HIGHTOWER, C. M.

Operated by WESTPORT OIL AND GAS COMPANY, LP (P-5 912927) in the SPLENDORA, E. (5700) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 174870District 03Field 85246200CondensateGasSave
Value, all time
$7.7 M
Jun 1999 – Mar 2004
Value, last 12 filed months
$1 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
58
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
condensate, gas

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
CondensateDisposition15,434 bbl$399,357
GasProduction1,869,260 Mcf$7,332,759
Total$7,732,115

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 30.2842, -95.0965. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.28418, -95.09655 · 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
5,737 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
4.2 years
median over 1 wells

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 5,737 ft.

Completions filed
Jun 1999
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Aug 2003
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 4.2 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 4.2 years and 4.2 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-291001661RE5,737 ftJun 1999Aug 2003Yes

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 (58)

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

58 months

Mar 20040034.365.53$0
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 200421032.036.30$673
Dec 20030030.266.30$0
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 20030029.765.13$0
Jul 20030029.415.17$0
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 200324026.595.97$638
Apr 20030026.675.41$0
Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 200219726,26324.583.06$85,253
Jun 200219444,39323.733.34$152,798
May 200239144,64724.663.58$169,657
Apr 200219642,44623.653.51$153,719
Mar 200219337,93022.003.10$121,932
Feb 2002026,67818.222.38$63,378
Jan 200219732,17817.172.38$79,827
Dec 200139635,54116.932.36$90,737
Nov 200119537,40918.072.41$93,512
Oct 200119438,31019.782.53$100,719
Sep 200137636,44624.262.25$91,173
Aug 200102,70424.873.05$8,256
Jul 200138658,35023.933.20$195,787
Jun 200132877,47824.563.82$304,344
May 200157577,62225.524.31$349,017
Apr 200149162,29024.685.34$344,455
Mar 200155365,69824.545.38$366,792
Feb 200131660,45527.755.77$357,418
Jan 200139635,61727.478.40$310,017
Dec 200054055,75426.889.12$523,131
Nov 200039357,22732.215.66$336,449
Oct 200056271,49031.235.15$385,403
Sep 200055264,43231.875.19$351,769
Aug 200055367,97729.644.54$325,057
Jul 200056372,87128.534.09$314,087
Jun 200072870,90429.304.40$333,113
May 200057056,40027.263.68$223,076
Apr 200076268,94724.513.12$233,515
Mar 200077675,13528.422.86$236,921
Feb 200094374,46427.622.73$229,072
Jan 200057569,97025.272.48$188,091
Dec 199977280,38524.282.42$213,575
Nov 19991,13182,31423.192.43$226,579
Oct 199939558,02020.982.80$170,958
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 1999051515.942.36$1,216

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.

Jan 2004 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Condensate            21 bbl  × $ 32.03 =       $673
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  6.30 =         $0

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Month total                                     $673

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/174870 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.