RICE INSTITUTE

Name: RICE INSTITUTE lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by DAVIS SOUTHERN OPERATING CO LLC (P-5 206081) in the HILLISTER, EAST (WILCOX 8900) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Gas lease lease 85808District 03Field 41476780NGPA filingCondensateGasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.7 M

Jan 1993 – May 2019

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

317

no gaps in the span

Streams

condensate, gas

The HILLISTER, EAST (WILCOX 8900) 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 3 leases and 3 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1964-06-23

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: “EXEMPT FIELD EFF 11-1-94”

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.

Programme	Filings	With an approval date	Dated	Docket
NGPA	1	none	—	—

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.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Condensate	Disposition	8,762 bbl	$251,601
Gas	Production	457,104 Mcf	$1,454,745
Total			$1,706,346

147,225 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 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 30.6584, -94.2878. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.65840, -94.28776 · 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

100.0%

1 of 1 wells

Median depth

9,960 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

7.9 years

median over 1 well

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 9,960 ft.

Completions filed

Jun 2011

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

May 2019

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 7.9 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 7.9 years and 7.9 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-45730316	2	9,960 ft	Jun 2011	May 2019	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 (317)

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

317 months


May 2019	0	0	58.48	2.74	$0
Apr 2019	0	0	62.63	2.75	$0
Mar 2019	0	0	56.80	3.06	$0
Feb 2019	0	0	50.85	2.79	$0
Jan 2019	0	0	46.03	3.23	$0
Dec 2018	0	0	46.59	4.19	$0
Nov 2018	0	0	52.93	4.24	$0
Oct 2018	0	0	61.44	3.40	$0
Sep 2018	0	0	59.54	3.11	$0
Aug 2018	0	0	59.40	3.07	$0
Jul 2018	0	0	65.14	2.93	$0
Jun 2018	0	0	60.18	3.08	$0
May 2018	0	0	65.38	2.90	$0
Apr 2018	0	0	63.84	2.90	$0
Mar 2018	0	0	61.22	2.79	$0
Feb 2018	0	0	61.78	2.77	$0
Jan 2018	0	0	62.87	4.01	$0
Dec 2017	0	0	57.27	2.92	$0
Nov 2017	0	0	55.42	3.12	$0
Oct 2017	0	0	49.29	2.98	$0
Sep 2017	0	0	47.52	3.09	$0
Aug 2017	0	0	45.37	3.00	$0
Jul 2017	0	0	43.87	3.09	$0
Jun 2017	0	0	42.49	3.09	$0
May 2017	0	0	45.37	3.26	$0
Apr 2017	0	0	47.93	3.21	$0
Mar 2017	0	0	46.77	2.98	$0
Feb 2017	0	0	50.45	2.95	$0
Jan 2017	0	0	49.41	3.42	$0
Dec 2016	0	0	48.76	3.72	$0
Nov 2016	0	0	42.49	2.64	$0
Oct 2016	0	0	46.19	3.09	$0
Sep 2016	0	0	41.55	3.10	$0
Aug 2016	0	0	41.44	2.92	$0
Jul 2016	0	0	41.62	2.92	$0
Jun 2016	0	0	45.35	2.69	$0
May 2016	0	0	42.52	1.99	$0
Apr 2016	0	0	36.56	1.99	$0
Mar 2016	0	0	33.01	1.79	$0
Feb 2016	0	0	26.47	2.06	$0
Jan 2016	0	0	27.35	2.36	$0
Dec 2015	0	0	32.36	2.00	$0
Nov 2015	0	0	38.79	2.17	$0
Oct 2015	0	0	43.55	2.43	$0
Sep 2015	0	0	42.99	2.76	$0
Aug 2015	0	0	40.16	2.87	$0
Jul 2015	0	0	48.15	2.95	$0
Jun 2015	0	0	56.15	2.88	$0
May 2015	0	0	55.21	2.96	$0
Apr 2015	0	0	49.82	2.71	$0
Mar 2015	0	0	42.89	2.93	$0
Feb 2015	0	0	44.66	2.98	$0
Jan 2015	0	0	43.43	3.10	$0
Dec 2014	0	0	54.69	3.59	$0
Nov 2014	0	0	70.46	4.25	$0
Oct 2014	0	0	78.30	3.90	$0
Sep 2014	0	0	86.16	4.05	$0
Aug 2014	0	0	89.39	4.04	$0
Jul 2014	0	0	96.56	4.18	$0
Jun 2014	0	0	98.16	4.74	$0
May 2014	0	0	94.73	4.73	$0
Apr 2014	0	0	95.94	4.81	$0
Mar 2014	0	0	95.89	5.06	$0
Feb 2014	0	0	97.40	6.19	$0
Jan 2014	0	0	90.40	4.86	$0
Dec 2013	0	0	91.82	4.35	$0
Nov 2013	0	0	88.85	3.74	$0
Oct 2013	0	0	97.42	3.78	$0
Sep 2013	0	0	104.11	3.72	$0
Aug 2013	0	0	104.25	3.52	$0
Jul 2013	0	0	102.52	3.72	$0
Jun 2013	0	0	94.40	3.93	$0
May 2013	0	0	94.83	4.15	$0
Apr 2013	0	0	93.96	4.28	$0
Mar 2013	0	0	93.62	3.91	$0
Feb 2013	0	0	91.23	3.42	$0
Jan 2013	0	0	91.60	3.42	$0
Dec 2012	0	0	86.77	3.42	$0
Nov 2012	0	0	86.95	3.62	$0
Oct 2012	0	0	89.38	3.40	$0
Sep 2012	0	0	94.67	2.92	$0
Aug 2012	0	0	92.66	2.91	$0
Jul 2012	0	0	85.13	3.02	$0
Jun 2012	0	0	79.82	2.52	$0
May 2012	0	0	91.61	2.49	$0
Apr 2012	0	0	101.65	2.00	$0
Mar 2012	0	0	105.05	2.22	$0
Feb 2012	0	0	101.10	2.57	$0
Jan 2012	0	0	98.09	2.73	$0
Dec 2011	0	0	96.87	3.24	$0
Nov 2011	0	0	95.72	3.31	$0
Oct 2011	0	0	84.98	3.65	$0
Sep 2011	0	0	83.62	3.99	$0
Aug 2011	0	0	83.40	4.15	$0
Jul 2011	0	0	94.14	4.52	$0
Jun 2011	0	0	92.90	4.64	$0
May 2011	0	0	98.13	4.40	$0
Apr 2011	81	0	105.96	4.33	$8,583
Mar 2011	0	0	96.36	4.06	$0
Feb 2011	0	0	85.64	4.18	$0
Jan 2011	0	0	86.50	4.59	$0
Dec 2010	0	0	85.73	4.35	$0
Nov 2010	0	0	80.84	3.80	$0
Oct 2010	0	0	78.10	3.51	$0
Sep 2010	0	0	72.63	3.98	$0
Aug 2010	0	0	73.68	4.42	$0
Jul 2010	0	0	72.55	4.74	$0
Jun 2010	0	0	70.36	4.91	$0
May 2010	0	0	71.12	4.24	$0
Apr 2010	0	0	81.69	4.12	$0
Mar 2010	0	0	78.39	4.39	$0
Feb 2010	0	0	73.58	5.44	$0
Jan 2010	0	73	74.36	5.96	$435
Dec 2009	0	827	71.44	5.48	$4,535
Nov 2009	174	829	74.59	3.75	$16,089
Oct 2009	0	0	72.54	4.11	$0
Sep 2009	0	70	65.54	3.06	$215
Aug 2009	0	831	67.42	3.22	$2,675
Jul 2009	0	820	61.13	3.46	$2,841
Jun 2009	0	973	66.16	3.90	$3,790
May 2009	0	1,182	54.74	3.93	$4,640
Apr 2009	0	1,054	46.77	3.59	$3,781
Mar 2009	0	1,581	42.14	4.06	$6,417
Feb 2009	0	1,720	32.81	4.63	$7,969
Jan 2009	0	1,790	35.86	5.37	$9,614
Dec 2008	0	1,386	37.10	5.98	$8,284
Nov 2008	162	1,713	55.49	6.86	$20,741
Oct 2008	0	1,147	75.24	6.92	$7,940
Sep 2008	0	877	101.76	7.88	$6,908
Aug 2008	0	1,365	114.22	8.48	$11,579
Jul 2008	0	1,530	131.08	11.39	$17,426
Jun 2008	0	166	131.33	13.03	$2,163
May 2008	0	946	123.17	11.57	$10,949
Apr 2008	0	65	110.31	10.45	$680
Mar 2008	0	751	101.90	9.66	$7,258
Feb 2008	165	274	92.53	8.77	$17,671
Jan 2008	0	746	90.38	8.21	$6,121
Dec 2007	0	254	88.33	7.30	$1,855
Nov 2007	0	776	91.67	7.29	$5,658
Oct 2007	0	879	82.85	6.92	$6,084
Sep 2007	0	1,698	75.84	6.24	$10,603
Aug 2007	0	126	69.06	6.39	$805
Jul 2007	181	944	70.90	6.39	$18,863
Jun 2007	0	931	62.00	7.55	$7,028
May 2007	0	1,453	58.74	7.85	$11,401
Apr 2007	0	1,382	59.61	7.81	$10,787
Mar 2007	0	1,999	56.92	7.30	$14,597
Feb 2007	0	1,348	55.10	8.22	$11,075
Jan 2007	0	1,720	50.30	6.73	$11,570
Dec 2006	0	2,044	56.65	6.92	$14,141
Nov 2006	136	2,211	54.20	7.62	$24,213
Oct 2006	0	1,975	54.90	6.01	$11,877
Sep 2006	0	2,143	60.08	5.04	$10,795
Aug 2006	0	2,473	68.71	7.34	$18,152
Jul 2006	0	2,299	69.37	6.34	$14,582
Jun 2006	179	2,061	66.28	6.38	$25,021
May 2006	0	2,131	66.01	6.42	$13,692
Apr 2006	0	2,092	64.39	7.36	$15,398
Mar 2006	0	2,527	56.70	7.08	$17,899
Feb 2006	0	1,321	57.59	7.75	$10,239
Jan 2006	0	1,728	60.59	8.93	$15,437
Dec 2005	152	2,251	54.94	13.42	$38,549
Nov 2005	0	2,004	54.69	10.59	$21,219
Oct 2005	0	2,017	58.34	13.80	$27,826
Sep 2005	0	1,725	61.45	12.08	$20,836
Aug 2005	0	1,997	61.51	9.80	$19,564
Jul 2005	145	1,757	55.69	7.84	$21,856
Jun 2005	0	1,793	52.33	7.38	$13,234
May 2005	0	1,799	45.22	6.65	$11,965
Apr 2005	0	1,557	49.20	7.36	$11,460
Mar 2005	0	1,466	50.37	7.15	$10,489
Feb 2005	102	1,907	45.22	6.31	$16,649
Jan 2005	0	1,873	43.16	6.32	$11,841
Dec 2004	0	1,783	39.86	6.75	$12,037
Nov 2004	0	1,893	45.28	6.33	$11,983
Oct 2004	30	2,131	49.70	6.52	$15,375
Sep 2004	25	2,033	43.24	5.28	$11,823
Aug 2004	43	1,888	42.37	5.55	$12,302
Jul 2004	24	1,939	38.28	6.08	$12,716
Jun 2004	0	1,847	36.10	6.43	$11,882
May 2004	51	1,752	37.48	6.49	$13,290
Apr 2004	38	1,697	34.47	5.86	$11,252
Mar 2004	32	1,849	34.36	5.53	$11,325
Feb 2004	30	1,613	32.45	5.51	$9,861
Jan 2004	80	1,722	32.03	6.30	$13,410
Dec 2003	43	1,687	30.26	6.30	$11,932
Nov 2003	30	2,150	28.80	4.60	$10,744
Oct 2003	50	2,301	28.17	4.76	$12,360
Sep 2003	98	2,173	26.31	4.75	$12,899
Aug 2003	127	1,998	29.76	5.13	$14,029
Jul 2003	148	824	29.41	5.17	$8,613
Jun 2003	77	1,336	28.56	5.98	$10,192
May 2003	43	1,604	26.59	5.97	$10,724
Apr 2003	41	1,665	26.67	5.41	$10,097
Mar 2003	70	1,615	31.14	6.10	$12,025
Feb 2003	50	1,311	33.48	7.93	$12,065
Jan 2003	70	1,164	30.31	5.58	$8,619
Dec 2002	59	2,129	26.91	4.85	$11,921
Nov 2002	51	1,889	24.66	4.14	$9,072
Oct 2002	52	2,394	26.46	4.23	$11,500
Sep 2002	48	2,229	27.44	3.64	$9,420
Aug 2002	112	2,415	25.96	3.16	$10,549
Jul 2002	68	2,512	24.58	3.06	$9,363
Jun 2002	158	3,951	23.73	3.34	$16,939
May 2002	45	4,114	24.66	3.58	$15,854
Apr 2002	17	2,638	23.65	3.51	$9,668
Mar 2002	37	1,053	22.00	3.10	$4,081
Feb 2002	193	1,077	18.22	2.38	$6,075
Jan 2002	71	2,917	17.17	2.38	$8,149
Dec 2001	0	2,415	16.93	2.36	$5,710
Nov 2001	137	3,214	18.07	2.41	$10,207
Oct 2001	0	2,856	19.78	2.53	$7,222
Sep 2001	0	3,662	24.26	2.25	$8,244
Aug 2001	0	2,569	24.87	3.05	$7,844
Jul 2001	112	3,412	23.93	3.20	$13,589
Jun 2001	0	2,044	24.56	3.82	$7,817
May 2001	0	3,417	25.52	4.31	$14,718
Apr 2001	83	2,754	24.68	5.34	$16,742
Mar 2001	0	2,552	24.54	5.38	$13,721
Feb 2001	85	2,805	27.75	5.77	$18,535
Jan 2001	0	2,962	27.47	8.40	$24,877
Dec 2000	0	2,560	26.88	9.12	$23,354
Nov 2000	102	2,588	32.21	5.66	$17,928
Oct 2000	0	3,699	31.23	5.15	$19,033
Sep 2000	1	3,251	31.87	5.19	$16,893
Aug 2000	85	2,861	29.64	4.54	$15,510
Jul 2000	0	3,020	28.53	4.09	$12,351
Jun 2000	80	2,325	29.30	4.40	$12,568
May 2000	0	2,354	27.26	3.68	$8,662
Apr 2000	97	2,563	24.51	3.12	$10,364
Mar 2000	0	2,636	28.42	2.86	$7,538
Feb 2000	101	2,026	27.62	2.73	$8,314
Jan 2000	0	2,614	25.27	2.48	$6,484
Dec 1999	0	2,886	24.28	2.42	$6,995
Nov 1999	99	2,638	23.19	2.43	$8,717
Oct 1999	0	2,596	20.98	2.80	$7,278
Sep 1999	99	2,894	21.75	2.62	$9,732
Aug 1999	0	2,630	19.26	2.88	$7,563
Jul 1999	0	2,694	17.89	2.37	$6,391
Jun 1999	98	2,646	15.94	2.36	$7,812
May 1999	0	2,635	15.79	2.32	$6,116
Apr 1999	80	2,531	15.10	2.21	$6,797
Mar 1999	0	2,597	12.47	1.84	$4,774
Feb 1999	81	2,461	9.98	1.82	$5,282
Jan 1999	91	3,074	10.38	1.90	$6,785
Dec 1998	0	2,714	9.20	1.77	$4,813
Nov 1998	81	2,547	10.89	2.19	$6,449
Oct 1998	0	2,775	12.42	1.97	$5,465
Sep 1998	98	2,509	12.59	2.08	$6,459
Aug 1998	0	2,838	11.30	1.91	$5,413
Jul 1998	90	2,555	11.74	2.24	$6,773
Jun 1998	0	2,805	11.24	2.24	$6,276
May 1998	88	2,918	12.62	2.21	$7,549
Apr 1998	89	2,815	13.04	2.51	$8,213
Mar 1998	0	3,142	12.80	2.31	$7,256
Feb 1998	87	2,767	13.95	2.30	$7,575
Jan 1998	0	3,165	14.70	2.15	$6,820
Dec 1997	88	3,162	16.32	2.41	$9,060
Nov 1997	83	3,307	18.19	3.09	$11,723
Oct 1997	0	3,594	19.25	3.15	$11,320
Sep 1997	73	0	17.74	2.95	$1,295
Aug 1997	0	0	17.86	2.55	$0
Jul 1997	0	0	17.58	2.25	$0
Jun 1997	0	1,078	17.24	2.26	$2,433
May 1997	81	2,085	18.97	2.31	$6,350
Apr 1997	0	1,961	17.88	2.08	$4,084
Mar 1997	84	2,146	18.95	1.94	$5,753
Feb 1997	0	2,381	20.49	2.21	$5,252
Jan 1997	83	2,504	23.48	3.54	$10,812
Dec 1996	85	2,825	23.32	—	$1,982
Nov 1996	0	2,778	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	86	2,579	23.31	—	$2,005
Sep 1996	0	2,324	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	86	2,380	20.26	—	$1,742
Jul 1996	0	2,259	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	83	2,484	18.73	—	$1,555
May 1996	81	2,377	19.43	—	$1,574
Apr 1996	0	2,745	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	87	2,781	19.38	—	$1,686
Feb 1996	88	2,499	16.98	—	$1,494
Jan 1996	0	2,906	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	87	2,874	17.19	—	$1,496
Nov 1995	87	2,834	16.00	—	$1,392
Oct 1995	0	2,859	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	96	2,916	16.18	—	$1,553
Aug 1995	0	3,466	15.92	—	$0
Jul 1995	94	3,983	15.24	—	$1,433
Jun 1995	90	3,978	16.41	—	$1,477
May 1995	0	3,640	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	198	2,811	17.73	—	$3,511
Mar 1995	0	2,903	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	116	3,827	16.58	—	$1,923
Jan 1995	0	0	15.92	—	$0
Dec 1994	0	2,318	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	124	2,755	15.90	—	$1,972
Oct 1994	0	2,426	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	113	2,867	15.29	—	$1,728
Aug 1994	0	3,510	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	94	4,053	17.56	—	$1,651
Jun 1994	0	3,777	17.09	—	$0
May 1994	83	4,195	15.88	—	$1,318
Apr 1994	79	3,969	14.14	—	$1,117
Mar 1994	0	4,277	12.46	—	$0
Feb 1994	91	3,826	12.50	—	$1,138
Jan 1994	0	4,406	12.66	—	$0
Dec 1993	104	3,429	12.33	—	$1,282
Nov 1993	80	3,056	14.49	—	$1,159
Oct 1993	0	3,173	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	103	3,082	15.03	—	$1,548
Aug 1993	0	3,473	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	109	3,212	15.46	—	$1,685
Jun 1993	0	3,309	16.79	—	$0
May 1993	117	3,519	17.68	—	$2,069
Apr 1993	0	3,030	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	83	2,702	18.14	—	$1,506
Feb 1993	88	2,805	17.90	—	$1,575
Jan 1993	86	3,028	16.93	—	$1,456

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.

Apr 2011 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Condensate            81 bbl  × $105.96 =     $8,583
Gas                    0 Mcf  × $  4.33 =         $0

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Month total                                   $8,583

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/85808 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.