HOLMES, SAM

Operated by HANSON OPERATING COMPANY, INC. (P-5 355480) 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 4770District 01Field 69981125OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$67 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2001
Value, last 12 filed months
$12 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
99
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead 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 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.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
OilDisposition3,711 bbl$67,223
Casinghead gasProduction21 Mcf$0
Total$67,223

21 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 21 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 28.8358, -99.1283. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

28.83581, -99.12833 · 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
5,966 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
24.9 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 5,966 ft.

Completions filed
Dec 1975
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Nov 2000
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 24.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 24.9 years and 24.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-1633024715,966 ftDec 1975Nov 2000Yes

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 (99)

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

99 months

Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 2000215032.215.66$6,925
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 20000031.875.19$0
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 20000029.304.40$0
May 2000177027.263.68$4,825
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 1999192020.982.80$4,028
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 1999181012.471.84$2,257
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 1998188010.892.19$2,047
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 1998191012.802.31$2,445
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 1997169019.253.15$3,253
Sep 199766017.742.95$1,171
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 19970017.242.26$0
May 19970018.972.31$0
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 1997180018.951.94$3,411
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 1996233022.22$5,177
Aug 19967020.26$142
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 1996183021.51$3,936
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 1995172017.19$2,957
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 19951015.43$15
Sep 19950016.18$0
Aug 1995173015.92$2,754
Jul 19951015.24$15
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 1995172017.56$3,020
Apr 19951017.73$18
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 19950016.58$0
Jan 1995170015.92$2,706
Dec 19940015.03$0
Nov 19942015.90$32
Oct 1994168015.58$2,617
Sep 19941115.29$15
Aug 19940116.13$0
Jul 19941117.56$18
Jun 19940117.09$0
May 1994178115.88$2,827
Apr 19941114.14$14
Mar 19942112.46$25
Feb 19943112.50$38
Jan 19944112.66$51
Dec 1993122112.33$1,504
Nov 19932114.49$29
Oct 19933115.85$48
Sep 1993340115.03$5,110
Aug 19930115.66$0
Jul 19931115.46$15
Jun 19930116.79$0
May 19930117.68$0
Apr 19930118.05$0
Mar 19930118.14$0
Feb 1993211117.90$3,777
Jan 19930116.93$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.

Nov 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  215 bbl  × $ 32.21 =     $6,925
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  5.66 =         $0

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Month total                                   $6,925

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/4770 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.