WHATABURGER

Name: WHATABURGER lease production and value, Feb 1996 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by L & J EXPLORATION, LLC (P-5 479852) in the CATARINA, E. (OLMOS A) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 14037District 01Field 16335500OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.3 M

Feb 1996 – Apr 2020

Value, last 12 filed months

$3 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

291

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The CATARINA, E. (OLMOS A) 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 14 leases and 16 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1973-01-20

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and 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 80 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “EFFECTIVE 11/01/82”

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	24,161 bbl	$1,067,269
Casinghead gas	Production	58,330 Mcf	$275,747
Total			$1,343,016

4,280 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 7 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 28.3335, -99.6399. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.33354, -99.63986 · 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

5,046 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

23.8 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 5,046 ft.

Completions filed

Jan 1996

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Nov 2019

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 23.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 23.8 years and 23.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-12733079	2	5,046 ft	Jan 1996	Nov 2019	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 (291)

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

291 months


Apr 2020	0	0	14.75	1.80	$0
Mar 2020	0	0	30.34	1.86	$0
Feb 2020	0	0	49.88	1.98	$0
Jan 2020	0	0	57.25	2.09	$0
Dec 2019	0	0	59.01	2.30	$0
Nov 2019	52	0	55.30	2.75	$2,876
Oct 2019	0	0	53.47	2.42	$0
Sep 2019	0	0	55.05	2.66	$0
Aug 2019	0	0	53.11	2.30	$0
Jul 2019	0	0	56.27	2.46	$0
Jun 2019	0	0	52.78	2.49	$0
May 2019	0	0	58.48	2.74	$0
Apr 2019	0	0	62.63	2.75	$0
Mar 2019	0	0	56.80	3.06	$0
Feb 2019	0	0	50.85	2.79	$0
Jan 2019	0	0	46.03	3.23	$0
Dec 2018	0	0	46.59	4.19	$0
Nov 2018	0	0	52.93	4.24	$0
Oct 2018	0	0	61.44	3.40	$0
Sep 2018	0	0	59.54	3.11	$0
Aug 2018	0	0	59.40	3.07	$0
Jul 2018	0	0	65.14	2.93	$0
Jun 2018	0	0	60.18	3.08	$0
May 2018	0	0	65.38	2.90	$0
Apr 2018	0	0	63.84	2.90	$0
Mar 2018	0	0	61.22	2.79	$0
Feb 2018	0	0	61.78	2.77	$0
Jan 2018	0	0	62.87	4.01	$0
Dec 2017	0	0	57.27	2.92	$0
Nov 2017	0	0	55.42	3.12	$0
Oct 2017	0	0	49.29	2.98	$0
Sep 2017	0	0	47.52	3.09	$0
Aug 2017	0	0	45.37	3.00	$0
Jul 2017	0	0	43.87	3.09	$0
Jun 2017	0	0	42.49	3.09	$0
May 2017	0	0	45.37	3.26	$0
Apr 2017	0	0	47.93	3.21	$0
Mar 2017	0	0	46.77	2.98	$0
Feb 2017	0	0	50.45	2.95	$0
Jan 2017	0	0	49.41	3.42	$0
Dec 2016	0	0	48.76	3.72	$0
Nov 2016	51	0	42.49	2.64	$2,167
Oct 2016	0	0	46.19	3.09	$0
Sep 2016	0	0	41.55	3.10	$0
Aug 2016	0	0	41.44	2.92	$0
Jul 2016	0	0	41.62	2.92	$0
Jun 2016	0	0	45.35	2.69	$0
May 2016	62	0	42.52	1.99	$2,636
Apr 2016	0	0	36.56	1.99	$0
Mar 2016	0	0	33.01	1.79	$0
Feb 2016	0	0	26.47	2.06	$0
Jan 2016	65	0	27.35	2.36	$1,778
Dec 2015	0	0	32.36	2.00	$0
Nov 2015	59	0	38.79	2.17	$2,289
Oct 2015	0	0	43.55	2.43	$0
Sep 2015	0	0	42.99	2.76	$0
Aug 2015	67	0	40.16	2.87	$2,691
Jul 2015	0	0	48.15	2.95	$0
Jun 2015	77	0	56.15	2.88	$4,324
May 2015	0	0	55.21	2.96	$0
Apr 2015	99	0	49.82	2.71	$4,932
Mar 2015	0	0	42.89	2.93	$0
Feb 2015	0	0	44.66	2.98	$0
Jan 2015	0	0	43.43	3.10	$0
Dec 2014	0	0	54.69	3.59	$0
Nov 2014	0	0	70.46	4.25	$0
Oct 2014	169	0	78.30	3.90	$13,233
Sep 2014	0	0	86.16	4.05	$0
Aug 2014	0	0	89.39	4.04	$0
Jul 2014	0	0	96.56	4.18	$0
Jun 2014	0	0	98.16	4.74	$0
May 2014	0	0	94.73	4.73	$0
Apr 2014	0	0	95.94	4.81	$0
Mar 2014	0	0	95.89	5.06	$0
Feb 2014	82	0	97.40	6.19	$7,987
Jan 2014	133	0	90.40	4.86	$12,023
Dec 2013	0	0	91.82	4.35	$0
Nov 2013	123	0	88.85	3.74	$10,929
Oct 2013	0	0	97.42	3.78	$0
Sep 2013	135	0	104.11	3.72	$14,055
Aug 2013	157	0	104.25	3.52	$16,367
Jul 2013	0	0	102.52	3.72	$0
Jun 2013	0	0	94.40	3.93	$0
May 2013	69	0	94.83	4.15	$6,543
Apr 2013	0	0	93.96	4.28	$0
Mar 2013	101	0	93.62	3.91	$9,456
Feb 2013	100	0	91.23	3.42	$9,123
Jan 2013	96	0	91.60	3.42	$8,794
Dec 2012	0	0	86.77	3.42	$0
Nov 2012	99	0	86.95	3.62	$8,608
Oct 2012	203	0	89.38	3.40	$18,144
Sep 2012	0	0	94.67	2.92	$0
Aug 2012	100	0	92.66	2.91	$9,266
Jul 2012	120	0	85.13	3.02	$10,216
Jun 2012	97	0	79.82	2.52	$7,743
May 2012	76	0	91.61	2.49	$6,962
Apr 2012	117	0	101.65	2.00	$11,893
Mar 2012	0	0	105.05	2.22	$0
Feb 2012	22	0	101.10	2.57	$2,224
Jan 2012	0	0	98.09	2.73	$0
Dec 2011	90	0	96.87	3.24	$8,718
Nov 2011	182	0	95.72	3.31	$17,421
Oct 2011	0	0	84.98	3.65	$0
Sep 2011	152	0	83.62	3.99	$12,710
Aug 2011	115	0	83.40	4.15	$9,591
Jul 2011	0	0	94.14	4.52	$0
Jun 2011	112	0	92.90	4.64	$10,405
May 2011	0	0	98.13	4.40	$0
Apr 2011	27	0	105.96	4.33	$2,861
Mar 2011	60	0	96.36	4.06	$5,782
Feb 2011	42	0	85.64	4.18	$3,597
Jan 2011	0	0	86.50	4.59	$0
Dec 2010	82	0	85.73	4.35	$7,030
Nov 2010	0	0	80.84	3.80	$0
Oct 2010	124	0	78.10	3.51	$9,684
Sep 2010	99	0	72.63	3.98	$7,190
Aug 2010	134	159	73.68	4.42	$10,576
Jul 2010	0	228	72.55	4.74	$1,080
Jun 2010	0	257	70.36	4.91	$1,262
May 2010	166	479	71.12	4.24	$13,835
Apr 2010	241	646	81.69	4.12	$22,351
Mar 2010	102	141	78.39	4.39	$8,615
Feb 2010	42	295	73.58	5.44	$4,696
Jan 2010	0	295	74.36	5.96	$1,759
Dec 2009	79	283	71.44	5.48	$7,196
Nov 2009	0	256	74.59	3.75	$960
Oct 2009	80	317	72.54	4.11	$7,106
Sep 2009	0	286	65.54	3.06	$877
Aug 2009	81	397	67.42	3.22	$6,739
Jul 2009	26	368	61.13	3.46	$2,864
Jun 2009	91	356	66.16	3.90	$7,407
May 2009	0	504	54.74	3.93	$1,979
Apr 2009	121	414	46.77	3.59	$7,144
Mar 2009	0	402	42.14	4.06	$1,632
Feb 2009	0	301	32.81	4.63	$1,395
Jan 2009	163	1,367	35.86	5.37	$13,187
Dec 2008	0	346	37.10	5.98	$2,068
Nov 2008	161	371	55.49	6.86	$11,479
Oct 2008	216	501	75.24	6.92	$19,720
Sep 2008	74	172	101.76	7.88	$8,885
Aug 2008	0	281	114.22	8.48	$2,384
Jul 2008	87	264	131.08	11.39	$14,411
Jun 2008	0	300	131.33	13.03	$3,910
May 2008	0	361	123.17	11.57	$4,178
Apr 2008	0	215	110.31	10.45	$2,248
Mar 2008	196	457	101.90	9.66	$24,389
Feb 2008	85	456	92.53	8.77	$11,864
Jan 2008	163	459	90.38	8.21	$18,498
Dec 2007	0	474	88.33	7.30	$3,461
Nov 2007	138	400	91.67	7.29	$15,567
Oct 2007	168	462	82.85	6.92	$17,117
Sep 2007	164	396	75.84	6.24	$14,910
Aug 2007	0	430	69.06	6.39	$2,747
Jul 2007	103	394	70.90	6.39	$9,820
Jun 2007	163	447	62.00	7.55	$13,480
May 2007	175	467	58.74	7.85	$13,944
Apr 2007	0	427	59.61	7.81	$3,333
Mar 2007	177	433	56.92	7.30	$13,237
Feb 2007	112	394	55.10	8.22	$9,408
Jan 2007	177	345	50.30	6.73	$11,224
Dec 2006	119	313	56.65	6.92	$8,907
Nov 2006	176	93	54.20	7.62	$10,248
Oct 2006	179	244	54.90	6.01	$11,294
Sep 2006	0	304	60.08	5.04	$1,531
Aug 2006	104	447	68.71	7.34	$10,427
Jul 2006	301	335	69.37	6.34	$23,005
Jun 2006	0	332	66.28	6.38	$2,119
May 2006	161	341	66.01	6.42	$12,819
Apr 2006	179	337	64.39	7.36	$14,006
Mar 2006	0	253	56.70	7.08	$1,792
Feb 2006	335	43	57.59	7.75	$19,626
Jan 2006	0	0	60.59	8.93	$0
Dec 2005	172	394	54.94	13.42	$14,735
Nov 2005	33	340	54.69	10.59	$5,405
Oct 2005	174	351	58.34	13.80	$14,993
Sep 2005	124	275	61.45	12.08	$10,942
Aug 2005	175	28	61.51	9.80	$11,039
Jul 2005	72	183	55.69	7.84	$5,445
Jun 2005	171	132	52.33	7.38	$9,923
May 2005	165	171	45.22	6.65	$8,599
Apr 2005	0	217	49.20	7.36	$1,597
Mar 2005	71	162	50.37	7.15	$4,735
Feb 2005	118	220	45.22	6.31	$6,725
Jan 2005	0	312	43.16	6.32	$1,973
Dec 2004	172	289	39.86	6.75	$8,807
Nov 2004	116	222	45.28	6.33	$6,658
Oct 2004	128	291	49.70	6.52	$8,257
Sep 2004	177	323	43.24	5.28	$9,360
Aug 2004	166	320	42.37	5.55	$8,810
Jul 2004	182	342	38.28	6.08	$9,048
Jun 2004	176	393	36.10	6.43	$8,882
May 2004	0	363	37.48	6.49	$2,358
Apr 2004	181	334	34.47	5.86	$8,196
Mar 2004	0	356	34.36	5.53	$1,969
Feb 2004	120	357	32.45	5.51	$5,861
Jan 2004	156	347	32.03	6.30	$7,183
Dec 2003	172	382	30.26	6.30	$7,612
Nov 2003	0	404	28.80	4.60	$1,856
Oct 2003	172	384	28.17	4.76	$6,673
Sep 2003	167	364	26.31	4.75	$6,123
Aug 2003	33	330	29.76	5.13	$2,675
Jul 2003	97	364	29.41	5.17	$4,735
Jun 2003	174	290	28.56	5.98	$6,705
May 2003	136	125	26.59	5.97	$4,363
Apr 2003	129	292	26.67	5.41	$5,019
Mar 2003	144	372	31.14	6.10	$6,752
Feb 2003	175	278	33.48	7.93	$8,062
Jan 2003	178	259	30.31	5.58	$6,841
Dec 2002	166	281	26.91	4.85	$5,831
Nov 2002	166	237	24.66	4.14	$5,074
Oct 2002	0	319	26.46	4.23	$1,349
Sep 2002	116	266	27.44	3.64	$4,150
Aug 2002	175	360	25.96	3.16	$5,682
Jul 2002	92	331	24.58	3.06	$3,275
Jun 2002	180	315	23.73	3.34	$5,323
May 2002	119	331	24.66	3.58	$4,121
Apr 2002	102	303	23.65	3.51	$3,477
Mar 2002	183	371	22.00	3.10	$5,177
Feb 2002	181	364	18.22	2.38	$4,163
Jan 2002	184	364	17.17	2.38	$4,024
Dec 2001	0	365	16.93	2.36	$863
Nov 2001	129	359	18.07	2.41	$3,195
Oct 2001	178	395	19.78	2.53	$4,520
Sep 2001	164	345	24.26	2.25	$4,755
Aug 2001	182	375	24.87	3.05	$5,671
Jul 2001	0	339	23.93	3.20	$1,084
Jun 2001	178	384	24.56	3.82	$5,840
May 2001	177	362	25.52	4.31	$6,076
Apr 2001	158	322	24.68	5.34	$5,617
Mar 2001	183	380	24.54	5.38	$6,534
Feb 2001	32	299	27.75	5.77	$2,612
Jan 2001	173	357	27.47	8.40	$7,751
Dec 2000	0	352	26.88	9.12	$3,211
Nov 2000	181	351	32.21	5.66	$7,816
Oct 2000	83	293	31.23	5.15	$4,100
Sep 2000	177	305	31.87	5.19	$7,223
Aug 2000	105	405	29.64	4.54	$4,951
Jul 2000	151	403	28.53	4.09	$5,956
Jun 2000	177	371	29.30	4.40	$6,817
May 2000	180	374	27.26	3.68	$6,283
Apr 2000	0	315	24.51	3.12	$982
Mar 2000	162	273	28.42	2.86	$5,385
Feb 2000	135	312	27.62	2.73	$4,579
Jan 2000	121	216	25.27	2.48	$3,593
Dec 1999	184	244	24.28	2.42	$5,059
Nov 1999	171	277	23.19	2.43	$4,640
Oct 1999	305	277	20.98	2.80	$7,176
Sep 1999	0	221	21.75	2.62	$579
Aug 1999	179	277	19.26	2.88	$4,244
Jul 1999	0	246	17.89	2.37	$584
Jun 1999	176	231	15.94	2.36	$3,351
May 1999	178	226	15.79	2.32	$3,335
Apr 1999	0	242	15.10	2.21	$534
Mar 1999	357	173	12.47	1.84	$4,770
Feb 1999	0	188	9.98	1.82	$342
Jan 1999	176	211	10.38	1.90	$2,228
Dec 1998	197	174	9.20	1.77	$2,121
Nov 1998	176	210	10.89	2.19	$2,376
Oct 1998	182	265	12.42	1.97	$2,782
Sep 1998	177	129	12.59	2.08	$2,497
Aug 1998	0	182	11.30	1.91	$347
Jul 1998	181	77	11.74	2.24	$2,297
Jun 1998	0	225	11.24	2.24	$503
May 1998	0	145	12.62	2.21	$320
Apr 1998	180	143	13.04	2.51	$2,705
Mar 1998	182	254	12.80	2.31	$2,916
Feb 1998	179	271	13.95	2.30	$3,120
Jan 1998	0	255	14.70	2.15	$549
Dec 1997	0	235	16.32	2.41	$567
Nov 1997	183	215	18.19	3.09	$3,993
Oct 1997	178	600	19.25	3.15	$5,316
Sep 1997	0	292	17.74	2.95	$863
Aug 1997	177	620	17.86	2.55	$4,745
Jul 1997	180	620	17.58	2.25	$4,558
Jun 1997	0	600	17.24	2.26	$1,354
May 1997	178	620	18.97	2.31	$4,808
Apr 1997	177	600	17.88	2.08	$4,414
Mar 1997	182	620	18.95	1.94	$4,651
Feb 1997	163	560	20.49	2.21	$4,575
Jan 1997	0	620	23.48	3.54	$2,195
Dec 1996	178	620	23.32	—	$4,151
Nov 1996	179	600	21.97	—	$3,933
Oct 1996	0	620	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	176	600	22.22	—	$3,911
Aug 1996	179	620	20.26	—	$3,627
Jul 1996	178	620	19.55	—	$3,480
Jun 1996	0	600	18.73	—	$0
May 1996	173	0	19.43	—	$3,361
Apr 1996	177	0	21.51	—	$3,807
Mar 1996	176	0	19.38	—	$3,411
Feb 1996	176	0	16.98	—	$2,988

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.

Nov 2019 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   52 bbl  × $ 55.30 =     $2,876
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.75 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $2,876

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/14037 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.