DAVIS, S.E. UNIT

Operated by BETRO, INC. (P-5 68324) 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 15605District 03Field 34733500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$1.5 M
Jan 1993 – Dec 2005
Value, last 12 filed months
$10 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
156
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
NGPA1none

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
OilDisposition42,646 bbl$1,167,105
Casinghead gasProduction62,422 Mcf$294,675
Total$1,461,780

19 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 19 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 30.5564, -96.8915. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.55640, -96.89154 · 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%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
Median depth
6,225 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
23.7 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 6,225 ft.

Completions filed
Feb 1982
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Oct 2005
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 23.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 23.7 years and 23.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-0513200816,225 ftFeb 1982Oct 2005Yes

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 (156)

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

156 months

Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20050058.3413.80$0
Sep 20050061.4512.08$0
Aug 20052061.519.80$123
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 20050052.337.38$0
May 20059045.226.65$407
Apr 2005186049.207.36$9,151
Mar 200503650.377.15$258
Feb 20050045.226.31$0
Jan 20050043.166.32$0
Dec 20040039.866.75$0
Nov 20040045.286.33$0
Oct 20040049.706.52$0
Sep 20040043.245.28$0
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 20040038.286.08$0
Jun 20040036.106.43$0
May 2004165037.486.49$6,184
Apr 20043804734.475.86$13,374
Mar 20041,66993034.365.53$62,490
Feb 20041,5701,49232.455.51$59,167
Jan 20041,9601,18032.036.30$70,212
Dec 20031,7261,66930.266.30$62,746
Nov 20032,2432,22128.804.60$74,804
Oct 20032,3073,10328.174.76$79,757
Sep 20031,7332,84126.314.75$59,088
Aug 20031,090029.765.13$32,438
Jul 20033961,52329.415.17$19,522
Jun 20031,3431,59428.565.98$47,893
May 20032,2722,42726.595.97$74,908
Apr 20032,4492,86126.675.41$80,785
Mar 20032,4792,42831.146.10$91,997
Feb 20031,8843,46833.487.93$90,563
Jan 20031,7053,62530.315.58$71,913
Dec 20021,1762,45826.914.85$43,577
Nov 20023771,24924.664.14$14,464
Oct 20029182,61726.464.23$35,358
Sep 20029264,22027.443.64$40,750
Aug 20028983,25225.963.16$33,602
Jul 20021,261024.583.06$30,995
Jun 20025475,93523.733.34$32,793
May 200202224.663.58$79
Apr 20021792223.653.51$4,311
Mar 2002016422.003.10$509
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020117.172.38$2
Dec 20010416.932.36$9
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010124.262.25$2
Aug 20010124.873.05$3
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010524.563.82$19
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20010124.685.34$5
Mar 200102524.545.38$134
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 20010027.478.40$0
Dec 2000186026.889.12$5,000
Nov 200006532.215.66$368
Oct 20001852,82831.235.15$20,329
Sep 200001431.875.19$73
Aug 200003929.644.54$177
Jul 2000042328.534.09$1,730
Jun 200018519129.304.40$6,260
May 20001902,03727.263.68$12,675
Apr 20000224.513.12$6
Mar 200001,61728.422.86$4,624
Feb 20001,0543,36027.622.73$38,273
Jan 2000523025.272.48$13,216
Dec 199987122424.282.42$21,691
Nov 199917618123.192.43$4,522
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 1998179012.802.31$2,291
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 19980014.702.15$0
Dec 19971016.322.41$16
Nov 19970018.193.09$0
Oct 19970019.253.15$0
Sep 1997179017.742.95$3,175
Aug 19970017.862.55$0
Jul 19970017.582.25$0
Jun 1997360017.242.26$6,206
May 1997345018.972.31$6,545
Apr 19970017.882.08$0
Mar 1997356018.951.94$6,746
Feb 19970020.492.21$0
Jan 19970023.483.54$0
Dec 19960023.32$0
Nov 19960021.97$0
Oct 19960023.31$0
Sep 19960022.22$0
Aug 19960020.26$0
Jul 19960019.55$0
Jun 19960018.73$0
May 19960019.43$0
Apr 19960021.51$0
Mar 19960019.38$0
Feb 19960016.98$0
Jan 19960017.07$0
Dec 19950017.19$0
Nov 19950016.00$0
Oct 1995177015.43$2,731
Sep 1995179016.18$2,896
Aug 19950015.92$0
Jul 19950015.24$0
Jun 19950016.41$0
May 1995188017.56$3,301
Apr 19950017.73$0
Mar 19950016.44$0
Feb 1995180016.58$2,984
Jan 19952015.92$32
Dec 19941015.03$15
Nov 1994320015.90$5,088
Oct 19942015.58$31
Sep 1994177015.29$2,706
Aug 1994174116.13$2,807
Jul 19941017.56$18
Jun 1994171117.09$2,922
May 1994175115.88$2,779
Apr 1994175114.14$2,475
Mar 19943112.46$37
Feb 1994152112.50$1,900
Jan 1994127112.66$1,608
Dec 1993185112.33$2,281
Nov 19930114.49$0
Oct 1993159115.85$2,520
Sep 1993174115.03$2,615
Aug 1993194115.66$3,038
Jul 1993183115.46$2,829
Jun 1993178116.79$2,989
May 1993185117.68$3,271
Apr 1993165118.05$2,978
Mar 19937118.14$127
Feb 1993190117.90$3,401
Jan 1993182116.93$3,081

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.

Aug 2005 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                    2 bbl  × $ 61.51 =       $123
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  9.80 =         $0

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Month total                                     $123

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/15605 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.