BIRCH CREEK PARK

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

Operated by ADAMS RESOURCES EXPL. CORP. (P-5 3996) 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 14871District 03Field 34733500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.1 M

Jan 1993 – Apr 2017

Value, last 12 filed months

$11 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

292

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	3	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	6,836 bbl	$209,271
Casinghead gas	Production	365,620 Mcf	$886,667
Total			$1,095,939

148,303 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 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 (3)

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 30.3101, -96.6209. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

30.30863, -96.62095 · 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%

3 of 3 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

3 of 3 wells

Median depth

9,986 ft

3 wells filed one

Completion to plug

17.8 years

median over 3 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

3100.0%

A plug date is filed

3100.0%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

3100.0%

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

Between 9,848 and 12,825 ft, median 9,986 ft, over the 3 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Jan 1981 – Apr 1991

3 of 3 wells

Plug dates filed

Oct 1998 – Jan 2017

3 of 3 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 17.8 years across the 3 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 12.7 years and 25.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

3 wells


42-05132448	2	12,825 ft	Apr 1991	Oct 1998	Yes
42-05132378	3	9,986 ft	Jun 1983	Jan 2017	Yes
42-05130818	1	9,848 ft	Jan 1981	Oct 1998	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 (292)

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

292 months


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	70	0	42.49	2.64	$2,974
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	148	52	41.62	2.92	$6,312
Jun 2016	0	444	45.35	2.69	$1,193
May 2016	0	385	42.52	1.99	$767
Apr 2016	0	427	36.56	1.99	$850
Mar 2016	1	445	33.01	1.79	$831
Feb 2016	1	578	26.47	2.06	$1,219
Jan 2016	0	550	27.35	2.36	$1,300
Dec 2015	1	495	32.36	2.00	$1,023
Nov 2015	0	130	38.79	2.17	$282
Oct 2015	1	175	43.55	2.43	$468
Sep 2015	0	202	42.99	2.76	$557
Aug 2015	0	473	40.16	2.87	$1,359
Jul 2015	0	489	48.15	2.95	$1,440
Jun 2015	0	602	56.15	2.88	$1,735
May 2015	0	781	55.21	2.96	$2,308
Apr 2015	1	780	49.82	2.71	$2,161
Mar 2015	153	759	42.89	2.93	$8,790
Feb 2015	1	461	44.66	2.98	$1,417
Jan 2015	0	656	43.43	3.10	$2,034
Dec 2014	0	816	54.69	3.59	$2,931
Nov 2014	1	694	70.46	4.25	$3,021
Oct 2014	1	832	78.30	3.90	$3,324
Sep 2014	0	1,176	86.16	4.05	$4,757
Aug 2014	0	1,420	89.39	4.04	$5,730
Jul 2014	5	765	96.56	4.18	$3,680
Jun 2014	0	535	98.16	4.74	$2,534
May 2014	0	670	94.73	4.73	$3,167
Apr 2014	0	801	95.94	4.81	$3,852
Mar 2014	123	792	95.89	5.06	$15,799
Feb 2014	0	678	97.40	6.19	$4,198
Jan 2014	0	596	90.40	4.86	$2,897
Dec 2013	0	599	91.82	4.35	$2,608
Nov 2013	0	587	88.85	3.74	$2,194
Oct 2013	0	676	97.42	3.78	$2,555
Sep 2013	0	835	104.11	3.72	$3,104
Aug 2013	0	780	104.25	3.52	$2,748
Jul 2013	1	845	102.52	3.72	$3,244
Jun 2013	0	975	94.40	3.93	$3,835
May 2013	0	1,315	94.83	4.15	$5,456
Apr 2013	0	725	93.96	4.28	$3,105
Mar 2013	0	783	93.62	3.91	$3,064
Feb 2013	0	925	91.23	3.42	$3,163
Jan 2013	1	964	91.60	3.42	$3,388
Dec 2012	0	849	86.77	3.42	$2,904
Nov 2012	89	877	86.95	3.62	$10,918
Oct 2012	0	921	89.38	3.40	$3,131
Sep 2012	0	977	94.67	2.92	$2,851
Aug 2012	0	983	92.66	2.91	$2,859
Jul 2012	0	1,049	85.13	3.02	$3,169
Jun 2012	0	1,104	79.82	2.52	$2,781
May 2012	0	1,100	91.61	2.49	$2,737
Apr 2012	0	1,009	101.65	2.00	$2,015
Mar 2012	0	996	105.05	2.22	$2,213
Feb 2012	0	961	101.10	2.57	$2,470
Jan 2012	59	1,023	98.09	2.73	$8,584
Dec 2011	0	1,013	96.87	3.24	$3,282
Nov 2011	1	879	95.72	3.31	$3,006
Oct 2011	0	945	84.98	3.65	$3,448
Sep 2011	0	1,036	83.62	3.99	$4,129
Aug 2011	0	973	83.40	4.15	$4,037
Jul 2011	165	1,030	94.14	4.52	$20,186
Jun 2011	0	1,272	92.90	4.64	$5,902
May 2011	0	1,333	98.13	4.40	$5,872
Apr 2011	0	1,148	105.96	4.33	$4,975
Mar 2011	1	1,280	96.36	4.06	$5,290
Feb 2011	1	1,058	85.64	4.18	$4,508
Jan 2011	1	1,211	86.50	4.59	$5,644
Dec 2010	0	1,209	85.73	4.35	$5,256
Nov 2010	0	1,135	80.84	3.80	$4,308
Oct 2010	0	1,235	78.10	3.51	$4,333
Sep 2010	0	1,194	72.63	3.98	$4,751
Aug 2010	0	1,324	73.68	4.42	$5,851
Jul 2010	0	1,405	72.55	4.74	$6,655
Jun 2010	102	1,361	70.36	4.91	$13,860
May 2010	0	1,186	71.12	4.24	$5,023
Apr 2010	0	1,186	81.69	4.12	$4,890
Mar 2010	0	1,413	78.39	4.39	$6,201
Feb 2010	0	1,253	73.58	5.44	$6,819
Jan 2010	40	1,433	74.36	5.96	$11,521
Dec 2009	0	1,446	71.44	5.48	$7,930
Nov 2009	166	1,607	74.59	3.75	$18,411
Oct 2009	1	1,837	72.54	4.11	$7,623
Sep 2009	0	1,691	65.54	3.06	$5,182
Aug 2009	0	2,115	67.42	3.22	$6,807
Jul 2009	1	2,166	61.13	3.46	$7,565
Jun 2009	0	144	66.16	3.90	$561
May 2009	0	277	54.74	3.93	$1,087
Apr 2009	0	345	46.77	3.59	$1,238
Mar 2009	0	379	42.14	4.06	$1,538
Feb 2009	0	372	32.81	4.63	$1,723
Jan 2009	0	436	35.86	5.37	$2,342
Dec 2008	174	470	37.10	5.98	$9,265
Nov 2008	0	462	55.49	6.86	$3,169
Oct 2008	0	488	75.24	6.92	$3,378
Sep 2008	0	483	101.76	7.88	$3,805
Aug 2008	0	443	114.22	8.48	$3,758
Jul 2008	0	452	131.08	11.39	$5,148
Jun 2008	0	83	131.33	13.03	$1,082
May 2008	0	154	123.17	11.57	$1,782
Apr 2008	0	86	110.31	10.45	$899
Mar 2008	0	379	101.90	9.66	$3,663
Feb 2008	0	372	92.53	8.77	$3,263
Jan 2008	0	423	90.38	8.21	$3,471
Dec 2007	0	428	88.33	7.30	$3,125
Nov 2007	0	461	91.67	7.29	$3,361
Oct 2007	0	433	82.85	6.92	$2,997
Sep 2007	0	507	75.84	6.24	$3,166
Aug 2007	0	567	69.06	6.39	$3,622
Jul 2007	0	545	70.90	6.39	$3,481
Jun 2007	174	575	62.00	7.55	$15,128
May 2007	0	314	58.74	7.85	$2,464
Apr 2007	0	316	59.61	7.81	$2,466
Mar 2007	0	352	56.92	7.30	$2,570
Feb 2007	0	283	55.10	8.22	$2,325
Jan 2007	0	390	50.30	6.73	$2,623
Dec 2006	0	416	56.65	6.92	$2,878
Nov 2006	0	630	54.20	7.62	$4,799
Oct 2006	0	685	54.90	6.01	$4,119
Sep 2006	0	301	60.08	5.04	$1,516
Aug 2006	0	451	68.71	7.34	$3,310
Jul 2006	0	491	69.37	6.34	$3,114
Jun 2006	0	500	66.28	6.38	$3,192
May 2006	0	520	66.01	6.42	$3,341
Apr 2006	0	617	64.39	7.36	$4,541
Mar 2006	0	620	56.70	7.08	$4,391
Feb 2006	0	528	57.59	7.75	$4,093
Jan 2006	0	577	60.59	8.93	$5,155
Dec 2005	0	759	54.94	13.42	$10,182
Nov 2005	0	854	54.69	10.59	$9,042
Oct 2005	0	852	58.34	13.80	$11,754
Sep 2005	0	846	61.45	12.08	$10,219
Aug 2005	0	843	61.51	9.80	$8,259
Jul 2005	185	780	55.69	7.84	$16,421
Jun 2005	0	780	52.33	7.38	$5,757
May 2005	0	612	45.22	6.65	$4,071
Apr 2005	0	913	49.20	7.36	$6,720
Mar 2005	0	1,146	50.37	7.15	$8,199
Feb 2005	3	1,352	45.22	6.31	$8,669
Jan 2005	0	944	43.16	6.32	$5,968
Dec 2004	0	878	39.86	6.75	$5,927
Nov 2004	0	609	45.28	6.33	$3,855
Oct 2004	1	293	49.70	6.52	$1,959
Sep 2004	1	270	43.24	5.28	$1,470
Aug 2004	1	329	42.37	5.55	$1,869
Jul 2004	309	337	38.28	6.08	$13,879
Jun 2004	0	338	36.10	6.43	$2,174
May 2004	0	1	37.48	6.49	$6
Apr 2004	0	292	34.47	5.86	$1,711
Mar 2004	0	226	34.36	5.53	$1,250
Feb 2004	0	988	32.45	5.51	$5,444
Jan 2004	1	637	32.03	6.30	$4,045
Dec 2003	0	246	30.26	6.30	$1,550
Nov 2003	0	299	28.80	4.60	$1,374
Oct 2003	0	396	28.17	4.76	$1,885
Sep 2003	0	358	26.31	4.75	$1,700
Aug 2003	0	576	29.76	5.13	$2,955
Jul 2003	0	698	29.41	5.17	$3,609
Jun 2003	0	761	28.56	5.98	$4,553
May 2003	0	920	26.59	5.97	$5,495
Apr 2003	0	919	26.67	5.41	$4,969
Mar 2003	0	907	31.14	6.10	$5,529
Feb 2003	1	799	33.48	7.93	$6,366
Jan 2003	143	864	30.31	5.58	$9,157
Dec 2002	1	955	26.91	4.85	$4,662
Nov 2002	0	1,116	24.66	4.14	$4,617
Oct 2002	1	1,635	26.46	4.23	$6,941
Sep 2002	0	1,456	27.44	3.64	$5,293
Aug 2002	0	376	25.96	3.16	$1,190
Jul 2002	0	184	24.58	3.06	$563
Jun 2002	0	613	23.73	3.34	$2,046
May 2002	1	670	24.66	3.58	$2,426
Apr 2002	0	833	23.65	3.51	$2,926
Mar 2002	344	935	22.00	3.10	$10,469
Feb 2002	0	1,023	18.22	2.38	$2,430
Jan 2002	1	1,407	17.17	2.38	$3,360
Dec 2001	0	1,547	16.93	2.36	$3,658
Nov 2001	1	1,755	18.07	2.41	$4,240
Oct 2001	1	2,046	19.78	2.53	$5,194
Sep 2001	0	2,392	24.26	2.25	$5,385
Aug 2001	2	2,875	24.87	3.05	$8,828
Jul 2001	2	1,953	23.93	3.20	$6,292
Jun 2001	0	402	24.56	3.82	$1,537
May 2001	1	600	25.52	4.31	$2,610
Apr 2001	0	647	24.68	5.34	$3,452
Mar 2001	0	826	24.54	5.38	$4,441
Feb 2001	1	840	27.75	5.77	$4,872
Jan 2001	0	1,022	27.47	8.40	$8,584
Dec 2000	0	735	26.88	9.12	$6,705
Nov 2000	0	885	32.21	5.66	$5,007
Oct 2000	1	1,104	31.23	5.15	$5,712
Sep 2000	65	1,224	31.87	5.19	$8,420
Aug 2000	0	1,543	29.64	4.54	$7,006
Jul 2000	155	1,452	28.53	4.09	$10,360
Jun 2000	0	1,618	29.30	4.40	$7,115
May 2000	0	1,911	27.26	3.68	$7,032
Apr 2000	0	1,723	24.51	3.12	$5,369
Mar 2000	154	1,874	28.42	2.86	$9,736
Feb 2000	0	1,640	27.62	2.73	$4,471
Jan 2000	0	1,425	25.27	2.48	$3,535
Dec 1999	11	1,631	24.28	2.42	$4,220
Nov 1999	178	1,402	23.19	2.43	$7,540
Oct 1999	12	1,891	20.98	2.80	$5,554
Sep 1999	5	1,487	21.75	2.62	$4,003
Aug 1999	0	867	19.26	2.88	$2,493
Jul 1999	0	1,677	17.89	2.37	$3,978
Jun 1999	0	1,393	15.94	2.36	$3,290
May 1999	186	1,235	15.79	2.32	$5,803
Apr 1999	0	990	15.10	2.21	$2,186
Mar 1999	2	1,042	12.47	1.84	$1,940
Feb 1999	0	1,037	9.98	1.82	$1,885
Jan 1999	3	1,243	10.38	1.90	$2,393
Dec 1998	1	576	9.20	1.77	$1,031
Nov 1998	1	650	10.89	2.19	$1,432
Oct 1998	3	1,170	12.42	1.97	$2,341
Sep 1998	246	1,856	12.59	2.08	$6,962
Aug 1998	16	1,732	11.30	1.91	$3,484
Jul 1998	8	1,770	11.74	2.24	$4,054
Jun 1998	5	1,770	11.24	2.24	$4,016
May 1998	4	1,647	12.62	2.21	$3,684
Apr 1998	8	1,782	13.04	2.51	$4,569
Mar 1998	21	2,041	12.80	2.31	$4,982
Feb 1998	359	1,705	13.95	2.30	$8,928
Jan 1998	8	1,443	14.70	2.15	$3,227
Dec 1997	8	189	16.32	2.41	$586
Nov 1997	6	57	18.19	3.09	$285
Oct 1997	14	517	19.25	3.15	$1,898
Sep 1997	8	771	17.74	2.95	$2,420
Aug 1997	1	1,343	17.86	2.55	$3,449
Jul 1997	13	1,638	17.58	2.25	$3,909
Jun 1997	13	1,429	17.24	2.26	$3,450
May 1997	10	1,766	18.97	2.31	$4,267
Apr 1997	13	1,766	17.88	2.08	$3,911
Mar 1997	10	2,094	18.95	1.94	$4,250
Feb 1997	0	2,183	20.49	2.21	$4,815
Jan 1997	170	3,017	23.48	3.54	$14,671
Dec 1996	12	3,320	23.32	—	$280
Nov 1996	7	2,422	21.97	—	$154
Oct 1996	8	1,669	23.31	—	$186
Sep 1996	8	1,179	22.22	—	$178
Aug 1996	178	1,457	20.26	—	$3,606
Jul 1996	18	2,317	19.55	—	$352
Jun 1996	18	2,597	18.73	—	$337
May 1996	21	2,210	19.43	—	$408
Apr 1996	45	1,396	21.51	—	$968
Mar 1996	7	1,021	19.38	—	$136
Feb 1996	171	511	16.98	—	$2,904
Jan 1996	14	696	17.07	—	$239
Dec 1995	13	731	17.19	—	$223
Nov 1995	18	740	16.00	—	$288
Oct 1995	5	490	15.43	—	$77
Sep 1995	7	538	16.18	—	$113
Aug 1995	10	2,699	15.92	—	$159
Jul 1995	145	3,497	15.24	—	$2,210
Jun 1995	9	2,573	16.41	—	$148
May 1995	11	3,371	17.56	—	$193
Apr 1995	177	2,182	17.73	—	$3,138
Mar 1995	13	2,938	16.44	—	$214
Feb 1995	4	2,448	16.58	—	$66
Jan 1995	4	2,506	15.92	—	$64
Dec 1994	173	3,810	15.03	—	$2,600
Nov 1994	12	3,839	15.90	—	$191
Oct 1994	6	1,750	15.58	—	$93
Sep 1994	6	2,418	15.29	—	$92
Aug 1994	5	3,323	16.13	—	$81
Jul 1994	120	3,529	17.56	—	$2,107
Jun 1994	4	3,547	17.09	—	$68
May 1994	6	4,721	15.88	—	$95
Apr 1994	181	3,951	14.14	—	$2,559
Mar 1994	6	4,248	12.46	—	$75
Feb 1994	7	3,638	12.50	—	$88
Jan 1994	175	4,317	12.66	—	$2,216
Dec 1993	6	4,916	12.33	—	$74
Nov 1993	155	5,282	14.49	—	$2,246
Oct 1993	5	4,530	15.85	—	$79
Sep 1993	168	3,718	15.03	—	$2,525
Aug 1993	4	5,584	15.66	—	$63
Jul 1993	169	5,459	15.46	—	$2,613
Jun 1993	2	5,766	16.79	—	$34
May 1993	152	5,665	17.68	—	$2,687
Apr 1993	0	5,113	18.05	—	$0
Mar 1993	173	5,096	18.14	—	$3,138
Feb 1993	1	3,642	17.90	—	$18
Jan 1993	174	4,933	16.93	—	$2,946

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.

Nov 2016 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   70 bbl  × $ 42.49 =     $2,974
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.64 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $2,974

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/14871 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.