
| Wells | Rule | Effective | From the lease line | Between wells | Acres per unit | Max diagonal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gas | B | — | 467 ft | 1,200 ft | 40 | 0 ft |
| Oil | B | — | 467 ft | 1,200 ft | 40 | 0 ft |
| Oil | O | — | 467 ft | 1,200 ft | 80 | 2,200 ft |
Commission remarks: TWICE THE WIDTH UNLESS THE UNIT CONTAINS THE TOTAL WIDTH OF LEASE.
County
Leases in this field
Every lease here files this field's number with the Commission and has a page on this site.
Field number 17915312, from the Railroad Commission's field register. The register's own index resolves 35 leases and 54 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.