ABIGAIL ELAINE

Operated by BROWNING OIL COMPANY, INC. (P-5 103088) 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 16018District 03Field 34733500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$270 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2003
Value, last 12 filed months
$1 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
123
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
OilDisposition12,919 bbl$229,491
Casinghead gasProduction23,953 Mcf$40,513
Total$270,004

12,396 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 47 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 30.3441, -96.7906. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.34411, -96.79057 · 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
7,814 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
20.8 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 7,814 ft.

Completions filed
Apr 1982
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jan 2003
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 20.8 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 20.8 years and 20.8 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-2873116017,814 ftApr 1982Jan 2003Yes

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 (123)

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

123 months

Mar 20030031.146.10$0
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 20030030.315.58$0
Dec 20020026.914.85$0
Nov 20020024.664.14$0
Oct 20020026.464.23$0
Sep 200240027.443.64$1,098
Aug 20020025.963.16$0
Jul 20020024.583.06$0
Jun 20020023.733.34$0
May 20020024.663.58$0
Apr 20020023.653.51$0
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 20010016.932.36$0
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20010024.262.25$0
Aug 20010024.873.05$0
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 20010024.563.82$0
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20011684224.685.34$4,370
Mar 2001032224.545.38$1,731
Feb 2001036227.755.77$2,088
Jan 200118435927.478.40$8,070
Dec 2000034426.889.12$3,138
Nov 2000032532.215.66$1,839
Oct 2000036431.235.15$1,873
Sep 200017736131.875.19$7,513
Aug 2000041329.644.54$1,875
Jul 2000041228.534.09$1,685
Jun 2000038929.304.40$1,711
May 200017338927.263.68$6,147
Apr 2000043924.513.12$1,368
Mar 2000042228.422.86$1,207
Feb 200017340927.622.73$5,893
Jan 2000037325.272.48$925
Dec 1999040124.282.42$972
Nov 199917621723.192.43$4,610
Oct 1999011120.982.80$311
Sep 1999017621.752.62$461
Aug 1999016719.262.88$480
Jul 19991716817.892.37$3,221
Jun 199901315.942.36$31
May 1999026315.792.32$610
Apr 1999027315.102.21$603
Mar 199917623712.471.84$2,630
Feb 199902219.981.82$402
Jan 199918121110.381.90$2,280
Dec 19981772099.201.77$1,999
Nov 1998115410.892.19$347
Oct 19981859112.421.97$2,477
Sep 19981908912.592.08$2,577
Aug 1998156811.301.91$299
Jul 19981949511.742.24$2,490
Jun 199818513811.242.24$2,388
May 199848212.622.21$231
Apr 19983507413.042.51$4,749
Mar 19981910412.802.31$483
Feb 1998914113.952.30$450
Jan 1998813314.702.15$404
Dec 199717118016.322.41$3,225
Nov 199718515918.193.09$3,856
Oct 199710714419.253.15$2,513
Sep 199717816617.742.95$3,648
Aug 199718314217.862.55$3,631
Jul 199717914517.582.25$3,473
Jun 199718718917.242.26$3,650
May 199718715018.972.31$3,894
Apr 199719734617.882.08$4,243
Mar 19971021918.951.94$614
Feb 19971022720.492.21$706
Jan 19971822923.483.54$4,376
Dec 199617722123.32$4,128
Nov 199619725321.97$4,328
Oct 199620111023.31$4,685
Sep 199635515522.22$7,888
Aug 199636729020.26$7,435
Jul 199635326819.55$6,901
Jun 199619436218.73$3,634
May 199636531019.43$7,092
Apr 199618634721.51$4,001
Mar 199618314119.38$3,547
Feb 199635020816.98$5,943
Jan 199637311517.07$6,367
Dec 199538519717.19$6,618
Nov 199536518616.00$5,840
Oct 19951854215.43$2,855
Sep 19953016.18$49
Aug 19952044615.92$3,248
Jul 1995828015.24$122
Jun 199518227616.41$2,987
May 19951033317.56$176
Apr 199519231617.73$3,404
Mar 199517832216.44$2,926
Feb 1995436516.58$66
Jan 199517938415.92$2,850
Dec 1994840415.03$120
Nov 199419525315.90$3,101
Oct 1994677415.58$1,044
Sep 199417519215.29$2,676
Aug 1994521216.13$81
Jul 199418128817.56$3,178
Jun 199418538017.09$3,162
May 199417116115.88$2,715
Apr 1994620014.14$85
Mar 199417324512.46$2,156
Feb 19944530912.50$563
Jan 199418027412.66$2,279
Dec 199318426812.33$2,269
Nov 1993330814.49$43
Oct 199317734515.85$2,805
Sep 199318326915.03$2,750
Aug 1993431515.66$63
Jul 199317526615.46$2,706
Jun 199318133116.79$3,039
May 1993330417.68$53
Apr 199328530718.05$5,144
Mar 1993239918.14$36
Feb 199316436217.90$2,936
Jan 199323940316.93$4,046

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.

Sep 2002 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   40 bbl  × $ 27.44 =     $1,098
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  3.64 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,098

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/16018 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.