DRUMMOND, J.H.

Operated by HILCORP ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 386310) in the WEST RANCH (MENEFEE 5500) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 11538District 02Field 96545416OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$597 k
Feb 2018 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$260 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
100
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 25 leases and 26 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1971-01-14
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
2,640 ft
minimum
From a lease line
1,320 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 320 acres.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: RESCINDED CASING & MULTI-STAGE CEMENTING RULES

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
OilDisposition8,735 bbl$590,054
Casinghead gasProduction2,057 Mcf$6,591
Total$596,644

Wells on this lease (2)

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 28.8059, -96.6162. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.3 miles.

28.80594, -96.61619 · 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
0.0%
0 of 2 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 2 wells
Median depth
8,004 ft
2 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
00.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
2100.0%

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

Between 8,000 and 8,007 ft, median 8,004 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Aug 2021 – Oct 2023
2 of 2 wells

2 wells

42-239335693M8,007 ftOct 2023
42-2393356118,000 ftAug 2021

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 (100)

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

100 months

May 20263470106.413.05$36,924
Apr 202631710598.932.87$31,662
Mar 202631511989.753.15$28,646
Feb 202628312363.503.75$18,432
Jan 20262933559.138.00$17,605
Dec 2025296556.664.41$16,793
Nov 2025250658.593.93$14,671
Oct 20253163459.383.30$18,876
Sep 20252645262.743.08$16,723
Aug 20252862163.933.01$18,347
Jul 20253086866.743.32$20,781
Jun 20253026866.483.13$20,290
May 20253188660.553.23$19,533
Apr 202536028562.363.54$23,459
Mar 202533416667.704.27$23,320
Feb 20252635170.884.34$18,863
Jan 20252688974.324.28$20,299
Dec 20242468368.993.12$17,231
Nov 2024248069.052.20$17,124
Oct 20242778471.372.28$19,961
Sep 2024258069.612.36$17,959
Aug 202430036375.632.06$23,438
Jul 2024887779.932.15$7,199
Jun 20240078.082.63$0
May 20240078.812.20$0
Apr 20240084.451.66$0
Mar 20240080.301.55$0
Feb 20240076.091.78$0
Jan 20240073.023.30$0
Dec 20230071.262.61$0
Nov 20230077.892.81$0
Oct 20230085.443.09$0
Sep 20230089.042.74$0
Aug 20230080.522.67$0
Jul 20230074.852.64$0
Jun 20230068.962.26$0
May 20230070.622.23$0
Apr 20230078.122.24$0
Mar 20230072.852.39$0
Feb 20230075.112.47$0
Jan 20230076.533.39$0
Dec 20220076.415.73$0
Nov 20220085.005.65$0
Oct 20220087.185.86$0
Sep 20220084.888.16$0
Aug 20220094.529.13$0
Jul 202200101.587.54$0
Jun 202200115.097.98$0
May 202200109.378.43$0
Apr 202200104.226.84$0
Mar 202200108.885.08$0
Feb 20220091.054.86$0
Jan 20220081.844.54$0
Dec 20210071.323.90$0
Nov 20210077.435.24$0
Oct 20210079.795.71$0
Sep 20210069.865.35$0
Aug 20210066.024.22$0
Jul 20210070.783.98$0
Jun 20210069.493.38$0
May 20210063.483.02$0
Apr 20210060.362.76$0
Mar 20210061.302.72$0
Feb 20210057.805.55$0
Jan 20210050.412.81$0
Dec 20200044.642.68$0
Nov 20200038.772.71$0
Oct 20200036.972.48$0
Sep 20200037.091.99$0
Aug 20200039.982.39$0
Jul 20200038.371.83$0
Jun 20200034.901.69$0
May 20200016.921.81$0
Apr 20200014.751.80$0
Mar 20200030.341.86$0
Feb 20200049.881.98$0
Jan 20200057.252.09$0
Dec 20190059.012.30$0
Nov 20190055.302.75$0
Oct 20190053.472.42$0
Sep 20190055.052.66$0
Aug 20190053.112.30$0
Jul 20192056.272.46$113
Jun 20192052.782.49$106
May 201919058.482.74$1,111
Apr 2019649462.632.75$4,267
Mar 2019904356.803.06$5,244
Feb 2019100050.852.79$5,085
Jan 2019156046.033.23$7,181
Dec 2018159046.594.19$7,408
Nov 2018146052.934.24$7,728
Oct 2018177061.443.40$10,875
Sep 2018241059.543.11$14,349
Aug 2018247059.403.07$14,672
Jul 2018233065.142.93$15,178
Jun 2018234060.183.08$14,082
May 2018191065.382.90$12,488
Apr 201888063.842.90$5,618
Mar 201842061.222.79$2,571
Feb 20187061.782.77$432

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.

May 2026 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  347 bbl  × $106.41 =    $36,924
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.05 =         $0

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Month total                                  $36,924

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. 02/O/11538 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.