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Operated by ATASCA RESOURCES, INC. (P-5 35643) 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.

Oil lease lease 12918District 03Field 34733500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$130 k
Jan 1993 – May 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$4 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
89
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead 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
NGPA7none

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
OilDisposition7,653 bbl$124,116
Casinghead gasProduction46,464 Mcf$5,393
Total$129,509

44,012 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 45 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 (8)

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 30.4666, -96.6091. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 1.4 miles.

30.46525, -96.60661 · 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%
8 of 8 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
8 of 8 wells
Median depth
8,458 ft
8 wells filed one
Completion to plug
18.8 years
median over 8 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
8100.0%
A plug date is filed
8100.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
8100.0%
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

Total depth in feet, 8 of 8 wells. Median 8,458 ft, with the middle half between 8,419 and 8,592 ft; the shallowest is 8,400 ft and the deepest 8,730 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

Last completion by decade, 8 of 8 wells, May 1980 – Mar 1985. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
May 1980 – Mar 1985
8 of 8 wells
Plug dates filed
Mar 1985 – Nov 1999
8 of 8 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 18.8 years across the 8 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 12.6 years and 19.1 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

8 wells

42-0513291388,414 ftMar 1985Oct 1994Yes
42-0513125478,420 ftFeb 1981Oct 1999Yes
42-0513099368,400 ftOct 1980Sep 1999Yes
42-0513097558,445 ftOct 1980Oct 1999Yes
42-0513074738,658 ftAug 1980Nov 1999Yes
42-0513074248,470 ftAug 1980Mar 1994Yes
42-0513067928,730 ftMay 1980Mar 1985Yes
42-0513064618,570 ftMay 1980Nov 1999Yes

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 (89)

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

89 months

May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 2000134028.422.86$3,808
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990023.192.43$0
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 19990015.942.36$0
May 19990015.792.32$0
Apr 19990015.102.21$0
Mar 19990012.471.84$0
Feb 1999009.981.82$0
Jan 19990010.381.90$0
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 19980012.421.97$0
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 19980011.301.91$0
Jul 19980011.742.24$0
Jun 19980011.242.24$0
May 19980012.622.21$0
Apr 19980013.042.51$0
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19970016.322.41$0
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 19970017.742.95$0
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 1997042517.242.26$959
May 1997051818.972.31$1,196
Apr 1997071417.882.08$1,487
Mar 1997062218.951.94$1,206
Feb 199705120.492.21$113
Jan 1997012223.483.54$432
Dec 1996035123.32$0
Nov 1996024421.97$0
Oct 1996052323.31$0
Sep 1996033222.22$0
Aug 1996047620.26$0
Jul 1996055219.55$0
Jun 1996020918.73$0
May 199613487419.43$2,604
Apr 1996083921.51$0
Mar 199609519.38$0
Feb 199619521916.98$3,311
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19951017.19$17
Nov 1995176016.00$2,816
Oct 199504015.43$0
Sep 1995021516.18$0
Aug 199530030415.92$4,776
Jul 1995056915.24$0
Jun 199519182316.41$3,134
May 199501,05317.56$0
Apr 19954241,23517.73$7,518
Mar 19951861,42316.44$3,058
Feb 19957131,61016.58$11,822
Jan 19951841,38715.92$2,929
Dec 1994081815.03$0
Nov 19946312,00915.90$10,033
Oct 1994057215.58$0
Sep 19945412,09315.29$8,272
Aug 19945031,37216.13$8,113
Jul 19943651,80717.56$6,409
Jun 199417647917.09$3,008
May 199433385615.88$5,288
Apr 199416872114.14$2,376
Mar 199411941712.46$1,483
Feb 1994032112.50$0
Jan 1994018612.66$0
Dec 19936781,05212.33$8,360
Nov 1993411,07814.49$594
Oct 199301,02515.85$0
Sep 19933671,62515.03$5,516
Aug 199311,18815.66$16
Jul 19931772,04515.46$2,736
Jun 19931751,81616.79$2,938
May 199312,52017.68$18
Apr 19931851,58218.05$3,339
Mar 19933681,65318.14$6,676
Feb 199301,42117.90$0
Jan 19931861,98316.93$3,149

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
Oil                  134 bbl  × $ 28.42 =     $3,808
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.86 =         $0

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Month total                                   $3,808

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/O/12918 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.