HELWEG, W.

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

Operated by APACHE CORPORATION (P-5 27200) 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 14434District 03Field 34733500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$765 k

Jan 1993 – Jul 2008

Value, last 12 filed months

$71 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

187

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The GIDDINGS (AUSTIN CHALK-3) 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 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.

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
Oil	Disposition	23,345 bbl	$615,666
Casinghead gas	Production	58,240 Mcf	$149,685
Total			$765,351

24,688 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 42 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 30.4237, -96.7366. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.42368, -96.73659 · 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

8,137 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

13.3 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 8,137 ft.

Completions filed

May 2008

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Aug 2021

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 13.3 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 13.3 years and 13.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-05131452	1	8,137 ft	May 2008	Aug 2021	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 (187)

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

187 months


Jul 2008	0	0	131.08	11.39	$0
Jun 2008	0	0	131.33	13.03	$0
May 2008	15	0	123.17	11.57	$1,848
Apr 2008	96	72	110.31	10.45	$11,343
Mar 2008	179	174	101.90	9.66	$19,922
Feb 2008	0	178	92.53	8.77	$1,561
Jan 2008	180	241	90.38	8.21	$18,246
Dec 2007	0	82	88.33	7.30	$599
Nov 2007	0	95	91.67	7.29	$693
Oct 2007	180	88	82.85	6.92	$15,522
Sep 2007	0	115	75.84	6.24	$718
Aug 2007	0	133	69.06	6.39	$850
Jul 2007	198	209	70.90	6.39	$15,373
Jun 2007	0	154	62.00	7.55	$1,162
May 2007	0	153	58.74	7.85	$1,200
Apr 2007	196	194	59.61	7.81	$13,198
Mar 2007	179	192	56.92	7.30	$11,591
Feb 2007	0	155	55.10	8.22	$1,273
Jan 2007	188	175	50.30	6.73	$10,634
Dec 2006	0	195	56.65	6.92	$1,349
Nov 2006	0	181	54.20	7.62	$1,379
Oct 2006	192	172	54.90	6.01	$11,575
Sep 2006	0	216	60.08	5.04	$1,088
Aug 2006	0	219	68.71	7.34	$1,607
Jul 2006	190	207	69.37	6.34	$14,493
Jun 2006	0	208	66.28	6.38	$1,328
May 2006	190	207	66.01	6.42	$13,872
Apr 2006	0	201	64.39	7.36	$1,479
Mar 2006	190	210	56.70	7.08	$12,260
Feb 2006	0	138	57.59	7.75	$1,070
Jan 2006	191	230	60.59	8.93	$13,627
Dec 2005	0	233	54.94	13.42	$3,126
Nov 2005	0	79	54.69	10.59	$836
Oct 2005	0	220	58.34	13.80	$3,035
Sep 2005	190	228	61.45	12.08	$14,430
Aug 2005	0	201	61.51	9.80	$1,969
Jul 2005	0	242	55.69	7.84	$1,898
Jun 2005	189	189	52.33	7.38	$11,285
May 2005	178	231	45.22	6.65	$9,586
Apr 2005	0	223	49.20	7.36	$1,641
Mar 2005	188	223	50.37	7.15	$11,065
Feb 2005	0	188	45.22	6.31	$1,187
Jan 2005	175	210	43.16	6.32	$8,881
Dec 2004	187	157	39.86	6.75	$8,514
Nov 2004	0	163	45.28	6.33	$1,032
Oct 2004	188	195	49.70	6.52	$10,614
Sep 2004	0	211	43.24	5.28	$1,115
Aug 2004	189	212	42.37	5.55	$9,185
Jul 2004	0	248	38.28	6.08	$1,509
Jun 2004	0	272	36.10	6.43	$1,750
May 2004	0	196	37.48	6.49	$1,273
Apr 2004	196	245	34.47	5.86	$8,191
Mar 2004	0	263	34.36	5.53	$1,454
Feb 2004	183	244	32.45	5.51	$7,283
Jan 2004	0	246	32.03	6.30	$1,550
Dec 2003	183	248	30.26	6.30	$7,100
Nov 2003	189	0	28.80	4.60	$5,443
Oct 2003	191	275	28.17	4.76	$6,689
Sep 2003	0	89	26.31	4.75	$423
Aug 2003	188	0	29.76	5.13	$5,595
Jul 2003	0	0	29.41	5.17	$0
Jun 2003	182	0	28.56	5.98	$5,198
May 2003	187	66	26.59	5.97	$5,367
Apr 2003	0	244	26.67	5.41	$1,319
Mar 2003	0	245	31.14	6.10	$1,494
Feb 2003	0	220	33.48	7.93	$1,744
Jan 2003	128	225	30.31	5.58	$5,136
Dec 2002	175	232	26.91	4.85	$5,835
Nov 2002	188	225	24.66	4.14	$5,567
Oct 2002	0	280	26.46	4.23	$1,184
Sep 2002	0	268	27.44	3.64	$974
Aug 2002	175	271	25.96	3.16	$5,400
Jul 2002	179	266	24.58	3.06	$5,214
Jun 2002	0	280	23.73	3.34	$935
May 2002	176	288	24.66	3.58	$5,372
Apr 2002	188	284	23.65	3.51	$5,444
Mar 2002	0	251	22.00	3.10	$779
Feb 2002	191	215	18.22	2.38	$3,991
Jan 2002	0	252	17.17	2.38	$599
Dec 2001	185	221	16.93	2.36	$3,655
Nov 2001	180	250	18.07	2.41	$3,854
Oct 2001	189	237	19.78	2.53	$4,338
Sep 2001	0	247	24.26	2.25	$556
Aug 2001	0	264	24.87	3.05	$806
Jul 2001	170	273	23.93	3.20	$4,941
Jun 2001	173	277	24.56	3.82	$5,308
May 2001	182	283	25.52	4.31	$5,864
Apr 2001	0	272	24.68	5.34	$1,451
Mar 2001	172	294	24.54	5.38	$5,802
Feb 2001	182	239	27.75	5.77	$6,429
Jan 2001	174	206	27.47	8.40	$6,510
Dec 2000	0	258	26.88	9.12	$2,354
Nov 2000	163	286	32.21	5.66	$6,868
Oct 2000	173	311	31.23	5.15	$7,003
Sep 2000	349	345	31.87	5.19	$12,912
Aug 2000	0	209	29.64	4.54	$949
Jul 2000	0	291	28.53	4.09	$1,190
Jun 2000	171	231	29.30	4.40	$6,026
May 2000	182	252	27.26	3.68	$5,889
Apr 2000	182	245	24.51	3.12	$5,224
Mar 2000	178	204	28.42	2.86	$5,642
Feb 2000	0	65	27.62	2.73	$177
Jan 2000	186	245	25.27	2.48	$5,308
Dec 1999	0	330	24.28	2.42	$800
Nov 1999	182	341	23.19	2.43	$5,051
Oct 1999	176	358	20.98	2.80	$4,696
Sep 1999	0	364	21.75	2.62	$953
Aug 1999	171	387	19.26	2.88	$4,406
Jul 1999	177	386	17.89	2.37	$4,082
Jun 1999	176	392	15.94	2.36	$3,731
May 1999	0	449	15.79	2.32	$1,042
Apr 1999	178	437	15.10	2.21	$3,653
Mar 1999	181	416	12.47	1.84	$3,022
Feb 1999	173	378	9.98	1.82	$2,414
Jan 1999	161	840	10.38	1.90	$3,267
Dec 1998	179	0	9.20	1.77	$1,647
Nov 1998	173	425	10.89	2.19	$2,813
Oct 1998	359	522	12.42	1.97	$5,487
Sep 1998	176	695	12.59	2.08	$3,663
Aug 1998	120	149	11.30	1.91	$1,640
Jul 1998	0	93	11.74	2.24	$208
Jun 1998	0	148	11.24	2.24	$331
May 1998	0	171	12.62	2.21	$377
Apr 1998	0	169	13.04	2.51	$423
Mar 1998	0	178	12.80	2.31	$411
Feb 1998	0	164	13.95	2.30	$377
Jan 1998	0	199	14.70	2.15	$429
Dec 1997	179	205	16.32	2.41	$3,416
Nov 1997	0	229	18.19	3.09	$707
Oct 1997	176	321	19.25	3.15	$4,399
Sep 1997	176	395	17.74	2.95	$4,289
Aug 1997	178	412	17.86	2.55	$4,232
Jul 1997	178	488	17.58	2.25	$4,226
Jun 1997	179	472	17.24	2.26	$4,151
May 1997	0	576	18.97	2.31	$1,330
Apr 1997	0	353	17.88	2.08	$735
Mar 1997	190	510	18.95	1.94	$4,589
Feb 1997	334	514	20.49	2.21	$7,977
Jan 1997	0	444	23.48	3.54	$1,572
Dec 1996	388	562	23.32	—	$9,048
Nov 1996	0	486	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	181	533	23.31	—	$4,219
Sep 1996	0	481	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	189	615	20.26	—	$3,829
Jul 1996	187	567	19.55	—	$3,656
Jun 1996	180	556	18.73	—	$3,371
May 1996	187	583	19.43	—	$3,633
Apr 1996	187	567	21.51	—	$4,022
Mar 1996	191	598	19.38	—	$3,702
Feb 1996	366	649	16.98	—	$6,215
Jan 1996	197	647	17.07	—	$3,363
Dec 1995	175	530	17.19	—	$3,008
Nov 1995	193	584	16.00	—	$3,088
Oct 1995	178	622	15.43	—	$2,747
Sep 1995	369	611	16.18	—	$5,970
Aug 1995	389	639	15.92	—	$6,193
Jul 1995	377	767	15.24	—	$5,745
Jun 1995	192	632	16.41	—	$3,151
May 1995	0	274	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	0	134	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	0	161	16.44	—	$0
Feb 1995	0	90	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	173	318	15.92	—	$2,754
Dec 1994	363	567	15.03	—	$5,456
Nov 1994	180	686	15.90	—	$2,862
Oct 1994	184	708	15.58	—	$2,867
Sep 1994	368	566	15.29	—	$5,627
Aug 1994	160	424	16.13	—	$2,581
Jul 1994	352	454	17.56	—	$6,181
Jun 1994	177	1,011	17.09	—	$3,025
May 1994	364	1,084	15.88	—	$5,780
Apr 1994	179	952	14.14	—	$2,531
Mar 1994	177	1,259	12.46	—	$2,205
Feb 1994	367	1,176	12.50	—	$4,588
Jan 1994	335	984	12.66	—	$4,241
Dec 1993	721	1,308	12.33	—	$8,890
Nov 1993	722	1,299	14.49	—	$10,462
Oct 1993	0	1	15.85	—	$0
Sep 1993	0	0	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	0	0	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	113	1	15.46	—	$1,747
Jun 1993	174	1	16.79	—	$2,921
May 1993	0	1	17.68	—	$0
Apr 1993	0	0	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	0	0	18.14	—	$0
Feb 1993	0	0	17.90	—	$0
Jan 1993	0	0	16.93	—	$0

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 2008 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   15 bbl  × $123.17 =     $1,848
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $ 11.57 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $1,848

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/14434 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.