CHARLES CHURCH UNIT

Operated by BROWNING OIL COMPANY, INC. (P-5 103088) in the GIDDINGS (AUSTIN CHALK, GAS) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 153596District 03Field 347735502 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.2 M
Feb 1995 – Nov 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$47 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
106
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, 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 1,061 leases and 1,061 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1978-08-01
as the register files it
Field class
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 2018-10-16.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: AMENDED DRILLING PERMITS, NOTICE, OR HEARING.

Severance-tax incentive filings

Applications the operator filed to have this lease's gas taxed at a reduced state rate. A filing is an application, and this page never calls one a reduction that was granted.

ProgrammeFilingsWith an approval dateDatedDocket
High Cost Gas111996-08-02133758
NGPA1none

This says nothing about a royalty. A severance tax is charged to the operator. Whether a reduced rate reaches a royalty owner depends on the wording of the lease instrument, which is a private contract this site does not hold.

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
CondensateDisposition39,019 bbl$693,613
GasProduction661,542 Mcf$459,009
Total$1,152,621

501,986 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 23 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 30.1145, -96.7203. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.11445, -96.72030 · 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
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
13,158 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 13,158 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 1995
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-14931646113,158 ftFeb 1995Yes

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 (106)

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

106 months

Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 2003134026.314.75$3,526
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 2003075529.415.17$3,904
Jun 200317760628.565.98$8,681
May 2003048826.595.97$2,915
Apr 200319447026.675.41$7,715
Mar 2003055731.146.10$3,395
Feb 2003051933.487.93$4,114
Jan 200319355030.315.58$8,920
Dec 2002078626.914.85$3,815
Nov 200219770324.664.14$7,766
Oct 2002071026.464.23$3,003
Sep 2002089527.443.64$3,254
Aug 200219078225.963.16$7,407
Jul 200201,01924.583.06$3,120
Jun 200219577823.733.34$7,225
May 2002087624.663.58$3,140
Apr 200201,11323.653.51$3,909
Mar 200218093222.003.10$6,852
Feb 2002097418.222.38$2,314
Jan 20021841,16417.172.38$5,925
Dec 200118587616.932.36$5,203
Nov 200102,13118.072.41$5,126
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20011821,04224.262.25$6,761
Aug 200101,01824.873.05$3,108
Jul 20011831,24423.933.20$8,356
Jun 200101,02724.563.82$3,927
May 20011881,29125.524.31$10,359
Apr 200101,69624.685.34$9,049
Mar 200118687524.545.38$9,269
Feb 200101,19427.755.77$6,886
Jan 20011851,55827.478.40$18,167
Dec 20001911,32926.889.12$17,258
Nov 200001,32732.215.66$7,508
Oct 20001841,62031.235.15$14,082
Sep 200001,33931.875.19$6,945
Aug 20001851,75029.644.54$13,430
Jul 200001,42128.534.09$5,812
Jun 20001951,48229.304.40$12,230
May 20001881,85127.263.68$11,936
Apr 200001,54624.513.12$4,817
Mar 20001971,97828.422.86$11,255
Feb 20002001,56327.622.73$9,786
Jan 200001,58725.272.48$3,937
Dec 19991961,64424.282.42$8,743
Nov 19991981,92123.192.43$9,267
Oct 199901,73120.982.80$4,853
Sep 19991891,96721.752.62$9,262
Aug 19991722,05919.262.88$9,234
Jul 199901,92517.892.37$4,567
Jun 19991911,95915.942.36$7,672
May 19991871,66415.792.32$6,815
Apr 19991981,79515.102.21$6,953
Mar 19991852,14212.471.84$6,245
Feb 19991991,3189.981.82$4,382
Jan 199901,46710.381.90$2,787
Dec 19981842,0929.201.77$5,403
Nov 19981862,01610.892.19$6,432
Oct 19981882,19412.421.97$6,655
Sep 19981832,44012.592.08$7,386
Aug 19985862,22411.301.91$10,864
Jul 199802,87311.742.24$6,428
Jun 199869816,47911.242.24$44,713
May 19981607,70712.622.21$19,023
Apr 19981912,58413.042.51$8,964
Mar 19981872,54612.802.31$8,273
Feb 19981883,18613.952.30$9,948
Jan 19981882,47014.702.15$8,086
Dec 19971872,82616.322.41$9,866
Nov 19971963,01518.193.09$12,876
Oct 19973802,62919.253.15$15,596
Sep 19971902,62317.742.95$11,121
Aug 19971763,74917.862.55$12,721
Jul 19971914,23517.582.25$12,874
Jun 19971943,12117.242.26$10,389
May 19973735,01118.972.31$18,644
Apr 19974076,62717.882.08$21,080
Mar 19971965,36318.951.94$14,114
Feb 199751,55420.492.21$3,530
Jan 199719897823.483.54$8,111
Dec 19961994,91623.32$4,641
Nov 19963985,04221.97$8,744
Oct 19963975,30423.31$9,254
Sep 19961855,74522.22$4,111
Aug 19963855,58920.26$7,800
Jul 19961915,21619.55$3,734
Jun 19963706,03718.73$6,930
May 19963844,74719.43$7,461
Apr 19963886,60921.51$8,346
Mar 19963829,68519.38$7,403
Feb 19965979,19116.98$10,137
Jan 199638311,04517.07$6,538
Dec 199559212,97817.19$10,176
Nov 199558914,58316.00$9,424
Oct 199574917,87215.43$11,557
Sep 199577119,99316.18$12,475
Aug 199596921,83715.92$15,426
Jul 19951,15627,01615.24$17,617
Jun 19951,35436,21216.41$22,219
May 19952,12541,57317.56$37,315
Apr 19952,65354,79517.73$47,038
Mar 19954,776108,41216.44$78,517
Feb 19957,58667,58916.58$125,776

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.

Sep 2003 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate           134 bbl  × $ 26.31 =     $3,526
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  4.75 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,526

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/153596 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.