HOUSTON "A"

Name: HOUSTON "A" lease production and value, Apr 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by ELLIOTT OIL & GAS COMPANY (P-5 247835) in the CHOCOLATE BAYOU, N. (ANDRAU) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 145127District 03Field 17917010CondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.7 M

Apr 1993 – Jul 2000

Value, last 12 filed months

$74 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The CHOCOLATE BAYOU, N. (ANDRAU) 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 5 leases and 5 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1991-08-01

as the register files it

Field class

Gas

the register's own label

Between wells

—

no field rule filed

From a lease line

—

no field rule filed

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “ALLOCATION FORMULA SUSPENDED PER OPERATOR REQUEST EFF 9-1-92”

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
Condensate	Disposition	14,360 bbl	$231,890
Gas	Production	2,249,225 Mcf	$1,434,600
Total			$1,666,490

1,640,335 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 44 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 29.3305, -95.2320. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.33047, -95.23199 · 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

0.0%

0 of 1 wells

Median depth

11,555 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

—

no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

1100.0%

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.

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 11,555 ft.

Completions filed

Jun 2010

1 of 1 wells

1 well


42-03900966	1-T	11,555 ft	Jun 2010	—	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 (88)

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

88 months


Jul 2000	0	0	28.53	4.09	$0
Jun 2000	0	0	29.30	4.40	$0
May 2000	0	0	27.26	3.68	$0
Apr 2000	0	0	24.51	3.12	$0
Mar 2000	123	0	28.42	2.86	$3,496
Feb 2000	0	0	27.62	2.73	$0
Jan 2000	0	0	25.27	2.48	$0
Dec 1999	0	0	24.28	2.42	$0
Nov 1999	0	90	23.19	2.43	$219
Oct 1999	0	315	20.98	2.80	$883
Sep 1999	182	10,726	21.75	2.62	$32,048
Aug 1999	0	13,128	19.26	2.88	$37,751
Jul 1999	173	13,247	17.89	2.37	$34,522
Jun 1999	177	13,180	15.94	2.36	$33,954
May 1999	0	14,364	15.79	2.32	$33,339
Apr 1999	171	14,463	15.10	2.21	$34,517
Mar 1999	261	16,362	12.47	1.84	$33,333
Feb 1999	180	15,399	9.98	1.82	$29,789
Jan 1999	0	10,717	10.38	1.90	$20,362
Dec 1998	177	16,236	9.20	1.77	$30,420
Nov 1998	176	15,921	10.89	2.19	$36,715
Oct 1998	194	16,610	12.42	1.97	$35,118
Sep 1998	177	16,217	12.59	2.08	$36,002
Aug 1998	0	17,822	11.30	1.91	$33,993
Jul 1998	337	18,480	11.74	2.24	$45,301
Jun 1998	0	17,442	11.24	2.24	$39,022
May 1998	180	18,833	12.62	2.21	$43,824
Apr 1998	194	18,176	13.04	2.51	$48,067
Mar 1998	181	18,169	12.80	2.31	$44,277
Feb 1998	188	18,070	13.95	2.30	$44,168
Jan 1998	187	21,204	14.70	2.15	$48,439
Dec 1997	187	21,555	16.32	2.41	$55,023
Nov 1997	189	21,665	18.19	3.09	$70,345
Oct 1997	185	25,083	19.25	3.15	$82,568
Sep 1997	187	22,641	17.74	2.95	$70,219
Aug 1997	193	23,622	17.86	2.55	$63,795
Jul 1997	197	23,824	17.58	2.25	$56,994
Jun 1997	0	22,553	17.24	2.26	$50,907
May 1997	186	21,957	18.97	2.31	$54,216
Apr 1997	189	22,668	17.88	2.08	$50,592
Mar 1997	194	22,626	18.95	1.94	$47,551
Feb 1997	194	23,856	20.49	2.21	$56,599
Jan 1997	0	21,669	23.48	3.54	$76,702
Dec 1996	344	21,854	23.32	—	$8,022
Nov 1996	0	21,101	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	190	21,963	23.31	—	$4,429
Sep 1996	196	22,343	22.22	—	$4,355
Aug 1996	197	22,093	20.26	—	$3,991
Jul 1996	0	23,346	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	195	23,342	18.73	—	$3,652
May 1996	191	24,334	19.43	—	$3,711
Apr 1996	0	23,809	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	184	24,958	19.38	—	$3,566
Feb 1996	188	27,394	16.98	—	$3,192
Jan 1996	349	32,707	17.07	—	$5,957
Dec 1995	194	35,832	17.19	—	$3,335
Nov 1995	190	37,125	16.00	—	$3,040
Oct 1995	385	40,292	15.43	—	$5,941
Sep 1995	186	39,543	16.18	—	$3,009
Aug 1995	184	40,583	15.92	—	$2,929
Jul 1995	190	41,442	15.24	—	$2,896
Jun 1995	185	40,872	16.41	—	$3,036
May 1995	180	43,494	17.56	—	$3,161
Apr 1995	377	42,501	17.73	—	$6,684
Mar 1995	194	44,642	16.44	—	$3,189
Feb 1995	191	40,871	16.58	—	$3,167
Jan 1995	384	46,296	15.92	—	$6,113
Dec 1994	191	46,375	15.03	—	$2,871
Nov 1994	181	40,080	15.90	—	$2,878
Oct 1994	393	43,134	15.58	—	$6,123
Sep 1994	195	42,648	15.29	—	$2,982
Aug 1994	181	44,979	16.13	—	$2,920
Jul 1994	192	39,366	17.56	—	$3,372
Jun 1994	0	0	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	193	25,760	15.88	—	$3,065
Apr 1994	192	41,441	14.14	—	$2,715
Mar 1994	379	43,276	12.46	—	$4,722
Feb 1994	194	39,172	12.50	—	$2,425
Jan 1994	393	43,815	12.66	—	$4,975
Dec 1993	196	45,013	12.33	—	$2,417
Nov 1993	386	44,646	14.49	—	$5,593
Oct 1993	193	47,897	15.85	—	$3,059
Sep 1993	188	47,613	15.03	—	$2,826
Aug 1993	180	50,338	15.66	—	$2,819
Jul 1993	176	51,440	15.46	—	$2,721
Jun 1993	186	46,132	16.79	—	$3,123
May 1993	138	45,010	17.68	—	$2,440
Apr 1993	0	29,463	18.05	—	$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.

Mar 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate           123 bbl  × $ 28.42 =     $3,496
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  2.86 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,496

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. 03/G/145127 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.