RTC

Operated by PALEO OIL COMPANY LLC (P-5 635131) in the PAWNEE, S. (LULLING) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 12961District 02Field 69853150OilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.5 M
Mar 2024 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$1.3 M
at the published price for each month
Months reported
27
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 4 leases and 7 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1982-09-09
as the register files it
Field class
Oil
the register's own label
Between wells
no field rule filed
From a lease line
no field rule filed

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
OilDisposition24,916 bbl$1,548,490
Casinghead gasProduction121 Mcf$318
Total$1,548,808

Wells on this lease (3)

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 28.7766, -97.9035. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 39.5 miles, so treat it as the lease's centre and not as its location.

28.87187, -97.85209 · 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
33.3%
1 of 3 wells
With a plug date
33.3%
1 of 3 wells
Median depth
6,500 ft
3 wells filed one
Completion to plug
6.5 years
median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
133.3%
A plug date is filed
133.3%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
133.3%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
266.7%

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 2,300 and 13,430 ft, median 6,500 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed
Feb 1991 – May 2025
3 of 3 wells
Plug dates filed
Aug 1997
1 of 3 wells; 2 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 6.5 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 6.5 years and 6.5 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells

42-0253407132,300 ftMay 2025
42-0253402526,500 ftMar 2024
42-25531268113,430 ftFeb 1991Aug 1997Yes

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 (27)

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

27 months

May 202600106.413.05$0
Apr 20260098.932.87$0
Mar 20260089.753.15$0
Feb 20261,344063.503.75$85,344
Jan 20261,762059.138.00$104,187
Dec 20251,944056.664.41$110,147
Nov 20252,303058.593.93$134,933
Oct 20252,451059.383.30$145,540
Sep 20252,478062.743.08$155,470
Aug 20252,735063.933.01$174,849
Jul 20253,180066.743.32$212,233
Jun 20253,196066.483.13$212,470
May 20253,523060.553.23$213,318
Apr 20250062.363.54$0
Mar 20250067.704.27$0
Feb 20250070.884.34$0
Jan 20250074.324.28$0
Dec 202405668.993.12$175
Nov 202406569.052.20$143
Oct 20240071.372.28$0
Sep 20240069.612.36$0
Aug 20240075.632.06$0
Jul 20240079.932.15$0
Jun 20240078.082.63$0
May 20240078.812.20$0
Apr 20240084.451.66$0
Mar 20240080.301.55$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.

Feb 2026 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                1,344 bbl  × $ 63.50 =    $85,344
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.75 =         $0

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Month total                                  $85,344

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/12961 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.