WEST BIRCH CREEK PARK

Name: WEST 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.

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Value, all time

$11.9 M

Jan 1993 – Jul 2017

Value, last 12 filed months

$2 k

at the published price for each month

Months reported

295

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	186,458 bbl	$3,962,497
Casinghead gas	Production	3,584,521 Mcf	$7,897,566
Total			$11,860,063

1,896,012 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 (5)

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 30.3034, -96.6438. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.8 miles.

30.30471, -96.64292 · 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%

5 of 5 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

5 of 5 wells

Median depth

10,125 ft

5 wells filed one

Completion to plug

17.9 years

median over 5 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

5100.0%

A plug date is filed

5100.0%

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

5100.0%

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 9,617 and 11,979 ft, median 10,125 ft, over the 5 wells that filed a depth.

Completions filed

Feb 1981 – Feb 1992

5 of 5 wells

Plug dates filed

Jan 1999 – Feb 2017

5 of 5 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 17.9 years across the 5 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.9 years and 25.0 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

5 wells


42-05132377	2 H	11,979 ft	Feb 1992	Feb 2017	Yes
42-05132460	7	11,694 ft	Jan 1992	Feb 2017	Yes
42-05132461	5	10,125 ft	Sep 1983	Jan 1999	Yes
42-05132363	8	9,865 ft	Feb 1983	Jan 1999	Yes
42-05130817	1	9,617 ft	Feb 1981	Jan 1999	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 (295)

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

295 months


Jul 2017	0	0	43.87	3.09	$0
Jun 2017	0	0	42.49	3.09	$0
May 2017	0	0	45.37	3.26	$0
Apr 2017	0	0	47.93	3.21	$0
Mar 2017	0	0	46.77	2.98	$0
Feb 2017	49	0	50.45	2.95	$2,472
Jan 2017	0	0	49.41	3.42	$0
Dec 2016	0	0	48.76	3.72	$0
Nov 2016	0	0	42.49	2.64	$0
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	99	453	41.62	2.92	$5,445
Jun 2016	0	1,410	45.35	2.69	$3,787
May 2016	1	2,402	42.52	1.99	$4,825
Apr 2016	184	2,120	36.56	1.99	$10,948
Mar 2016	2	2,594	33.01	1.79	$4,720
Feb 2016	3	2,352	26.47	2.06	$4,933
Jan 2016	164	2,609	27.35	2.36	$10,654
Dec 2015	3	2,663	32.36	2.00	$5,427
Nov 2015	2	2,214	38.79	2.17	$4,876
Oct 2015	4	2,647	43.55	2.43	$6,597
Sep 2015	2	2,482	42.99	2.76	$6,932
Aug 2015	162	2,559	40.16	2.87	$13,857
Jul 2015	2	2,755	48.15	2.95	$8,210
Jun 2015	2	1,930	56.15	2.88	$5,676
May 2015	3	2,553	55.21	2.96	$7,711
Apr 2015	173	2,426	49.82	2.71	$15,185
Mar 2015	3	2,966	42.89	2.93	$8,833
Feb 2015	2	2,448	44.66	2.98	$7,375
Jan 2015	3	2,786	43.43	3.10	$8,769
Dec 2014	164	2,954	54.69	3.59	$19,578
Nov 2014	2	2,473	70.46	4.25	$10,656
Oct 2014	3	2,871	78.30	3.90	$11,435
Sep 2014	171	2,648	86.16	4.05	$25,446
Aug 2014	0	3,309	89.39	4.04	$13,352
Jul 2014	17	4,061	96.56	4.18	$18,615
Jun 2014	170	4,613	98.16	4.74	$38,538
May 2014	6	4,762	94.73	4.73	$23,076
Apr 2014	172	4,262	95.94	4.81	$36,998
Mar 2014	58	3,900	95.89	5.06	$25,283
Feb 2014	4	2,798	97.40	6.19	$17,715
Jan 2014	165	3,580	90.40	4.86	$32,317
Dec 2013	9	4,029	91.82	4.35	$18,371
Nov 2013	164	4,135	88.85	3.74	$30,029
Oct 2013	4	4,040	97.42	3.78	$15,658
Sep 2013	180	3,499	104.11	3.72	$31,748
Aug 2013	10	4,439	104.25	3.52	$16,679
Jul 2013	9	4,388	102.52	3.72	$17,236
Jun 2013	157	4,427	94.40	3.93	$32,234
May 2013	3	6,252	94.83	4.15	$26,225
Apr 2013	178	3,294	93.96	4.28	$30,832
Mar 2013	4	4,790	93.62	3.91	$19,117
Feb 2013	173	4,846	91.23	3.42	$32,356
Jan 2013	7	5,345	91.60	3.42	$18,921
Dec 2012	5	5,642	86.77	3.42	$19,730
Nov 2012	110	5,742	86.95	3.62	$30,379
Oct 2012	161	5,263	89.38	3.40	$32,283
Sep 2012	2	4,562	94.67	2.92	$13,503
Aug 2012	3	4,689	92.66	2.91	$13,914
Jul 2012	154	5,373	85.13	3.02	$29,341
Jun 2012	4	6,025	79.82	2.52	$15,497
May 2012	155	5,406	91.61	2.49	$27,651
Apr 2012	2	5,662	101.65	2.00	$11,509
Mar 2012	170	6,369	105.05	2.22	$32,011
Feb 2012	8	6,017	101.10	2.57	$16,274
Jan 2012	113	6,793	98.09	2.73	$29,657
Dec 2011	179	6,070	96.87	3.24	$37,005
Nov 2011	8	6,161	95.72	3.31	$21,167
Oct 2011	155	6,662	84.98	3.65	$37,478
Sep 2011	3	6,192	83.62	3.99	$24,931
Aug 2011	161	6,395	83.40	4.15	$39,962
Jul 2011	3	6,186	94.14	4.52	$28,226
Jun 2011	173	6,707	92.90	4.64	$47,191
May 2011	4	6,974	98.13	4.40	$31,112
Apr 2011	166	6,258	105.96	4.33	$44,707
Mar 2011	7	6,813	96.36	4.06	$28,317
Feb 2011	169	5,990	85.64	4.18	$39,511
Jan 2011	6	6,371	86.50	4.59	$29,754
Dec 2010	161	7,012	85.73	4.35	$44,289
Nov 2010	2	6,659	80.84	3.80	$25,435
Oct 2010	166	6,927	78.10	3.51	$37,271
Sep 2010	2	6,114	72.63	3.98	$24,476
Aug 2010	171	6,322	73.68	4.42	$40,538
Jul 2010	3	7,060	72.55	4.74	$33,657
Jun 2010	55	5,790	70.36	4.91	$32,301
May 2010	164	6,662	71.12	4.24	$39,879
Apr 2010	3	6,607	81.69	4.12	$27,484
Mar 2010	172	6,966	78.39	4.39	$44,055
Feb 2010	5	6,549	73.58	5.44	$36,010
Jan 2010	126	7,387	74.36	5.96	$53,426
Dec 2009	171	7,502	71.44	5.48	$53,355
Nov 2009	1	7,397	74.59	3.75	$27,824
Oct 2009	169	7,732	72.54	4.11	$44,040
Sep 2009	166	7,360	65.54	3.06	$33,436
Aug 2009	4	7,841	67.42	3.22	$25,506
Jul 2009	168	8,667	61.13	3.46	$40,297
Jun 2009	8	8,254	66.16	3.90	$32,679
May 2009	199	9,383	54.74	3.93	$47,729
Apr 2009	15	8,940	46.77	3.59	$32,774
Mar 2009	184	7,292	42.14	4.06	$37,352
Feb 2009	10	6,270	32.81	4.63	$29,377
Jan 2009	175	8,005	35.86	5.37	$49,270
Dec 2008	172	8,058	37.10	5.98	$54,545
Nov 2008	3	7,861	55.49	6.86	$54,096
Oct 2008	166	7,995	75.24	6.92	$67,831
Sep 2008	184	7,295	101.76	7.88	$76,187
Aug 2008	5	7,223	114.22	8.48	$61,844
Jul 2008	166	9,768	131.08	11.39	$133,011
Jun 2008	177	11,121	131.33	13.03	$168,181
May 2008	176	13,495	123.17	11.57	$177,873
Apr 2008	168	14,397	110.31	10.45	$169,051
Mar 2008	166	9,035	101.90	9.66	$104,230
Feb 2008	169	5,862	92.53	8.77	$67,051
Jan 2008	4	6,880	90.38	8.21	$56,817
Dec 2007	181	5,255	88.33	7.30	$54,360
Nov 2007	2	5,468	91.67	7.29	$40,054
Oct 2007	4	5,645	82.85	6.92	$39,406
Sep 2007	586	5,301	75.84	6.24	$77,543
Aug 2007	4	6,094	69.06	6.39	$39,204
Jul 2007	170	6,258	70.90	6.39	$52,029
Jun 2007	5	6,004	62.00	7.55	$45,631
May 2007	174	6,387	58.74	7.85	$60,335
Apr 2007	6	6,026	59.61	7.81	$47,392
Mar 2007	176	6,119	56.92	7.30	$54,699
Feb 2007	174	5,207	55.10	8.22	$52,368
Jan 2007	186	5,806	50.30	6.73	$48,412
Dec 2006	189	6,557	56.65	6.92	$56,071
Nov 2006	177	4,195	54.20	7.62	$41,549
Oct 2006	181	7,114	54.90	6.01	$52,719
Sep 2006	4	7,436	60.08	5.04	$37,697
Aug 2006	186	7,976	68.71	7.34	$71,323
Jul 2006	5	7,741	69.37	6.34	$49,446
Jun 2006	181	7,143	66.28	6.38	$57,597
May 2006	187	8,799	66.01	6.42	$68,877
Apr 2006	187	9,239	64.39	7.36	$80,044
Mar 2006	360	9,681	56.70	7.08	$88,982
Feb 2006	180	8,963	57.59	7.75	$79,839
Jan 2006	189	9,618	60.59	8.93	$97,372
Dec 2005	190	7,872	54.94	13.42	$116,045
Nov 2005	193	8,501	54.69	10.59	$100,567
Oct 2005	190	8,378	58.34	13.80	$126,665
Sep 2005	183	6,966	61.45	12.08	$95,388
Aug 2005	182	8,711	61.51	9.80	$96,535
Jul 2005	113	8,450	55.69	7.84	$72,572
Jun 2005	169	9,426	52.33	7.38	$78,417
May 2005	328	9,960	45.22	6.65	$81,078
Apr 2005	187	8,577	49.20	7.36	$72,331
Mar 2005	175	7,687	50.37	7.15	$63,814
Feb 2005	224	8,219	45.22	6.31	$62,007
Jan 2005	177	5,645	43.16	6.32	$43,328
Dec 2004	0	4,355	39.86	6.75	$29,401
Nov 2004	170	6,629	45.28	6.33	$49,662
Oct 2004	187	2,622	49.70	6.52	$26,376
Sep 2004	6	3,820	43.24	5.28	$20,444
Aug 2004	8	3,971	42.37	5.55	$22,381
Jul 2004	163	3,766	38.28	6.08	$29,153
Jun 2004	177	4,617	36.10	6.43	$36,091
May 2004	8	3,689	37.48	6.49	$24,258
Apr 2004	1	3,951	34.47	5.86	$23,181
Mar 2004	349	3,234	34.36	5.53	$29,876
Feb 2004	3	2,719	32.45	5.51	$15,078
Jan 2004	3	6,346	32.03	6.30	$40,074
Dec 2003	347	6,455	30.26	6.30	$51,177
Nov 2003	6	6,273	28.80	4.60	$28,998
Oct 2003	169	6,819	28.17	4.76	$37,217
Sep 2003	4	6,398	26.31	4.75	$30,492
Aug 2003	362	7,253	29.76	5.13	$47,979
Jul 2003	190	9,731	29.41	5.17	$55,905
Jun 2003	0	5,215	28.56	5.98	$31,201
May 2003	5	7,885	26.59	5.97	$47,228
Apr 2003	320	7,315	26.67	5.41	$48,089
Mar 2003	10	8,119	31.14	6.10	$49,805
Feb 2003	206	7,285	33.48	7.93	$64,637
Jan 2003	534	7,769	30.31	5.58	$59,552
Dec 2002	16	8,213	26.91	4.85	$40,294
Nov 2002	0	7,937	24.66	4.14	$32,835
Oct 2002	171	8,279	26.46	4.23	$39,538
Sep 2002	161	7,634	27.44	3.64	$32,169
Aug 2002	503	8,314	25.96	3.16	$39,365
Jul 2002	24	9,455	24.58	3.06	$29,539
Jun 2002	4	7,215	23.73	3.34	$24,180
May 2002	331	8,671	24.66	3.58	$39,239
Apr 2002	173	8,203	23.65	3.51	$32,903
Mar 2002	855	8,691	22.00	3.10	$45,776
Feb 2002	707	7,252	18.22	2.38	$30,110
Jan 2002	13	9,338	17.17	2.38	$22,407
Dec 2001	8	9,851	16.93	2.36	$23,427
Nov 2001	11	10,750	18.07	2.41	$26,058
Oct 2001	13	7,574	19.78	2.53	$19,411
Sep 2001	351	8,186	24.26	2.25	$26,945
Aug 2001	16	9,552	24.87	3.05	$29,562
Jul 2001	11	8,931	23.93	3.20	$28,816
Jun 2001	356	9,569	24.56	3.82	$45,337
May 2001	16	9,460	25.52	4.31	$41,156
Apr 2001	4	9,658	24.68	5.34	$51,627
Mar 2001	365	9,280	24.54	5.38	$58,850
Feb 2001	367	9,929	27.75	5.77	$67,446
Jan 2001	5	7,366	27.47	8.40	$62,003
Dec 2000	362	8,789	26.88	9.12	$89,908
Nov 2000	10	12,034	32.21	5.66	$68,410
Oct 2000	185	13,182	31.23	5.15	$73,606
Sep 2000	385	10,495	31.87	5.19	$66,702
Aug 2000	162	11,561	29.64	4.54	$57,297
Jul 2000	499	12,840	28.53	4.09	$66,749
Jun 2000	9	13,224	29.30	4.40	$58,413
May 2000	364	11,991	27.26	3.68	$54,047
Apr 2000	4	10,155	24.51	3.12	$31,741
Mar 2000	309	11,816	28.42	2.86	$42,573
Feb 2000	8	9,469	27.62	2.73	$26,038
Jan 2000	177	10,953	25.27	2.48	$31,642
Dec 1999	76	11,092	24.28	2.42	$28,729
Nov 1999	254	10,778	23.19	2.43	$32,124
Oct 1999	237	11,319	20.98	2.80	$36,707
Sep 1999	211	10,509	21.75	2.62	$32,111
Aug 1999	172	10,302	19.26	2.88	$32,937
Jul 1999	7	9,142	17.89	2.37	$21,813
Jun 1999	9	7,420	15.94	2.36	$17,670
May 1999	646	8,915	15.79	2.32	$30,892
Apr 1999	343	7,062	15.10	2.21	$20,773
Mar 1999	26	8,914	12.47	1.84	$16,711
Feb 1999	11	7,885	9.98	1.82	$14,443
Jan 1999	645	8,889	10.38	1.90	$23,584
Dec 1998	6	9,470	9.20	1.77	$16,849
Nov 1998	704	10,072	10.89	2.19	$29,681
Oct 1998	1,054	12,263	12.42	1.97	$37,239
Sep 1998	446	12,381	12.59	2.08	$31,400
Aug 1998	101	13,190	11.30	1.91	$26,299
Jul 1998	55	10,809	11.74	2.24	$24,828
Jun 1998	37	11,017	11.24	2.24	$25,064
May 1998	388	11,097	12.62	2.21	$29,380
Apr 1998	56	10,356	13.04	2.51	$26,675
Mar 1998	131	8,724	12.80	2.31	$21,824
Feb 1998	425	9,935	13.95	2.30	$28,771
Jan 1998	57	7,703	14.70	2.15	$17,436
Dec 1997	41	13,647	16.32	2.41	$33,573
Nov 1997	394	12,382	18.19	3.09	$45,406
Oct 1997	84	13,377	19.25	3.15	$43,752
Sep 1997	59	12,948	17.74	2.95	$39,306
Aug 1997	82	9,563	17.86	2.55	$25,896
Jul 1997	791	11,091	17.58	2.25	$38,827
Jun 1997	86	10,996	17.24	2.26	$26,303
May 1997	420	9,379	18.97	2.31	$29,619
Apr 1997	86	10,800	17.88	2.08	$24,032
Mar 1997	64	11,635	18.95	1.94	$23,775
Feb 1997	250	9,651	20.49	2.21	$26,412
Jan 1997	432	11,225	23.48	3.54	$49,876
Dec 1996	240	11,349	23.32	—	$5,597
Nov 1996	207	12,538	21.97	—	$4,548
Oct 1996	877	18,192	23.31	—	$20,443
Sep 1996	913	12,253	22.22	—	$20,287
Aug 1996	2,214	23,128	20.26	—	$44,856
Jul 1996	2,962	29,867	19.55	—	$57,907
Jun 1996	1,175	29,208	18.73	—	$22,008
May 1996	1,531	33,799	19.43	—	$29,747
Apr 1996	1,730	38,990	21.51	—	$37,212
Mar 1996	1,829	40,084	19.38	—	$35,446
Feb 1996	1,810	32,555	16.98	—	$30,734
Jan 1996	2,593	30,151	17.07	—	$44,263
Dec 1995	1,872	30,952	17.19	—	$32,180
Nov 1995	1,905	29,742	16.00	—	$30,480
Oct 1995	2,152	31,170	15.43	—	$33,205
Sep 1995	1,469	32,584	16.18	—	$23,768
Aug 1995	2,567	40,531	15.92	—	$40,867
Jul 1995	3,238	37,353	15.24	—	$49,347
Jun 1995	2,870	39,643	16.41	—	$47,097
May 1995	3,432	43,982	17.56	—	$60,266
Apr 1995	3,265	41,165	17.73	—	$57,888
Mar 1995	4,213	43,712	16.44	—	$69,262
Feb 1995	3,873	41,931	16.58	—	$64,214
Jan 1995	4,045	44,474	15.92	—	$64,396
Dec 1994	4,574	41,745	15.03	—	$68,747
Nov 1994	4,987	27,044	15.90	—	$79,293
Oct 1994	180	8,420	15.58	—	$2,804
Sep 1994	494	10,526	15.29	—	$7,553
Aug 1994	3,584	36,930	16.13	—	$57,810
Jul 1994	2,859	39,087	17.56	—	$50,204
Jun 1994	4,065	38,384	17.09	—	$69,471
May 1994	3,615	41,227	15.88	—	$57,406
Apr 1994	3,586	43,510	14.14	—	$50,706
Mar 1994	4,316	46,692	12.46	—	$53,777
Feb 1994	3,847	43,924	12.50	—	$48,088
Jan 1994	4,267	49,371	12.66	—	$54,020
Dec 1993	4,083	52,687	12.33	—	$50,343
Nov 1993	4,558	52,236	14.49	—	$66,045
Oct 1993	4,723	53,635	15.85	—	$74,860
Sep 1993	4,195	54,359	15.03	—	$63,051
Aug 1993	4,507	60,597	15.66	—	$70,580
Jul 1993	4,998	59,942	15.46	—	$77,269
Jun 1993	5,166	60,773	16.79	—	$86,737
May 1993	5,373	62,362	17.68	—	$94,995
Apr 1993	5,330	60,458	18.05	—	$96,207
Mar 1993	6,465	66,796	18.14	—	$117,275
Feb 1993	4,201	51,875	17.90	—	$75,198
Jan 1993	5,959	64,079	16.93	—	$100,886

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                   49 bbl  × $ 50.45 =     $2,472
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  2.95 =         $0

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Month total                                   $2,472

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/16383 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.