HOWELL-NCNB UNIT

Name: HOWELL-NCNB UNIT lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by WILLIAMS, CLAYTON ENERGY, INC. (P-5 924624) in the PEARSALL (AUSTIN CHALK) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 12790District 01Field 69981125OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$496 k

Jan 1993 – Oct 1998

Value, last 12 filed months

$2 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The PEARSALL (AUSTIN CHALK) field

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 1,992 leases and 3,388 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1936-12-28

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

0 ft

minimum

From a lease line

330 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2025-06-17.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “LEASE PLAT. PRORATION PLAT IS NOT REQUIRED.”

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	28,661 bbl	$490,382
Casinghead gas	Production	33,925 Mcf	$5,549
Total			$495,931

31,487 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 45 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 28.6796, -99.2761. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.67961, -99.27606 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

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

10,740 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

7.9 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 10,740 ft.

Completions filed

Aug 1990

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Jul 1998

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 7.9 years and 7.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-16332749	1	10,740 ft	Aug 1990	Jul 1998	Yes

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 (70)

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

70 months


Oct 1998	0	0	12.42	1.97	$0
Sep 1998	0	0	12.59	2.08	$0
Aug 1998	0	0	11.30	1.91	$0
Jul 1998	43	0	11.74	2.24	$505
Jun 1998	0	0	11.24	2.24	$0
May 1998	0	0	12.62	2.21	$0
Apr 1998	0	0	13.04	2.51	$0
Mar 1998	74	0	12.80	2.31	$947
Feb 1998	6	0	13.95	2.30	$84
Jan 1998	0	0	14.70	2.15	$0
Dec 1997	2	0	16.32	2.41	$33
Nov 1997	10	41	18.19	3.09	$309
Oct 1997	12	117	19.25	3.15	$600
Sep 1997	158	151	17.74	2.95	$3,249
Aug 1997	13	251	17.86	2.55	$873
Jul 1997	188	219	17.58	2.25	$3,797
Jun 1997	376	314	17.24	2.26	$7,191
May 1997	415	0	18.97	2.31	$7,873
Apr 1997	577	534	17.88	2.08	$11,429
Mar 1997	538	507	18.95	1.94	$11,178
Feb 1997	675	304	20.49	2.21	$14,501
Jan 1997	366	0	23.48	3.54	$8,594
Dec 1996	539	517	23.32	—	$12,569
Nov 1996	347	431	21.97	—	$7,624
Oct 1996	371	317	23.31	—	$8,648
Sep 1996	365	533	22.22	—	$8,110
Aug 1996	349	497	20.26	—	$7,071
Jul 1996	508	457	19.55	—	$9,931
Jun 1996	377	404	18.73	—	$7,061
May 1996	525	364	19.43	—	$10,201
Apr 1996	352	556	21.51	—	$7,572
Mar 1996	549	515	19.38	—	$10,640
Feb 1996	356	445	16.98	—	$6,045
Jan 1996	351	384	17.07	—	$5,992
Dec 1995	520	551	17.19	—	$8,939
Nov 1995	344	503	16.00	—	$5,504
Oct 1995	518	1,513	15.43	—	$7,993
Sep 1995	527	642	16.18	—	$8,527
Aug 1995	357	604	15.92	—	$5,683
Jul 1995	325	100	15.24	—	$4,953
Jun 1995	181	5	16.41	—	$2,970
May 1995	540	180	17.56	—	$9,482
Apr 1995	341	541	17.73	—	$6,046
Mar 1995	522	704	16.44	—	$8,582
Feb 1995	321	679	16.58	—	$5,322
Jan 1995	520	0	15.92	—	$8,278
Dec 1994	515	591	15.03	—	$7,740
Nov 1994	491	0	15.90	—	$7,807
Oct 1994	344	0	15.58	—	$5,360
Sep 1994	518	609	15.29	—	$7,920
Aug 1994	518	716	16.13	—	$8,355
Jul 1994	529	610	17.56	—	$9,289
Jun 1994	526	927	17.09	—	$8,989
May 1994	526	742	15.88	—	$8,353
Apr 1994	513	704	14.14	—	$7,254
Mar 1994	322	1,035	12.46	—	$4,012
Feb 1994	700	1,571	12.50	—	$8,750
Jan 1994	1,034	1,059	12.66	—	$13,090
Dec 1993	559	393	12.33	—	$6,892
Nov 1993	689	1,079	14.49	—	$9,984
Oct 1993	692	871	15.85	—	$10,968
Sep 1993	347	495	15.03	—	$5,215
Aug 1993	992	759	15.66	—	$15,535
Jul 1993	3	125	15.46	—	$46
Jun 1993	170	375	16.79	—	$2,854
May 1993	1,022	1,094	17.68	—	$18,069
Apr 1993	498	1,094	18.05	—	$8,989
Mar 1993	1,078	2,309	18.14	—	$19,555
Feb 1993	1,745	1,888	17.90	—	$31,236
Jan 1993	872	999	16.93	—	$14,763

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.

Jul 1998 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   43 bbl  × $ 11.74 =       $505
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.24 =         $0

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Month total                                     $505

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. 01/O/12790 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.