DAWSON, W. UNIT

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

Operated by WCS OIL & GAS CORPORATION (P-5 902624) 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 15314District 03Field 34733500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$3.5 M

Jan 1993 – Mar 2017

Value, last 12 filed months

$12 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

291

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	2	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	120,616 bbl	$2,512,079
Casinghead gas	Production	333,346 Mcf	$1,009,404
Total			$3,521,483

113,156 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 46 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 (2)

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 30.3302, -96.7916. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.4 miles.

30.33020, -96.79156 · 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%

2 of 2 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

2 of 2 wells

Median depth

7,969 ft

2 wells filed one

Completion to plug

14.8 years

median over 2 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

2100.0%

A plug date is filed

2100.0%

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

2100.0%

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 7,838 and 8,100 ft, median 7,969 ft, over the 2 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Feb 1982 – Sep 1994

2 of 2 wells

Plug dates filed

Feb 1989 – Feb 2017

2 of 2 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 14.8 years across the 2 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 10.8 years and 18.6 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

2 wells


42-28731846	1 A	7,838 ft	Sep 1994	Feb 2017	Yes
42-28731070	1	8,100 ft	Feb 1982	Feb 1989	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 (291)

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

291 months


Mar 2017	0	0	46.77	2.98	$0
Feb 2017	89	0	50.45	2.95	$4,490
Jan 2017	0	0	49.41	3.42	$0
Dec 2016	1	8	48.76	3.72	$79
Nov 2016	0	12	42.49	2.64	$32
Oct 2016	0	17	46.19	3.09	$53
Sep 2016	0	4	41.55	3.10	$12
Aug 2016	1	6	41.44	2.92	$59
Jul 2016	173	20	41.62	2.92	$7,259
Jun 2016	0	16	45.35	2.69	$43
May 2016	0	26	42.52	1.99	$52
Apr 2016	0	19	36.56	1.99	$38
Mar 2016	0	19	33.01	1.79	$34
Feb 2016	0	23	26.47	2.06	$47
Jan 2016	0	18	27.35	2.36	$43
Dec 2015	0	12	32.36	2.00	$24
Nov 2015	0	16	38.79	2.17	$35
Oct 2015	0	15	43.55	2.43	$36
Sep 2015	0	14	42.99	2.76	$39
Aug 2015	0	19	40.16	2.87	$55
Jul 2015	0	43	48.15	2.95	$127
Jun 2015	0	50	56.15	2.88	$144
May 2015	0	58	55.21	2.96	$171
Apr 2015	0	37	49.82	2.71	$100
Mar 2015	0	51	42.89	2.93	$150
Feb 2015	157	14	44.66	2.98	$7,053
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	37	89.39	4.04	$149
Jul 2014	0	63	96.56	4.18	$263
Jun 2014	0	70	98.16	4.74	$332
May 2014	1	75	94.73	4.73	$449
Apr 2014	3	63	95.94	4.81	$591
Mar 2014	7	53	95.89	5.06	$939
Feb 2014	5	38	97.40	6.19	$722
Jan 2014	186	42	90.40	4.86	$17,019
Dec 2013	7	47	91.82	4.35	$847
Nov 2013	4	42	88.85	3.74	$512
Oct 2013	1	46	97.42	3.78	$271
Sep 2013	2	42	104.11	3.72	$364
Aug 2013	2	42	104.25	3.52	$356
Jul 2013	2	36	102.52	3.72	$339
Jun 2013	1	40	94.40	3.93	$252
May 2013	0	0	94.83	4.15	$0
Apr 2013	0	0	93.96	4.28	$0
Mar 2013	0	30	93.62	3.91	$117
Feb 2013	0	43	91.23	3.42	$147
Jan 2013	0	48	91.60	3.42	$164
Dec 2012	0	49	86.77	3.42	$168
Nov 2012	0	45	86.95	3.62	$163
Oct 2012	178	49	89.38	3.40	$16,076
Sep 2012	0	58	94.67	2.92	$169
Aug 2012	0	453	92.66	2.91	$1,317
Jul 2012	0	577	85.13	3.02	$1,743
Jun 2012	0	536	79.82	2.52	$1,350
May 2012	170	513	91.61	2.49	$16,850
Apr 2012	0	478	101.65	2.00	$954
Mar 2012	169	515	105.05	2.22	$18,898
Feb 2012	0	475	101.10	2.57	$1,221
Jan 2012	0	598	98.09	2.73	$1,635
Dec 2011	179	598	96.87	3.24	$19,277
Nov 2011	0	595	95.72	3.31	$1,970
Oct 2011	0	661	84.98	3.65	$2,412
Sep 2011	173	552	83.62	3.99	$16,666
Aug 2011	0	686	83.40	4.15	$2,846
Jul 2011	177	674	94.14	4.52	$19,707
Jun 2011	0	720	92.90	4.64	$3,341
May 2011	0	687	98.13	4.40	$3,026
Apr 2011	168	628	105.96	4.33	$20,523
Mar 2011	0	602	96.36	4.06	$2,443
Feb 2011	166	470	85.64	4.18	$16,181
Jan 2011	0	707	86.50	4.59	$3,244
Dec 2010	177	717	85.73	4.35	$18,292
Nov 2010	175	722	80.84	3.80	$16,887
Oct 2010	171	508	78.10	3.51	$15,138
Sep 2010	172	739	72.63	3.98	$15,433
Aug 2010	174	656	73.68	4.42	$15,719
Jul 2010	0	797	72.55	4.74	$3,775
Jun 2010	173	743	70.36	4.91	$15,821
May 2010	0	770	71.12	4.24	$3,261
Apr 2010	174	731	81.69	4.12	$17,228
Mar 2010	196	777	78.39	4.39	$18,774
Feb 2010	0	652	73.58	5.44	$3,548
Jan 2010	0	646	74.36	5.96	$3,853
Dec 2009	180	676	71.44	5.48	$16,566
Nov 2009	0	743	74.59	3.75	$2,787
Oct 2009	177	774	72.54	4.11	$16,021
Sep 2009	0	786	65.54	3.06	$2,409
Aug 2009	0	813	67.42	3.22	$2,617
Jul 2009	178	783	61.13	3.46	$13,594
Jun 2009	0	744	66.16	3.90	$2,898
May 2009	0	728	54.74	3.93	$2,858
Apr 2009	181	704	46.77	3.59	$10,991
Mar 2009	0	808	42.14	4.06	$3,280
Feb 2009	0	760	32.81	4.63	$3,521
Jan 2009	170	699	35.86	5.37	$9,851
Dec 2008	0	808	37.10	5.98	$4,830
Nov 2008	184	787	55.49	6.86	$15,609
Oct 2008	0	747	75.24	6.92	$5,171
Sep 2008	182	799	101.76	7.88	$24,814
Aug 2008	187	745	114.22	8.48	$27,679
Jul 2008	1	978	131.08	11.39	$11,270
Jun 2008	189	1,102	131.33	13.03	$39,183
May 2008	1	510	123.17	11.57	$6,026
Apr 2008	2	77	110.31	10.45	$1,026
Mar 2008	175	722	101.90	9.66	$24,810
Feb 2008	0	720	92.53	8.77	$6,315
Jan 2008	182	766	90.38	8.21	$22,735
Dec 2007	0	823	88.33	7.30	$6,010
Nov 2007	183	824	91.67	7.29	$22,784
Oct 2007	2	863	82.85	6.92	$6,139
Sep 2007	0	737	75.84	6.24	$4,602
Aug 2007	1	690	69.06	6.39	$4,477
Jul 2007	172	772	70.90	6.39	$17,126
Jun 2007	0	891	62.00	7.55	$6,726
May 2007	355	993	58.74	7.85	$28,644
Apr 2007	1	949	59.61	7.81	$7,467
Mar 2007	185	959	56.92	7.30	$17,533
Feb 2007	1	843	55.10	8.22	$6,981
Jan 2007	181	1,012	50.30	6.73	$15,912
Dec 2006	1	1,037	56.65	6.92	$7,231
Nov 2006	181	1,075	54.20	7.62	$17,999
Oct 2006	1	1,216	54.90	6.01	$7,368
Sep 2006	183	1,370	60.08	5.04	$17,896
Aug 2006	3	1,307	68.71	7.34	$9,799
Jul 2006	179	1,081	69.37	6.34	$19,274
Jun 2006	2	1,051	66.28	6.38	$6,842
May 2006	179	1,138	66.01	6.42	$19,127
Apr 2006	3	1,110	64.39	7.36	$8,363
Mar 2006	181	1,136	56.70	7.08	$18,309
Feb 2006	0	914	57.59	7.75	$7,085
Jan 2006	1	1,155	60.59	8.93	$10,379
Dec 2005	181	1,083	54.94	13.42	$24,473
Nov 2005	2	1,117	54.69	10.59	$11,937
Oct 2005	165	1,286	58.34	13.80	$27,367
Sep 2005	1	1,132	61.45	12.08	$13,735
Aug 2005	164	1,405	61.51	9.80	$23,852
Jul 2005	2	1,514	55.69	7.84	$11,987
Jun 2005	162	1,529	52.33	7.38	$19,763
May 2005	2	1,183	45.22	6.65	$7,959
Apr 2005	184	1,432	49.20	7.36	$19,593
Mar 2005	178	1,372	50.37	7.15	$18,782
Feb 2005	0	449	45.22	6.31	$2,834
Jan 2005	180	1,647	43.16	6.32	$18,181
Dec 2004	0	929	39.86	6.75	$6,272
Nov 2004	0	49	45.28	6.33	$310
Oct 2004	159	966	49.70	6.52	$14,196
Sep 2004	0	1,312	43.24	5.28	$6,932
Aug 2004	173	1,403	42.37	5.55	$15,118
Jul 2004	168	1,277	38.28	6.08	$14,201
Jun 2004	1	1,248	36.10	6.43	$8,065
May 2004	176	1,336	37.48	6.49	$15,273
Apr 2004	1	1,328	34.47	5.86	$7,815
Mar 2004	184	1,403	34.36	5.53	$14,081
Feb 2004	177	1,197	32.45	5.51	$12,339
Jan 2004	0	1,027	32.03	6.30	$6,470
Dec 2003	177	1,661	30.26	6.30	$15,823
Nov 2003	4	726	28.80	4.60	$3,451
Oct 2003	189	623	28.17	4.76	$8,289
Sep 2003	0	357	26.31	4.75	$1,696
Aug 2003	2	1,003	29.76	5.13	$5,205
Jul 2003	189	1,504	29.41	5.17	$13,335
Jun 2003	188	1,130	28.56	5.98	$12,130
May 2003	0	1,183	26.59	5.97	$7,066
Apr 2003	188	1,115	26.67	5.41	$11,043
Mar 2003	196	1,307	31.14	6.10	$14,071
Feb 2003	1	1,098	33.48	7.93	$8,736
Jan 2003	196	1,143	30.31	5.58	$12,321
Dec 2002	196	1,223	26.91	4.85	$11,211
Nov 2002	189	1,118	24.66	4.14	$9,286
Oct 2002	0	1,076	26.46	4.23	$4,551
Sep 2002	1	848	27.44	3.64	$3,110
Aug 2002	189	88	25.96	3.16	$5,185
Jul 2002	0	822	24.58	3.06	$2,517
Jun 2002	185	657	23.73	3.34	$6,583
May 2002	2	1,652	24.66	3.58	$5,970
Apr 2002	190	1,511	23.65	3.51	$9,801
Mar 2002	197	2,192	22.00	3.10	$11,135
Feb 2002	188	1,200	18.22	2.38	$6,276
Jan 2002	0	153	17.17	2.38	$363
Dec 2001	193	1,095	16.93	2.36	$5,857
Nov 2001	196	1,677	18.07	2.41	$7,576
Oct 2001	191	1,960	19.78	2.53	$8,735
Sep 2001	3	1,744	24.26	2.25	$3,999
Aug 2001	191	2,196	24.87	3.05	$11,455
Jul 2001	195	2,216	23.93	3.20	$11,751
Jun 2001	185	2,070	24.56	3.82	$12,460
May 2001	186	2,197	25.52	4.31	$14,210
Apr 2001	188	1,977	24.68	5.34	$15,188
Mar 2001	187	2,196	24.54	5.38	$16,396
Feb 2001	168	1,259	27.75	5.77	$11,923
Jan 2001	32	1,191	27.47	8.40	$10,882
Dec 2000	197	1,085	26.88	9.12	$15,193
Nov 2000	6	1,054	32.21	5.66	$6,157
Oct 2000	183	1,339	31.23	5.15	$12,605
Sep 2000	180	1,182	31.87	5.19	$11,867
Aug 2000	2	1,274	29.64	4.54	$5,844
Jul 2000	198	700	28.53	4.09	$8,512
Jun 2000	5	1,074	29.30	4.40	$4,869
May 2000	193	1,280	27.26	3.68	$9,971
Apr 2000	3	1,122	24.51	3.12	$3,570
Mar 2000	192	1,421	28.42	2.86	$9,520
Feb 2000	191	1,305	27.62	2.73	$8,834
Jan 2000	191	1,696	25.27	2.48	$9,034
Dec 1999	3	1,261	24.28	2.42	$3,129
Nov 1999	181	1,483	23.19	2.43	$7,807
Oct 1999	190	1,529	20.98	2.80	$8,273
Sep 1999	187	1,298	21.75	2.62	$7,467
Aug 1999	188	1,852	19.26	2.88	$8,946
Jul 1999	188	1,624	17.89	2.37	$7,216
Jun 1999	1	1,807	15.94	2.36	$4,284
May 1999	182	1,716	15.79	2.32	$6,857
Apr 1999	189	2,049	15.10	2.21	$7,378
Mar 1999	189	1,833	12.47	1.84	$5,726
Feb 1999	181	982	9.98	1.82	$3,591
Jan 1999	355	1,640	10.38	1.90	$6,801
Dec 1998	187	2,209	9.20	1.77	$5,638
Nov 1998	183	2,267	10.89	2.19	$6,948
Oct 1998	370	2,435	12.42	1.97	$9,390
Sep 1998	1	1,638	12.59	2.08	$3,424
Aug 1998	180	2,370	11.30	1.91	$6,554
Jul 1998	189	2,303	11.74	2.24	$7,371
Jun 1998	366	2,165	11.24	2.24	$8,958
May 1998	183	2,445	12.62	2.21	$7,704
Apr 1998	378	1,481	13.04	2.51	$8,640
Mar 1998	186	2,674	12.80	2.31	$8,556
Feb 1998	480	1,798	13.95	2.30	$10,830
Jan 1998	362	2,498	14.70	2.15	$10,704
Dec 1997	253	2,210	16.32	2.41	$9,457
Nov 1997	369	2,316	18.19	3.09	$13,865
Oct 1997	266	1,668	19.25	3.15	$10,374
Sep 1997	370	2,020	17.74	2.95	$12,533
Aug 1997	360	2,065	17.86	2.55	$11,705
Jul 1997	370	2,080	17.58	2.25	$11,178
Jun 1997	354	1,686	17.24	2.26	$9,909
May 1997	544	1,396	18.97	2.31	$13,542
Apr 1997	392	1,229	17.88	2.08	$9,569
Mar 1997	589	1,492	18.95	1.94	$14,055
Feb 1997	395	1,337	20.49	2.21	$11,043
Jan 1997	397	1,527	23.48	3.54	$14,727
Dec 1996	357	638	23.32	—	$8,325
Nov 1996	360	1,695	21.97	—	$7,909
Oct 1996	515	1,546	23.31	—	$12,005
Sep 1996	377	963	22.22	—	$8,377
Aug 1996	369	897	20.26	—	$7,476
Jul 1996	556	1,285	19.55	—	$10,870
Jun 1996	372	1,237	18.73	—	$6,968
May 1996	549	1,784	19.43	—	$10,667
Apr 1996	574	911	21.51	—	$12,347
Mar 1996	581	1,103	19.38	—	$11,260
Feb 1996	386	1,498	16.98	—	$6,554
Jan 1996	564	1,889	17.07	—	$9,627
Dec 1995	959	2,072	17.19	—	$16,485
Nov 1995	764	1,979	16.00	—	$12,224
Oct 1995	747	1,705	15.43	—	$11,526
Sep 1995	955	23	16.18	—	$15,452
Aug 1995	1,113	136	15.92	—	$17,719
Jul 1995	741	590	15.24	—	$11,293
Jun 1995	949	2,178	16.41	—	$15,573
May 1995	2,073	3,885	17.56	—	$36,402
Apr 1995	3,155	5,979	17.73	—	$55,938
Mar 1995	3,135	8,250	16.44	—	$51,539
Feb 1995	5,284	12,741	16.58	—	$87,609
Jan 1995	6,819	12,219	15.92	—	$108,558
Dec 1994	6,190	9,655	15.03	—	$93,036
Nov 1994	11,704	10,472	15.90	—	$186,094
Oct 1994	22,805	11,886	15.58	—	$355,302
Sep 1994	20,456	12,716	15.29	—	$312,772
Aug 1994	0	0	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	44	78	17.56	—	$773
Jun 1994	112	248	17.09	—	$1,914
May 1994	132	156	15.88	—	$2,096
Apr 1994	179	119	14.14	—	$2,531
Mar 1994	79	24	12.46	—	$984
Feb 1994	0	39	12.50	—	$0
Jan 1994	82	143	12.66	—	$1,038
Dec 1993	175	138	12.33	—	$2,158
Nov 1993	175	187	14.49	—	$2,536
Oct 1993	183	15	15.85	—	$2,901
Sep 1993	0	0	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	0	1	15.66	—	$0
Jul 1993	39	1	15.46	—	$603
Jun 1993	84	1	16.79	—	$1,410
May 1993	1	1	17.68	—	$18
Apr 1993	172	1	18.05	—	$3,105
Mar 1993	1	2	18.14	—	$18
Feb 1993	190	51	17.90	—	$3,401
Jan 1993	0	19	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.

Feb 2017 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                   89 bbl  × $ 50.45 =     $4,490
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.95 =         $0

────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Month total                                   $4,490

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/15314 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.