AIRPORT "A"

Operated by TEX-LEE OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 849765) 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 16501District 03Field 34733500NGPA filingOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$103 k
Jan 1993 – Aug 2000
Value, last 12 filed months
$1 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
92
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
OilDisposition5,624 bbl$94,056
Casinghead gasProduction11,597 Mcf$8,721
Total$102,776

7,835 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 (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 29.8368, -97.0961. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

29.83677, -97.09605 · 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
8,845 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
15.7 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 8,845 ft.

Completions filed
Oct 1984
1 of 1 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 2000
1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 15.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 15.7 years and 15.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well

42-1493150318,845 ftOct 1984Jun 2000Yes

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 (92)

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

92 months

Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 200041029.304.40$1,201
May 20000027.263.68$0
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 20000028.422.86$0
Feb 20000027.622.73$0
Jan 20000025.272.48$0
Dec 19990024.282.42$0
Nov 19990123.192.43$2
Oct 19990020.982.80$0
Sep 19990021.752.62$0
Aug 19990019.262.88$0
Jul 1999137017.892.37$2,451
Jun 199908615.942.36$203
May 1999011015.792.32$255
Apr 19990715.102.21$15
Mar 199901312.471.84$24
Feb 19990369.981.82$65
Jan 199918010010.381.90$2,058
Dec 19981649.201.77$123
Nov 1998111110.892.19$254
Oct 1998516612.421.97$389
Sep 19981111212.592.08$372
Aug 19981710011.301.91$383
Jul 19980511.742.24$11
Jun 199858211.242.24$240
May 1998423412.622.21$567
Apr 199873113.042.51$169
Mar 199819310812.802.31$2,720
Feb 19981212313.952.30$450
Jan 1998816314.702.15$469
Dec 19971013216.322.41$481
Nov 1997613918.193.09$538
Oct 19971413619.253.15$698
Sep 1997816417.742.95$627
Aug 199719617217.862.55$3,940
Jul 19971316717.582.25$604
Jun 19971314817.242.26$558
May 19971017918.972.31$603
Apr 199719423717.882.08$3,962
Mar 19971126418.951.94$720
Feb 19971126920.492.21$819
Jan 199719310323.483.54$4,896
Dec 19961213023.32$280
Nov 1996924421.97$198
Oct 199620224023.31$4,709
Sep 1996810222.22$178
Aug 19961214720.26$243
Jul 19961960619.55$371
Jun 199621441918.73$4,008
May 19962528519.43$486
Apr 19961015221.51$215
Mar 199620014919.38$3,876
Feb 19961110916.98$187
Jan 199621311917.07$3,636
Dec 19951314517.19$223
Nov 19951815516.00$288
Oct 199520016415.43$3,086
Sep 1995717416.18$113
Aug 19951020015.92$159
Jul 199519522915.24$2,972
Jun 19951020016.41$164
May 19951121317.56$193
Apr 199520220817.73$3,581
Mar 19951416116.44$230
Feb 199553216.58$83
Jan 199520012315.92$3,184
Dec 199468515.03$90
Nov 1994138515.90$207
Oct 199419412415.58$3,023
Sep 19941967515.29$2,997
Aug 19941956516.13$3,145
Jul 1994732317.56$123
Jun 199418714317.09$3,196
May 199463015.88$95
Apr 199475514.14$99
Mar 199414912.46$12
Feb 19941709412.50$2,125
Jan 199419913812.66$2,519
Dec 1993512312.33$62
Nov 199318710814.49$2,710
Oct 1993314615.85$48
Sep 199318417315.03$2,766
Aug 1993522415.66$78
Jul 199319413415.46$2,999
Jun 199318310916.79$3,073
May 1993316717.68$53
Apr 199318219218.05$3,285
Mar 1993014518.14$0
Feb 199318018717.90$3,222
Jan 199319615516.93$3,318

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.

Jun 2000 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                   41 bbl  × $ 29.30 =     $1,201
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  4.40 =         $0

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Month total                                   $1,201

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/16501 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.