PRESERVE HILLS

Operated by MAGNOLIA OIL & GAS OPERATING LLC (P-5 521544) in the GIDDINGS (AUSTIN CHALK-3) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 297840District 03Field 347335002 tax incentive programmesCondensateGasSaveExport
Value, all time
$27.2 M
Feb 2024 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$4.1 M
at the published price for each month
Months reported
28
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 5,900 leases and 6,985 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1960-10-29
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and 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 2025-09-30.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: DKT OG-25-00028011: UFT FIELD, ALLOCATION FORMULA SUSPENDED

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
NGPA1none
ST-1112025-01-03235614

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
CondensateDisposition259,130 bbl$19,344,199
GasProduction2,894,964 Mcf$7,806,795
Total$27,150,994

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 30.2149, -96.6855. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.21492, -96.68547 · 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 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
10,783 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
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.
1100.0%

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 10,783 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 2024
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-47731270H 04DP10,783 ftFeb 2024

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 (28)

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

28 months

May 20263,00733,721106.413.05$422,684
Apr 20262,91433,72398.932.87$385,058
Mar 20263,20835,01789.753.15$398,202
Feb 20262,80131,58163.503.75$296,302
Jan 20263,27935,07359.138.00$474,398
Dec 20253,70336,35556.664.41$370,260
Nov 20253,81635,17558.593.93$361,692
Oct 20254,25935,58359.383.30$370,496
Sep 20254,70737,26162.743.08$409,966
Aug 20253,62525,16363.933.01$307,607
Jul 202532066.743.32$2,136
Jun 20253,32039,95266.483.13$345,712
May 20258,813105,16460.553.23$873,551
Apr 20257,54098,73362.363.54$820,017
Mar 20258,592109,04167.704.27$1,047,100
Feb 20257,55396,70270.884.34$955,125
Jan 20259,199118,44874.324.28$1,190,471
Dec 202411,682143,31268.993.12$1,253,271
Nov 20247,91583,93369.052.20$731,052
Oct 202413,365168,42871.372.28$1,338,112
Sep 202411,299146,54069.612.36$1,132,997
Aug 202415,769184,30975.632.06$1,572,955
Jul 202416,746197,42479.932.15$1,762,296
Jun 202420,814239,37978.082.63$2,255,677
May 202425,365270,60078.812.20$2,593,914
Apr 202427,086272,44584.451.66$2,739,453
Mar 202427,222261,22780.301.55$2,589,556
Feb 20241,49920,67576.091.78$150,936

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
Condensate         3,007 bbl  × $106.41 =   $319,975
Gas               33,721 Mcf  × $  3.05 =   $102,709

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Month total                                 $422,684

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/297840 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.